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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread - Summer sales usually last week of June
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Caesar III
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I like NFS:HP. I don't know if you can still play it online with people, and you may have to jump through hoops to get anti-aliasing working, but it's kind of cool in general. You speed cars and try not to get caught and you speed police cars and try to put spike traps on people and stuff. I'd say $5 or under is a good price for it.
They're both great games, but I actually enjoyed Sonic more. Sonic Generations is fantastic especially on a powerful PC.
How are you getting HP for $3 though?
Man, I don't know how you could have come to that conclusion. Hard Reset involves holding down the fire button while unsatisfying weapons hit enemies that don't really react to your shots. It feels incredibly flimsy as a result.
Rage has some of the most satisfying gunplay out there. The act of shooting an enemy feels awesome. Also, it runs like a dream now. I hit a perfect 60 fps on both my previous 5870 and my current GTX580. Hard Reset has more issues on both cards than Rage.
Dog Problems
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I played through Sonic Generations yesterday and left the game very impressed. It plays and looks so good on PC. Sonic Colors was the first 3D Sonic game I've enjoyed and Generations blew it away in every category, in my opinion. Hopefully Sega keeps up this momentum with quality Sonic titles. I wish I could go back and add Generations to my game of the year and soundtrack of the year lists.
I'm guessing through Amazon ($7.99) with a $5 off coupon.
Thanks.
jaundicejuice
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If best shotgun in a videogame was a valid GotY category, Rage's double barreled shotgun would win it hands down.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
*launches From Dust*
oh good, a proprietary Ubisoft patch system. Good thing they didn't use Steam's built-in patching.
*waits*
*waits*
Okay, I don't really want to play From Dust anymore.
oh good, a proprietary Ubisoft patch system. Good thing they didn't use Steam's built-in patching.
*waits*
*waits*
Okay, I don't really want to play From Dust anymore.
jaundicejuice
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So Ubi's content servers are taking a shit like their DRM servers were earlier?
MisterLuffy
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I want to buy sonic 1, 2, 3 and knuckles and I want to buy Sonic CD. But I'm going to wait for summer sales for the prices to be reduced.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Done, ready, good to go. My uPlay username is ubisoft_stinks if anyone wants to add me. Wait, UbisoftGameLauncher.exe just crashed. I'll try to launch it again. Worked this time. Oh great, a video of a camera oscillating back and forth between two cactuses *clicks* *presses ESC* *presses spacebar* *presses every button* *alt tab back out of game and back into game* Still oscillating... is it loading right now, I don't see a bar? *waits for a few more loops* To hell with this. Alt+F4 works fine.
Ouch, that sounds like CACTUS_ERROR 0x0000947F, that's a rough one.
Dog Problems
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I've had From Dust since the day it came out and have yet to play it. Probably weird, but all of the backlash against Ubisoft has kept me away from it, I think.
I think the scariest part about uPlay/Ubisoft accounts is that there are clearly too many being made. Everywhere else I make an account, if "sober" is taken, I'll try my go-to variation of it (which is never ever taken) but ... wait, it's taken? And the 500 other variations too? I pretty much ended up using some strange combination of my real name and some random numbers which I will promptly forget.
SteveWinwood
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See, I've bought every humble bundle but I don't remember Steel Storm at all. And it's not in my library. I got a coupon though so it was only a dollar and some odd cents.
:lol
Not as subtle as my Origin ID of SteamedUp, but I like it. It's catchy.
EDIT: Speaking of cavalier attitudes towards their Uplay accounts: I think my Uplay account I created for SC: Conviction is gone forever. If they lock your serials to UPlay accounts, not sure I'll ever be able to recover it. Meant to log in and write the info down before my system reinstall, but I forgot to do that.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
So you are telling me that Ubi is able to reach out to support customers in the way they want, but EA isn't allowed to? Proof that Steam hates EA if you ask me.
Does From Dust feature DLC that's only sold on an EA store? I thought DLC sales were the issue with EA.
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Patching was too according to EA.
I guess DLC sales were EA's issue.
Everyone else BUT them seems to be able to work around it, but the brains at EA are just too stupid to figure it out, I guess.
You know which game has never given me any start up problems? EU3.
Crashes on me 50% of the time
the story is that EA is allowed to (just like GFW games and ubi games work fine within steam for patching and dlc), it seems like EA just wanted an excuse to jump ship of their biggest competitor (steam) and support origin primarily.
even though they sell through other retailers, i think their dlc revenue is re-couped 100% by origin now and that's what they're pinning their arguement against steam (right? crysis 2 and dragon age 2 dlc is only sold from origin/EA store on pc?)
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Lol dude hate to break it to you but you can get BF3 DLC from places other than Origin and Dragon Age 2/Crysis 2 didn't even use it for their DLC. Dragon Age 2's DLC could only be purchased through Bioware's ghetto store with magic monies and Crysis 2 used some Gamespy powered store shit.
jim-jam bongs
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As far as anyone can work out it's like this:
Valve wants F2P games on Steam. F2P games make loads of money from DLC. Valve realises they would get screwed if they didn't require that games available on Steam sell DLC on Steam because of the fact that they will promote and pay for the bandwidth of F2P games only to have the publishers take all the DLC revenue. This rule is applied to all games on Steam regardless of whether they're F2P or not. EA gets mad, and takes their bat and ball home.
I'd assume that there is a grandfather clause for games released before a certain date, as Dragon Age still uses the appalling system it always has.
Valve wants F2P games on Steam. F2P games make loads of money from DLC. Valve realises they would get screwed if they didn't require that games available on Steam sell DLC on Steam because of the fact that they will promote and pay for the bandwidth of F2P games only to have the publishers take all the DLC revenue. This rule is applied to all games on Steam regardless of whether they're F2P or not. EA gets mad, and takes their bat and ball home.
I'd assume that there is a grandfather clause for games released before a certain date, as Dragon Age still uses the appalling system it always has.
I bought From Dust and I had zero problems, to be honest. Steam usual crappy updates (DX and other stuff I still don't undestand why they have to be installed every single time I launch a new game) took more than the patching done by the uplay thingie. It also remembered my account from previous games (splinter cell, prince of persia) so no time spent in silly registrations.
Game is just fine with a controller, I played one hour and a half straight and no problems whatsoever. I'm not saying you can't have techical issues with the game obviously, I'm just reporting my experience.
30 fps confirmed but graphics are nice and the terraforming is just awesome, I'm really liking it. I wish they'd allowed players to choose the sandbox mode right away, missions are nice but I'd just like to create amazing rivers now
Sure, I hope ubi servers won't be offline anytime soon, but I went through all splinter cell conviction and they never were, not once. I never had a problem with the uplay launcher either (I must say I hated the previous ubi launchers, anno 1404 was a pain). Lucky?
Game is just fine with a controller, I played one hour and a half straight and no problems whatsoever. I'm not saying you can't have techical issues with the game obviously, I'm just reporting my experience.
30 fps confirmed but graphics are nice and the terraforming is just awesome, I'm really liking it. I wish they'd allowed players to choose the sandbox mode right away, missions are nice but I'd just like to create amazing rivers now
Sure, I hope ubi servers won't be offline anytime soon, but I went through all splinter cell conviction and they never were, not once. I never had a problem with the uplay launcher either (I must say I hated the previous ubi launchers, anno 1404 was a pain). Lucky?
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ME2's is more appalling.
Anyways, that clause should have covered DA2/Crysis 2 since it covered Dirt 3. EA pulled them because they thought the games were popular enough to make Origin somewhat worthwhile. You know, the whole "people totally want these games and if they can't find them on Steam, they might see us as an option."
Joe Molotov
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Ubisoft's deep-dicking of their customers is legendary, but EA just didn't feel the current system provided enough flexibility for the anal-violations they had in mind.
SteveWinwood
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Which is part of the reason why people are saying ea is full of shit and wanted an excuse to create their own rival platform.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Oh fuck it is too. On the plus side, at least if their servers ever go down you have a backup of all the DLC!
DunderHassan
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Dead Island $9.99 @ Newegg (PC)
Hurry before it's sold out! It's a boxed copy, activates on Steam.
Way better than that sad sale Steam had for it...
Hurry before it's sold out!
It's a boxed copy, activates on Steam.Way better than that sad sale Steam had for it...
RoaringHawk
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Sorry if already posted:
Saints Row The Third is 50% off at GMG (Steamworks).
Saints Row The Third is 50% off at GMG (Steamworks).
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Dead Island $9.99 @ Newegg (PC)
Hurry before it's sold out!
Way better than that sad sale Steam had for it...
Ah yes, thank you for the reminder. I do love me some shopping on Newegg since their free shipping is usually takes 1-2 days for me.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
You mean 20% off?
Shows 50% off for me.
Dog Problems
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Damn, it's showing 20% for me too
jim-jam bongs
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Tis our national holiday today, it's about time someone did an Australia Day sale.
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Lol the first time Australia has been treated well... wait better than the rest of the world, ever for anything.
MisterLuffy
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Is Crysis Warhead worth the purchase when the summer sales start?
DunderHassan
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Well, UK residents can buy Saints Row 3 for £15 (~$23), +£3 shipping for EU, here: Saints Row 3 £14.86 @ ShopTo
Or even cheaper: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=34531084&postcount=10505
Or even cheaper: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=34531084&postcount=10505
RoaringHawk
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EarsOfASnake
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Does anyone have any issues with steam mover not moving games but copying them instead? I can't get skyrim to move over, it just copies and then will still try to run it from my HDD rather than the SSD.
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