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STEAM | December II 2014 - A thread for people who don't like sale side posters.
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cardinalmind
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I've already watched it a few years bacl but I can't remember a single thing about it.
Depends on the game, but you are normally looking at between 10-30% higher.
Picking a couple from the front page:
Isaac - 12.77% higher
Ethan Carter - 14.68% higher
Ryse - 26.87% higher
Europa Universalis IV - 26.89% higher
Mass Effect 2 - 36.07% higher
And this is without the new policy changes, which could raise them quite a bit here (3% tax to 20%)
Paying slightly more than the US I have no issue with. 40% in some cases? No, I'll be using a different store for those.
The Dear Leader
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STEAM | January 2015 - Being "held hostage" by Steam/Valve.
STEAM | January 2015 - Got lucky 15 years ago and been desperately hanging on ever since.
I think just "held hostage" would be fine.
BasilZero
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Perfect title for the beginning of the new year lol.
The Dear Leader
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Steam Holiday Sale 2014 |OT| The recent "Holiday Auction" event felt like it was *just* this side of online gambling.
freshVeggie
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haha, yeah. it's about constraining yourself.
holding off until price is very low or bundle.
that way you get the game and have fun + send a message since sales in the first weeks are most important to big pubs.
PetriP-TNT
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Third day and still nothing for me.
Come oooooon This War Of Mine!
Come oooooon This War Of Mine!
freshVeggie
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wasn't it a daily just yesterday at 15% off?
BasilZero
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I forgot this even existed but I did watch the awkward Tekken live action movie :x.
corrosivefrost
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My question was more along the lines of "are you using the US as the default pricing and then saying that you pay higher because of the current conversion rate?"
Furthermore, this makes me wonder: What region/country are we talking about here, exactly?
that was really bad, like in an offensively bad.
corrosivefrost
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I bought the Courier DLC for New Vegas for like $0.60. Does that count?
Plus I mentioned this to you back in April!
Ahaha sorry for the late answer, but i just wanted to apologize for my memory, which actually sucks hard.
The movie was just plain bad. Only fighter movie I so far enjoyed was Tekken: Blood Vengeance. Story was bad, but it had an kickass soundtrack and the Panda was pretty cute. Also my friends knew Tekken and squealed when some known character came into the picture. Also Panda.
EDIT: NVM. It's late here, I'm tired and not thinking clearly.
What I just said still does apply to Europe. I listed from the UK store, which is probably already hit by higher VAT.
EU store prices are generally similar, so what I said still counts, but different prices. In which case my original post was about how $=£ (or ) conversions or worse are crap and sadly happen already without the new policy changes.
Mass Effect 2 is currently $ = £ = , which is just stupid.
http://now.kentuckyroutezero.com/
the here and along came the echo bid thing is about to end in like 20 seconds
way more exciting than steam's thing
ed: lol nothing happened
the here and along came the echo bid thing is about to end in like 20 seconds
way more exciting than steam's thing
ed: lol nothing happened
But thats CG and still terrible. (I fully forgot that movie)
The 5% VAT? No, it isn't fair.
don't try to talk a way around it, dollar was used as common denomination especially when buying games online, it is default pricing, they even still use it just to screw us over, why they use $= (which is outright scam) and not =$?
What is that about?
apparently the kentucky route zero guys were auctioning a phone similar to the one from their short game here and there along the echo (great thread on it here by tenrius)
they already auction some other 80s phones on ebay with like creepy letters and whatnot
it's some really cool meta thing
It's not that bad. Quite fitting for a game adaption and wasn't that bad. Imo.
Given that most movie or television adaptions of games are utter crap, it's even playing in the game adaption higher league.
Ehhh it focuses on the least important cast. That alone says a enough.
Dragon1893
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Honestly, I also thought it was pretty damn terrible.
The Castle section of Resi 4 has some of that old-school atmosphere from the prior games. It looks significantly better here than my PS2 run many moons ago, though the motion blur is a completely garbage option(turn off immediately). No only does it give me a headache, but it muddies up the clarity of this version. The DS4 has been a great pad for this game and has helped alleviate some of my rustiness.
It'll be a hoot replaying in a few years when the texture mods are complete or near to.
That's Bollywood-levels of greatness. Thanks for sharing!
It'll be a hoot replaying in a few years when the texture mods are complete or near to.
That's Bollywood-levels of greatness. Thanks for sharing!
Glad I don't know much about the original so I could enjoy the movie. This is not meant to be negative. I know how much shitty or bad planned adaptions can hurt the fan soul. So I am glad that I had no such thing for Tekken in the first place.
Why is it so difficult for people to properly adapt games? >.<
It was bad, yeah. But even bad is better than most of the other game adaptions in the world. Just look at all the Uwe Boll Schmock.
elementalsin
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I honestly forgot there was a tekken movie... I think I may have to watch this over the weekend now, haha.
IMO at least in the case or fighting games is that the plot in the games are not enough to do something proper and leaving a lot of space for them to mess with. With other games the case is that the writing and action doesnt translate to movies and the "tweaks" to make it work simply end up being mostly shit.
They're already worth so little now it will make little difference either way. But most likely they will continue to drop through the sale, so you may as well sell now, as that will also give you more time with the money to spend on games.
Ahaha sorry for the late answer, but i just wanted to apologize for my memory, which actually sucks hard.
Hahaha don't worry about it I knew despite VATMOSS being on the cards for nearly 4 years that only a few peeps would know what the implications are and how it effects them. Plus I wish folks would realise that Luxembourg has 3 rates of VAT and games are 15% not 3 like I keep see it being mentioned. The reason lots of comapnies set up there is that it is the lowest rate in the EU (Malta is 18% where Cyprus and German are 19% at their base rates).
To be fair it could be different for various retailers as when our base VAT rate changed from 17.5% to 20% some retails took the extra hit themselves while others ramped the costs up higher than the increase and inflation rates. Conversely when it was scaled back for 6 months some retails passed the sacings back to the customer whilst others didn't and increased their prices to increase their profits.
Some where like Hungary are going to be the folks who really get fucked if VAT is invoiced fully at their rate for 2015 is 27% so while going from Luxembourgs 15% to 20% here will be about £2 extra on a £40 game for them it would be getting on for 3 times that.
corrosivefrost
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First of all, life isn't fair. People don't always get what's coming to them (good or bad), things don't always work out., etc.
Secondly, arguing prices based on conversion rates is outright idiocy. There are more factors that are present than just how many of x your y is currently worth.
VAT tax sounds like a ton of fun, but taxes are pretty universal. I have to continually remind people that I buy things for that the US has taxes (depending on the storefront) and it's more than the amount they thought it would be.
Strange, given how much companies push the cinematic feel of their games. And there are a few interesting adaptions I like very much. Mostly anime. No, all anime. Live action produced stuff like Super Mario Bros. *shiver*
Sengoku Basara (minus the recent, awful season) was pretty great, because they just gave no shit at all and directly and without shame included the generals slashing through troops like ants and super ridiculous stuff like that Mecha Samurai without anyone commenting on that. Idolm@ster was pretty fun and Valkyria Chronicles was at least watchable. Boy, now that I write this, the bar looks even lower than I thought.
Well there are decent adaptations which are made into OVA and anime like Tales of Series and Valkyria Chronicles. Also most of the games getting adaptations are not the ones with the proper stories for movies and when some have a good story they opt to go with a different direction like FF Spirits Within.
and characters changing its design because reasons.
Naked Snake
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I won these from various giveaways (thank you!), but I hadn't yet activated them on my account and after I discovered the Steam Trading Thread I thought I'd try to see if I can trade any of them for games higher up on my wish list. I didn't think that was frowned upon since there was no explicit rule saying not to do it, but apparently it bothers some people so I decided to give them back.
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Hero Prinny
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Itsy for any of the holiday cards besides Silver & blase. anyone up for it? if you got me on steam just send that trade invite, I'll be on facebook.
corrosivefrost
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It's pretty much spelled out in the modbot basics:
ModBot Basics:
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(Again, sorry if I'm saying stuff i already said months ago, but i can't help it)
Buying stuff across Europe is already a pain in the ass, especially for business. When i buy stuff for work from Germany i have to report those payments to the taxman separately from the ones i do in Italy, and i pay on them a higher tax (don't know the actual numbers, I'm not an accountant nor I'm able to do simple math). It's still cheaper buying like empty DVD and jewel cases from Germany, but it's immensely more annoying.
Anyway, don't think of steam or amazon and their army of accountants and lawyers, but of the small online store managed by 2 people, to which now the EU asks to costanly check the current tax situation in every member country and update their site catalogs (often with hardcoded vat values). Eh i dunno, seems so hard in practice.
Naked Snake
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They key word for me there is "off-site"... I wasn't trading them off site (that means not on GAF). And I do have interest in these games, but they're lower priority than others already on my backlog.
Rules should be rewritten IMO if they're not clear on what they mean.
Thing is, aside from gag giveaways like Bad Rats, that you shouldn't hoard games and take them just for the sake of taking them. It's a chance for those who actually want to play the games to grab them. Imo.
It's nice that you give them back in a away, though.
Yeah, and it's generally too few. And it shouldn't be impossible to adapt games in a good way.
Are you referring to the awful recent season or did I miss something. Only one who changed the design was Tokugawa and I had the feeling that he just grew up and changed clothed. What's more jarring is, that he is still alive. But dead is pretty cheap in Sengoku Basara
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