Good one. We should have seen it coming.
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STEAM Announcements/Updates 2013 - Summer sale start date? No one knows, don't ask
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Good one. We should have seen it coming.
For anyone who bought FFVII would you mind checking your registry for a Securom entry?
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SecuROM
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SecuROM
I'm looking at you Xelios
Nothing, but I haven't installed it.
Installing now.
TekGryphon
Banned
Its not the only site that reported it actually, not sure how they all managed to miss it lol.
Yep, finding the last few pieces of equipment is proving to be difficult.
I installed FF VII and no sign of Securom in the registry. Haven't made an account though and actually launched it. so I'll do that and edit this post with the results.
Edit: No Securom.
need4speed
Banned
So my internet was acting up for a couple of hours and I find out that FFVII was released on steam?! So bought!
Gotten to the bottom of the Securom, going to bed. Later
Full disclosure, there is some significant DRM with the title
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=613186
Full disclosure, there is some significant DRM with the title
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=613186
ThePeoplesBureau
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Well that's Dust bought. Hoping to scrounge a bit more revenue out of the cards to pay for 400 days.
You know what, this is almost exactly what happened to me a year ago (it was around this day too), only that I paid $30 for Max Payne 3 instead of $10.I have created the following, and decidedly awful, pictorial flow chart illustrating Valve's business model:
(This took me twice as long as it should have because I initially saved it as a JPG and didn't realise this until after I'd closed Fireworks.)
Also love that Steam key!
Fare Godmace
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So I finally bought a Mystery card for 89 cents. Now if only Isaac and FTL's card prices would drop a little further so I get those cards I'm missing for less than an euro each...
Oh, and I put FF VII at the top of my wishlist when I saw the store page... But I see Square has betrayed us, so I guess that place goes back to System Shock 2 now
Oh, and I put FF VII at the top of my wishlist when I saw the store page... But I see Square has betrayed us, so I guess that place goes back to System Shock 2 now
Okay, now I'm seriously going to bed.
Good choice.
Get SS2 during the sale!
Good choice.
So I finally bought a Mystery card for 89 cents. Now if only Isaac and FTL's card prices would drop a little further so I get those cards I'm missing for less than an euro each...
Oh, and I put FF VII at the top of my wishlist when I saw the store page... But I see Square has betrayed us, so I guess that place goes back to System Shock 2 now
Get SS2 during the sale!
Nope. Here's a recent thread regarding the game's action elements; it might help to inform your decision.
Mavromatis
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Okay I have a mental problem:
All of these are unplayed point and click adventures I have on Steam. I also probably have 20 or 30 unplayed PnCs off Steam. (A few of them I played a long time ago like The Dig). Any recommendations?
Broken Sword 1&2 first, after that the rest.
More_Badass
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Still debating whether to buy BLEED. Since it's new and already on sale, any chance that it would be discounted more during the Summer Sale?
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And damn, reading through this thread, it really sucks coming to Steam so late.
People with 400 games? That's insane, don't even know how that's possible. I doubt it's possible to even play all those games
Being able to sell cards? I thought those were just like PSN trophies or achievements. What's the difference between cards and badges?
Humble Bundles, other bundles? Didn't even know these existed. Only way to get extra keys to trade or just get great games for cheap in general and I don't have a credit card or Paypal. Actually I've been lurking around Reddit. That's a great source for giveaways and swaps
Well, I did give away keys so I feel good about that.
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And damn, reading through this thread, it really sucks coming to Steam so late.
People with 400 games? That's insane, don't even know how that's possible. I doubt it's possible to even play all those games
Being able to sell cards? I thought those were just like PSN trophies or achievements. What's the difference between cards and badges?
Humble Bundles, other bundles? Didn't even know these existed. Only way to get extra keys to trade or just get great games for cheap in general and I don't have a credit card or Paypal. Actually I've been lurking around Reddit. That's a great source for giveaways and swaps
Well, I did give away keys so I feel good about that.
Badges adorn your profile after crafting one using a complete set of cards. Additionally, crafting a badge also nets you an emoticon, profile background (both related to the game in question), and a "Mysterious Card" that has an as-yet unknown function but is presumably tied into the Summer Sale meta-game (all three items can be sold on the market if you so desire); you also earn XP, and each time you "level up" you earn an additional five friend list slots, with certain level milestones also rewarding you with a "showcase" slot to use on your profile. If you max out a badge (regular badges can be crafted five times while foil badges just the once*), although the cards will no longer be in your inventory, they will remain in your "binder" (Valve is preparing a proper one, which will go live soon), which you can view by clicking the appropriate game in your badge list.
* There also promotional badges, such as the one you can earn by completing various Steam Community-related tasks. The ability to level up these badges varies: the Steam Community badge, for instance, has two levels.
Edit: Bah, my ability to type is almost non-existent today.
I'm missing letters/words all over the place.spleenpoker
Member
How do you buy from Nuuvem? I tried adding Mass Effect 2 to my cart and it keeps saying "This product is not available for purchase in your region"
need4speed
Banned
I really don't mind the DRM honestly.
More_Badass
Member
That seems pretty complicated. Probably never going to get involved with that.Badges adorn your profile after crafting one using a complete set of cards. Additionally, crafting a badge also nets you an emoticon, profile background (both related to the game in question), and a "Mysterious Card" that has an as-yet unknown function but is presumably tied into the Summer Sale meta-game (all three items can be sold on the market if you so desire); you also earn XP, and each time you "level up" you earn an additional five friend list slots. If you max out a badge (regular badges can be crafted five times while foil badges just the once*), although the cards will no longer be in your inventory, they will remain in your "binder" (Valve is preparing a proper one, which will go live soon), which you can view by clicking the appropriate game in your badge list.
* There also promotional badges, such as the one you can earn by completing various Steam Community-related tasks. The ability to level up these badges varies: the Steam Community badge, for instance, has two levels.
Edit: Bah, my ability to type is almost non-existent today.
It sounds more complicated than it is. For game-related badges, it's literally as easy as buying/trading cards to complete a set, clicking the "craft badge" button, and selling what you don't want.
need4speed
Banned
Its pretty simple, you buy cards to complete sets.
toddhunter
Member
I personally have a big problem with always on DRM, especially from a service with really no point to its existence and very dubious medium to long term survival prospects. Kind of a deal breaker for a steam title.
derExperte
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Damn man, I did good myself but not nearly that good, you must have sold those cards at their price peaks. It looked like people stopped buying them for more than 1€ so I started to get a little nervous.
400 is barely scrub-status. Don't look at certain other GAFers libraries if that fazes you already.
More_Badass
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Thing is, I'm never going to have a library to match most Steam users. And if you get cards by doing things in game like achievements or by playing multiplayer, then I'm never going to get cards and I don't play online. For example, I'm never going to play Team Fortress 2.
And only I have limited $$, so I definitely wouldn't spend it on cards
You can use up your per-game drops just by idling in the main menu. Load up a game, alt-tab and do something else while you wait for your cards.
need4speed
Banned
Never buy a game full price, wait for the summer sale if it comes.
toddhunter
Member
Depends of course and I think there is a link earlier in the thread where you can get it for $10 from the steam trading guy on gaf.
I'm pretty much over it now but I really enjoyed my time with it and got 10 hours of fun. When you compare that with 38 hours of say FTL before I hit that rogue "been there/done that" point it isn't quite as impressive.
But still, I can vouch for its overall quality, just up to you if the dollars make sense and you have time to actually play it.
masterkajo
Member
Finally sold a foil card for GSB worth about €3. Could have been about €12 if it weren't for an idiot who undercut from €12 to €3 in one swoop (Then everyone seemed to undercut this guy and the price went down without a purchase from €12 to €3). The guy who bought my foil seems to be a japanese business man (at least according to his profile) who bought all the GSB foils at once not matter the price. He payed up to €14 for some. If the one guy wouldn't have shown up and undercut by €9 I could have made about €12 with a digital card, damn you, undercutter!
derExperte
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masterkajo
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Ah, no. If only I had read that before going to bed last night. Would have been epic
EDIT: Now all prices of GSB foils seem to be very low. The problem with this strategy is that hardly anyone builds foil badges. So when you buy up all the cheap foils you spend a lot of small amounts but the demand for foils (especially at higher prices) is not very high. And you would have to buy each card that undercuts you again in order to keep controlling the price. Would work though if the demand is high. Well, we need more japanese business men that are interested in digital foild bades.
toddhunter
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Meanwhile Final Fantasy 7 is ~$10.80 from those stealing bastards at GMG
I got a BL2 foil within the first couple of minutess of launching it. At the time it was consistantly selling for $33ish, so I undercut by like 2 cents, right after mine someone posted theirs for 25, then people started flooding undercuts from that one guy. Ended up only getting like $18 for it, but it still sucks losing 1/3rd of the potential in a matter of minutes for no reason.
The onus would be on Squeenix to create the cards (each card holds a piece of high-res art), emoticons and profile backgrounds. Valve have implemented tools into the Steamworks SDK to make this process quick and easy, though.
Wut!? Buying now!
The injustice!
The reason is that the cards don't exist anywhere outside of a computer and people don't really have to do anything to get them. There's no intrinsic value to these foil cards and people just want some free money quickly. Be glad you got $18 when really there's no reason that they should be worth anything at all, really.
masterkajo
Member
Sure, that is true. Though there seem to be some people who want to buy them even at high prices. So why not try to get as much money out of it as possible? Why undercut by a lot? I mean even if it is free money if I offer to give you $25 or $33 why not take the latter?
EDIT: I can understand that someone might just want a certain amount i.e. $25 since it is significantly cheaper than the rest it might sell faster. The problem though is that the minute someone undercuts by this far all other people seem to think the value of the card has dropped and undercut the guy. So he won't get his sale b/c other people are cheaper again and in a matter of minutes the value of the card has indeed dropped without a single reason just b/c people are impatient and so easily influenced.
spleenpoker
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How the heck do you get origin games on that site??
Google Translate?
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