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[MUnited83]

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Re:nier

We officially reached ending C

Ghosttrick member status currently living on a Schrödinger's cat situation lmao

 

[GhostTrick]

Ghosttrick member status currently living on a Schrödinger's cat situation lmao

Am I banned ? Am I not ? :")
Althought I actually care more about the game coming day and date. :/

 

[NeoRaider]

I am playing Trials of the Blood Dragon (got it on GMG few months ago for the cheap). And i am having a blast!

I was expecting some kind of shitty, broken trash based on the reviews but surprisingly i am having so much fun with it. Finished 8 or 9 "tracks", all of them with grade A or A+ and i don't want this game to end. Some tracks are just to weird and cool. lol
Also music is amazing.

 

[spindoctor]

I just assumed that Nier Automata was in the same boat as I am Setsuna (a game that is going to bomb for sure) so Square Enix might as well release it day and date to make as much money as they can.

 

[Teggy]

Does anyone have a good guide for which graphics options are most/least expensive? For example (completely out of my butt) putting graphics at ultra but putting contact hardening shadows at low can save a lot of fps, but putting anisotropic filtering at low doesn't. Like a list of how much effect each option and antialiasing has?

 

[JaseC]

Does anyone have a good guide for which graphics options are most/least expensive? For example (completely out of my butt) putting graphics at ultra but putting contact hardening shadows at low can save a lot of fps, but putting anisotropic filtering at low doesn't. Like a list of how much effect each option and antialiasing has?

The answer to that is going to vary game to game, but in general shadow quality, MSAA, screenspace reflections and in some cases depth of field are performance killers in modern games. If the game you're playing is set in large spaces, reducing draw distances may also noticeably help.

 

[MadGear]

Darksiders low difficulty, especially for its bossfights, easily remains the games biggest flaw to me. It's a great game and I personally prefer it to its sequel but especially the games last boss fight lacks any sense of accomplishment. If they wanted to avoid making him difficult I wish they went with a more interesting design for this encounter. It's a small letdown, one that actually makes me wish a remaster would be more than a minor facelift.

 

[Phawx]

Total Removed Games Count : 133 / 458
Total Removed Software/Hardware Count : 0 / 2
Total Purchase Disabled Games Count : 36 / 82

What's that third statistic? Edit: nm, I see what it is

I can join a club?

 

[The Illiterati]

As of this morning the Steam store won't load in my browser. I think this is browser related rather than Steam related, but I was hoping someone knew what it was. I am using Firefox 50.0.2. The site seems to contact google-analytics.com and stop loading from there?

 

[JaseC]

Total Removed Games Count : 133 / 458
Total Removed Software/Hardware Count : 0 / 2
Total Purchase Disabled Games Count : 36 / 82

What's that third statistic?

I can join a club?

Games that still have a store page but no purchasable package.

 

[Phawx]

Games that still have a store page but no purchasable package.

Thanks man!

 

[Anteater]

Does anyone have a good guide for which graphics options are most/least expensive? For example (completely out of my butt) putting graphics at ultra but putting contact hardening shadows at low can save a lot of fps, but putting anisotropic filtering at low doesn't. Like a list of how much effect each option and antialiasing has?

nvidia sometimes put out a guide on some popular games, can check those out, they have benchmark and comparison of what each settings do

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides

 

[Durante]

Does anyone have a good guide for which graphics options are most/least expensive? For example (completely out of my butt) putting graphics at ultra but putting contact hardening shadows at low can save a lot of fps, but putting anisotropic filtering at low doesn't. Like a list of how much effect each option and antialiasing has?

Not all of them, but I touched on some in my PC gamer article on optimization:
http://www.pcgamer.com/what-optimization-really-means-in-games/

 

[Tart Toter 9k]

nvidia sometimes put out a guide on some popular games, can check those out, they have benchmark and comparison of what each settings do

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides

Thanks, these are great! I wish they made one for Deus Ex: MD but it i guess they don't want to do them for "AMD games".

 

[Bigby]

 

[Rhaknar]

Spoiler

Hail Sithis

 

[spindoctor]

Their measly 10% pre-purchase discount is only valid for a week even though the actual game release is seven weeks away. Typical Scamco.

 

[Tizoc]

Humble neo geo bundle tonight?

 

[IamAwake]

What is the best way to find out how many games I own on Steam. Should I believe my Steam profile number count or a one of the many SteamDB tools?

 

[JaseC]

What is the best way to find out how many games I own on Steam. Should I believe my Steam profile number count or a one of the many SteamDB tools?

SteamDB's tool includes Free on Demand licences while the Steam Community figure does not. Whichever is the accurate one is up to you.

 

[kris.]

Steam wants my social to keep selling shit on the market? What.

 

[morningbus]

Steam wants my social to keep selling shit on the market? What.

Yes, if you're American you have to provide them that information if you do over 200 transactions so it can be reported to the IRS as income.

Edit:

Actually, to clarify:

Do I have to pay income taxes on the proceeds of sales I make in the Community Market?

Different countries have different rules relating to the taxation of digital transaction. For U.S. citizens and residents, as discussed above, we are obligated to collect certain taxpayer identifying information from those who engage in more than 200 transactions in a calendar year, but no information is reported to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service unless your gross revenues from such sales exceed $20,000. Ultimately, the responsibility for determining any income tax liabilities, which you may or may not have, rests with you. If you are concerned about your liability, you should consult a tax advisor.

So, keep it under $20,000 and it won't be reported to the government.

 

[arts&crafts]

Steam authentication is the worst! I literally put in the authentication code 2 minutes ago in my browser and put "keep me logged in". I went to 2 or 3 steam pages and now it says I am logged out and I have to log back in and re input my authentication code! I would rather not have this and risk being hacked.

 

[JaseC]

Steam wants my social to keep selling shit on the market? What.

It's a legal requirement:

Do I have to pay income taxes on the proceeds of sales I make in the Community Market?
Different countries have different rules relating to the taxation of digital transaction. For U.S. citizens and residents, as discussed above, we are obligated to collect certain taxpayer identifying information from those who engage in more than 200 transactions in a calendar year, but no information is reported to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service unless your gross revenues from such sales exceed $20,000. Ultimately, the responsibility for determining any income tax liabilities, which you may or may not have, rests with you. If you are concerned about your liability, you should consult a tax advisor.

If you don't live in the US, you just "sign" a digital form declaring as much and the restriction is automatically lifted, unless you previously purchased something from the US store, in which case you have to prove to Valve that you're not actually a US resident for tax purposes.

 

[FiveElementNinja]

I was thinking about trying to up my removed games collection game. Right now I have 92, and the cutoff to be in the Removed Games Collectors group is 110. Any obvious strategies for hitting the target? I feel like I've gotten most of the still-available-for-purchase stuff, but I'm up to other cheap options. Not really interested in paying say $50 a game or whatever. Also up for shady key sites if that's what it takes. I have global VPN access too, so I can redeem non-US keys.

Of my GAF friends, BernardoOne, Smash88, and kurt russell are the only members.

http://timekillerz.eu/removed/tools.php <-- my user id is "stumpo" so you can see which removed games I own/don't own.

Total Removed Games Count : 103 / 458
Total Removed Software/Hardware Count : 0 / 2
Total Purchase Disabled Games Count : 43 / 82
Total Games Count : 5501

So close.

 

[abracadaver]

Their measly 10% pre-purchase discount is only valid for a week even though the actual game release is seven weeks away. Typical Scamco.

I don't see any discount?

 

[Anteater]

I need bersona on steam

 

[Anteater]

 

[kris.]

Yes, if you're American you have to provide them that information if you do over 200 transactions so it can be reported to the IRS as income.

Edit:

Actually, to clarify:



So, keep it under $20,000 and it won't be reported to the government.

It's a legal requirement:



If you don't live in the US, you just "sign" a digital form declaring as much and the restriction is automatically lifted, unless you previously purchased something from the US store, in which case you have to prove to Valve that you're not actually a US resident for tax purposes.

Interesting. Didn't think of this as income but okay. Thanks for the info, buds!

 

[Teggy]

The answer to that is going to vary game to game, but in general shadow quality, MSAA, screenspace reflections and in some cases depth of field are performance killers in modern games. If the game you're playing is set in large spaces, reducing draw distances may also noticeably help.

nvidia sometimes put out a guide on some popular games, can check those out, they have benchmark and comparison of what each settings do

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides

Not all of them, but I touched on some in my PC gamer article on optimization:
http://www.pcgamer.com/what-optimization-really-means-in-games/

Cool, thanks.


Shadow Tactics is out if anyone cares.


I own so many damn tales games, mostly on PS3, I need to start playing them at some point. I want to play Symphonia first.

 

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[Rhaknar]

racist

 

[Firebrand]

So, um, what ever became of those Steam awards? When are they announcing the winners?

 

[yuraya]

So, um, what ever became of those Steam awards? When are they announcing the winners?

Valve time

 

[MUnited83]

So, um, what ever became of those Steam awards? When are they announcing the winners?

Winter Sale.

 

[morningbus]

So, um, what ever became of those Steam awards? When are they announcing the winners?

Valve time, am I right guys?

Right?

... Guys?

Guys, you're scaring me.

 

[Plesiades]

So, um, what ever became of those Steam awards? When are they announcing the winners?

"It seems that a lot of people want a sequel to this Half-Life 2: Episode 2 game... Weird."

 

[MUnited83]

Free Holiday Level coming to HITMAN. The GOTY just keeps getting GOTYer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gT8ksrKxPEU

 

[Rhaknar]

Jshack, Player Housing is coming to ESO in February as a free update

 

[jshackles]

Jshack, Player Housing is coming to ESO in February as a free update

I saw that, and I'm excited. Glad it's free DLC though honestly it's the one game that (so far) I've had no problem justifying the expense of their expansion packs.

 

[FiveElementNinja]

Jshack, Player Housing is coming to ESO in February as a free update

That's pretty cool, but I hope they focus on fixing all the bugs they introduced recently with the crates update. Trivial things like not being able to log out should have been caught during testing.

 

[Rhaknar]

Shadow Tactics is out, someone take the hit for the rest of us and share how it is :3

 

[sprinkles]

Man I got Zestiria Day 1 and never played that for more than 5 hours until other games (I think it was a Witcher 3 / Trails SC combo) got in the way. I think I get this new one during a sale..

 

[freshVeggie]

Like Teggy noted. It's out now. Also has a Demo. steam://install/547490

 

[Knurek]

I mean, I liked Zestiria, and all, even despite Bamco doing anything in their power to make PC players miserable (30 fps lock, framepacing issues, lack of mip-mapping for textures, Symphonia port), but really...
When it comes to C-tier jRPGs, I'd much rather have Trails of Cold Steel on Steam, sorry Berseria.

 

[madjoki]

Shadow Tactics is out, someone take the hit for the rest of us and share how it is :3

It's good.

 

[Teggy]

Shadow Tactics is out, someone take the hit for the rest of us and share how it is :3

The demo is the first two levels,probably plenty to let you know if you like it.

 

[The Dear Leader]

I really should give ESO another shot, all the talk about it in this thread has me wanting to play it.

 

[Anteater]

I really should give ESO another shot, all the talk about it in this thread has me wanting to play it.

it had a free weekend

it's like a weird mashup of the elder scrolls and world of warcraft

 

[Rhaknar]

cool South Park The Fractured but Whole is out guys

>_>