Well, I discovered when I was in the US for the summer that the gold standard is Amazon. Bought an album from the MP3 store, first track had a tiny bit of audible clipping. Emailed them at 3pm on a Sunday asking if they could rerip, or put my order as credit towards to the CD. I got a reply a couple of hours later saying they'll refund the entire purchase, so I just bought that one track on iTunes.
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ClovingWestbrook
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For those of you on the fence for BFBC2, Steam has put up the 4-pack. It comes out to about $37.50. Most likely EA didn't give the go ahead until now which is why it wasn't available earlier.
gregor7777
Banned
kamspy said:
It was $3 on GamersGate this weekend. Maybe Steam will be next.
IMACOMPUTA
Member
Man, the Steam Beta has totally screwed me over.
Every time i start steam, it takes like 8 tries. The first couple of times i'll try to open it and it will say "connecting" and then close. The next time it'll give me some sort of /bin/friends error (or something). Then sometimes steam will open and the store page cannot load no matter how many refreshes, and when i click to play a game i get "game unavailable."
Even after uninstalling the beta i still get some of these errors... not to mention i gifted my friend a game and he never got it. Never even received an email about it.. I've contacted steam, but after like 5 days all the said was "Have your friend check his uninstalled games." .............. no really? So now i wrote back and most likely have to wait another 5 days. ARGH!
Every time i start steam, it takes like 8 tries. The first couple of times i'll try to open it and it will say "connecting" and then close. The next time it'll give me some sort of /bin/friends error (or something). Then sometimes steam will open and the store page cannot load no matter how many refreshes, and when i click to play a game i get "game unavailable."
Even after uninstalling the beta i still get some of these errors... not to mention i gifted my friend a game and he never got it. Never even received an email about it.. I've contacted steam, but after like 5 days all the said was "Have your friend check his uninstalled games." .............. no really? So now i wrote back and most likely have to wait another 5 days. ARGH!
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
The game isn't on Steam, I think.gregor7777 said:
Dragon Age: Origins 1.03
Patch details:
You do not need to download patches prior to Patch 1.03. Downloading Patch 1.03 contains all previous patches. Downloading Patch 1.03 will provide you with all patch data available.
Various changes have been made to code and resources to support the Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening expansion pack. Most of these changes do not affect Origins itself.
Some players were experiencing increasingly long load times. A major cause of this problem has been fixed.
At higher levels, non-player characters now receive a bonus to armor penetration. This mitigates an unintentional imbalance with well-armored high-level characters, since armor penetration previously did not scale as aggressively as armor itself did.
Elite-rank enemies (lieutenants) can no longer be shattered. This preserves the intended tactical design of many combat encounters.
Portraits for summoned creatures (like a ranger's wolf) were displaying improperly while in the party camp. This no longer occurs.
Oh God finally.
Patch details:
You do not need to download patches prior to Patch 1.03. Downloading Patch 1.03 contains all previous patches. Downloading Patch 1.03 will provide you with all patch data available.
Various changes have been made to code and resources to support the Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening expansion pack. Most of these changes do not affect Origins itself.
Some players were experiencing increasingly long load times. A major cause of this problem has been fixed.
At higher levels, non-player characters now receive a bonus to armor penetration. This mitigates an unintentional imbalance with well-armored high-level characters, since armor penetration previously did not scale as aggressively as armor itself did.
Elite-rank enemies (lieutenants) can no longer be shattered. This preserves the intended tactical design of many combat encounters.
Portraits for summoned creatures (like a ranger's wolf) were displaying improperly while in the party camp. This no longer occurs.
Oh God finally.
IMACOMPUTA
Member
speculawyer said:
For me, typically 5 or 6 days.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
It actually did that to me yesterday. Only happened once so far though. I launched it normally and was getting like 10fps without changing anything in the settings. So then I tried to restart Steam and it told me I need to close BC2 first...even though I just did. Kind of strange because the process was there but it wasn't on my toolbar or anything.kamspy said:
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Just an FYI, there will be some type of discount for R.U.S.E. on Steam.
gregor7777
Banned
How about Just Cause 2? That needs a 4-pack. Metro, also. Really, all expensive games. Make it happen Gabe.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
gregor7777 said:
Agreed. Unfortunately those two still are a no go.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Volcynika said:
true, didn't think of that. I have been so close to buying both Just Cause and Metro 2033, I just can't pull the trigger!
Diablohead
Member
EA's plan I think, since they make more money on full price copies then bundle packs.vocab said:
4 pack in the UK is £105, makes the game around £10 cheaper for everyone since steam retail is £35. How much is the US 4 pack?
Dark Stalkers
Member
It's $150 in the U.S.
Instro said:
Well, Deus Ex is an absolute classic, and I imagine it holds up pretty well. It also has a pretty active mod community. Think Bioshock with a cooler story and more diverse environments.
The rest are all good but not great, though Hitman 2 has one of the best themes I've ever heard in a videogame. The Hitman series, in general, requires planning and the willingness to retry levels any number of times to beat them satisfactorily.
i can't find the official thread because the fucking search hasn't worked forever despite my gafgold fees, so i'll post here:
zuma's revenge IS far more humane than zuma. BUT iron frog is all kinds of fucked up. bout to throw a brick through my monitor. they pretend that it's the fact that you only have one life that makes it challenging, while totally ignoring the fact that the levels are about 50x harder than even the hardest campaign levels, you almost never get good power-ups, and the color combinations are full of strings and strings of singles
zuma's revenge IS far more humane than zuma. BUT iron frog is all kinds of fucked up. bout to throw a brick through my monitor. they pretend that it's the fact that you only have one life that makes it challenging, while totally ignoring the fact that the levels are about 50x harder than even the hardest campaign levels, you almost never get good power-ups, and the color combinations are full of strings and strings of singles
Dead Prince
Banned
Nice. my friend got TF2 from me during the Halloween Deal. Going to tell him about the Mac Version of steam.
Going to tell him about the Mac Version of steam.i like zumas, also popcap. challenge mode is great and imo the best mode in the game, and they've really perfected the difficulty. but iron frog....
will try luxor sometime. i think i have a game from those guys on my itouch, sky something or other? another zuma/luxor/whatever-that-game-is-that-those-games-ripped-off-that-everyone-likes-to-mention-like-they're-super-knowledgeable-or-something-is game.
will try luxor sometime. i think i have a game from those guys on my itouch, sky something or other? another zuma/luxor/whatever-that-game-is-that-those-games-ripped-off-that-everyone-likes-to-mention-like-they're-super-knowledgeable-or-something-is game.
Minsc
Gold Member
AstroLad said:
The newer luxor games in the pack (you get 5 luxors and one mahjong), 2, 3, and QftA, all have a shop/upgrade system, which I don't think is in Zuma.
Luxor 3+ is really a superior game. You get all sorts of different challenges, boss battles, centipide retro-style gameplay, time challenges, etc, and there's about 10 power ups, that you buy upgrades from with your money you earn by playing the levels... the better you play the level the more money you get. You actually need to choose which upgrades to focus on, as they get exponentially more expensive when you continue to re-upgrade, and it creates some variation and additional strategy. The game also rewards perfect play nicely (no missed shots), and you get cascading chain bonuses, as well as marble upgrades and multiple difficulty settings.
It's really an amazing value if you like those types of games, I grabbed it for like $10 during the holiday sales, I had tried the Zuma Revenge demo (through to the third world I think), and found Luxor to be the better purchase. It's also got fancier backgrounds!
blazinglazers
Member
Steam noob question: when you create an account "username," is that akin to your Live gamertag? Can that tag be changed later, or is it set forever?
Sorry for the off-topic interjection. Filthy & excited Mac user here...
Sorry for the off-topic interjection. Filthy & excited Mac user here...
gregor7777
Banned
blazinglazers said:
The name you use to login is set one time only, but it's not necessarily your display name which you can change at will.
blazinglazers said:
It's just an account name, you don't want most people to know what it is. Unfortunately you can't change it. You create a Steam community profile after and you can change your community name as much as you want. That's the one you will be seen as in Valve games.
blazinglazers
Member
^^^ Awesome, thanks so much for the help!
I would like to use this occasion to present the greatest Deus Ex walkthrough ever written -
http://www.it-he.org/index.htm?coral-no-serve
http://www.it-he.org/index.htm?coral-no-serve
Stallion Free
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Monroeski said:
Quoted for the motherfucking truth. Play the game and then read that.
brain_stew
Member
gregor7777 said:
Its not on Steam so i can't see that happening. D2D are great these days, no good reason to pass that deal up.
graywolf323
Member
you know with that earlier leak about FFVII & VIII coming to Steam I wonder if they'll show up during the Square-Enix/Eidos week they're pushing right now?
hope so
really the only deal I want this week of the games already out would be Gyromancer
otherwise I already own most of them ^_^;; thanks to the Eidos Complete Pack
hope so
really the only deal I want this week of the games already out would be Gyromancer
otherwise I already own most of them ^_^;; thanks to the Eidos Complete Pack
blackMamba1187
Member
LovingSteam said:
I feel the same way about both of those games. 4 packs would force my hand, but I guess i can wait for eventual sales. Both are steamworks, right? So even retail sales would work out.
RbBrdMan said:
did you get it to work?
verifying usually does the trick. if files came up missing, that almost assuredly it. they will DL automatically no need to restart unless it starts acting up. you should see the download start under your GAMES or LIBRARY (Downloads) if youre using the steam beta.
prob a quick download too.
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