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[jshackles]

Well I enjoyed the Steam sales 'cause I enjoyed playing different games and getting achievements for prizes at the same time. I'm just wondering if this invokes the same feeling. Kinda sounds like it does. Oughtta set it up tonight. Thanks you guys.

I guess it depends on whether or not you have or enjoy the games they feature. But yes, it's very similar.

 

[Stumpokapow]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=617641



Useful feature.

I'd also add that the BLACKLIST rule searches community permanent block lists and auto-magically blocks people that other community members have, in aggregate, identified was abusers. So if you don't want to bother keeping track of who is up to sketchy stuff, you can outsource to the wisdom of the crowd~

 

[Dimitri2401]

Good luck guys! All the keys should be working, but I can't promise anything.

Instructions for Dimitri2401:
Press the quote button to the left of this PM, select the quoted text, copy, and paste in the thread. You can remove these lines from the version you paste.

Instructions for participants:
I am giving away 21 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below that corresponds to the key you want (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering).

Rules for this Giveaway:
- If you are a lurker you are not eligible for this giveaway. You need five or more posts in either the current Steam thread or the previous one to be eligible
- This is a free for all! You can enter for multiple games on the list below. Send an individual PM for each game you'd like to win.
- If you won a game from ModBot in the last day, you are not eligible for this giveaway.
- This giveaway is a raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 3 hours after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:


Knights of Pen & Paper Plus1 Edition -- MB-C8AF6367D125E87C - Taken by Khronico. 5 entrants total.
Awesomenauts Honeydew Skin of Skolldir -- MB-211A2F4B350CB6EE - Taken by Henry Swanson
Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball -- MB-CDF88143D1B79DB8 - Taken by dirtywhirlwind. 12 entrants total.
Gunman Clive -- MB-B08DF6EA61EC1D5A - Taken by Spring-Loaded. 15 entrants total.
Air Buccaneers -- MB-1314BD993D4CBFEC - Taken by BorntoPlay. 3 entrants total.

Robot Riot Hyper Edition Desura -- MB-D664BCB8CD0F48F4
Hacker Evolution Duality #2 -- MB-49CC2A4D3245A8BE
Supreme Commander -- MB-8E95E9768C514CBD - Taken by Ezalc. 6 entrants total.
Savant -- MB-C22CFCAE0EEA2383 - Taken by BorntoPlay. 7 entrants total.
Megabyte Punch -- MB-C75CE3AEBD676839 - Taken by aku:jiki. 6 entrants total.
Sid Meiers Ace Patrol -- MB-EF7A7359216A8FA2 - Taken by Alduin. 7 entrants total.
Plain Sight -- MB-DC052DB6C874D8DF - Taken by Darth Kupi. 1 entrants total.
Shivah -- MB-082C73EED59FE1B5 - Taken by jshackles. 6 entrants total.
Hacker Evolution Duality -- MB-83839611814830A7 - Taken by fspm
Little Racers Street -- MB-A6862A444CECD97E - Taken by Darth Kupi. 3 entrants total.
Broken Sword 2 -- MB-0BD26E259E61E79D - Taken by Leg-End. 2 entrants total.
Ravensword Shadowlands -- MB-3FA767BBF6076247
Ring Runner Flight of the Sages -- MB-D38521ADB3D4CDF2 - Taken by Cth. 2 entrants total.
Gun Monkeys -- MB-115FA3BF668446AB
Bang Bang Racing -- MB-DBFF50C3A399DE4B - Taken by Darth Kupi. 2 entrants total.
Driftmoon -- MB-AC313E6C662AA979 - Taken by Henry Swanson. 2 entrants total.

 

[corrosivefrost]

Did you log on your GMG account?

That has nothing to do with the credits being detected -- merely for the credit to transfer from playfire to GMG.

If he was playing at the time it was scanning, he may well have unlocked achievement a and then had the scan check his profile for achievements before he unlocked b. Since it scans about once a day as far as I can figure, there's a delay based on when you complete them.

Here's an example that demonstrates from my account:
✔09 Apr '14 You unlocked Escort Service in Halo: Spartan Assault £0.10
✔09 Apr '14 You unlocked Slight Silver in Sleeping Dogs™ £0.10
✔09 Apr '14 You unlocked Play It Again Sam in Monaco £0.50
✔09 Apr '14 You played Broforce for the first time! £0.10
✔09 Apr '14 You unlocked Prodigy in Halo: Spartan Assault £0.25

The Halo Spartan Assault achievements were done in the same was as the other poster's Monaco achievements -- but it took an extra day to show up because of when I was scanned, so they're not right next to each other in my list (and I had to wait a good number of hours (most likely a full day) for it to catch up).

I'd also add that the BLACKLIST rule searches community permanent block lists and auto-magically blocks people that other community members have, in aggregate, identified was abusers. So if you don't want to bother keeping track of who is up to sketchy stuff, you can outsource to the wisdom of the crowd~

Two questions, Stump:
(1) Do you moderate the BLACKLIST? I remember having a discussion about what would happen if someone blacklisted a poster for a petty reason and whether or not that would put them on the community blacklist so they would be blocked from some giveaways unfairly... and the community seemed to think the BLACKLIST was moderated to prevent this sort of thing.
(2) Unrelated, but is there any easy way to query modbot for the list of games you've given away? I was trying to figure out my numbers and now I know how many I've taken but I really don't want to sit here and try to sort through the receipts and stuff to try to figure out the giveaway #.

 

[MUnited83]

Instructions for participants:
I am giving away 7 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below that corresponds to the key you want (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering).

Rules for this Giveaway:
- This giveaway is a raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 3 hours after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.
- This giveaway has a manual blocklist. The giver has identified members who abuse giveaways and restricted them from participating.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:


Dead Island Epidemic #3 -- MB-B4C83418411D1E47 - Taken by koma. 2 entrants total.
Dead Island Epidemic #2 -- MB-0ECBC53A172FC4A8 - Taken by Gianni Merryman. 2 entrants total.
Dead Island Epidemic #5 -- MB-F75BD3B8BAB9C7BE - Taken by JPizzle84. 4 entrants total.
Dead Island Epidemic #4 -- MB-BC8676EC541B4AC1 - Taken by Garcia. 1 entrants total.
Dead Island Epidemic #7 -- MB-C67756F148313F04 - Taken by Cyberquake. 6 entrants total.
Dead Island Epidemic #6 -- MB-983A5B2F16F3BC1E - Taken by jediyoshi. 3 entrants total.
Dead Island Epidemic -- MB-545A70F04D3FB654 - Taken by Dimitri2401. 1 entrants total.

 

[PandaPedinte]

Yes, it's the only way I can see my rewards total since the counter on PF doesn't work for me.

Better contact customer support then.

 

[DocSeuss]

Playfire be like

"yeah, I know you have almost all those Arkham City achievements; so what?"

I think what's going on is that it's tracking ACGOTY, not AC.

Also, I only have the $0.10 credit I got from buying a game a while back. The GPB 0.20 (I should have more, but that's all it shows for now) hasn't been reflected yet. Reached out to support to see what's up.

I'd also add that the BLACKLIST rule searches community permanent block lists and auto-magically blocks people that other community members have, in aggregate, identified was abusers. So if you don't want to bother keeping track of who is up to sketchy stuff, you can outsource to the wisdom of the crowd~

I'm not quite that extreme.

Does permablock work retroactively? Like... hey, 21 games, okay, Kupi's had his fun, if I submit now, will that ensure he won't be able to pick up games I've already submitted, or is it only for the future?

Is there a way to unpermablock if, at some point, I suddenly have a change of heart?

 

[Darth Kupi]

Jeez guys its not like I hacked modbot and stole them.

 

[BruteUA]

Good luck guys! All the keys should be working, but I can't promise anything.

Heh, 21 keys. Interesting number, would it have been 22 if we saw you tomorrow?

 

[hohoXD123]

Jeez guys its not like I hacked modbot and stole them.

 

[Nabs]

Feep just put out the first trailer for There Came an Echo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmbtkUWAQpA

I'm really excited to get my hands on this, but dat soundtrack tho...

 

[aku:jiki]

Better contact customer support then.

I'd rather not pester them needlessly, but if I do, have any of you guys had to contact them? Does that fix your account forever or do you need to keep emailing them every week?

Jeez guys its not like I hacked modbot and stole them.

http://youtu.be/h0_vTUnokNU?t=38s

 

[corrosivefrost]

Playfire be like

"yeah, I know you have almost all those Arkham City achievements; so what?"

I think what's going on is that it's tracking ACGOTY, not AC.

Also, I only have the $0.10 credit I got from buying a game a while back. The GPB 0.20 (I should have more, but that's all it shows for now) hasn't been reflected yet. Reached out to support to see what's up.



I'm not quite that extreme.

Does permablock work retroactively? Like... hey, 21 games, okay, Kupi's had his fun, if I submit now, will that ensure he won't be able to pick up games I've already submitted, or is it only for the future?

Is there a way to unpermablock if, at some point, I suddenly have a change of heart?

Do your GMG and playfire emails match? If not, that's a HUGE mistake.

I spent MONTHS getting it reconciled with GMG/Playfire support and eventually abandoned my original playfire account and got the kind support team to move all the uncredited rewards to my new functioning account.

I'd rather not pester them needlessly, but if I do, have any of you guys had to contact them? Does that fix your account forever or do you need to keep emailing them every week?

http://youtu.be/h0_vTUnokNU?t=38s

It took several tickets and a lot of patience to get my issues resolved... but now that everything's all working, I've been set since. I think one of my achievements (Yaiba - complete Nightmare mode) that was unlocked within minutes of the deadline didn't credit, but It was probably $0.50 max, so I didn't bother with an email to support about it.

 

[louiedog]

I remember in college when there were big open dorm events that had free pizza there were always 2 or 3 guys you'd see jumping in line early and grabbing like 8+ slices and running off to their room to put the extras in the fridge. People farther back in the line didn't get any. I don't think those guys understood how they were being rude either.

 

[Stallion Free]

I think it's safe to assume going forwards that Arkham City non-GOTY doesn't exist as far as tracking is concerned.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Does permablock work retroactively? Like... hey, 21 games, okay, Kupi's had his fun, if I submit now, will that ensure he won't be able to pick up games I've already submitted, or is it only for the future?

I believe permablocks will work retroactively, yes.

Is there a way to unpermablock if, at some point, I suddenly have a change of heart?

No, by design. Use ad-hoc per-giveaway blocking if you're not confident enough to block someone permanently.

 

[Cth]

Jeez guys its not like I hacked modbot and stole them.

I think, much like every time this issue has arisen, it's how you react to being called out.

Each time, when people fall back on "I can do it, tough luck" it hasn't gone well.

One guy eventually showed good faith and nuked keys and made a few giveaways, but the damage is done.

 

[_hekk05]

I think it's safe to assume going forwards that Arkham City non-GOTY doesn't exist as far as tracking is concerned.

Not necessarily. I got the deus ex rewards from my non-GOTY ver (thanks Spring-Loaded)

 

[Stumpokapow]

(1) Do you moderate the BLACKLIST? I remember having a discussion about what would happen if someone blacklisted a poster for a petty reason and whether or not that would put them on the community blacklist so they would be blocked from some giveaways unfairly... and the community seemed to think the BLACKLIST was moderated to prevent this sort of thing.

Moderate? No. But there are technical measures put in place that prevent this from happening (enough people need to block the person for the person to make the BLACKLIST, people's blocks are scored differently depending on a few factors that disincentivize blocking people willy-nilly to game the system) and the few times I've checked who was on the list, it's been abundantly obvious why they were on the list.

(2) Unrelated, but is there any easy way to query modbot for the list of games you've given away? I was trying to figure out my numbers and now I know how many I've taken but I really don't want to sit here and try to sort through the receipts and stuff to try to figure out the giveaway #.

I thought my loot did, but if it doesn't, I'll try to add that functionality some time this weekend.

 

[JaseC]

I think it's safe to assume going forwards that Arkham City non-GOTY doesn't exist as far as tracking is concerned.

Yeah, makes sense. Arkham City GOTY is the only version available these days.

 

[Atraveller]

Is ModBot fine now?

 

[jon bones]

I think, much like every time this issue has arisen, it's how you react to being called out.

Each time, when people fall back on "I can do it, tough luck" it hasn't gone well.

One guy eventually showed good faith and nuked keys and made a few giveaways, but the damage is done.

yeah i think a little sincere gratitude goes a long way... darth just seems kind of shitty about the whole thing

 

[thesaucetastic]

I have no idea how playfire works.

I somehow unlocked these rewards, but I have no money from GMG for it:

And how do those "play X game for the first time" achievements work? Is it just for launching the game? Because I just did that for Dear Esther but nothing unlocked.

edit: just noticed corrosivefrost's post above. How often does it scan for rewards, anyone know?

 

[Stallion Free]

Not necessarily. I got the deus ex rewards from my non-GOTY ver (thanks Spring-Loaded)

Was everyone who owned Deus Ex upgraded to the director's cut edition for free when it came out?

Is Deus Ex going to cease to function in roughly 2 months?

 

[Sarcasm]

How can I get into the PSO2 beta? I live in Taiwan.

 

[Nabs]

I have no idea how playfire works.

I somehow unlocked these rewards, but I have no money from GMG for it:

And how do those "play X game for the first time" achievements work? Is it just for launching the game? Because I just did that for Dear Esther but nothing unlocked.

You need to log into your GMG account for the credits to transfer over. It takes time for the system to give you credit, and a bit more for it to transfer over.

 

[JaseC]

Was everyone who owned Deus Ex upgraded to the director's cut edition for free when it came out?

Owners of DE:HR vanilla alone get 50% off; owners of DE:HR vanilla + The Missing Link get 75% off.

Is Deus Ex going to cease to function in roughly 2 months?

DE:HR vanilla is Steamworks also.

 

[Atraveller]

Can we please not talk about this? I lost a bet and I have to display this stupid avatar until the end of April

Do tell!

 

[Knurek]

Feep just put out the first trailer for There Came an Echo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmbtkUWAQpA

I'm really excited to get my hands on this, but dat soundtrack tho...

First I was: Ooh, that looks lovely.
Second I was: Wha? Voice commands? Sucks?
Third I was: Oh, optional voice commands? Good, get hype.

 

[_hekk05]

How can I get into the PSO2 beta? I live in Taiwan.

I'm honestly not sure if they IP block East Asia. Tough luck I suppose. You can try getting in, but no guarantees

Here's the ddl file for you to try your luck (downloading is not IP locked, make an account, download, then try)

 

[JaseC]

You need to log into your GMG account for the credits to transfer over. It takes time for the system to give you credit, and a bit more for it to transfer over.

Apparently I have USD$5.70 waiting to be transferred over. I might pre-order Murdered: Soul Suspect after all.

 

[DocSeuss]

Jeez guys its not like I hacked modbot and stole them.

I think most people agree there's a reasonable limit on what you should grab. If I saw stuff wasn't being picked up on an old give away, I'd probably post a link to it somewhere in the chat and say "hey guys, just a head's up..."

I mean, my posts have pretty heavily indicated I wasn't cool with eight, much less twenty-one, and instead of going "oh, yeah, I guess I have had a bit much," your response is "well, I'm not breaking the rules, and I'ma keep on acting like this."

I can't speak for anyone else, but personally, I have a big issue with people who seem to think that things are okay just because they're not explicitly forbidden. That's not how things work. There's more to being a cool person than just "not breaking any rules."

I believe permablocks will work retroactively, yes.

No, by design. Use ad-hoc per-giveaway blocking if you're not confident enough to block someone permanently.

Cool, thanks.

 

[Various Artists]

Wow more great give aways. Thanks so much!

 

[Stallion Free]

Owners of DE:HR vanilla alone get 50% off; owners of DE:HR vanilla + The Missing Link get 75% off.

DE:HR vanilla is Steamworks also.

Those were questions for him to ask himself.....

I mean they are pretty obvious.

 

[Aaron D.]

Mhmm, Chaos Theory is really good. Feels good to get back into SC after a decade.

I really need to fire this one up.

Picked up like the first four Splinter Cell releases on console during their respective launches, but haven't touched the series since.

During the recent Tom Clancy sale, Chaos Theory was the only title I felt compelled to nab.

 

[hohoXD123]

Maybe it would be a good idea to impose a maximum number of games won in a certain period rule?

 

[corrosivefrost]

Moderate? No. But there are technical measures put in place that prevent this from happening (enough people need to block the person for the person to make the BLACKLIST, people's blocks are scored differently depending on a few factors that disincentivize blocking people willy-nilly to game the system) and the few times I've checked who was on the list, it's been abundantly obvious why they were on the list.



I thought my loot did, but if it doesn't, I'll try to add that functionality some time this weekend.

My loot gave me this output:

Your full loot stash
You have won the following games from ModBot:
[games]

You have the following unclaimed keys registered with ModBot:
[games]

 

[JaseC]

With regard to Dead Island: Epidemic, if you redeem a gift copy/activate a key now whilst it is in closed beta, it'll add to your game count and stay there even after it's made F2P and added to sub 0. Once the game is added to sub 0, however, keys/gifts will no longer work as Steam will consider you to "own" it; they'll be useless until the servers are shut down or it's otherwise pulled from said sub.

 

[_hekk05]

Those were questions for him to ask himself.....

I mean they are pretty obvious.

Well I'm sorry if I don't know anything about Arkam City

(ಥ﹏&#3237

 

[Knurek]

No bad rats here, promise.

Instructions for participants:
I am giving away 5 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below that corresponds to the key you want (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering).

Rules for this Giveaway:
- This is a free for all! You can enter for multiple games on the list below. Send an individual PM for each game you'd like to win.
- This giveaway is a raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 3 hours after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:

Secret Santa #3 -- MB-D2785948E3949400 - Taken by Leg-End. 26 entrants total.
Secret Santa #2 -- MB-6FCCA2DF64160F57 - Taken by Ingueferroque. 25 entrants total.
Secret Santa #1 -- MB-B521AB953BA41A61 - Taken by wetflame. 27 entrants total.
Secret Santa #5 -- MB-FEA0F4D2288DD632 - Taken by X05. 37 entrants total.
Secret Santa #4 -- MB-4F975397D6926D1E - Taken by Saty. 22 entrants total.

 

[TAFK]

No need for external tools, especially when you have no idea whether they don't include malware.
Simply rename the .bat to .exe, add that to Steam, rename the .exe back to .bat and edit Steam shortcut properties to the correct extension.

How would I go about creating a batch file from the files? They're all .he files and run through ScummVM.

 

[_hekk05]

No bad rats here, promise.

 

[Echoplx]

The Playfire rewards for Goat Sim are cray, you can actually make a profit on it.

 

[JaseC]

How would I go about creating a batch file from the files? They're all .he files and run through ScummVM.

Follow this example:

Next, we need to create a batch file to run ScummVM. The main reason for doing this is that the command line you will use to run the game in ScummVM is quite hairy, and you don't want to have to type it in every time you want to play. So... open Notepad, or whatever your favourite text editor is, and copy and paste the following command line right into it:

c:\scummvm\scummvm.exe -f -g hq2x --aspect-ratio -pD:\SimonI simon1

The above assumes that you installed ScummVM to the place I recommended. Adjust accordingly if otherwise. The '-g hq2x' and '--aspect-ratio' parameters are graphics settings that blend all the otherwise blocky pixels together nicely on today's larger monitors. Unfortunately, the talkie version of Simon the Sorcerer does not have subtitles, or we could have also chucked a '-n' on the command line to turn them on. Also, if you don't have the same version of the game as I have, you will have to locate the folder on the CD that contains the game executables. It may not be SimonI.

Save that command line (Save As...) to this file:

C:\simon1\simon1.bat

Make alterations where necessary/desired (e.g. you may not be a fan of the hq2x filter so you can leave that out or replace it with something else).

 

[Knurek]

How would I go about creating a batch file from the files? They're all .he files and run through ScummVM.

.bat is just a text file with all the commands you want to run - JaseC's post had an example for ScummVM.

Okay, Battler, There are no Bad Rats in that giveaway

 

[thesaucetastic]

You need to log into your GMG account for the credits to transfer over. It takes time for the system to give you credit, and a bit more for it to transfer over.

Hm, I just logged in. Don't see my credit there. Do I have to wait for them to process it, like the playfire rewards? Or do I have to do anything else, like somehow import data from playfire?

 

[PandaPedinte]

No bad rats here, promise.

It's

Spoiler

Secret of the Magic Crystals.

 

[JaseC]

Hm, I just logged in. Don't see my credit there. Do I have to wait for them to process it, like the playfire rewards? Or do I have to do anything else, like somehow import data from playfire?

Yes. Logging into GMG triggers the transfer process, which can take up to a day or two.

Those were questions for him to ask himself.....

I mean they are pretty obvious.

Serves me right for replying on auto-pilot.

 

[_hekk05]

Okay, Battler, There are no Bad Rats in that giveaway

The red font just makes it so much more convincing and official

 

[thesaucetastic]

Yes. Logging into GMG triggers the transfer process, which can take up to a day or two.

Oh, I see now. Thanks for the help you two!