MarshMellow96
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I've played about 30 mins of The Swapper and it's fucking great. I do feel sort of bad for all the clones I'm killing though..
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them
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It does create a moral quandary. Watching endless versions of yourself die horribly in hopes of preserving your singular consciousness.
toddhunter
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Have we seen it in motion yet? It does look great in screens.
Makes you wonder how they can produce that and have so many other obvious issues unfixed.
I wish I knew who bans you, I know Evilore banned me once as my comment got edited.
cicero
Member
But I didn't get Rising Storm. I was one of the sad ones who actually paid full pre-release price for Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad too. I DEMAND REPARATIONS.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Everyone who owns RO2 gets Rising Storm, you just have to pay to use any of the alternative classes. RO2 owners only get to use the rifleman class and no level ups, this way players don't get completely screwed when the server changes to a Rising Storm level.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
So just to be sure: I am in fact getting Rising Storm for free and it is not just downloading 7GB of stuff I will be locked out from?
Also I grabbed that HB Weekly, stacking on top of my already huge list of adventure games. Now I have seem to have about 80% of all the adventure games on Steam.
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Also I grabbed that HB Weekly, stacking on top of my already huge list of adventure games. Now I have seem to have about 80% of all the adventure games on Steam.
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Ah... so there is no way to have RO2 multiplayer without Rising Storm attached? (my HD space is running low)
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Heh I actually put it in here more to whine about "wasting" a key than because I thought a trade would actually be possible--who the hell would have an inventory copy of Wallace and Gromit... and why would they want to trade it for a bunch of games including Wallace and Gromit?
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Unfortunately not, I already keep RO2 uninstalled because of how stupidly large it is so I feel your pain.
CosmicQueso
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Gone! PM Sent. Enjoy!
I like it
I love you all.
Enjoy!
There is a Walking Dead Steam Key in my post. Quote to see.
Got it.
Thank you, thank you.
Enjoy!
cicero
Member
For the Steam completionists here. Free Awesomenauts Yogscast DLC skin. Email address required.
Oh, I'm not saying that it looks bad or anything like that, just that it's really, really similar to TWD (which I'm playing at the moment).
Slightly different variant of cell shading used, but honestly, the difference isn't all that great.
For example:
cicero
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ussjtrunks
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SteveWinwood
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I'm guessing they can start working on the steamworks before they get approved this way?
As in like add achievements and what not, so it can go up in the store asap after they get greenlit?
RibbedHero
Member
Hmm, wonder when RTCW will go on sale again. I already own the CD version but I'd love it on Steam too, but not for £6. So much nostalgia when playing that game.
cicero
Member
Thank you very much for this!
XANDER CAGE
Member
I had three bucks of Itchy and Scratchy Steam money so I bought the ability to use a star emoticon in chat.
I think Steam (and me) has finally jumped the shark.
I think Steam (and me) has finally jumped the shark.
Nabs
Member
I wouldn't bet on it
. I can't wait for PAC MAN Pizza Parlor to hit Steam...........I think it's probably this http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/6585/pacman/index.html and then this one http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/8741/pacman-pizza-parlor/index.html
Rickenslacker
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I gotta say the whole trading card angle just seems like satire come true. Selling imaginary cards in the market, rare foil cards and badges that are just there for the sake of it, crafting emoticons, leveling up your profile. It's weird.
scorpscarx
Member
That's my conclusion too, it's pretty weird. The future of it is sort of hazy I think... oh know top of page!
jediyoshi
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RibbedHero
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I've been making mad stacks off the trading cards, so you won't hear a bad word come out of my mouth!
I think the trading card system is rather genius.
Its the basic TF2/DOTA2/MMO culture where people enjoy finding and collecting things, and then showing them off to their friends and strangers on the internet.
So they introduced levels and items to bring on that addictive part of your brain.
Then incentivize market purchases by giving the badges tiers and restricting the amount of drops one player can get.
Valve gets a cut for every card, emoticon, and background sold on the market. And I'm sure the content creators (in this case the developers) get a cut of those sales as well.
I just sold a Borderlands 2 foil for $20. Gaben just financed my Summer Sale and Day Z standalone purchases.
Its the basic TF2/DOTA2/MMO culture where people enjoy finding and collecting things, and then showing them off to their friends and strangers on the internet.
So they introduced levels and items to bring on that addictive part of your brain.
Then incentivize market purchases by giving the badges tiers and restricting the amount of drops one player can get.
Valve gets a cut for every card, emoticon, and background sold on the market. And I'm sure the content creators (in this case the developers) get a cut of those sales as well.
I just sold a Borderlands 2 foil for $20. Gaben just financed my Summer Sale and Day Z standalone purchases.
Rickenslacker
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Sure, it's hilarious that they get people selling $20 versions of jpgs with silver borders, but it just seems like one of the more blatantly cynical things they've implemented.
That said I hope to come across a foil to pawn off for sale scratch.
That said I hope to come across a foil to pawn off for sale scratch.
PixyJunket
Member
It's probably the original based on the logo.
I would pick it up
(if it had trading cards)
And, as far as I know, it's totally ok to do hat because, both TF2 (now) and Dota 2 are games that get constant updates that are 100% free and everything you can buy is cosmetic.
So yeah, they should get a percentage of all the cosmetic stuff I don't care about and sell.
jediyoshi
Member
I think it'd be cynical if they sold cards directly themselves or withheld any major Steam features behind earning the cards. Otherwise everything remains functionally the same and feeds into more metagame that people do tend to like.
toddhunter
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Yeah I don't understand the mentality of the people who buy the cards....but then I don't understand why people buy my hats I get from games either.
I look at it the same way I look at people who walk into EB games and pay $110 for the yearly version of Madden or pay $100 for COD on steam. If they want to subsidise my gaming hobby, then much luck to them.
Anyone want to trade cards?
I have an extra Maxwell, looking for another Don't Starve card.
Need Willow, Wolfgang, or Wilson.
EDIT: Also need to trade Half Life 2 cards
Have an extra Trouble Undergound, need G-Man, Gordon Freeman, Bring the fight to the, Respite, and City 17 Metrocop.
I have an extra Maxwell, looking for another Don't Starve card.
Need Willow, Wolfgang, or Wilson.
EDIT: Also need to trade Half Life 2 cards
Have an extra Trouble Undergound, need G-Man, Gordon Freeman, Bring the fight to the, Respite, and City 17 Metrocop.
toddhunter
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Looks cool. Don't really like the pricing trend on these early access games though. If anything I would have expected them to be cheaper.
It's pretty difficult to have real discussions about the whole system when this is the general divide that is forming. People who don't care about the cards are just getting money for basically nothing so everything is roses, they love the system as it is. But the same people, as per the quote, can't understand why someone would want to collect a seemingly trivial set of fake cards.
There's many reasons someone would want to collect the cards, maybe it's just a general sense of ocd or a sense of building your "online persona" to its maximum potential, whatever it is, the ones that would like to collect are getting essentially squeezed for a lot of money for all this. Note that I'm saying those who want to partake, nothing about valve forcing them to do stuff, just that so far with the market being the easiest method of transaction and there being relatively nothing else having purposeful trade value.
The way I see it at the minute, the cards are no different than a game about to get pulled from steam. Each badge is essentially on a time limit. We all know the....prestige of owning one of the games that can no longer be obtained via steam, so losing the opportunity to have a few meta game tasks would sort of suck.
for a moment I read that as Xenoblade... and went OMG YES... ><
gravitybear
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wow... alan wake $3. any reason to not buy this?
Not unless you have a time machine to yesterday.
I think Steam would've kept up with the indie bundles if it didn't exist. I remember in 2010 they did some really nice $5 indie bundles for 5 games. Humble Bundle will always better since it's the best indie bundle, though a few of the Groupees bundles have been pretty nice too lately.
This would be pretty cool -- what's the source? I have a developer account, but the FAQ (http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/about/?appid=765§ion=faq), forum, and news section don't seem to indicate any changes from the old system where you must be approved before you can use the SDK to add Steamworks features.
toddhunter
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True but the two go hand in hand. Without people getting squeezed for money, getting the badges is actually worth less.
I agree out of beta it will probably be better when things open up. If more games start supporting it then everybody will have a heap of cards and it'll all get a bit easier to do actual trading. If anything Valve could help by increasing the amount of drops as others have suggested.
Heh, me too. Still good.
yes. Alan Wake 2 won't be made for a long time
real answer no. obviously. fantastic deal
BoosterDuck
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well if you hate video games
Still available? I'll take it.
It is, Ill pm you the code.
Posted some other stuff here in case your interested.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=60304257#post60304257
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