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Steam Holiday Sale 2009 Begins! (Dec 22nd - Jan 3rd)
- Thread starter Volcynika
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Servbot #42
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Volcynika said:
Yep, it sucks tough.
Guys, I've got a problem.
Bought BF2 yesterday off Steam, installed it (and Gamespy Comrade, whatever that is). Now, when I try to launch it from the My Games page, my PC blue-screens and restarts! Why would BF2 be causing a driver error? Please help me!
I've uninstalled both BF2 and Gamespy Comrade for now, just to be sure.
Bought BF2 yesterday off Steam, installed it (and Gamespy Comrade, whatever that is). Now, when I try to launch it from the My Games page, my PC blue-screens and restarts! Why would BF2 be causing a driver error? Please help me!
I've uninstalled both BF2 and Gamespy Comrade for now, just to be sure.
brain_stew
Member
Lumines w/ advanced pack + Torchlight for £5.50? Holy fuck! So bought. 
Visualante
Member
Yeah same here. My guess is their neglected servers are just being hammered.Alucrid said:
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
LULZ! Torchlight 10 bux!
I feel bad for you all who bought it at 10! Honestly, though, I wish there would be some announcement or something. I wouldn't mind waiting a day if I knew the game I wanted was going to be on sale the next day.
Anyways, it's worth the full price I paid for it way back then.
I feel bad for you all who bought it at 10! Honestly, though, I wish there would be some announcement or something. I wouldn't mind waiting a day if I knew the game I wanted was going to be on sale the next day.
Anyways, it's worth the full price I paid for it way back then.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Visualante said:
Did you guys update to the newest gfwl client? Mine used to fuck up initially back when shadowrun came out because it wouldn't automatically update correctly.
About torchlight, is there a way to buy potions and identifying scrolls in more than quantities of 1? Having to click back and forth between screens is a huge pain in the ass. Shift seems to only work like that with your own items. :/ Any help would be appreciated.
CecilRousso
Member
Kuro Madoushi said:
You think that we are so poor? Geez, the change is price isn´t even the cost for a pizza.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Volcynika said:
Huh, I tried and it kept making the sound like your pressing the wrong key... Guess I'll try again later.
Just a heads up that everything in the Telltale Games Store is 25% off in a post-holiday sale.
For the games, that deal probably doesn't compete with the Everything Pack holiday sale price on Steam, but it's a good deal if you want to get any of the "only when buying direct from us" stuff like the free DVD versions that come with series downloads, or hard goods like the Sam & Max soundtracks.
For the games, that deal probably doesn't compete with the Everything Pack holiday sale price on Steam, but it's a good deal if you want to get any of the "only when buying direct from us" stuff like the free DVD versions that come with series downloads, or hard goods like the Sam & Max soundtracks.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Xavien said:
Just to make sure. We're talking about multiples of the same item and not multiple items that are different right?
Dead Prince
Banned
there was a link to update GWL when i asked on the other page. definitely worked for me.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
gketter said:
You have to wonder if these sales will eventually come back and bite them in the ass due to this. How many times can you pull this stunt before a large portion of the audience simply waits for the inevitable sales before buying anything on the service.
Baha said:
I'm pretty sure it's a port of the XBLA/PSN versions with none of the licensed music, except those versions run in higher resolution and 5.1 surround. So overall it's not a great port, but it's still a good game and well worth the $, IMO. I picked it up even though I have the 360 and PSP versions just because I love Lumines and wanted to be able to play it at work.
Aha! Found it, and here it is again.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1080973
Worked like a charm to get the patch.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1080973
Worked like a charm to get the patch.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Dr. Zoidberg said:
Torchlight was FULLY worth the 20. In fact, I wish they'd kept it there because this sale is really going to make me wait. With stores, a lot of times only select stuff is on sale, but I guess one of the advantages of DD is that there is no stock and they can discount whatever they want.
I'm still pissed I got Dragon Age full price! All I got was stupid pre-order crap (a ring? or armor or some shit). For 20 dollars less, you can keep your fucking armour.
I used that method to patch RFG as well. For some reason the appdata folder wasn't showing up in Win 7 for me, so i cut and paste that code changing the directories to where they should be on my hdd and the update worked.
It will make some more people wait, but that will be the effect of it. There are certain prices people are willing to pay for games. Some people will buy a game at full price. Then you need to bring it down to get to the next level of consumers.
Dr. Zoidberg said:
It will make some more people wait, but that will be the effect of it. There are certain prices people are willing to pay for games. Some people will buy a game at full price. Then you need to bring it down to get to the next level of consumers.
Dr. Zoidberg said:
That's the thing though. They've actually spoken about these sales and how the games sell tons more on these things. Hell, we've got people in this thread buying games they'll probably never get around to playing. Sales bring attention to games, gets people talking about them, and such.
If people want a game day one, they'll bite on it day one. Those will never change. If they want to wait, then they do that.
That's meDr. Zoidberg said:
I've only ever bought one thing off of Steam for full price and it was Fallout 3. But to be fair I do the same thing in real life too, rarely buy anything unless it's on sale.That said, I've already spent almost 40$ this sale and fully intend to spend more.
Oh, and really, people waiting is better than people pirating.
speculawyer
Member
Has anyone created a "Using a PC as a console" thread?
I finally got around to hooking my notebook's HDMI port to the big HDTV, hooking up the wireless 360 controller dongle, and playing around with lots of settings.
The results have been glorious. You definitely have to play around with various settings though.
So far I've tested Tomb Raider Underworld and Ghostbusters and they both work great.
With Steam games available for low prices, it is really nice to use a PC as a console.
For the less than the price of the 360 version of Batman Arkum Asylum . . . you can get Batman and the rest of the Eidos catalog. Nice. (I still gotta try Batman though but I'm guessing it will work well.)
I finally got around to hooking my notebook's HDMI port to the big HDTV, hooking up the wireless 360 controller dongle, and playing around with lots of settings.
The results have been glorious. You definitely have to play around with various settings though.
So far I've tested Tomb Raider Underworld and Ghostbusters and they both work great.
With Steam games available for low prices, it is really nice to use a PC as a console.
For the less than the price of the 360 version of Batman Arkum Asylum . . . you can get Batman and the rest of the Eidos catalog. Nice. (I still gotta try Batman though but I'm guessing it will work well.)
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Shift + left clicking does work. I even double checked myself the first time. I haven't the foggiest what the hell I was clicking instead.
Dr. Zoidberg said:
I imagine that the number of people who do t know or care about the sales will remain high. steam must be doing enough volume at this point that having a sale works like a real store. People don't stop shopping at Target because they one time marked down tableware. Some people militantly look out for such sales, some people casually know about them and take advantage when they show up, and some people are probably totally oblivious to them going on. I'm buying more games than I would if there wasn't a sale going on, but while I buy fewer titles during the rest of the year, I don't have qualms about buying a new game at full price when it's something I want.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
I think the sales are great and I've seen the data where they sell a ton more, etc. That's not really what I mean. If you take Torchlight as an example: they are running the risk of driving down the acceptable price for cheap people. Before today, a cheap person (like me, though I bought TL at full price and have no regrets) would have thought $10 was a great deal and would have jumped on it. Now, they are getting to the point where a cheap person will say "$10...way too expensive. It will be $5 soon, I'll just wait." So ultimately the "bargain" price becomes $5 instead of 10, and things that were once fairly priced start to look expensive. If the pricing is done carefully, this is not a problem for many, but in the case of some of these holiday specials, it really gets to the point where people say "Fool me once..."
I got a new laptop for Christmas and have been doing the same thing. It's great.
speculawyer said:
I got a new laptop for Christmas and have been doing the same thing. It's great.
Tony Rocky Horror
Member
Indigo Prophecy is around 3,50 euros here, I think I'm picking that up.
Already got Serious Sam HD, GTA IV and Outrun 2006 this sale. Skipping today's sales though..
Already got Serious Sam HD, GTA IV and Outrun 2006 this sale. Skipping today's sales though..