A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Many countries want their political posturing to change. Oil prices and sanctions are working a number.
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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions
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You know what they say, in Soviet Russia sanctions hurt you.
I'm not convinced Valve actually want a stable currency item.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
But do they want a currency that is independent of a game? That's my point and why I bring economics into this discussion.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Come on DillonMabry, SteamGAF bros don't snipe SteamGAF bros :|
Whatchu know about winnin'?
Edit: Isn't ViviOggi a SteamGAFfer too hehe
Oh well, next one is MINE
The Boss is a good guy.
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
I'm using 10,000,000 when I have to Idle a specific game. Starts in windowed mode, It's using almost no system resources and loads in a few seconds.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/227580/
I'm not sure they want "currency" items at all. They want you buying things for real currency.
PetriP-TNT
Member
NingenJanai
Member
I won a game on my wishlist, yay !
I have 120 gems left, what will happen to them once this is over? will I just loose them?
I have 120 gems left, what will happen to them once this is over? will I just loose them?
You'll be able to use them to craft boosters, or just sell assuming you eventually have enough to make a bag.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
500 ms points are $5, then in country X 500 is $3.85, people will try to always use currency exchanges as an exploit. When you can control that exploit to the advantage of multiple currency speculations, then an arbitrary system like the auction or gem might provide that.
Going off of limited econ and finance education.
Please correct if I am wrong.
gems won't disappear after this event or sale, as scraping items and crafting boosters (I've read the faq, yeah (><).
They probably even will be used in the same way at other times, or not.
edited:
muncher alert!
DillonMabry
Banned
I'm sorry, it's just... that soundtrack... I had to have it.
Yaaay I won!
All's well that ends well!
I'm down to 171 Gems... Haha can we ModBot leftovers?
That Artstyle looks like Scribblenauts.
NingenJanai
Member
Jawmuncher
Member
The hell is going on here.
Skate boards, cavemen, and Dino's?
This is either the best it worst thing I have ever seen.
derExperte
Member
You basically lost the gem-game when you didn't grab cheap items that give you 80-100 gems as soon as this whole thing started.
As auction prices are dropping, there seem to be decent values to be had even if you have to buy gems at current market prices. Not the stuff that is in high demand, obviously, but older niche titles.
darkchewie
Member
My memory may be fuzzy, but didn't Adventure Island for NES have those things too?
Damn thats a long time ago.
I thought it looks somewhat fun at least, now is it funny? only time will show.
I actually like a term prehistoric gameplay (><)
totally gonna borrow it, for future use
edited: also forgot to mention, that underwater and winter levels are always a plus !
I got two games as cheap as they never were so far.
Hero Prinny
Member
I didnt even notice the skateboard till you mentioned it. Weird game
that's the best type of game!
No it won't
My final auction haul(unless there's some severe drops in price on some stuff):
Around 41000 gems spent, which were bought at the average price of 0.35€ for each 1k
So that's 14,35€ euros for everything.Subnautica is a 35$ game that is not even for sale yet, Pro Cycling Manager 2014 has a lowest recorded price of 9,99€ and Railway has a 33€ lowest recorded price.
I said it already and I say it again. This auction is fucking amazing.
Oh, and those 14,35€? Those are remains of selling cards and booster packs made when the gem sacks were super ultra cheap. I didn't pay a single real cent on my end.
I can guarantee you 14,35€ is not even close to what I would need to get those games on sale. There's some great deals that are way cheaper than the lowest recorded price. Pro Cycling Manager itselft cost me 1,4€! That's a game with lowest recorded price of 9,99€.
There's some insane deals if you look for them.
Jawmuncher
Member
Ozium is sad you're sniping him
No it won't
I can guarantee you 14,35€ is not even close to what I would need to get those games on sale. There's some great deals that are way cheaper than the lowest recorded price. Pro Cycling Manager itselft cost me 1,4€! That's a game with lowest recorded price of 9,99€.
There's some insane deals if you look for them.
The real question there why would you want Cycling Manager, for any price?
sorry I had to (><)
edited:
I'm being outbid by 16 gems?! That's new low!
I can't do the thing about it, tho, only watch in disbelieve
at work now
edit2: by 20 gems on another game
It's hilarious
Jawmuncher
Member
It did. Along with some other stuff.
Those were fun games.
Dino's gonna be freezing to death lol
I woulddn't say sad. He is DRAGONMAD
Sorry, I don't know if you linked that in a rude way or a genuine way to show me what you meant.. My English also refuses to make me understand much of that article.
You're just talking about a general value, right?
derExperte
Member
You mean 41€ which is what you would've gotten for selling the gems. Of course it looks like you still got some good deals since you were interested in more obscure games without big sales.
Sorry, I don't know if you linked that in a rude way or a genuine way to show me what you meant.. My English also refuses to make me understand much of that article.
You're just talking about a general value, right?
Not meant to be rude at all and you can switch to another language. It's just that it's too easy to say 'I only paid x for the gems', you have to also factor in the money you're not getting by not selling those gems for the now higher price. It's a rather simple economic concept that still gets ignored very often. Of course there can be other, non-monetary factors which you can't put a value on like instant gratification, in this case for winning an auction, I won't pretend I'm acting rational myself all (or even most of) the time.
What I would've gotten for selling would be around 37 because of the fees. Which is still below what all those would cost me at the lowest recorded price.
Yes, or craft badge which will yield you emoties and bgs.
But it's still more than 40 $1 tier Humble Bundles, right? And let's face it, sooner or later all of these will be featured there (and you still won't play them).
Ah okay. But most of the time I see/read people buying gems to bid for a game and the gems costs more than the actual game price. There is no logic there.
I don't subscribe to this logic, if I want a game and bought it full price and liked it to bits, I couldn't care less will it get bundled or not, it only concerns games that I'm not sure I want, not sure I like, or bought two years ago and still haven't played (happens all the time (><)
If Bernardo really wants those games, what difference does it make that they will be cheaper in the distant future?
Can't use Steam Wallet on Humble Bundles. And no, I don't think most of those will show up on Humble Bundles any time soon
. I also wanted every one of those anyways.Yes. Basically. We have talked about that since the beginning of auction. People blow hundreds euros for special profile.
But if you want softwares, this is the best time to get. Take Substance painter for example, currently it around $30, actual price is around $100 (in my place). Software is pretty rare getting sale.
note: won stuffs are not tradable. I don't know if it giftable.
Jawmuncher
Member
I don't know why were even giving a shit about how many gems someone used. Not like we're sharing from some gaf collective gem pool.