ashecitism
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Every time?
Mission cooldown timers in Vanguard for which you can pay and Nemesis Assassin in Dota. And now the duck stat in TF2. Pay to play mini events.
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Every time?
Mission cooldown timers in Vanguard for which you can pay and Nemesis Assassin in Dota. And now the duck stat in TF2. Pay to play mini events.
Ipsoclipso
Member
Quick question: if a game is blocked in my country thus I cannot buy it, can someone else gift it to me?
I don't particularly like anything Marvel with exception of SHIELD and The Avengers (the movie), so I would say, ya, different.
In most cases, yes. There are some multi and MMOs that aren't available for reasons of unavailability of local servers and GFWL games are unavailable in countries that are GFWL free for reasons they are unplayable without some titanic efforts.
Now, if you are from Germany there might be other complications too.
NingenJanai
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Have you seen Guardians of the Galaxy? It's great, much better than Avengers in my opinion.
I just had my little Christmas miracle for the year: my parents have been bugging me about what I want for Christmas and I settled on getting a new case since my Eleven Hundred has seen much better days. I ended up snagging the lucky last ex-demo NZXT H630 a semi-local store was selling for $105, which represents a saving of roughly $65 (38%). The only thing "wrong" with it is that it's missing two PCI-E covers on the count of being briefly used for testing purposes, which doesn't matter to me since I have two GPUs. And it's black! For once, my luck didn't turn around and laugh at my face.
Yes, generally.
Yes, generally.
ups, my bad! Guardians of the Galaxy I do like, forgot somehow, thanks for reminding
edited: I wouldn't necessary compare the two, they aren't similar enough. I like both, can't say which one more, probably equally.
Ipsoclipso
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Congratulations on the good fortune. I bought my FT02 in a similar fashion.
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Last Baron
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Ta. The store also had a Corsair 650D for $135 (~$80 less than the usual price) but I went with the H630 for its larger size ("ultra" tower versus mid tower) and greater amount of HDD bays (8 versus 6). Unlike my Eleven Hundred, I intend to take good care of this one.
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NingenJanai
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But, but why did you enter it?
I sacrificed myself so you could learn an important lesson.
>.<
My number one reason (right above g-sync) for me to want to update my GPU.
Good thing I'll be out of the country for half a year early next year, so that will give me the "strength" needed to not buy a 970 anytime soon.
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PetriP-TNT
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I bite on the gifts to save others. I am kinda like Jesus.
NingenJanai
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Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Game is gonna be garbage anyway, so you should be thankful
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Oh...well that game is also garbage
Garbage or not. It's still SecuRom
DRM in any form is the devil, Steam is not an exception
NingenJanai
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Garbage or not there's no defending not being able to play a game you bought. Securom is the devil.
derExperte
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AMD's Catalyst Omega Special Edition is out. Yes, it's called that, they even have some dude talk about how awesome it is. Brings for example downsampling (like GeDoSaTo or Nv's DSR). http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=945661
Last Baron
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As a 7850 owner, I have no idea how to tell if this is something I want.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I wouldn't even think off defending fucking Securom. It is, as you say, the devil.
derExperte
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You always want the latest driver as long as there aren't any specific problems and this one has improvements for older cards too.
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NingenJanai
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That looks actually quite interesting if it has enough content, otherwise it could get old fast.
Also
thanks Jase !
All I see is corrosivefrost as father frost.
Jawmuncher
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spindoctor
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It wasn't luck that got Valve to where they are today. Have people completely forgotten history? Ten years ago Valve's reputation was in the gutter. With the Half Life 2 leak, the revelation that Gabe was 'lying' about it's release date and Steam coming out of the gate as a barely functioning service, there were a lot of people upset with Valve.
Combine this with the challenges in the first few years of Steam's life. It was the time console gaming exploded and passed PC gaming as the target audience of most major developers. It was the time the 'PC gaming is dead' and 'all PC gamers are pirates' line of thinking gained traction. It was the time developers tried the worst types of DRM on the PC ranging from limited activations, always online requirements, Starforce/Securom and what not.
It was then that Valve held on to their core philosophy of treating their customers with respect. They built a bridge between the industry and gamers on what is acceptable DRM. They made PC games available globally when retail stores stopped stocking them. Or in the case of countries like mine, most retail games never even made it to these shores. They continue to foster and reward mod communities for their games. They let people run their own servers. They don't cut their game into bits and charge extra for the parts they left out. They still believe in supporting games for free years after release at a time when companies start pre-orders of season passes months before release.
But no, let's go with the theory that Valve got lucky. They got lucky with Counter Strike. And they got lucky with TF2. And with Portal. And L4D. And Dota 2. How many do they have to release before people maybe start to accept that there might actually be something going on at Valve that actually makes these 'mods' into amazing games. That maybe making a game involves is more than just having a good idea. That's it not luck for a game to build a community that plays it for five or ten or fifteen years.
All those stores that are regularly beating Valve in discounts? They're all selling Steam keys. Half of them would go under if Valve decided to stop giving out free Steam keys to any developer who asks. Lucky for them, Valve doesn't work that way. They see growth as mutually beneficial for everyone instead of looking at their bottom line.
So yea, there are a lot of problems with Steam and everyone wishes they would do better with some aspect or the other. However, they're still the best out there and it wasn't because they got lucky. Ten years ago the community burned their house to the ground and they have rebuilt their castle brick by brick.
Solution to this problem is simple. Only install the games you are playing. This will keep you focused on finishing any game you start. Once you've finished it, delete and install a new one. I used to have hundreds of games installed a few years ago. I'd start them, get distracted by something else and never come back to it. Now I panic if I have more than a dozen or so games installed at any time.
I also find it useful to maintain a list of what games I finish. It's a handy record of stuff you've played and it sometimes keeps me motivated to complete stuff that is getting left behind.
Care to elaborate on this? I'm not really in touch with what's going on in the TF2 community.
Last Baron
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Cool, I'll give it a whirl.
more TRPG goodness.
It is a mobile game, isn't it?
it's actually pronounced exactly like that,
It is a mobile game, isn't it?
it's actually pronounced exactly like that,
not really, tya is more pronounced like tia in Tiamat, tea ah, not like I'm sure I pronounce Tiamat in the right way, tho
While it's an older game, and not quite under $5, I can't recommend Moonbase Commander enough. It's kind of a cross between a turn-based base building game and Worms. You make new buildings by flinging them out from existing ones, but your entire base remains interconnected by cables. So, if one of your buildings gets destroyed, everything that it created gets blown up too. You can even lose your entire base if your initial structure gets destroyed.
spindoctor
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I was hoping for a slightly more in depth explanation
But yea I've seen this attitude with parts of the CSGO community as well.
I 100% it in January, damn I really hate Mila's Dance party and Velvetopia figments. Not hardest to 100% (that would be Dishonored Trials DLC) but probably most annoying.
I wonder if NVIDIA will even do a 950, or if they just rebrand 750 TI (which is Maxwell 1.0)
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Into my veins!
At least it's an interesting concept for a sim, I hope it turns out well
The Red Wizard
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Garbage or not. It's still SecuRom
DRM in any form is the devil, Steam is not an exception
Steam is a necessary evil [/Bane]
PandaPedinte
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Oh Wild Season has a playable pre-alpha build. According to the official site the game is supposed to get released on early March, now we only need a date for Stardew Valley.
Chairmanchuck
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FF13-2 still doesnt have keys on GMG, has it?
Snakethesniper
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dat tan!