-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
STEAM - announcements, updates and WIN
- Thread starter Tony Rocky Horror
- Start date
- Status
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
Hang on hang on....
MW2 Stimulus package was 10% off pre-order at £10.98, with normal price being £11.99, correct ? Pre-order discount is now off, and the normal price is £10.99 like the PS3 version. Did people who pre-ordered just get slapped ?
Edit - Someone else noticed it, and it was £10.79 infact pre-order price -
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1254899
MW2 Stimulus package was 10% off pre-order at £10.98, with normal price being £11.99, correct ? Pre-order discount is now off, and the normal price is £10.99 like the PS3 version. Did people who pre-ordered just get slapped ?
Edit - Someone else noticed it, and it was £10.79 infact pre-order price -
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1254899
Joe Molotov
Member
I'm guessing there's no Midweek Madness today because they don't want competition for the MW2 Stimulus Pack.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
Joe Molotov said:
Oh come on man that's just ludicrous, that seem overkill for a stupid map pack.
Dead Prince
Banned
woot. just added Batman: Arkham Asylum to my game library 
the ebay deal was good. took a day to get the code. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350347017473
the ebay deal was good. took a day to get the code. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350347017473
DMPrince said:woot. just added Batman: Arkham Asylum to my game library
the ebay deal was good. took a day to get the code. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350347017473
Pretty sure that seller deals with pirated stuff. If you want to go that route you might as well just download it yourself for free(not that I'm saying you should).
Dead Prince
Banned
well i got the code. he could have stolen a bunch of Nvidia cards to get it i guess since one of his instruction step linked to the nvidia steam instruction page.Darklord said:
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Darklord said:
That's ZipZoomfly's Ebay store. I doubt that they would risk selling pirated stuff. The codes are from last year's promotion with nVidia, which still work.
DMPrince said:
I doubt it's stolen. They probably just took the codes out from some of their stock that they received from nVidia last year.
Schmattakopf
Member
MW2 available for pre-load for me, too.
Get off my list. Leave me alone. D:
Get off my list. Leave me alone. D:
Since i got my Fuel key today finally I've been playing for about 2h of the game so far.
The world is insanely huge which brings some a lot of problems. Sure, you can just go through menus to do the career stuff, but to find challenges, livery's etc you gotta explore, and since the world is so huge it takes a shitton of time to get to stuff.
Other then that i have to say it's a really fun game to play. I really like the feel when driving the different kind of vehicles (using 360 pad) and the graphics looks nice. I've just unlocked one more zone so far though out of like.. 20? might even be more.
The world is insanely huge which brings some a lot of problems. Sure, you can just go through menus to do the career stuff, but to find challenges, livery's etc you gotta explore, and since the world is so huge it takes a shitton of time to get to stuff.
Other then that i have to say it's a really fun game to play. I really like the feel when driving the different kind of vehicles (using 360 pad) and the graphics looks nice. I've just unlocked one more zone so far though out of like.. 20? might even be more.
Dead Prince
Banned
there are some stuff that you can find when you drive around in free ride. I've only found the fuel tanks. don't know if there are any other things to find.
rohlfinator
Member
I played it a bunch this weekend. A couple tips for finding stuff faster:Railer said:
-Beating certain career races will reveal one of the doppler trucks on your map. If you chase them down and run into them, your map will be updated with a certain objective (red truck gives you challenges, blue gives liveries, green gives vista points).
-You can fast travel to helicopter pads (the H's on the map) and discovered vista points.
Usually I just go through the career races, find the doppler trucks, and then hunt down the red one as soon as possible to unlock the challenges.
graywolf323
Member
for some reason I thought Guild Wars was going to be on sale for another day or so :-(
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
Any idea why Fuel appears to run in a lower resolution than the one i selected ? The menus/hud all look sharp and correct, but the actual game looks ..... low res. Whats the beef ?
Dead Prince
Banned
do you have an Ati card? i know i'm affected. sucks too.Ogs said:
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
DMPrince said:
Yup, 5770.
speculawyer
Member
C'mon . . . it is just a theory. But yeah, Screw MW2 and its lack of dedicated servers and its expensive map packs.panda21 said:
perhaps I'll just buy one of the last few Valve games I don't have yet in protest. Valve provides free map packs and is now providing support of games on a whole new platform!
Dead Prince
Banned
speculawyer
Member
panda21 said:
The cheap bastards never put the old Call of Duty games on sale. :-(
Eh, while I love steam, I feel in general that they've gotten too big and successful. They seem to have lost any incentive to keep competitive prices on new releases.
For instance, Steam is the only major gaming store that has yet to put Mass Effect 2 on sale for even a penny under $49.99. Right now it's ME1+2 for $35 on D2D (this is the 2nd time ME2 has been on sale), amazon has had repeated ME2 sales for $30-40. Best Buy/Gamestop have had ME2 sales for $10-20 off. I'm not joking when I say steam is the only store that has neglected to put it on sale. Probably because it sells well and they know people won't buy the pc version elsewhere.
I'm definitely worried that this is going to be the norm for every major release. So then it comes down to, do I want to pay $50 to have steam incorporation (auto-patching, easy download access, steam achievements sometimes, background image in games list) or $30/40 and miss all that. Steam is betting that those things are enticing enough to charge more than everyone else and....it's hard convincing yourself they aren't right
For instance, Steam is the only major gaming store that has yet to put Mass Effect 2 on sale for even a penny under $49.99. Right now it's ME1+2 for $35 on D2D (this is the 2nd time ME2 has been on sale), amazon has had repeated ME2 sales for $30-40. Best Buy/Gamestop have had ME2 sales for $10-20 off. I'm not joking when I say steam is the only store that has neglected to put it on sale. Probably because it sells well and they know people won't buy the pc version elsewhere.
I'm definitely worried that this is going to be the norm for every major release. So then it comes down to, do I want to pay $50 to have steam incorporation (auto-patching, easy download access, steam achievements sometimes, background image in games list) or $30/40 and miss all that. Steam is betting that those things are enticing enough to charge more than everyone else and....it's hard convincing yourself they aren't right
speculawyer
Member
Well . . . buy from the competitors then. I've bought from other DD sites, install, and link to them in Steam. But yeah, that lacks the elegance of the pure steam system. I like being able to 'delete local content' but then easily re-download when I want.Bebpo said:
Schmattakopf
Member
FUEL is hilarious. I've been playing free roam, or whatever it's called, online and I keep hearing someone talking into a microphone but I'm not sure who he is or where he is or where the other side of the conversation is. :lol
To play online, do we have to know each others' Steam IDs or gamertags?
To play online, do we have to know each others' Steam IDs or gamertags?
Peronthious
Member
Desaparecido said:
Make sure you check out the debug mode, it really opens up the game. The dragster especially is a blast, since natively you can't use it outside of specific regions. With the debug mode you can use any vehicle anywhere.
Bebpo said:Eh, while I love steam, I feel in general that they've gotten too big and successful. They seem to have lost any incentive to keep competitive prices on new releases.
For instance, Steam is the only major gaming store that has yet to put Mass Effect 2 on sale for even a penny under $49.99. Right now it's ME1+2 for $35 on D2D (this is the 2nd time ME2 has been on sale), amazon has had repeated ME2 sales for $30-40. Best Buy/Gamestop have had ME2 sales for $10-20 off. I'm not joking when I say steam is the only store that has neglected to put it on sale. Probably because it sells well and they know people won't buy the pc version elsewhere.
I'm definitely worried that this is going to be the norm for every major release. So then it comes down to, do I want to pay $50 to have steam incorporation (auto-patching, easy download access, steam achievements sometimes, background image in games list) or $30/40 and miss all that. Steam is betting that those things are enticing enough to charge more than everyone else and....it's hard convincing yourself they aren't right
Bare in mind, Valve more than likely has to get approval to drop the price to a certain level from the publisher, so it's entirely possible that EA simply doesn't see the need to drop ME2 below $49.99 on Steam since it's the biggest DD store (meaning most of the market is there, so the number of people that buy it for cheap on D2D would be balanced out by the number that buy it for full price on Steam). I can't think of a major PC release other than ME2 that Steam hasn't put on sale at some point. Hell, Modern Warfare 2 got one.
Basically I'm just saying that I see no reason to start tossing around paranoid conspiracy theories
Loxley said:Bare in mind, Valve more than likely has to get approval to drop the price to a certain level from the publisher, so it's entirely possible that EA simply doesn't see the need to drop ME2 below $49.99. I can't think of a major PC release other than ME2 that Steam hasn't put on sale at some point. Hell, Modern Warfare 2 got one.
Basically I'm just saying that I see no reason to start tossing around paranoid conspiracy theories
Fallout GOTY
and that 2 minutes pricing error does not count.Still hoping for it to go on sale, the other dd companies only put the vanilla version on sale.
Schmattakopf
Member
I looked into that, but doesn't it just give you all the achievements or something?Peronthious said:
Peronthious
Member
Desaparecido said:
That is a side effect, but if you don't want that to happen you can make a separate GFWL profile.
Natural Selection 2 is close to getting it's Steam alpha-test for those who have pre-purchased. http://twitpic.com/1l33db
My pants tightened a little. I'm excited for the beta/balance testing to begin (please, some time this year).
My pants tightened a little. I'm excited for the beta/balance testing to begin (please, some time this year).
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
No midweek deal? and a new MW2 free weekend? didn't we had one of those just recently? Man i'm almost sure the weekend deal is gonna be MW2 all over again.
DisenLedZep
Member
Gexecuter said:
Sweet 10% discount that DisenLedZep will not care...
Though if it's a REALLY sweet deal, like... 20 bucks... maaaaaaybe
Schmattakopf
Member
I did it anyway, and it only gave me 19 of the 46 if I ever bother to try and get the achievements.Peronthious said:
Everyone online is just sitting in the starting base camp fucking around.
Yay, FUEL keys are up as kinda predicted! ;p
Debug mode unlocks the GFWL achievements, someone said...there aren't Steam achievements for the game, I assume? I don't see any stats link in my profile stuff for it. Does your profile get deleted or something if you accidentally go online with a debug-mode-enabled one?
Similar here on an ATI 4850. One guy posted some really nice shots from an nVidia card, but I haven't been able to do anything using CCC and/or tray tools. I'm tempted to play around with the shader files manually since you can apparently do things like disabling the radial motion blur (see http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=944916).Ogs said:
Debug mode unlocks the GFWL achievements, someone said...there aren't Steam achievements for the game, I assume? I don't see any stats link in my profile stuff for it. Does your profile get deleted or something if you accidentally go online with a debug-mode-enabled one?
pretty sure it's up to the devs not valveBebpo said:Eh, while I love steam, I feel in general that they've gotten too big and successful. They seem to have lost any incentive to keep competitive prices on new releases.
For instance, Steam is the only major gaming store that has yet to put Mass Effect 2 on sale for even a penny under $49.99. Right now it's ME1+2 for $35 on D2D (this is the 2nd time ME2 has been on sale), amazon has had repeated ME2 sales for $30-40. Best Buy/Gamestop have had ME2 sales for $10-20 off. I'm not joking when I say steam is the only store that has neglected to put it on sale. Probably because it sells well and they know people won't buy the pc version elsewhere.
I'm definitely worried that this is going to be the norm for every major release. So then it comes down to, do I want to pay $50 to have steam incorporation (auto-patching, easy download access, steam achievements sometimes, background image in games list) or $30/40 and miss all that. Steam is betting that those things are enticing enough to charge more than everyone else and....it's hard convincing yourself they aren't right
steam is the most popular so devs don't see the need to offer such great deals all the time
retail sales are up to the retailer not the publisher, dd is not like that
simple as that
i could be wrong though
Apparently Killing Floor and Red Orchestra are also going to coming to Steam for Mac. They'll be out either on or around launch. Killing Floor has looked pretty cool to me. I'll probably pick that up along side the Valve games once I get my new Macbook Pro.
http://kotaku.com/5531183/steam-for-mac-gets-a-little-more-support-from-tripwire
http://kotaku.com/5531183/steam-for-mac-gets-a-little-more-support-from-tripwire
TouchMyBox
Member
Lyphen said:
My nipples are so hard right now... Is the alpha test the full game minus some features/riddled with bugs? Or is it just going to be that alpha engine test I ran on my laptop several weeks back?
DisenLedZep
Member
Twig said:
Actually I think you are correct.
Steam doesn't fix the prices of the games... the devs does. So if pricing is the matter, devs should be the ones to blame. In fact, if there are deals on weekends and midweeks is because Steams incentivizes them to do so...
Am I scum for buying the stimulus pack?
I keep coming back to the game and a few of my old university friends still play.
I'm tempted and am getting sick of the maps.
Maybe I should just install the old MW? I wonder if the audience is even big enough to maintain the map cycle. It is a top seller...
I keep coming back to the game and a few of my old university friends still play.
I'm tempted and am getting sick of the maps.
Maybe I should just install the old MW? I wonder if the audience is even big enough to maintain the map cycle. It is a top seller...
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Proc said:
Go for it man. I'm sure there will be plenty of people playing them and if you play the game enough/have 15$ sitting around, it's probably worth it. Anyways, this thread has really gone to shit with conspiracy theories about the Map Pack blocking midweek sales from happening so I wouldn't bother asking legitimate questions in here.
Salacious Crumb
Junior Member
Proc said:
I really can't blame anyone who buys it, It's not like you have much of a choice if you really love MW2. I blame Activision for being exploitative. They know they're selling crack, and they know they charge whatever the hell they want for it.
- Status