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STEAM Announcements/Updates 2013 - Summer sale start date? No one knows, don't ask
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Is there a topic called "Dirtiest questions you asked Siri"?
Polioliolio
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Thanks for adding me to the GAF group, somebody!
Out_Of_Ammo
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You're welcome.
woo and indeed hoo
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I don't know but I don't have an iPhone so it's just wish fulfilment for my filthy imagination at this point
.Aside from giving away games for free, Valve has never discounted one its titles by more than 75%.
TheNamelessOne
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Of course you can. Do it!
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Do it! We believe in you!
with that in mind, i wonder, do valve games ever go on sale from third party sites, amazon gmg etc.?
edit: now that i think about i guess valve would never discount their games in some sort of bundle on a third party site more than they would on steam?
need4speed
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It should take you 30 minutes max to build a PC.
Schmattakopf
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New page, I think it needs to be posted again.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
rainking187
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TheNamelessOne
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Saints Row The Third is 4 on Jeuxvideo atm: http://jeuxvideo.gamesplanet.com/ac...ce=JVCM&utm_medium=news&utm_campaign=newsjvcm
Get it if you don't already have it.
Get it if you don't already have it.
GameStop/Impulse is the only third-party DD retailer that Valve has partnered with, and there was a sale on Valve's catalogue earlier in the year.
Edit: Haha, I always bugger up GameSpot/GameStop.
Undead Bokun
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New to Steam but I had a quick question. If I add a Non-Steam game to Steam would it keep track of time played? I love seeing how much time I waste on games. It would be especially nice to see how long I played some of the games I got from GOG.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I wonder what today's Daily Deal is gonna be. Can't decide if it's a good or bad thing for the developers. Bad because there will be a lot of eye rolling, good because a lot of people will probably buy it in anticipation.
TheNamelessOne
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Most buyers will probably have no idea there is gonna be a sale tomorrow anyway.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
You might check out Raptr, it will do this.
The overlay tracks your current session time, but it's not saved to Steam thereafter. I'm surprised Valve hasn't bothered to implement this, really.
I guess they don't want people to gain anything by not using steam games.
cicero
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At the least, they should have a Half-Life 2 complete style pack for $5 or less considering the age of the games. I would really have liked to have been able to buy that as a present for someone today, even at $5. Some might laugh at the idea of $1.25 being a dealstopper, but I have a limited amount of funds in my wallet, and $5 is where I would draw the line between an impulse gift to make someone a little happy, or having it eat into what little I do have stored for things I have been waiting to get.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Playtime is a variable stored in Valve's database that is associated with an AppID. Since games added from outside of Steam don't have AppIDs, they would have to rearrange their database structure completely to accomplish this. Even if they loosely associated a non-Steam game with an AppID (by name, maybe?) their database requires that you OWN (or at some point owned) said AppID.
House of cards.
There is no reason they can't do it client side for non steam games.
More_Badass
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Has anyone played EYE Divine Cybermancy? The reviews were mixed, but I tried the demo and it's really cool. And it's built on the HL2 engine (I think? Menu and options are exactly the same) and runs smoothy for me
cicero
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This has been one thing I have really been wanting Valve to implement within Steam for quite some time now. I don't see any problems with doing this, it only would further Steam as the central hub for digital games on the PC.
Steam does assign (long) app ids to non-Steam games locally, though. Take a screenshot via the overlay and check your screenshots folder.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
True, I should have mentioned that. There is no reason they can't store this client-side. They want as few things stored client-side as possible, as they get a torrent of tickets already for the things that are stored client side (like screenshots of non-Steam games, etc) disappearing.
Totally possible though.
NotoriousPUG
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Just picked up the Half Life collection for 9.99. This weekend I'll get to finally see what all the hype is about.
If you find that you're enjoying the games, I'd leave Episode Two alone until Half-Life 3 is around the corner, because it'll just make the wait all the more worse.
Not my first rodeo but I'm super fuckinnn laaaazy today.
Is every bit of onscreen text still in 2pt unreadable freaky font?
More_Badass
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Same. I'm 2 hours into HL2...for the firsf time
And except for gravity gun and Ravenholm, I know nothing about the story or game.
You all jealous?
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I've attempted (so far without success) to be hired by Valve to help implement features like this one. If anyone knows anyone that works at Valve that would be willing to give me a shot, I'm still interested.
I played Eye for an hour or two back when it was part of the 2011 Winter Sale meta-game (IIRC, enemies dropped presents and the drop rate was rather low). I can't say it grabbed me.
It's source engine. I played it at launch and it was really buggy. Aesthetically it looks cool but it suffers from bugs like infinite enemy spawn (unless that's what it's supposed to be, which was game breaking in my opinion.) Buggy respawns (I respawned in a different area once with no way out. It was a room for the main story line. Had to make a new character.) The story was a mess if you c can call it that.
It means well but falls short. But I still had fun with the class mechanics and stuff. The game play itself was pretty solid and the environments were nice. so was the atmosphere.
Get it for cheap.
Dio Brando
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Thanks! Got Titan Quest. Always wanted to play it, but by the time i knew about it, i couldn't find it for a good price.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Yeah, it's Source Engine.
It is the purest form of Eurojank available, so pure that taking a straight rail of it will probably kill you. No care or consideration for your feeble human hands was used when thinking of the controls. The game could not possibly care any less if you understand its maze of systems and gameplay mechanics.
Me, I like my Eurojank adulterated.
However, if you could handle the demo, you'll probably like the full game. It'll also probably be absurdly cheap during the sale.
dark_inferno
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I found it very fun with friends. Its very complex. But all those problems get solved after 2 hours in the game. Then you understand everything (Besides the fucking story.)
If you like the game, you might also be interested in Grim Dawn, which is being developed by ex-Iron Lore developers (and with the Titan Quest engine, no less).
You dig so far?
Dio Brando
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Went to the site and started looking at the screenshots. Looks like an amazing game. I'll bookmark it and see how things develop. Thanks for the link
TheNamelessOne
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Isn't it about time for a new thread title with all the evidence pointing towards sale tomorrow?
Tomorrow... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl9BNSh1cbQ
Tomorrow... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl9BNSh1cbQ
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