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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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Did you trade any of your steam items for another user's gems?
Then that's why you didn't get a copy. To send someone a one-way trade you have to confirm that it's a gift -- you're not being reimbursed because you voluntarily gave away the gems for free and therefore, technically, didn't lose anything.
That would require myself to know where the symbols are in all keys, something I haven't memorized yet but I get your point. Thanks a lot for your help and for the link! The price is what it is to be expected considering the brand, I believe.
Atraveller
Banned
I thought everyone and their mums own a copy?
There were always things I wanted more during sales
NingenJanai
Member
Atraveller
Banned
Play with bots for uncinematic SP experience.I feel dirty paying for multiplayer only games
Its going for 62k gems at the moment in the bid game lol.
Its crazy really. CSGO is guaranteed to be 50-75% off during the sale. Yet people are keen on wasting all those gems.
spindoctor
Member
Gem bids on all games really are getting inflated beyond any reasonable value. Even totally obscure small games have bids in the thousands. I'm wondering whether this is people front loading all their gems for the badge upgrade or have they actually stockpiled ridiculous amounts of gems. The fact that gems are now untradeable means game auctions will end up higher than sale (or even normal price) if you apply the roundabout dollar to gem conversion rate of 7 cents per 100 gems.
It won't be 75% off. 50% is the maximum discount it'll get.
YianGaruga
Banned
7 cent per 1000? Have I missed something in the last 10 hours? Even with 30 cents per 1000 the prices are still mostly reasonable imo
ashecitism
Member
more news on monday
I wish gems were actually that cheap.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Some thoughts on Alien: Isolation-
Positive:
- Great atmosphere.
- Stunning attention to detail.
- Really strong first half and a great build-up to the reveal.
- Likable main character, good voice acting.
- Really solid port with excellent performance.
- Way too long, should have ended around Chapter 10.
- Backtracking wasn't executed well.
- Stealth becomes more of a chore than a thrill after a while.
- Both pre-order DLCs were lame.
The popular games are totally not reasonable if you take sale prices into consideration. It's even worse if you consider tf2 trade prices.
For less popular games this auction seems good, but then that depends on how much the gem prices will shoot up when auctions are about to end.
I got it last winter sale for $3.74. But yea the population for that game back than was very small. Now that its grown a lot Valve won't discount it so low again. But still 62k gems is a waste. You can craft like 20k worth a booster packs. Sell those packs n just get the game for 7$ or wtvr. The bidding stuff is crazy n it will only increase once the high rollers start bidding minutes b4 the auction round ends.
And then that's delayed and then during the Windows conference in January Phil Spencer announces that the game is to become a Windows 10 app and and and
YianGaruga
Banned
I guess you're right. People were able to make a lot of cheap gems in the beginning, so that has to be taken inot consideration as well. And since there is no market value for gems right now, there is literally nothing else you can do with them unless they become marketable again, so the value is even less.
Atraveller
Banned
Only saw a few minutes of the first film and half of the fourth, and I loved the game.
spindoctor
Member
Sorry that was a typo. 7 cents per 100 gems.
I believe they stopped doing 75% sales as a sort of deterrent to cheaters who stockpiled copies during sales and then used them on fresh accounts as their old ones got banned. And yes, of course, it's increased popularity allows them to hold the discount at 50% too. The bidding right now is out of control. Just hoping it comes down to sane levels midway through the auction.
YianGaruga
Banned
Oh right. Most gems were created for much much less though.
YianGaruga
Banned
2-3 copies of Bad Rats at the very least!
NingenJanai
Member
let me rephrase, I feel dirty paying for storyless games
Am jelly. Low-perf, low-cost EVO or high-cost, high-perf PRO?
Or some other scrublord company?
Ban Puncher
Member
Am jelly. Low-perf, low-cost EVO or high-cost, high-perf PRO?
Or some other scrublord company?
840 EVO all the way. PROs are some overpriced snake-oil.
spindoctor
Member
The average price will go up with time of course. If you started at the very beginning you'd get 100 gems for 3 cents. Now it's up to about 8 cents for 100. At some point most gems will have been made at higher prices. The increase in price of gems plus the escalating bid prices are going to make the games won in auctions quite expensive.
More like 1 copy of Defy Gravity Extended
Speaking of which, someone is bidding 9.2k gems on it. Now that's a bloody waste
derExperte
Member
Are people seriously expecting to get games for a good gem-price? If yes, there'll be much bitching come Monday. I'll go all in on some indie game to get the badge and I won't care if it makes financial sense, I predict many will act the same.
The 850 EVO looks to be a nice improvement, better than the 840 PRO and even in some cases the 850 PRO. But their prices are still unattractive of course, getting a cheap 840 EVO is the way to go.
The 850 EVO looks to be a nice improvement, better than the 840 PRO and even in some cases the 850 PRO. But their prices are still unattractive of course, getting a cheap 840 EVO is the way to go.
Basically. I went all-in on a sub $20 indie game that's still EA. It's one I want, and if I win awesome -- if not, I'll snag it soon as its out of EA.
I'm eyeing some niche stuff and also some overpriced shovelware no one wants. Im fairly confident I will be able to pick up a couple of them at a good price. Then again im aiming for the stuff in less demand.
Tizoc
Member
Remember guys, BlazBlue CSE is one step closer to this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsBhZ4Z7W4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsBhZ4Z7W4
Jawmuncher
Member
Actually kinda yeah, but chances are that I won't even touch the first 20 rounds even when my bidded games are pretty niche.
Still, not bothered either way, because when (if...) the next auction comes up, everyone overenthusiastic about the winter auction will have spent all their gems salvaged from years' supply of emoticons and backgrounds, while I will still have mine
Woody Invincible
Banned
Another day of crafting badges at work today. 31 to go till lvl 70.
Why are people leveling up?
Same, then RAPID mode finally got fixed after the new update and now the benchmark is saying that my read speed is 650 MB/s and write speed 2900 MB/s, lol. The speed is pretty insane, even programs like Photoshop only take a few seconds to load up,
Woody Invincible
Banned
I've been wanting to lvl up, and now is the cheapest time since the holiday drop takes twenty cents off every badge.
damn yo bamco lol
Booster packs chance? More friends slots? Showing off? Dunno.
Ban Puncher
Member
Yeah, the only reason I jumped on this 1TB 840 EVO was that it was insanely cheap, like over half the regular price off. It'll make a suitable home for a dedicated Steam directory.
Some thoughts on Alien: Isolation-
Positive:
Negative:
- Great atmosphere.
- Stunning attention to detail.
- Really strong first half and a great build-up to the reveal.
- Likable main character, good voice acting.
- Really solid port with excellent performance.
As an Alien fan, I think it's a really cool effort by Creative Assembly. I hope they do a sequel so that they can work out the kinks from this game. I don't see this game having much appeal to non-fans of Alien though.
- Way too long, should have ended around Chapter 10.
- Backtracking wasn't executed well.
- Stealth becomes more of a chore than a thrill after a while.
- Both pre-order DLCs were lame.
I could go and write an essay sized port of what i liked and disliked abgout the game but to keep this short :
Positive's : everything you mentioned .
The negative :
ill let Gopher explain it for me why the Save point method is the worst possible method they could have come up with for a player like me and him who highly value immersion .:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjegUcnqz1k
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derExperte
Member
The 500MB aren't sustainable when you copy large amounts of data for example since these numbers get reached through clever caching in the EVOs and the they'll also lose against the PROs when copying or reading many small files. But that doesn't matter one bit for an average consumer/gamer PC.
It's free right now anyway
https://www.origin.com/de-de/store/buy/dead-space/pc-download/base-game/standard-edition