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STEAM | August 2014 - Everybody loves iDLEM@STER

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Mr. Luchador

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Beelzebubs said:
Just intrigued as when/if I release a game, I wouldn't want to lose out on potential revenue as an indie developer who wouldn't make much money anyway. Again, I'm a hypocrite on the matter.
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Why worry about it at all, they'll always find a way to buy your game cheaper. If not then perhaps they'll go the next cheapest option - free. However, I don't personally believe in 'Lost Revenue'.
 
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freshVeggie

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Volimar said:
In essence, people don't care if you use SAM to make money idling for cards, but if you use it for completely arbitrary achievement scores, it crosses a line.
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Yeah, that's why I asked. Couldn't rationalize whether it's ok for achievements when played first time idling is ok. Definitely not worth getting banned though.
 
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toastyToast

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Anyone have an issue where you're unable to pay greenmangaming? My credit card which I've made all my purchases from up until now doesn't work nor does my paypal account.
 
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tjohn86

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I'm suddenly hooked on CS:GO... even though its on Steam I feel like I'm abandoning the rest of my library. What is wrong with me.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Tizoc said:
At work right now so I can't access seem but if someone could help me with a little something: What's the cheapest Zen Pinball 2 has been?

Wanna get it for the Deadpool board :p
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Pinball FX2 is free. The Deadpool table is $2.99.
 
Beelzebubs

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freshVeggie said:
Yeah, that's why I asked. Couldn't rationalize whether it's ok for achievements when played first time idling is ok. Definitely not worth getting banned though.
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Data caps. Just because I own a game eligible for Playfire first time play rewards does not mean I can actually download the title. If I was going for the achievements yeah, I'd have to install the game. I see it as a clear difference between getting achievements by actually playing as opposed to getting £0.10 for just opening a game which could be a 12gb download taking hours and usage of my 100gb a month cap.
 
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Lain

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Deitus said:
What? I knew certain things were restricted in the trial, but you can't even send tells? That's awful.

I finally created my character and went through the tutorial, so I'll be ready to play with you guys later on, but from the sound of it, it's going to be hard to coordinate.



I know the feeling. I know it's a bad idea, but I can't resist.
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For legit people it is, but how else are you going to cripple the gold sellers that would just hop from trial account to trial account to spam the playerbase? I don't know how it is now, but when I left they were still rampant in their tell spam.

Also you guys should be making characters on the same server as the GAF clan. There were a lot of good, helpful people in it when I stopped playing and I figure there still are. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=847265
 
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MMBosstones86

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StAidan said:
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Hero of the Kingdom became my 18th perfect game this morning. (Not that the achievements were all that challenging, you can get most of them during the normal course of the game and the rest just take a smidgen of grinding.)
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Thanks for the impressions, I'll have to fire it up sometime

Volimar said:
In essence, people don't care if you use SAM to make money idling for cards, but if you use it for completely arbitrary achievement scores, it crosses a line.
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No one gives a fuck if you boost your e-peen using SAM to unlock your achievements. It's boosting your e-peen using SAM to unlock achievements that are tied to playfire rewards that's the problem.

Cards don't require you to 'play' the game. Playfire rewards do.
 
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Volimar

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Beelzebubs said:
Data caps. Just because I own a game eligible for Playfire first time play rewards does not mean I can actually download the title. If I was going for the achievements yeah, I'd have to install the game. I see it as a clear difference between getting achievements by actually playing as opposed to getting £0.10 for just opening a game which could be a 12gb download taking hours and usage of my 100gb a month cap.
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Do you ever plan to play that game?

MMBosstones86 said:
No one gives a fuck if you boost your e-peen using SAM to unlock your achievements. It's boosting your e-peen using SAM to unlock achievements that are tied to playfire rewards that's the problem.

Cards don't require you to 'play' the game. Playfire rewards do.
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Whoa, calm down there. We're all friends here. Just making a joke.
 
Beelzebubs

Beelzebubs

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Volimar said:
Do you ever plan to play that game?
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Not when it's stuff I got from bundles :p I usually buy them if there's at least 1 title I'm interested in which I will play eventually. The rest just sit in backlog. Some I just buy for the cards.

One of the first time play rewards this week is Space Hack, a game I have absolutely no interest in playing but it's being given away for free so may as well use SAM for it.
 
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Lomax

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aku:jiki said:
Why are you trying so hard to defend your own honor over a petty, ignorant and pointless post? You didn't have an actual point to make, you just randomly wanted to shit on a developer of an indie game you irrationally hate. What exactly is the point of that supposed to be? I thought we were adults in here.

And, for the record, I was more annoyed by the 20 people who wanted to ride the hate train and post like "Yeah, I've never played it but I KNEW IT SUCKED LOL". It's like I was in kindergarten all of a sudden.

It's a great game with a nice retro concept of having different levels be different gaming systems. The main levels are Amiga, then there are GameBoy, Virtual Boy and CGA graphics levels.
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I think the point most of us was making was that it doesn't matter if it is great or not, it has no apparent appeal. Games sell on appeal. When games are great, word of mouth helps. When games are average or niche, they often get lost. The game lacks obvious appeal, and never got any buzz otherwise. If the Dev thought he was going to get instant riches on Steam by bundling his game and getting lost in the mix with many many great indie platformers, he's delusional.

Tizoc said:
My thoughts too heh (sorry feeling really exhausted, heavy and tired today =_= )

At work right now so I can't access seem but if someone could help me with a little something: What's the cheapest Zen Pinball 2 has been?

Wanna get it for the Deadpool board :p
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When it has sales, the tables have hit 75% off. TBH the Deadpool table isn't that great, I much prefer the new Guardians of the Galaxy table. If you have an android tablet, the tables are only $2 there. If you have Amazon coins, you can get 60 coins back with each table which makes them 139 coins each, that's how I've been buying them recently and I'll double dip on Steam when they go on sale again.
 
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PepsimanVsJoe

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Well.
Marvel 2k15 is addictive as hell.

Gave up trying for the level 50 playfire reward in Dead Island. Sewer areas are universally terrible. Plus I didn't care for how much damage zombies were doing(1/3 of my health on a single attack).

Focusing on Arkham Origins now. The sooner I beat it the sooner I can free up some HDD space.

Mutant Mudds is okay. Solid platforming, decently-paced, difficulty is fair enough, but still just okay. It's the kinda game that will get lost in bundles.
 
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Turfster

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You know what would be great, Valve?
If now that you added buy orders to cards, those orders were listed on the badge page too.
 
corrosivefrost

corrosivefrost

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wetflame said:
Well, at the very least it serves as a demo for the game that will hopefully get people to check out the real thing. I enjoyed it a fair bit, the guy who does the quick-fire knives was pretty great, think he was my favourite of the bunch.
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Jason Statham is always *that* awesome. Ask JShackles.

BinaryPork2737 said:
If you just go through the main game, and the Jetstream Sam and Blade Wolf DLCs, probably six to ten hours. It tends to vary a lot depending on what difficulty you play on. If you do most of the VR missions and really stretch out the game, it could take longer, especially if you go back and play on higher difficulties. If you do decide to play MGR, watch this video, it'll help a lot.

There are a lot of mods for DX, but I'm not really familiar with most of them, I played it years ago so I'm not up to date on it.
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6 hours for all single player missions in MGR:R? What sorcery is this?
It'd probably take about 7-8, as far as I figure, with 8 being more likely (5-6 for main story + 1 hour for each dlc).
 
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Enco

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Do you guys prefer longer games or shorter? Does it depend on the game?

Personally I prefer linear games to be on the shorter side (6 hours).

Open ended games such as GTA, CK2 and JC2 I'm more than happy to long.
 
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Beelzebubs said:
Data caps. Just because I own a game eligible for Playfire first time play rewards does not mean I can actually download the title. If I was going for the achievements yeah, I'd have to install the game. I see it as a clear difference between getting achievements by actually playing as opposed to getting £0.10 for just opening a game which could be a 12gb download taking hours and usage of my 100gb a month cap.
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That makes sense.
 
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Shadownet

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Beelzebubs said:
Free GMG credit for completing certain achievements in games.
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Do you have to complete those certain achievements during a time period? Or they can be completed whenever.

And I'm assuming your steam account is linked to playfire so it automatically know when you complete an achievement.
 
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MMBosstones86

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Shadownet said:
Do you have to complete those certain achievements during a time period? Or they can be completed whenever.

And I'm assuming your steam account is linked to playfire so it automatically know when you complete an achievement.
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Yes you have a time period.

Yes you have to link your account.
 
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Mono

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iosefe said:
Gonna be a long 3 hours
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You've got this! \o/

Shadownet said:
Do you have to complete those certain achievements during a time period? Or they can be completed whenever.

And I'm assuming your steam account is linked to playfire so it automatically know when you complete an achievement.
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There's a time limit! They post new achievment rewards on their blog every day with a timer, but it's a lot easier to just use this tool so that you don't miss anything from games you already own. And yes, you have to link your Steam account to Playfire first.
 
Beelzebubs

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Shadownet said:
Do you have to complete those certain achievements during a time period? Or they can be completed whenever.

And I'm assuming your steam account is linked to playfire so it automatically know when you complete an achievement.
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Yeah, they have to be completed during a certain time period so if you've already played the game or unlocked the achievement you get nada. It's basically a way to try and sell games on GMG which is a great deed by them.

Just have a look at the rewards page to clarify my incoherent rambling.

https://www.playfire.com/a/rewards

Playfire is buggy as hell though, sometimes it won't register your achievements or whether you have played a game. I've had my Steam account linked since the Alpha and still haven't gotten the £0.50 credit you were supposed to get.
 
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So I got to play Ampu-tea last night (thanks maneil99) and was able to make a perfect tea after about an hour of messing around (easy mode), with most achievements except the play 500 times one... and it wasn't too bad. Had a few laughs, and liked that many achievements are obtained while you're raging at the whole experience. Some problems I had were not being able to grip the cup securely due to those weak fingers (always tipping over spilling all my hard work), and my depth perception was off at times. I was definitely more ready to play (with lots of patience) after playing Surgeon Sim 2013 a few months ago. I'll have to try Probably Archery whenever I get a chance.
 
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wetflame said:
Is Marvel Heroes playable solo? I don't tend to be able to play games at regular times, so I don't like stuff that relies too much on multiplayer.
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Yes, and it's more of an arpg than an mmo so if you do want to group up for some of the content, you usually can with strangers for as little as ten minutes in many instances. The Supergroup isn't mainly for grouping up, mostly for chatting. Occasionally people will group to tackle tough things like the recently released raid, but there's no pressure on you to do so.

It's a great game to play casually until the addiction takes hold and you spend the rest of your life there.
 
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Volimar said:
Yes, and it's more of an arpg than an mmo so if you do want to group up for some of the content, you usually can with strangers for as little as ten minutes in many instances. The Supergroup isn't mainly for grouping up, mostly for chatting. Occasionally people will group to tackle tough things like the recently released raid, but there's no pressure on you to do so.

It's a great game to play casually until the addiction takes hold and you spend the rest of your life there.
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Jumping in the fire tonight
 
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Volimar said:
Yes, and it's more of an arpg than an mmo so if you do want to group up for some of the content, you usually can with strangers for as little as ten minutes in many instances. The Supergroup isn't mainly for grouping up, mostly for chatting. Occasionally people will group to tackle tough things like the recently released raid, but there's no pressure on you to do so.

It's a great game to play casually until the addiction takes hold and you spend the rest of your life there.
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I tried getting back into it recently, I stopped playing after getting bored with Limbo runs being the only end game.

I got confused as hell a few weeks ago, so much has changed with it, so much to do but I got lost as hell and decided to not play it again til I'd read up on changes.

It really is a good game. The actual best thing about Marvel Heroes though is their dev team actually listen to the players and will even respond to you if you message them on the forums. Doomsaw is especially great.
 
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Volimar said:
Yes, and it's more of an arpg than an mmo so if you do want to group up for some of the content, you usually can with strangers for as little as ten minutes in many instances. The Supergroup isn't mainly for grouping up, mostly for chatting. Occasionally people will group to tackle tough things like the recently released raid, but there's no pressure on you to do so.

It's a great game to play casually until the addiction takes hold and you spend the rest of your life there.
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That sounds awesome!

I wish DC Universe Online was an arpg. Or a good game. :( I would totally jump on Marvel Heros if not for the fact that I'm not really a big fan of Mavel superheros outside of Deadpool, Spiderman, and half of the Avengers. I'm way too big of a DC nerd!
 
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i think im going to mark my calendar for late 2015 because there's going to be a lot of crow eating done when Master Chief comes to the PC around that time.

well, they'll probably announce in mid 2015 so i better start saving up on crow soon, now that i think about it.
 
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