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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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All their games run on steam engines.
freshVeggie
Member
haha, nah. i didn't mean what you wrote but the gif.
ain't the girl jerking him off during the auction?
don't tell me it's my imagination >_>
derExperte
Member
Didn't know that I want World of Subways until a minute ago. But I'll wait for the World of Subways Humble Bundle.
is any game in my wishlist a candidate for big savings?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/zkylon/wishlist
Didn't the World of Subways release spawn like two days of subway map posting in here?
err I have no idea, I only saw her touch his leg, I didnt see the source. Its Mad Men I think? Someone will know if thats whats happening, I thought they were just competing for the auction >_>
Atraveller
Banned
I hope GTAV preorder would show up in the sale.
electroflame
Member
I thought the upper-class just called running hot water a "game". Poor people (read: everyone) have to use their breath to fog up windows and play tic-tac-toe on them.
If you don't hear from me, that means North Korea does, indeed, have decent internet and they got me.
Jason Frost
Member
Can someone explain me the situation with Valve and Russia?
I know that the Russian Ruble is extremely low right now, but what does this have to do with Valve?
I know that the Russian Ruble is extremely low right now, but what does this have to do with Valve?
Atraveller
Banned
Store page said early 2015!
Valve is petitioning the Russian government to replace the ruble with gems as their primary currency.
Ruble is crashing hard.
People are leveraging the political turmoil to grab cheap games across the world, impacting the publishers' bottom line.
Publishers put the squeeze on Valve.
People have been buying games from the Russian store at absurdly low prices, then selling to users from other regions for really reduced prices. In most cases, think half of the cost. The seller usually takes a small fee for himself.
Basically, they just prevented this from ever happening again.
freshVeggie
Member
nope. but you can set to only show games off your wl though.
just a tip from me.
check the storepage, historical low prices before putting your bid.
also, don't overbid the current leader by much a long time before the auction ends.
just wait and put your bid 100 gems higher a couple minutes before the end.
worked for me.
if you need help or want to ask more. it's 6am, i need to sleep.
but write me a pm or hit me when i'm online tomorrow again.
night
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daaaamn. i am responsible for censorship.I changed it to a Friends one just in case
that's not what i intended.
Jason Frost
Member
Yepyoure auctioning like a motherfucker Bernardo, damn
And glad I did. I spent very little, and now that everything is region locked, it was even more of a insane deal.Yes it did. SteamGAF is amazing <3
At this point I'm going to go ahead and say that publishers didn't have much to do with it. Valve are more worried with their own baseline and the cuts they get from the games.
lol. no it's not Mad Men.
Jason Frost
Member
ramoisdead
Member
I, for one, welcome our new overlord.
Thanos? He's too busy tending to his farm
I love that he's using his armor as a scarecrow lol
Why?! Why must you tease me so? D'x
completely missed the wishlist tab and holy shit so many at just above 1k
freshVeggie
Member
don't. i am much more stupid than you, yet i managed to get cubic for 2 bucks while it goes for 25 currently.
piqued your interest now?
hit me tomorrow.
but i really gotta sleep now zky.
just took a quick look at your wl and i think there are some candidates.
CharlesSurge
Member
Auction Winner badge now worth Two Hundo XP instead of One.
Edit: beaten:
Edit: beaten:
Looks like Valve has updated Auction badge to give different XP based on stages.
100 XP for grinding gems
150 XP for bidding
200 XP for winning.
Too bad they don't give extra XP for winning more than once
I keep looking at Clockwork Empires for $10 in gems and thinking that's the price it should have released at, and I probably would have bought it for that. Also seems likely to be a while before it is discounted that much. But somehow buying a game for $10 that isn't even remotely close to complete just seems wrong.
All I can say is try to get over the mental hurdle of your past actions and just judge the auction values on what they are currently at. If the price to win the game you want while buying gems is worthwhile, then making the bid is worthwhile, regardless of prior price or action. That said, I understand that's not an easy mental jump to make.
All I can say is try to get over the mental hurdle of your past actions and just judge the auction values on what they are currently at. If the price to win the game you want while buying gems is worthwhile, then making the bid is worthwhile, regardless of prior price or action. That said, I understand that's not an easy mental jump to make.
How much profit did you make from selling gems? Take that number and weigh it against whatever a cosmetic badge and a hundred XP is worth to you, and whichever side wins out is the path you should follow.
Though actually, there's a ton of random games that are under 1000 gems, so if all you want is the badge and you don't care what game you use to get it, you're only really weighing like $1.25 against your profits.
I'd say keeping your money for buying games in the winter sale. It might be a better strategy unless gems tank tomorrow.
There's a lot of games that the winning bids now are substantially lower than what they would potentially be in the winter sale, even at 75/80% off (or they are so new they'd never get a discount that high). Any number of $20 games are in the 2-3k gem range now for example.
Russia to declare bankruptcy tomorrow.
Sold all my sacks at about $1 a while ago so if I rebuy them, they will be higher. I guess I can wait about a day and see if prices crash by then. Thanks for the suggestions.
ramoisdead
Member
One hour last call for my giveaway. Good luck!:
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Depends, if gems instead go way up, you'd be double screwed.
The compromise might be to get 1 bag now, and find the cheapest auction to win with it. Get your badge and then analyze where it's going.
Given that currently there are 20k gems for sale and 120k for buy, I think the trend is that the price will go up.
EDIT: Although, maybe some people are hoarding them and would flood the market near the end in fear of them losing all value after the 18th.
I was totally ignoring the auction thing, until I realized how cheap things could be!
Just got Project Temporality for a little over 1000 gems
The comment of the lines at the bank did remind me of 2001/2002 though...
Just got Project Temporality for a little over 1000 gems
probably because it was bundled like twice already, but I didn't buy either of those
Eh, it's kinda dire too, just that the Queen there (tries) to cover everything up.
The comment of the lines at the bank did remind me of 2001/2002 though...
Hey now, I'm only 28 and know what you are talking about!
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Good thing I did the Superior Raider thing today then!
Guarana Caipirinha under the sun.
Yerba Mate still trumps it of course.
I hope you are happy you f
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Good thing I did the Superior Raider thing today then!
As a whole, so we all get fucked together while Brazil is enjoying some
Yes, one of SteamGAF's best.
Yerba Mate still trumps it of course.
Ban Puncher
Member
Just won a copy of Divekick. Now I own it on every platform available.
This auction thing is still kinda dumb.
This auction thing is still kinda dumb.
The Reloader
Member
Un-fucking-believeable I keep getting sniped and now the highest bid is steadily rising beyond what I am willing to buy more gems for.
My feeling is that auction prices will continue to trend down for at least another 12 hours, and that gem prices will hold stable for the next day or so. But in Thursday morning before the winter sale, I expect both to jump up as people try to grab stuff at the last minute. And of course I expect gems to crash immediately after the end of the auction and the beginning of the sale unless something in the winter event uses them.
The price of gems has been largely stable for over 24 hours now. That 120k buy orders means nothing, 90% of them are meaningless tiny bids. There's only 4k bids of a dollar or more and that's barely an hour's worth of demand.
Damn, just noticed the second rule...One hour last call for my giveaway. Good luck!:
Should not have entered for Home on a whim. Well played Kifimbo, well played.
Lets talk about another queen then, LLTQ.
It's still being sold for 9$ of gems while it will be probably be 5$ when the sale starts.
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