ramoisdead
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Welp looks like Holiday sale may be the only time I buy games from now on. Ehh I got a backlog anyway.
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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions
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Holy crap, it's true. My Asian Magix PC Tuning is now region free.
Atraveller
Banned
We all say that to ourselves.
corrosivefrost
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Wait, what? So if you had a game sitting in your inventory that had been retro locked, you can now redeem it? :3
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Found one of these!
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Even if it was normally locked I think. So if you stocked up on an ACRTAG game for funsies they'd now be region free.
ramoisdead
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The gift that keeps on giving.
freshVeggie
Member
A lot of people who traded games saw their region-free gift copies of games become region-locked when Steam started to crack down on cross-region trading. The recent changes to cross-region trading apparently had the funny side-effect of unlocking all previously region-locked gift copies of games.
Baron_Calamity
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bestpersonevar
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I have 2 copies of Rise of Nations in my inventory (bought from a 4-pack) which used to have an exclamation mark. Now they don't.
Even if they could be activated in other regions, they now seem to be region free.
It has already happened.
finding sif allows you to summon him for the final boss fight of the area. there's also a small easter egg that happens if you summon sif and then you go kill him in the "present time"
It already happened. it's dead.
freshVeggie
Member
oh wow. i wan't there when this happened i think.
games in inventory got region-locked? must have sucked :/
so at least that's good.
Atraveller
Banned
Does the key lock also apply to CS:GO keys?
Saw this down in the not used section
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Atraveller
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Wow, Valve is super serious this time.
ramoisdead
Member
Valve is smart about this. Gives us a day to hate them with a passion, get it out of our systems, and then voilà, holidays are coming. Everybody's happy.
freshVeggie
Member
got 5 games for about 6.
games worth over 35.
not really bad.
and still got my 10 in my wallet for winter sale.
thanks to gaf - no really, i learned so much stuff from you guys here - compared to summer sale i am doing purchases much more thoughtful and i check if the deal is actually worth it.
thus getting so much more bang for my buck.
you guys are really a cool bunch. thank you all.
games worth over 35.
not really bad.
and still got my 10 in my wallet for winter sale.
thanks to gaf - no really, i learned so much stuff from you guys here - compared to summer sale i am doing purchases much more thoughtful and i check if the deal is actually worth it.
thus getting so much more bang for my buck.
you guys are really a cool bunch. thank you all.
spindoctor
Member
Fired up Dark Souls just to test out Steamworks and the new DSFix with 60fps and all that. Game still manages to look pretty damn good despite the fact that it's graphics are technically not all that.
I randomly started the game with the Knight class and fuck me this guy is slow. So slow that I actually had to start an FPS monitor to confirm I was running it at 60fps because otherwise it feels like I'm playing at 20fps
. Played for a while just going through Undead Burg before dying twice to the Taurus demon because the fatty can't even get out of the way of an attack fast enough.
Going through the starting area though... It's interesting how I remember struggling so much in the tutorial area and start of Undead Burg back when I first played the game. Those guys who throw firebombs right outside the first bonfire of the Undead Burg totally wrecked my shit back then. The upside was that you felt like you had to fight for every inch while playing the game. That feeling was kind of gone with the second. I think this is one of the reasons people rate DS1 higher than DS2... knowing how to play a Souls game makes it feel a lot easier even if the games are equal in difficulty (which they're not, but still). I suspect quite a few people would find DS1 easier than DS2 if they had played and struggled in DS2 first.
Anyway, moving on, I'm starting to notice that most auction games have reached a stable bid price. All of the 10 odd games I'm tracking are now consistently selling in the same ~500 gem range. So even if the max bid drops a little bit after a successful auction, someone pulls it back up slightly before the next round is over. I'm going to monitor this for another few hours and if it holds, that will be my cue to pick up whatever I can manage to get. I have a feeling prices will go up tomorrow and I need to give myself some time to get rid of any spare gems that I might have left over.
I randomly started the game with the Knight class and fuck me this guy is slow. So slow that I actually had to start an FPS monitor to confirm I was running it at 60fps because otherwise it feels like I'm playing at 20fps
. Played for a while just going through Undead Burg before dying twice to the Taurus demon because the fatty can't even get out of the way of an attack fast enough.Going through the starting area though... It's interesting how I remember struggling so much in the tutorial area and start of Undead Burg back when I first played the game. Those guys who throw firebombs right outside the first bonfire of the Undead Burg totally wrecked my shit back then. The upside was that you felt like you had to fight for every inch while playing the game. That feeling was kind of gone with the second. I think this is one of the reasons people rate DS1 higher than DS2... knowing how to play a Souls game makes it feel a lot easier even if the games are equal in difficulty (which they're not, but still). I suspect quite a few people would find DS1 easier than DS2 if they had played and struggled in DS2 first.
Anyway, moving on, I'm starting to notice that most auction games have reached a stable bid price. All of the 10 odd games I'm tracking are now consistently selling in the same ~500 gem range. So even if the max bid drops a little bit after a successful auction, someone pulls it back up slightly before the next round is over. I'm going to monitor this for another few hours and if it holds, that will be my cue to pick up whatever I can manage to get. I have a feeling prices will go up tomorrow and I need to give myself some time to get rid of any spare gems that I might have left over.
What do you consider "super"?
Has nothing to do with publishers at this point. They can't even make their games region free if they wanted to.
There's some indication that it has increased substantially in the past year, though we don't know for sure. It seems pretty clear this blanket movement was more in response to the economic situation in Russia though and has little to do with publisher influence.
Atraveller
Banned
It's not like everyone would not bring it up after the sale is over.
freshVeggie
Member
i know you are being sarcastic but the deal is, the auction house is pretty great..
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.. if you know how to use it that is.
forget about new, hyped, well-known games. the savings are either minimal or you even pay more than in a sale.
getting games via auction is really only a lot cheaper when you go for old or not really known titles.
that way you can net big savings. i am talking 80-90% off games which released mere months ago.
rainking187
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If I was a publisher I'd actually be annoyed by this. I've bought a number of games from traders mostly because they were very cheap. Without traders I probably would have just waited for a bundle. I was going to get Blazblue after Christmas. Now I'll wait for at least 75% off.
derExperte
Member
Who? What?
I could only guess, but less than 5-10% of sales to EU/NA users are traded.
Hopefully it's just temporary and once the rouble stabilizes they open it back up again.
there are....ways
Atraveller
Banned
But those who would have bought their games at 50% off might turn to traders instead. That's a loss of money for publishers.
freshVeggie
Member
err I didnt mean that in a bad way, just in a "youre crushing it with the auction wins", not "you are being a motherfucker to other people" >_>
Leon Belmont
Member
So Hatred is back on Greenlight.