The countdown timer is just counting down to the store update of the day. With any luck it'll unlock in AU/NZ first, like Watch Dogs... but hopefully with a preceding pre-load period longer than ~12 hours.
Yeah, Valve doesn't see a cent from keys.
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The countdown timer is just counting down to the store update of the day. With any luck it'll unlock in AU/NZ first, like Watch Dogs... but hopefully with a preceding pre-load period longer than ~12 hours.
Yeah, Valve doesn't see a cent from keys.
That's exactly what my take on the subject is. With modbot (and basic rules) if the game is redeemed, it most certainly goes to someone who wants it. Might be a game someone missed on a bundle, or hasn't come around buying because isn't sure if the game's worthy of even a low price. Or someone who just can't afford the game. Just like you said, no harm done if no one's interested.If they're trash, noone will take them and no harm done
Beelzebubs
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Depends where you play, my main is on EU but have an NA smurf stuck in Silver hell.
Season Two is a Telltale Code. Be aware.
what do you mean "Telltale Code" ?
not steam code ?
Following the release of TWD s01, TellTale launched its own "service". Amusingly enough, when TWAU launched, Steam users could play it just fine but those who'd bought it elsewhere could not.
This is correct. Steamworks allows developers to generate unlimited keys for free.
Whatever Telltale's motivations for not selling Steam keys, I would imagine only causes frustration with consumers.
ScreamingTrees
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They already had their own service before TWD S01. Sam and Max, Monkey Island, Wallace and Gromit and other games could've been bought from them. TWD S01 was the first (and only) game of theirs that required Steam.
At least with The Wolf Among Us they gave Steam keys though. I'd pre-ordered it through telltale since it was cheaper, and they actually gave a Steam key to me. The Walking Dead Season 2 on the other hand, also had a lot of issues with their drm on launch, and they didn't give Steam keys to anyone despite that version working and theirs didn't.
Don't TellTale's pre-TWD games use SecuROM as opposed to TellTale's own DRM? To the best of my knowledge the latter didn't come about until after TWD.
I think I'm lucky in that uplay hasn't eaten my saves, yet.
But I'm not in AU/NZ, pff.
I should arrange a week off from work for ACU release, seems like a reasonable thing to do.
Maybe they think it's better to have people invested in their system? I don't think it makes sense, but that's generally how these things seem to go.
Pretty sure they did have telltales DRM if you downloaded it directly from Telltale. They also always required you to log in with your telltale account before being able to play.
Baron_Calamity
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If there is anyone completely unconcerned if there customers can play their games, its Telltale.
I used Spotflux and unlocked Watch_Dogs the moment it went up in AUS. Then about 2 mins later it went up for preload in every other region so was only a small gain into to getting it downloaded.
ScreamingTrees
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I always logged into them using my TellTale account, they may well have used SecuROM too. I know the collectors DVD of Sam and Max used SecuROM while Monkey Island's one was DRM-Free.
Ah, so TWAU is just the point where a TellTale account became mandatory if you bought it on the PC outside of Steam? The more you know.
Had to bump my internet speed down couple months ago, so I would certainly welcome a lengthier pre-load. It's not easy to go back to 10/1 once you are used to 100/5 speeds. :\
Very true. The general attitude over there seems to be "screw fixing bugs we've got another 3 games to make!".
If the pre-load isn't live by the time the game leaks on to the 'net, then you can download a cracked version to use as a pre-load. It generally works to some extent.
- Download said cracked version and install it somewhere on your Steam drive
- Once the game has unlocked on Steam, check SteamDB for the installation folder name
- Create a folder with the above name in steamapps\common
- Move the cracked data into the folder you created
- Install the game on Steam and let the client "discover the existing files"
If you have a download quota to worry about, though, I'd recommend against this approach, just in case it doesn't work -- you wouldn't want to download 20GB+ only to find that Steam disapproves of all of the data.
Edit: I've no idea if such a workaround would be viable for the actual Uplay version. The only game I've bought for Uplay itself is Tintin.
ScreamingTrees
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And they still won't allow keyboard remapping. If you don't have a QWERTY keyboard or don't like WASD (say you're left-handed so right hand on keyboard), tough.
This didn't work for me for the UPlay version of watch_dogs. What a waste of 20GB that was.....
The files were there but they weren't in whatever manifest UPlay uses so they were promptly deleted and redownloaded.
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So my friends goaded me into trying Rayman Origins again (via Family Sharing of course) and I was taking my time doing everything except the speedruns until that snake level in the second world where you are pushed forward constantly. I promptly deleted the game again. The level design in these main games is incredibly irritating.
Neither, but it did work for me with AssCreed Revs way back when (to what extent I can't recall, but I do know that I didn't have to re-download everything).
Never had a quota, hopefully never will. But yeah, I have considered this whole thing in the past, but never had a real reason to. Here's hoping I wont need to this time either.
In some cases in the past it would take me more time to decrypt the pre-load data, than it would have taken to actually wait for the release and download it then.
#firstworldproblems hashtags are cool.
You're lucky. Me and a friend were 0 for 2, we both tried different methods and I tried a few times but in the end gave up and let it download the 20GB again. Only another 3-4 hours of waiting before I could actually play the game. Lucky I've got unlimited downloads.
Tizoc
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Seriously dude? That sounds like rage quitting to me, no offense.
I loved the stage designs in Rayman Origins and that was hardly the hardest part in the game.
20GB would take me 10 hours at my current sync speed.
It's actually gotten worse since work on the NBN began here a few months ago -- go figure. Speaking of pre-loads, though, I still can't believe that there wasn't one for Wolf14 and its whopping 40GB download. Here's hoping Bethesda doesn't drop the ball again with The Evil Within.Strongest point of my Rayman Origins playthrough were the teeth chase levels.
Everything else was pretty much piss easy.
Is that the one with the collapsing structures and rising sand? Yeah I own Origins on Vita and PC and stopped shortly after there with both and not really got back to it. Saying that I own 3 copies of Legends and have only done the first world and only a bit of the second. I put it down to having a short attention span as to why I've made little progress.
Jawmuncher
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Rayman O&L have been my favorite platformers in a long time. Since I like the balance of speed and platforming they have. Not too fast like sonic and easier to maneuver when going fast than when I play Mario.
Though I can see how some of the levels can be a pain especially for someone who plays the games like you do where they are trying to explore everything.
Ugh I'm so confused, I've put in around 17 hours now since the reset on Wednesday playing CS:GO in Casual and Comp, and still haven't had a single drop, case or skin. All I've gotten this week are my mission skins (not even missions have dropped for me either). I'm just confused by all this and I feel like I just have the worst luck ever
20GB would take me 10 hours at my current sync speed.
I lucky as far as ADSL goes, I'm about 1.5 blocks from the exchange so I sync around 20Mbit. Max out at 2.1-2.2MB/s with a decent multi stream source. I'll never get NBN here though, I live in a small town and we were scheduled for 2016 but that's never going to happen now. I'm not even likely to get better speeds on the MTM because I'm close enough to the exchange to basically max out ADSL so I'd rather they do nothing at all at this point.
Demon Lizardman
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Just beat the Mothership Zeta expansion to Fallout 3. It was fun for an hour but it did feel like it dragged on near the end. At least I got some OP loot though.
WinterDemons
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New IndieGala Monday Bundle is up.
Anything worthwhile?
Best luck.
Anything worthwhile?
I've been blessed
Now let's see if it sells...
Best luck.
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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams isn't a bad game.
bobnowhere
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Indiegale Monday is up:
They keep sneaking the price up each week! $1.79
- Omegladon
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- Guise of the Wolf
- Diamond Dan
- Gianna Sisters
- Robot Rescue Revolution
- Koala Kids (Greenlight)
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It's not rage quitting, it's deleting a game that you are wasting your time having no fun playing. I pretty much 100%d both mobile games so it's not as much an issue of difficulty as it is irritating and bullshit design. If you have patience for that, that's great. I have better platformers in my collection I still haven't beaten though that are worth my time.
YianGaruga
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Sweet, thanks! For some reason I thought the talk was happening exclusively in the Steam threads.
Beelzebubs
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Guise of the wolf is fucking horrendous by all accounts.
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Tizoc
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Hmm well sad to see you didn't enjoy it, it was my GotY when it released, although I will say that Legends' rendition of those stages are better.
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