Ah, that LOTR MOBA thingy. Not free? Meh.
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Ah, that LOTR MOBA thingy. Not free? Meh.
Various Artists
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ModBot said:
Hope this works everybody. Happy to give back to the community!
I intentionally left them as "Game Name" SPIN THE WHEEL OF DESTINY!
Beast Legacy
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MK9 on PC has bad netcode and something is screwed up with the online lobbies not showing people. But if you're just in it for single-player and offline play then you'll be fine (though look up how to replace the story mode cutscenes as the included files are poorly compressed).
Get Skullgirls, look up KOF13 and consider that when it drops in September. Don't forget Divekick is also next week if that interests you as well.
greendomo's ghost
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Hope this works everybody. Happy to give back to the community!
I intentionally left them as "Game Name" SPIN THE WHEEL OF DESTINY!
Damn, must've just missed them! Do tell what they were...
C00kie M0nster
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Hope this works everybody. Happy to give back to the community!
I intentionally left them as "Game Name" SPIN THE WHEEL OF DESTINY!
Thanks Leviathin! Do I dare even ask what these mystery games were?
I would buy this for Rebirth in a heartbeat.
Starting to feel a little bad that Steam is missing out on all my game monies...
Various Artists
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I think they were Dead Space and Metro 2033. I had some extras for those kicking around.
NingenJanai
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Hope this works everybody. Happy to give back to the community!
I intentionally left them as "Game Name" SPIN THE WHEEL OF DESTINY!
Thanks a lot for Dead Space !
I am happy about this and will definitely pick it up. The temptation to play anything as Gandalf is too much, but I will likely wait for a sale.
I noticed that about the cutscenes, I found it pretty irritating that the quality was so low on them. So there is a way to fix this? Do you have a link handy?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
In accordance with updated win statistics, I slightly adjusted the global throttle on ModBot to be slightly more restrictive:
- All users can only win one game every 15 minutes (No change)
- Users who have won 7 or more games in the last week must wait 6 hours (Previously: 9+ games)
- Users who have won 12 or more games in the last week must wait 24 hours (Previously: 15+ games)
The throttle is designed to only impact the users who are bordering on abusive behaviour, and impacts less than 10% of all those users who win. As statistics dictate it, it will be loosened again in the future. Sorry for any inconvenience. I am not reporting user statistics at this time, and there's no need to name and shame.
- All users can only win one game every 15 minutes (No change)
- Users who have won 7 or more games in the last week must wait 6 hours (Previously: 9+ games)
- Users who have won 12 or more games in the last week must wait 24 hours (Previously: 15+ games)
The throttle is designed to only impact the users who are bordering on abusive behaviour, and impacts less than 10% of all those users who win. As statistics dictate it, it will be loosened again in the future. Sorry for any inconvenience. I am not reporting user statistics at this time, and there's no need to name and shame.
Good tweaks I think. Can we get a list of the people who have won the most? And maybe another for the most generous users? If it's too much trouble, don't worry about it. I just think it'd be helpful to some.
Eanan
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You can see who has won the most things from modbot?
Just playing devils advocate here, but could you tell us how many items the person on top of that list has won? Just so we can see what kind of abuse are talking about here. You dont name and shame them if you dont want to obviously.
NingenJanai
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Anyone else having trouble trying to redeem the origin codes?
LiquidMetal14
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Thanks. The system could use the tuning. Good on you.
Same here actually. I'm not exactly fishing and always looking but if I see a game for me or a friend, I have claimed it. Matter of fact, I believe 2 of the games I've won were for friends.
Baron von Loathsome
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Pretty much everyone is. EA says they're currently working on fixing it.
I'm glad I redeemed my codes when I did.
MMBosstones86
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Can't wait. Always wanted to play this one.
LiquidMetal14
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EA can't handle it's own service it seems. I'm sure there is an influx of new Origin members. I just want to claim my games and use the ones that don't require Origin to run.
Cool. I'd like to see more last gen ports on Steam!
I had trouble before. But before I went to bed, I managed to redeem all of them. So it works from time to time, most likely at low traffic hours.
Which Origin-exclusives in that Bundle don't require Origin to run? The Sims 3?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I own many more games that are not just in that bundle. I'm mainly referring to not liking to have to use Origin to launch games. There is a few that I have that force me to run it.
Tizoc
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Woaaaaaaaaaaaah! Looks I could finally play it at an actually good frame rate!
Any chance Splatterhouse can be on Steam? I liked the PS3 game but it had some graphical and a few frame rate issues.
amishpriest99
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Depending on the price I'd like to check this out, especially if it will run better on my rig.
I just redeemed all my codes not 5 minutes ago without issue. I'd try again.
NingenJanai
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And we aren't even on day 2, some heads might roll on EA, I don't think they expected such a big success.
The sad part is I bought the bundle for $10 (it's for charity, can spend a couple extra bucks) and redeemed all the steam keys last night (Origin was down of course) and realized I didn't want to play a single game.
Oh well. I made a donation to charity. Feels good. Maybe the wife will want to play Sims after Origin fixes itself.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
That Enslaved rumor/news is so yesterday. If this thread wasn't moving at a ridiculous rate due to CDkey dumps then it might have been seen by more people.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I will. I haven't tried this morning. Thanks for updating me. I just don't have Origin on the wife's laptop.
It's a Scamco game, so, sure, there's a chance.
SteveWinwood
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I don't have the time at the end of the day to skim this thread all the time for news like that :/
Nice to see tweaking to Modbot going on, it's such a great little tool for helping Gaffers out. I've been lucky enough to get a few games from it and it's been fantastic each time. Love seeing games I enjoy getting gifted out too, like FTL when that was all the rage. I'd be interested to see some stats though, maybe stuff like average number of games won by one member? Or at least most games won by a single member, just out of idle curiosity.
derExperte
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But I love naming and publicly shaming. :/
With the rate this thread has been going who does have time to catch up on the entire thread if they don't constantly read it while at work
Stallion Free
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Which is hilarious because the thread title does say that this is for Steam Announcements & Updates, yet they are almost impossible to find in the torrential downpour of barely related to Steam things.
Here are some Origin CD keys to make you feel better:
SteveWinwood
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Yep. Releasing a moba not for free on pc is instant death for it in 2013. They must be smoking crack.
Some of us actually do work at workWith the rate this thread has been going who does have time to catch up on the entire thread if they don't constantly read it while at work
oh man origin
thats my favorite steam thing to discuss in the steam thread
800,000 potential new Origin users? I'm sure EA will be happy to take a hit to get more people onto their service. It's not like they're hurting for cash and the charity aspect is a huge boost to their PR.
I was somewhat excited when this was leaked/announced earlier this Summer. But man, that is some premium PC pricing right there. 74 for the full version. I'm not sure if 75% off is enough, might have to wait for 90% off.
Beast Legacy
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Poking around and it seems the links were taken down and the PCGW doesn't link to the correct spot. Going to see if there's an alternative.
NingenJanai
Member
Yeah but devaluating IPs and yada yada...
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It's my robot, I can do anything I want any time I want.
The person on top of the list is exactly at the high throttle. No one else is between the medium throttle and high throttle. Several people are slightly below the medium throttle. I appreciate that in a situation like yesterday where people are dumping the same five games dozens of times, someone is going to play the long game and get one of each over the course of the day, but I also don't want to enable resellers or anything like that.
698 unique winners
2713 prizes given out
409 unclaimed prizes
515 unique givers
1489 giveaways
It's my robot, I can do anything I want any time I want.
The person on top of the list is exactly at the high throttle. No one else is between the medium throttle and high throttle. Several people are slightly below the medium throttle. I appreciate that in a situation like yesterday where people are dumping the same five games dozens of times, someone is going to play the long game and get one of each over the course of the day, but I also don't want to enable resellers or anything like that.
I felt dangerously close to that high throttle yesterday, based purely on luck
. Did not expect to win what I did! But those tweaks are for the better to help keep things in order and to give everyone an even playing field, which is what ModBot is great for.Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I felt dangerously close to that high throttle yesterday, based purely on luck
You are nowhere near the lower of the two throttles--remember both throttles are based on your number of wins this week.
Pretty interesting stuff! Especially the 409 unclaimed prizes, I imagine a lot of those came in yesterday, haha. So looks like on average it's 3.88 games won per unique winner, 6.06 games given away per unique giver (including unclaimed). GAF is generous!
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