Might as well, unless you can trade for the cards you're missing within the next 55 minutes -- come 10am PT the cards will disappear from your inventory.
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Might as well, unless you can trade for the cards you're missing within the next 55 minutes -- come 10am PT the cards will disappear from your inventory.
Megalosaro
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So I bought Civilization V last night. I've been to play it. Managed to download it, but now when I click play a box comes up saying "Finishing Installation" and then an error pops up saying "Steam Servers too busy to process your request"
Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone else have this problem?
Squirrel Killer
Member
Do they always stop buying/selling an hour before the sale ends? I didn't see anything in the FAQ about it, so I assumed I had another hour to finish buying those last three cards.
You can't bid anymore since weeks. You can use gems to create booster packs.
I thought auctions were over, so typically now around 440-1000 Gems can craft you a booster pack that'll get you 3 cards.
This or craft 1000 gems into a pouch to sell, but I think it might be too late to sell Gems on crunch time.
Visualante2
Member
Giant Bomb guys suggested it actually went too far, and the modifying goes too in depth
This is the first time the cards haven't been marketable prior to their expiry date. As has been said already, my guess would be that it was done so people didn't buy up cards for gems in the closing minutes only to have them expire before they could be "recycled".
In that case a warning would've been nice. :/
Automatisch
Member
I play regularly and I'd say it works as well as it's going to at this point. Could it be better? Sure. But I'd say it's perfectly fine in most cases.
Hmm yeah the 440-1000 gems for 3 trading cards seems like a lot for what you get. I can craft only 20 gems per trading card max. It seems wiser to sell the trading cards and buy what you need, doesn't it?
You can craft background and emoticons too.
Yeah I know, and they are more valuable, thankfully! Maybe it's best to just craft all of the useless backgrounds/emoticons into gems and sell the cards or collect them.
Give it half an hour and try again. I'm guessing there's a flurry of activity on Steam right now as the sale is coming to an end.
SniperHunter
Banned
total damage to the wallet:
South Park: The Stick of Truth
The Forest
Age of Mythology EX
You Need A Budget 4
Resident Evil 4
Quake 4
Saints Row IV Game of the Century Edition
Shadow Warrior
Metal Gear Rising
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Alien: Isolation
The Evil Within
South Park: The Stick of Truth
The Forest
Age of Mythology EX
You Need A Budget 4
Resident Evil 4
Quake 4
Saints Row IV Game of the Century Edition
Shadow Warrior
Metal Gear Rising
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Alien: Isolation
The Evil Within
That's why you get smart and craft boosters of games with 0,20 and up cards...
Squirrel Killer
Member
So instead they just moved that annoyance up an hour without any warning. Guess I've got 140 gems. Woo woo?
Just remember what the most powerful force in the universe is.
Lethal League
Mount and Blade: Warband
One Finger Death Punch
Nuclear Throne
Endless Legend
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Europa Universalis IV (gift)
Hammerwatch (gift)
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Magicite
Valiant Hearts
Dragonborn
Age of Empires II
Total Damage: ~$64
despite what everyone has said, it's been a very good sale for me.
Mount and Blade: Warband
One Finger Death Punch
Nuclear Throne
Endless Legend
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Europa Universalis IV (gift)
Hammerwatch (gift)
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Magicite
Valiant Hearts
Dragonborn
Age of Empires II
Total Damage: ~$64
despite what everyone has said, it's been a very good sale for me.
Looked for gravity and found a game called iO with trading cards going for around $0.20 lol but I guess I need to own the game to be able to craft for it
Pestilence11
Member
The Long Dark is all I picked up. I've still got games from the 2013 Summer Sale that I've never even launched.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I bought Ground Zeroes a minute ago, finally jumped on it mostly to see how it runs, I live in Mexico so the game was stupidly cheap.
My total haul was just Ground Zeroes and the AMAZING Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION.
My total haul was just Ground Zeroes and the AMAZING Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION.
Succinct Verbosity
Member
I didn't buy anything this sale. Most of the games i want, I have... And sadly I realise I have no time to play any more games. Happy for you guys though!
toastyToast
Member
Bought Astebreed and Shovel Knight to close it out.
Final tally. Didn't think I had anything to buy, now look at me ;_;
Shovel Knight
Astebreed
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
Alien: Isolation
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
The Walking Dead Season 2
The Wolf Among Us
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Digital Standard Edition
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
No idea why I bought Black Flag.
Final tally. Didn't think I had anything to buy, now look at me ;_;
Shovel Knight
Astebreed
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
Alien: Isolation
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
The Walking Dead Season 2
The Wolf Among Us
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Digital Standard Edition
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
No idea why I bought Black Flag.
This is the less I have ever spent on a steam sale since these large sales started years ago. Spent about $10 for my self on 4 games. Bought MGR for my brother a set a gift which I can play through family sharing so I guess that kind of counts. Still have about $30 in my wallet.
I just have such a huge backlog of games I really want to play of the 300 games in my library that I can justify buying more games.
I just have such a huge backlog of games I really want to play of the 300 games in my library that I can justify buying more games.
How do you craft foils again?
Bl@de
Member
Nothing big for me. Still have a big backlog. Only thing I bought is a game I wanted to play for a long time:
- Deadly Premonition (2.49)
After installing all necessary fixes and playing for a couple of hours: This is my kind of game.
Sidenote: No crashes or bugs in 4h playtime. Good looking game with downsampling, dpfix and sweetfx. Only one weird thing ... After 30-45min the fps start dropping from 60 to 30. Only way I'm able to fix it ... Restart the game. Well ... I've been warned about the game^^
- Deadly Premonition (2.49)
After installing all necessary fixes and playing for a couple of hours: This is my kind of game.
Sidenote: No crashes or bugs in 4h playtime. Good looking game with downsampling, dpfix and sweetfx. Only one weird thing ... After 30-45min the fps start dropping from 60 to 30. Only way I'm able to fix it ... Restart the game. Well ... I've been warned about the game^^
Just check Waifu games. Sakura Spirit, If My Heart Had Wings, Agarest games, etc.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
If you have any money left - Weekend Deal:
$9.99 (80% off). Individual games are 75% off.
Sorry Cape Fulgur, too late. ¯\_(ツ
_/¯PhoenixFyre
Member
If you have any money left - Weekend Deal:
$9.99 (80% off). Individual games are 75% off.
Damnit! Those looks awesome! Suddenly regret all that late Christmas shopping I just did.
Hellraider
Member
And I bought recettear for 5 yesterday. Fuck me.
Enigmatic Rainbow
Member
Awesome price on the Carpe Fulgur Collection.
Wound up buying:
Wolfenstein
Shovel Knight
Divinity: Original Sin
Metal Slug 3
Played a couple hours of Wolfenstein and it seemed great. Played a bit of Shovel Knight and it hasn't really grabbed me yet. I wonder if it's because I'm a 90s kid who didn't really grow up with NES/SNES, so the nostalgia factor is lost on me. I'll keep at it though.
Haven't started Divinity yet but I expect good things.
Metal Slug was just so I can do some coop with a friend later on. I loved those games as a kid.
Wolfenstein
Shovel Knight
Divinity: Original Sin
Metal Slug 3
Played a couple hours of Wolfenstein and it seemed great. Played a bit of Shovel Knight and it hasn't really grabbed me yet. I wonder if it's because I'm a 90s kid who didn't really grow up with NES/SNES, so the nostalgia factor is lost on me. I'll keep at it though.
Haven't started Divinity yet but I expect good things.
Metal Slug was just so I can do some coop with a friend later on. I loved those games as a kid.
People love it.
I've really tried to get into it but I can't. Insurgency is a lot more fun.
Most game modes have NPCs in CS:GO and they completely ruin all multiplayer games for me. I also dislike the maps. There are some cool modded servers though.
I'm in the minority though I'm sure.
It goes very far, you can modify code for any object in the game and can easily break the game doing so. It's probably a better learning tool than puzzle game, I know it was a bit much for me after a point.
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