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Steam Autumn Sale Thread 2013 - 3% Discounts Sale but no Shark

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NaM

Does not have twelve inches...
AsylumX said:
That's not true. You can use blizzard's store with AR$. You can even pay cash...
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I just checked and you are right but I don't think you can re-sell anything from the store right?
First time I visited the Blizzard store in my life.
 
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Rand6

Member
Jawmuncher said:
Played Enslaved on 360 and had a lot of fun with it.
Especially good if you like 3rd person action gameplay where the main focus is the story.
PC Port I heard was fine. 1080P Unreal Engine 3 working fine and controller support added.
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plutoknight said:
If you're a fan of Uncharted-style platforming, it's a pretty good (and super pretty!) romp for 9.99. The story and acting are pretty superb, and it was the best looking UE3 game I'd seen at that time.
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Sold, I'll grab it during the Winter Sales. Thanks for the replies.
 
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Grief.exe

Member
Soon we will have DayZ standalone.

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denx

Member
Looking at my account details, yeah, I bought more stuff than I was planning for.

Damage list because why not

Indie Gala Store
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 [Steam key]

Amazon
- GTA 3 Collection (3, Vice City, San Andreas) + GTA 4 [Steam keys]
- Alice Madness Returns Complete Collection [Origin key]

Origin
- Dead Space 3 Awakened DLC
- Mass Effect 3 Deluxe Edition Upgrade

Steam
- Sleeping Dogs Dragon Master Pack DLC
- Euro Truck Sim 2 Going East DLC + Halloween Paint Jobs DLC
- Civ 5 Brave New World + Scrambled Nations Map Pack DLC + Changing Worlds Map Pack Continents DLC
- Dishonored GOTY (THANKS BASED PRICE ERROR)
- The Dig
- Guns of Icarus
- Cherry Tree High Comedy Club
- Wasteland
- Faerie Solitaire
- Jet Set Radio
- Wizardry bundle (6, 7 and 8)
- Spelunky
- Natural Selection 2
- Far Cry 3 Deluxe Edition

At least my wallet won't suffer too much in the Christmas sale, I hope.
 
derExperte

derExperte

Member
RionaaM said:
I'd say it's a mix of both. It's fun, and even I managed to beat it on the easiest difficulty (infinite lives).
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Almost bought. But the sensible thing is to first play Mutant Mudds that I got through some bundle and buy AVGN when I need another dose of retro j'n'r. Yes, I'll show some restraint while watching that clock counting down... gnnnhh
 
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Colin.

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Stumpokapow said:
Presumably if they found a good that could be purchased with local currency but sold to earn a foreign currency balance, they could avoid the impacts of the tax. As I understand it, Chinese firms are doing this with BitCoin right now to dodge the yuan pegging issues.

I'm not really sure what might fall into this category. I suspect it's impossible to use AR pesos to buy, say, Amazon.com gift certificates.
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I tend to lean towards those, since I'm bound to be buying something through Amazon during their PC sales anyway. But Paypal seems to be a necessary evil at times, with its shitty exchange rate, and cross border fees.
 
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Ourobolus

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Bought State of Decay when it was on sale. Started it up, so far it's pretty great. Been a few tense moments, and the only real annoyance is having to return to base every time you find a materials pack (other than when you can actually convince someone from camp to pick it up for you).
 
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Chairmanchuck

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Ourobolus said:
Bought State of Decay when it was on sale. Started it up, so far it's pretty great. Been a few tense moments, and the only real annoyance is having to return to base every time you find a materials pack (other than when you can actually convince someone from camp to pick it up for you).
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I thought the beginning was the best of the Game. Later on it kinda plays itself, when you have a good base and you dont really need to do anything.

The game really needs some polish, I thought.
 
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Copons

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LOL I just installed Steam on my girlfriend PC to let her use my library via Family Sharing when... well... when I'm sleeping probably.

Anyway, it was pretty cool and straightforward.
Funniest stuff is that when she logged in, she had my entire library under the "Copons games" category except "Sam & Max 1x04 Abe Lincoln Must Die", under her games.
I went back to my PC to check if somehow she stole it from my library but of course everything was fine. But then I thought: how cooul would be that when you activate a Family Sharing, the guest gets a random games from you library? :D
 
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JakeD

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JakeD said:
ok volgarr has me in controlling throwing mode. nice throwback to my 10-year-old days. pure rage. it took me an hour to get to the first checkpoint and at that point i discovered it doesn't save until you beat the first boss. i have it alt-tabbed now and it probably will be all day
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ok got it. only took me 2 hours to get to the first real "checkpoint" (and even that is only returned to by a half secret door)

wow. incredibly difficult but rewarding. it will have you on the edge of your seat literally. i don't really understand the lack of an actual save system, considering its shooting for the 16bit era and they had save games.

you pretty much have to chip away at each stage, learning how to progress while dying over and over.
 
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Turfster

Member
Copons said:
But then I thought: how cooul would be that when you activate a Family Sharing, the guest gets a random games from you library? :D
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Family Hostage Exchange. They get one of your games, you get one of theirs.

JakeD said:
i don't really understand the lack of an actual save system, considering its shooting for the 16bit era and they had save games.

you pretty much have to chip away at each stage, learning how to progress while dying over and over.
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Artificial difficulty and game lifetime extension.
 
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AsylumX

Member
NaM said:
I just checked and you are right but I don't think you can re-sell anything from the store right?
First time I visited the Blizzard store in my life.
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I bought D3 on that store. But i don't know how the gifting system works and even if you can figure out how to resell the keys, they have only 3 games. So it won't be that easy...
 
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yatesl

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JakeD said:
ok beat it. only took me 2 hours to get to the first real "checkpoint" (and even that is only returned to by a half secret door)

wow. incredibly difficult but rewarding. it will have you on the edge of your seat literally. i don't really understand the lack of an actual save system, considering its shooting for the 16bit era and they had save games.

you pretty much have to chip away at each stage, learning how to progress while dying over and over.
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It's easier once you understand how it thinks. Beat the final boss a few weeks ago, not dared gone back for more.

If you want some tips, go in to settings and assign Up+Attack and Down+Jump to buttons.
 
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Ifrit

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It says in the main page New deals in 01:XX countdown timer, does that means that there are going to be more deals after this?
 
cicero

cicero

Member
The_Super_Inframan said:
i kind of like the indie royale bundles even if not all of them are great, lots of really unknown games which i think is positive.

i think the "problem" with indie royale is that they only add games to the bundles that are also on desura and there aren't that much "high quality" games left to add and so the overall quality gets lower.

i have over 400 games on desura mainly through indie royale, about 150 or so of them aren't even on steam, lots of interesting stuff among them that would be totally ignored without the bundles
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Case in point, Qasir al-Wasat. Which is currently in the almost expired $5 BTA Super BR Jam Bundle. It still surprises me to see the junk that has been Greenlit when this hasn't. Still though, Desura has been and remains a good home for this game until it is.
 
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JakeD

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yatesl said:
It's easier once you understand how it thinks. Beat the final boss a few weeks ago, not dared gone back for more.

If you want some tips, go in to settings and assign Up+Attack and Down+Jump to buttons.
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that will be helpful. kind of feels like cheating but i think im okay with that.
 
jshackles

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.
Turfster said:
Flying Welcome bundle added steam keys for Bridge it.
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Thanks for the heads up. I already had the game from IndieGameStand so

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Echoplx

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JaseC said:
Oh, that's even better. Thanks again!

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(You know you want it. ;))
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lol

I've carefully monitored my civ related purchases to make it as cheap as possible. I've spent under $20 over the years for all the content including BNW, don't want to ruin it!
 
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Queen of Hunting

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so the sale ends in 1 hr 20 minutes or is there and encore ?
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
drizzle said:
How do I know if I already have the gold upgrade or not? I have a bunch of civ v dlc
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See here for a list of the included content. Generally you can just add the item to your cart and try to checkout -- even if Steam doesn't pick up on the fact you own everything initially, a full check is run while the purchase is finalised and you'll get an error if you already own the included items -- but since the sub includes the DDE DLC, and I'm assuming you didn't pre-order the game, this isn't an option (though if you want the DDE content, then just go right ahead ;)).
 
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drizzle

Axel Hertz
Turfster said:
The only way is to check the DLC tab and to match it against the 13 things in the pack, unless "XP2" indicates the Gold update.
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JaseC said:
See here for a list of the included content. Generally you can just add the item to your cart and try to checkout -- even if Steam doesn't pick up on the fact you own everything initially, a full check is run while the purchase is finalised and you'll get an error if you already own the included items -- but since the sub includes the DDE DLC, and I'm assuming you didn't pre-order the game, this isn't an option.
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I cross-referenced the DLC I own and the DLC provided by the Gold Edition and I already have everything (including the XP2 thing), so I guess I already have it. Only DLCs I'm missing are the Scrambled Continents, Scrambled Nations. Enhanced Steam says I'm missing Wonders of the Ancient World Scenario Pack, but the in-game DLC tab tells me I have "Scenario Pack - Ancient Wonders".

It's hard to keep track of all the DLC available for a game. Specially if you never played the game... :D
 
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Chairmanchuck

Member
fantomena said:
My screen froze and a message popped up saying that the graphics card driver stopped working. Hope I don't need to buy a new GPU.
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Not really. It happens sometimes with my AMD-GPU and seems to be driver related.

The driver just stops working for 1 second and then again. If you use the Beta-drivers it happens more often.
 
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Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
Bought and finished The Adventures of Van Helsing over the sale period here. Surprisingly solid Diablo clone, definitely worth the $6 or whatever it was.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
drizzle said:
I cross-referenced the DLC I own and the DLC provided by the Gold Edition and I already have everything (including the XP2 thing), so I guess I already have it. Only DLCs I'm missing are the Scrambled Continents, Scrambled Nations. Enhanced Steam says I'm missing Wonders of the Ancient World Scenario Pack, but the in-game DLC tab tells me I have "Scenario Pack - Ancient Wonders".

It's hard to keep track of all the DLC available for a game. Specially if you never played the game... :D
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Yeah, the Ancient Wonders pack is one of the several bugged store listings that, for whatever reason, don't become flagged as owned (this is why Steam runs a complete cross-reference when checking out, otherwise people would wind up purchasing the same items over and over again).
 
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fantomena

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Chairmanchuck said:
Not really. It happens sometimes with my AMD-GPU and seems to be driver related.

The driver just stops working for 1 second and then again. If you use the Beta-drivers it happens more often.
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It's the beta driver 331.93 (BETA) I got from GeForce Experience.

I was also going to update GeForce experience. A window popped up that I needed to close Steam to continue the update, but I never closed Steam and updated GeForce Experience. Could be that.
 
jshackles

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.
Thorgal said:
Sorry for the very late response but thank you for crusader kings 2 jshackles.
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No problem. Be sure to check out the Game of Thrones mod if that's your thing.
 
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