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Steam Holiday Sale 2011 | Valve Has Run Out Of 3rd Party Coupons/Games (Dec 19-Jan 2)
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You only need to input a US address on checkout, it doesn't matter if you pay with an international card
What games do you want? I have an Orange Box I could trade you for a cheap game =)
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Okay, let's do this:
D'oh:
Achievements I don't have:
- Spiral Knights (no interest)
- Rise of Immortals (have never heard of it, just assuming it sucks because it's f2p)
- Bunch of Heroes (looks pretty bad)
- The Polynomial (not going to buy, no interest)
- Red Orchestra 2 (not going to buy, no interest)
- Tropico 4 (not going to buy, might buy at <=$5)
- Payday (not going to buy, waiting for <=$5)
- Jurassic Park (not going to buy, waiting for <=$5)
- Space Marine (not going to buy, waiting for <=$5)
- Cargo (considering buying)
- Guardians of Graxia (leaning towards not buying)
- AI War (don't know anything about this game)
- Anomaly: Warzone Earth (don't know anything about this game)
D'oh:
Achievements I don't have:
- Spiral Knights (no interest)
- Rise of Immortals (have never heard of it, just assuming it sucks because it's f2p)
- Bunch of Heroes (looks pretty bad)
- The Polynomial (not going to buy, no interest)
- Red Orchestra 2 (not going to buy, no interest)
- Tropico 4 (not going to buy, might buy at <=$5)
- Payday (not going to buy, waiting for <=$5)
- Jurassic Park (not going to buy, waiting for <=$5)
- Space Marine (not going to buy, waiting for <=$5)
- Cargo (considering buying)
- Guardians of Graxia (leaning towards not buying)
- AI War (don't know anything about this game)
- Anomaly: Warzone Earth (don't know anything about this game)
jim-jam bongs
Member
Know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em, brah.
dragonlife
Member
Just change your address to Google's address.
But we could win games :3
D:
iKeepPlaying
Banned
Gabe, why are you giving me terrible prizes
Do science!!
Nabs
Member
Gabe, why are you giving me terrible prizes
You know what you have to do.
Piercedveil
Member
I have the Orange Box, but thank you. I'm looking mostly for Counter Strike: Source and Counter Strike 1.6. Maybe Left 4 Dead or Left 4 Dead 2.
Take the risk and get a terrible coupon again or hoard them and end up not winning in the final contest...
Decisions, decisions. Hmmmm
A Human Becoming
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This is the first holiday Steam sale in years I've missed. 
I need a jobbbbbbbbb.
I need a jobbbbbbbbb.jim-jam bongs
Member
I still say that my coupon for the MumboJumbo pack is the best, it bestows upon me the privilege of buying the pack for only $70 more than the sale price!
iKeepPlaying
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bucknuticus
Member
Bumping for new page.
dragonlife
Member
If you absolutely have to, choose L4D2 over L4D. Hopefully they'll be in a two-pack like before, though. 2 has all of 1's campaigns in it now, but 1 still has some differences that make it unique. Can't go wrong with either, but L4D2 has the better amount of content. Just my two cents as a big fan of the games.
Is it an Achievement from today or an older one? If neither, you aren't getting anything until it becomes part of the objectives.
PixyJunket
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I much preferred the free DLCs from the Summer Camp sale.
I mean, most of them were $1 or $2 DLCs, but at least you could choose what you wanted and a lot of it remains unique to the Summer Camp sale.
Never forget.
I mean, most of them were $1 or $2 DLCs, but at least you could choose what you wanted and a lot of it remains unique to the Summer Camp sale.
Never forget.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Has anyone else gotten a DOTA2 key from Rise of the Immortals?
I'd be a great troll if you were more likely to get one from that achievement
I'd be a great troll if you were more likely to get one from that achievement
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Still available ^_^;
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem (3-Pack)
1. TAKEN
2. TAKEN
3.
This is a holiday achievement game and I have one copy left for $4 via paypal. PM me if interested!
TotalBiscuit, WTF: http://youtu.be/xLBhYJhA7OY?hd=1
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem (3-Pack)
1. TAKEN
2. TAKEN
3.
This is a holiday achievement game and I have one copy left for $4 via paypal. PM me if interested!
TotalBiscuit, WTF: http://youtu.be/xLBhYJhA7OY?hd=1
bucknuticus
Member
Was the defense grid one yesterday, did it last night and shows complete on the list of objectives. Yet got nothing for it.
divisionbyzorro
Member
So if I craft coal, I'm more than likely going to just get a coupon? Booooooo.
Piercedveil
Member
I had no idea that they did that. I will definitely get L4D2 then if I must choose between one.
I just booted the game and I was able to play it with the keyboard just fine.
With that said, It probably won't take that long to set the motionjoy and you can use that to emulate the 360 controller, probably faster (and definitively cheaper) than buying a 360 controller.
dragonlife
Member
Try going into TF2's backpack and moving around stuff, then exit and check your inventory again. You can also do it with Portal 2 or Spiral Knights (this one you just play for a bit)
Glad I could help. Gotta look out after my GAF brethren.
Artofwar420
Member
Any impressions on Post Apocalyptic Mayhem? Haven't heard much about it here.
About ordering games from Amazon Digital from outside the US, the address they're lasking for is a billing address. Don't they use that address for credit card verification? I'm just wondering if a mismatch could get the order denied or, at worst, get your card locked up. That's a ridiculously good price for Shogun 2!
bucknuticus
Member
Tried that earlier :/ It's been nearly 24 hours since I got it too.
I bought three games from them using a fake american address and everything went fine.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Yeah, Motioninjoy isn't hard to get working at all. With the newer versions, you don't have to mess around with allowing unsigned drivers and such, since the driver is now signed. I got my DS3 working very quickly by following the install instructions.
One thing to note, however, is that if you want to get it working over Bluetooth, the DS3 BT driver will completely override your BT device's default driver, meaning you can't use that BT device for anything other than your DS3 anymore. For me that's not a problem, since I really have no other uses for BT (all phone apps and such which communicate wirelessly seem to do it over Wi-Fi anyway nowadays), and being able to use my DS3 wirelessly from the couch sure is nice!
BertleTheTurtle
Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLBhYJhA7OY
Just Skydrift and the DLC for me today.
Had Blur in my cart but changed my mind. Same with Avadon. I did buy Lord of The Rings from Greenmangaming but that's for a Secret Santa thing.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Let's assume only 5 million people enter--I believe more will. Let's assume everyone except for you has 1 piece of coal--I believe the average will be higher. Let's assume you have 20 pieces of coal. Your odds of winning any prize are about 0.4%. I assume you have the Valve games you want. Your odds of winning a real prize are about 0.06%. I suspect your real odds will be significantly lower because of how generous I was on those factors. (You can calculate this yourself; binomial distribution probability calculator: success per trial = 1/(total number of coal), number of trials = 1151 or 151)
What do you guys think the odds of crafting coal to generate any game (not necessarily a good one)? Probably 5-10% or so?
Considering this, I think I will craft 7 of my 12 pieces of coal.
Best of luck to you. I'll probably do the same with mine eventually, unless I can find a trade.
dragonlife
Member
Those 10% coupons hurt. They hurt a lot.
iKeepPlaying
Banned
Looking for someone with 3 coals to do some science!
Terraria is very likely to be featured in a daily deal for $2.50, as it was during the Autumn sale. It's most-fucking-definitely worth full price, and then some, but wait it out if you're pinching pennies. No idea about Polynomial, though.
dragonlife
Member
If they're 75% off, I think it's safe to say they aren't going to get any cheaper. But don't take my word for it. If it's 50% off instead, just wait
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Polynomial is not going to get any cheaper, since it's a daily achievement thing and not a daily deal. Terraria has been a daily deal in previous sales. I'd wait on it. If you really don't want to wait, you're probably (PROBABLY, not definitely) safe buying something at 75% off.
I looked at it more simple.
They have 151 prizes. 1000 of them are no better than a coupon since most of us already own every Valve title as it is. Might as well risk it on another useless coupon than hoping you get a wishlist hit.
I will say unlike the previous sale, which did make me drop a bit of extra cash on games I was indecisive about, but had an achievement. This has done the opposite. There isn't any incentive for me who has got nothing but coupons, to dip in on something prematurely.
Yeah the probability to get a game seems really low.
I crafted them and got a Portal 2 50%off coupon
. They really should have went with a redeeming system granting you small prizes instead. It's not really fun to get worthless coupons out of this. It would have been more rewarding to acquire cheap (value wise) unique in game items and DLC instead of getting nothing/coupons.The contest is not over though and I'm not throwing the towel yet as I still have many of the games on the wiki.
I'm still having fun with contest anyway. I had many of these games fron the indie bundles and I would never have tried them if it wasn't for the promotion.
dragonlife
Member
If I get coal I'm just going to craft it. I've gotten the major titles I've wanted from this sale thanks to awesome friends, and strangely, the idea of having every game on Steam is a bit of a turn-off. I won't be able to enjoy these sales with my fellow peasants because I would have everything. Sales wouldn't be an event anymore, just, "Oh, a sale? Cool, I guess." It would be lonely.
I mean, look at us. We really are peasants. KNEES DEEP IN COAL.
I mean, look at us. We really are peasants. KNEES DEEP IN COAL.
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