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STEAM | August 2015 - Three versions of Windows since the last Half-Life
- Thread starter jshackles
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One day at a time.
corrosivefrost
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You did? What am I supposed to do with this Nvidia key I got for you?
Snakethesniper
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3,000 dollars and divinity 2 will be funded
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Hopefully it makes it.
Last Baron
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I can't tell if one of my fans is dead or Rocket League is just the hottest game I've ever played
derExperte
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Many PS4s have melted displaying the main menu.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Hero Prinny
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well rocket league is hot shit so its most likely the second.
pshhh no wayyy
You missed nothing.
Valve was messing with the languages, and people just went nuts.
I got this from my buddy the big HOMM fan that I gave my key to, so that's all I have at the moment.
I could ask for more info if you really need to know, but imo, all you need to know is that he's "going to wait for the game to be in a bundle in a couple of years".
This from the guy that played each HOMM on release, so...
yup. its kinda crazy
Hero Prinny
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why you guys hype that divinty got funded? i could've told you that, if it wasn't today it would've gotten funded before the kickstarter ended.
corrosivefrost
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I approve of this sentiment... but mainly because it can be construed as either positive or negative/
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Why do people vote? Why do they go to church? Why do they look into their child's wide, vacant eyes and lie them to sleep with platitudes and fairytales?
To be a part of something bigger and maybe, hopefully, not have to look that monster in the mirror and shout why.
FIN.
There's nothing else to hype.
Hero Prinny
Member
you're letting the hype get to you breh
mgs is next week, lets hype up my theory of chico being the actual main character after reverting back to a male.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
RE: "I should be able to override all the safeguards, I promise I won't complain" -- One problem is that, say 10% of people who do this will then choose to complain, probably with something like "Look, I know I agreed not to get help, but I made a mistake, and why are you punishing me? I'll read better next time?". "Who even reads that stuff before choosing it" "I thought that just applied to people falling for obvious scams but this is different because" "I thought the refund thing was just for people who treat games like rentals, the game won't even open on my computer, why won't you give me a refund?". There's also the PR fallout of people who are unhappy getting a public voice and then more resources to respond to it.
Like, I think these kinds of things need to be evaluated in light of the fact that they only emerged as responses to people's dumb behaviour. It's not like Valve was proactive on this. After years of people complaining endlessly about scams and lack of refunds, they finally responded. So viewed through that lens, not giving people quite the benefit of the doubt seems pretty reasonable to me.
Like, I think these kinds of things need to be evaluated in light of the fact that they only emerged as responses to people's dumb behaviour. It's not like Valve was proactive on this. After years of people complaining endlessly about scams and lack of refunds, they finally responded. So viewed through that lens, not giving people quite the benefit of the doubt seems pretty reasonable to me.
because if you look at your purchase history it says how each game was acquired, it will either say steam store purchase or 'retail key' so it already knows
IT ALREADY KNOWS
I personally think it's odd that you can override the majority of the safeguards, but not all of them. The current override implementation simply doesn't make any sense.
And ofcourse, I sodding wish they'd get off their arses and change it so the 2-hour-till-drops only applied to games purchased via the Steam storefront, and not third-party keys. :|
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jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I think their response to the obvious scams in this case is perfectly reasonable, and I actually kinda hope they don't give people the option to disable this one*. An account's marketplace items have been a huge "honeypot" for potential scammers. While most people have very little of value just sitting in their inventory, most of the high profile accounts that scammers are hoping to hook could potentially be worth thousands of dollars. Turning those thousands of dollars into (maybe) a hundred bucks means that even the biggest jackpots for scammers are worth significantly less.
This means that in a lot of cases, the cost of operating bots will hopefully outweigh the benefit, and as a result we should see less scam activity overall. Giving people an out just means that the jackpot gets raised again, giving further incentive but with lowered odds of finding the right target. But in all likelihood still profitable.
Besides, how much market activity is everyone really doing over $3 per transaction? If you put your $200 CS:GO knife up on the market, aren't you kind of glad that Valve is double-checking with you that that's really what you want to do?
*Of course it could have a better implementation, such as only requiring 1 confirmation per account per IP address per 2 hour time limit, just to decrease the inconvenience of using the system while only (very) slightly decreasing it's usefulness.
Jawmuncher
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From the store page:
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Please only enter if you enjoy visual novels and Japanese games!
Gonna throw in those lucky 7s, thanks for the giveaway.
LurkerPrime
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Oh, no need to go to that trouble. Your buddy's reaction is all the response I need.
Y'know, more than anything else HoMM-related I want a Dark Messiah 2. That's a great game.
It isn't whether it got funded. It's what trajectory its funding will take and what that means for possible stretch goals.
Dsyndrome
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Exactly. Plus i like to imagine Sven freaking out with happy face and shit he is pretty loveable.
Is it too late to suggest a stretch goal of casting Brian Blessed for all the animals you can talk to with Pet Pal?
someguyinahat
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Then, when they don't meet it, they're gonna hire that Yogscast guy who does a Brian Blessed impression.
cardinalmind
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I've been away from Steam for a long time so I don't know the newest good games.
How's Shadowrun Hong Kong?
And Pillars of Eternity?
I might not be able to buy them in the near future but I'm actively looking out for them.
How's Shadowrun Hong Kong?
And Pillars of Eternity?
I might not be able to buy them in the near future but I'm actively looking out for them.
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Why is G2A advertising on GAF? I thought that key sites were against the rules and shit
lashman
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crazyrabbits
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I've noticed that the Groupees coin I got way back in one of the Be Mine bundles is now worth $4 instead of $3 after a week. Who knows, maybe by early next year, it will be worth enough to buy the high tier of one of those Dynamite Comic Bundles.
Well, DR3 got a new patch
to fix the insta-crashes for AMD users on Win10. No idea if it fixes anything else though, will let you know after it finishes verifying.
(unannounced and before Arkham Knight lol)
bobnowhere
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Same, it seems to be worth $3.95 now.
Sometime you can't control ads, bet Evi gonna smang that shit the first time he see it
freshVeggie
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Wanted to try for a couple minutes but played over an hour. Game is really good. Even though there are so many brutal weapons a single zombie running behind scared me shittless. I was really tensing up, damn.
City and parkouring is also very well done. I'm more intrigued than before the demo.
lashman
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Hey, a Kotaku article i like. fucking hell is freezing i am sure.
He won't, GAF has been having G2A ads for a while and it will continue to do so.
the_firewithin
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This is the battle to fight
Atraveller
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And backed!
Long live steam
I mean MS made it function exactly like 360 controllers, shouldn't even be a problem.
No many does I'm afraid, at least not before reading up analysis done by other gaffers.
Atraveller
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Backlogger
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yo...
this some good stuff
if i dind't have PS3 ME2 and origin ME2 i'd be all over that
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Atraveller
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Great, so I'm ModBot now.
Feel free to join the raffle, having ME2 on steam is worth it.
as you wish, Khaleesi
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