HP_Wuvcraft
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Steam Holiday Sales 2013 |OT2| DIE HARD (AND HAPPY NEW YEAR)
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No idea what to get you for Christmas.
Somebody on Whirlpool said that he was told that EB plans to hike the cards up to $60, but I figured it wouldn't happen until after the sale, much like the original hike up to $55, which occurred after the Summer Sale.
ohblahitsme
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Just wait for bundles. You'll start racking up games you'll never play in no time.
NingenJanai
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Morning felllows.
Missed the guacamole price error.
Damned sleep time
Missed the guacamole price error.
Damned sleep time
zerokoolpsx
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1/390. Easily to figure out what I want to play at any given time. Install/uninstall at any time makes it great.
Yup. Been waiting for this sale. Not a bunch of cheap PS3 games I feel like playing, so I thought, "why not pick up some old goodies on the PC".
Missed the guacamole price error.
Damned sleep time
You couldn't actually purchase it anyways I think, so no loss.
Nito works in mysterious ways. :3
Pops Maellard
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There's still a few servers that are mostly full, but it is pretty empty as a whole. No hackers last I played, but most people just use the Predator and spam. Not really possible to play as a Marine or Alien at this point and still win consistently.
scorpscarx
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I completely agree.
Missed the guacamole price error.
Damned sleep time
You didn't miss anything:
Edit: Beaten.
Missed the guacamole price error.
Damned sleep time
it wasn't the good kind of price error. It was impossible to check out.
but at the price it is now, completely worth it. Please give it a try.
Morning felllows.
Missed the guacamole price error.
Damned sleep time
It's OK, the purchase button is automatically disabled when games go -100% so you didn't miss anything.
Dimitri2401
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Morning felllows.
Missed the guacamole price error.
Damned sleep time
The game was 100% off, but Steam disabled the "add to cart" button.
Morning felllows.
Missed the guacamole price error.
Damned sleep time
It was only for like a split second at 100% off. You could not purchase it.
EDIT: Holy late Batman!
I want to wait for the next deals to see if things go for 1 cent. I'll buy the shit out of it the games.
The largest pricing error I've seen, in terms of the discount applied, is the SR3 Complete Pack being 93% off throughout the entirety of a Flash Sale during last year's Summer Sale, although funnily enough it only applied to the Aussie store.
What are the 3 games that you have installed?
NingenJanai
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It's OK, the purchase button is automatically disabled when games go -100% so you didn't miss anything.
It's ok, I'm playing it on my Vita since I got it from PSN Plus, awesome game.
How can that even be legal?
Wow that is crazy O_O
Ah excellent! jealous. seems like the perfect type of game for Vita. PS+ has been killing it lately. Next month sounds crazy.
NingenJanai
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I have snowglobes, 7 and 9, and I'm looking for 3 and 6.
Feel free to add me and trade if interested.
Feel free to add me and trade if interested.
EB gonna EB. The bump up to $55 was begrudgingly understandable as the Aussie Dollar had fallen by that time (I say "begrudgingly" because I doubt EB pays USD$50 for the codes), but the move up to $60 is little more than a profit margin increase and in fact makes the codes enticing only to those with in-store credit to waste.
AbundantChoice
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Man, I just played through a bit of DmC: Devil May Cry. That is an *excellent* port. I thought it looked pretty good on the 360 when I played it there, but 1080p @ 60fps on the PC makes that game *sing*. I mean, it's an Unreal Engine game so it's not like they had to re-code some console-focused engine to get it to run, but still, they did an awesome job with that port. Totally worth the $12.49.
So Steam is basically a virus, right? It starts off slow - you buy a game. Then you buy another. Then you buy a few more. Then there's a sale, and you're up to 20 games. Then 50. Then 100. They're so cheap - you'd be crazy not to keep going. 150, 250, 300. There's a price error, you have to buy it. 400, 500, 1,000. You can't stop. 2,000, 10,000, 1,000,000. Death.
Then you're reborn as the supreme being.
Then you're reborn as the supreme being.
Oh, I didn't factor in currency conversion, but still, sounds like EB discovered Recettear.
FloatingDivider
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Man winning morrowind in the giveaway was a blessing and a curse, nostalgia was hitting me hard during the flash but my wallet was empty. Unfortunately modding is pretty much required since it doesn't run at 1080p or any widescreen resolution really. What makes it even rougher is how tedious modding was back then and the fact that 99% of the links don't exist anymore. The only easy solution I've found so far is Morrowind Overhaul 3.0 but fuck running an exe that's going to play host to 25 more exe's that are all going to do stuff -- I'm way too paranoid for that. I'm Hnnging so bad looking at videos for it though . All I really want are 1080p, better textures, the increased view distance, and those dof/godray shaders, but I just can't be arsed figuring out links to manual installs for those things. I could care less about floppy donged characters though.
TL;DR Morrowind is old y'all and it doesn't have workshop support.
Also I'd wish steam would host premodded installs for old games that are by definition broken on first launch. I have several in my library that don't really work or run acceptably without doing some serious modding. Things like max payne 1 having sound files that don't work on Win7, Fallout not launching/launching in black and white etc.
. All I really want are 1080p, better textures, the increased view distance, and those dof/godray shaders, but I just can't be arsed figuring out links to manual installs for those things. I could care less about floppy donged characters though. TL;DR Morrowind is old y'all and it doesn't have workshop support.
Also I'd wish steam would host premodded installs for old games that are by definition broken on first launch. I have several in my library that don't really work or run acceptably without doing some serious modding. Things like max payne 1 having sound files that don't work on Win7, Fallout not launching/launching in black and white etc.
It's 4 now.
1. The Binding of Isaac
2. Starbound
3. Chivalry Medieval Warfare (Just got the DLC)
4. Nether
Man, congrats for that! You've done a lot for this community, I wish there was a way to repay you for all you've done here. Here's hoping you have a happy and great life onwards!
corrosivefrost
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I do not know what are caps over here.
#BLESS
My internet is slow sometimes, but I've made them pay by the bucketload now that my gaming PC is finished.
I'm sitting at something like 293/948.
That's good, but you should still pick it up on PC to support Drinkbox so they can keep making fantastic games! $3.75 is a pittance to have it in 1080p hd with all the DLC.
Hell, if you bought the DLC for the PSN version(s) it'd run you more than the game on Steam.
NingenJanai
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You are not a true SteamGaffer until you hug your wallet and cry like a baby after a sale.
CS:GO was 99% off during this past summer sale that like 5 people managed to purchase. The Just Cause price error in the same sale was 96% off and lasted seemingly forever.
VitalNerve
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It's addicting to see the Steam library go, it's insane, I never would have thought when I first jumped in to the sale this year.
Ah, yeah, that's right. Forgot about those. GO was 14c and the original JC 27c.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Or become dizzy every time you look at your towering number of games in your steam library.
More_Badass
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That sucks. Last I played was during the console demo, way back, and playing as the Alien was best. I actually tried to play like an Alien, lying in wait on the ceilings and the dark, sneaking around. Was annoying to see people playing the Alien and just rushing at you
Guess I'll pass on AVP
GO pays for itself. Literally.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Dang. I want to buy guacamelee I just know I have so many games ahead of it to play... gonna wait yet again.
Time for some FF7 so I can eventually get around to FF8.
Time for some FF7 so I can eventually get around to FF8.
ramoisdead
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I remember hopping on the Sonic Collection when it was erroneously discounted for 75% off.when Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed was a 24 hr Daily deal.
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