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STEAM | January 2016 - Out of cash, out of cache

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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Arthea said:
I thought these were games, lemme double check

edited: checking does nothing, I just see cards.

holy smoke, how you got so many points, Jasec?
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You earn x points for owning a Microids game and I own all of them save for The ABC Murders.
 
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Tizoc

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Take these off my hands, lads
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RAGNAROK ONLINE 7 DAYS SUBSCRIPTION -- MB-F1B88F57B38CA5F2 - Taken by hesho
Haegemonia: Legions of Iron Key #2 -- MB-0AEEABA82757E4B2 - Taken by Ronik
Haegemonia: Legions of Iron -- MB-022CA8B03471BA29 - Taken by ussjtrunks
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ghostlight_ross said:
I do try :)
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The wait for these announcements will be painful ToT

KainXVIII said:
Hype rising!
Oneechanbara will be great (now playing Wii version, not bad at all)
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You know what a Steam release would be the one way I'd play Oneechanbara :V
But as much as I'd like for El Shaddai, I really hope it'd be Shadows of the Damned.
Hey shooting is Action game too :V
 
accel

accel

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lashman said:


Plantera
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A new clicker has to offer something interesting and novel, I am not seeing anything, sadly. Maybe it will change when they release.

Also:

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RAGNAROK ONLINE 7 DAYS SUBSCRIPTION -- MB-20278B210B097357
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Ronan

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Here's hoping I did this right

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dex3108

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I played Bloodborne today again and for an hour and i didn't move from same area XD I mean i can see why people love it but for me game has same issue that Max Payne 3 had, and that is environment. It simply gets in your way if you want to dodge and sometimes attack. I know i am noob for Souls games and i need to git gud but for now i have mixed feelings about game.
 
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jdw_b

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dex3108 said:
I played Bloodborne today again and for an hour and i didn't move from same area XD I mean i can see why people love it but for me game has same issue that Max Payne 3 had, and that is environment. It simply gets in your way if you want to dodge and sometimes attack. I know i am noob for Souls games and i need to git gud but for now i have mixed feelings about game.
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Use the environment to cheese everything

It's a design choice!
 
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Saty

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Since 2012 "Multitasker" has been trying to finish all the Steam games. He knows he'll never complete his mission, but he's soldiering on regardless.

...

Multitasker would prefer to keep his real name off the internet - as best he can, anyway. And in this age of doxxing and all the rest, I don't blame him. But he will say he's Norwegian, in his mid-thirties, and works as an IT consultant. He married his highschool sweetheart and has a two-year-old son. Another child is on the way.
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Interview: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-15-meet-the-man-trying-to-finish-all-the-steam-games
 
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CarbonatedFalcon

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I think I enjoy the base management in XCOM more than the actual missions :>

Any other games do that sort of thing (well?) Last Fire Emblem I played (the first NA release on GBA) didn't have anything like that. IDK if more recent Fire Emblem games have any sort of base management.

Also...suddenly it's 5:30 in the morning. Welcome back Civ effect.
 
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Nzyme32

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Popstar said:
I was actually just wondering what Half-life / Portal mods were around worth playing. I recently finished Black Mesa and saw some buzz around Portal Stories:Mel.

Has any one played it?
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If you are looking at HL2 mods, I definitely recommend Minerva, especially if you play at the hardest difficulty which I found made the game really tense. I think the guy that made it ended up being hired by Valve.
 
accel

accel

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Ludens said:
I created two accounts, I got only cards.
If I link my Steam account, is there an option to unlink it?
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I don't think so (and if I were Microids, I wouldn't do such an option because it wouldn't do a whole lot - ie, the site would have to prevent you from connecting a different Steam account, so they'd have to store something - account data or at least some flag - and if you are worried about Microids having some data about your Steam account, it's already past the time to be worried, they already have it).
 
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ashecitism

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Ozium said:
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/399120/

Pre-Order now for $8.99!
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Knew this sounded familiar. This is by the guy who put this (then called Project X) on a pendrive, put that in a briefcase then sent it to Valve and got no response: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-25-the-man-who-sent-his-game-in-a-briefcase-to-gabe-newell

Nzyme32 said:
If you are looking at HL2 mods, I definitely recommend Minerva, especially if you play at the hardest difficulty which I found made the game really tense. I think the guy that made it ended up being hired by Valve.
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Yes, Adam Foster. He was involded in the Portal 2 ARG and is now experimenting with photogrammetry in VR.
 
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Ludens

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Robin Hood Legend of Sherwood -- MB-3367AF1070B614C7 - Taken by TheAutomator
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I won something but I already own it :D
 
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jdw_b

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Fuck that spider thread

I'm not going in it as I can guarantee someone will post a massive spider picture to piss people off
 
Regginator

Regginator

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does anyone know how long it will approximately take to idle 200 cards? or is it the usual rate of 1 drop per hour = 200 hours?
 
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Ludens

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Well, if someone has a spare Nostradamus key, I will accept it, I also have several bundle spares so I can give you something back.
 
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Chariot

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jdw_b said:
Fuck that spider thread

I'm not going in it as I can guarantee someone will post a massive spider picture to piss people off
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What spider thread? GAF shitting again on one of the best human companions, colour me surprised. If you play videogames all day you lose your ability to empathically connect to spiders. A shame.
 
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Deques

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Regginator said:
does anyone know how long it will approximately take to idle 200 cards? or is it the usual rate of 1 drop per hour = 200 hours?
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Each game has different time for each card drop, so it's impossible to say how long it will take to idle through 200 cards. 15 minutes is the minimum drop time. There are some games that it can take up to 2 hours for each card drop
And you must have at 2 hours play time before the first card will drop
 
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jdw_b

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Chariot said:
What spider thread? GAF shitting again on one of the best human companions, colour me surprised. If you play videogames all day you lose your ability to empathically connect to spiders. A shame.
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It's in Gaming, like I said i'm not going in

Bolded...what? lol
 
accel

accel

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Regginator said:
does anyone know how long it will approximately take to idle 200 cards? or is it the usual rate of 1 drop per hour = 200 hours?
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I think it is closer to 1.8 drops per hour. (Excluding the initial 2-hour period of no cards, whether that happens or not.)
 
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Pachimari

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Pachimari

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I think I'm gonna do Oxenfree today, and make it the first game I complete. Final Fantasy VII is a little on the backburner now, but I will surely still complete it. I should get back to it tomorrow.
 
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Arthea

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Deques said:
It sucks that Steam is punishing those who has refunded once. The two hours minimum should go away after 2 weeks after each purchase/activation
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you aren't losing much, trust me, all card drop times are atrocious now, I haven't had cards to drop in less than 2 hours for any game since that change, and I don't have to wait 2 hours, there is really no going back, compared to what I used to get, I get 1/3 number of cards.
 
Jawmuncher

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Arthea said:
you aren't losing much, trust me, all card drop times are atrocious now, I haven't had cards to drop in less than 2 hours for any game since that change, and I don't have to wait 2 hours, there is really no going back, compared to what I used to get, I get 1/3 number of cards.
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I remember when you could get all cards in 2-4 hours. Those were the days.
 
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Arthea

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Jawmuncher said:
I remember when you could get all cards in 2-4 hours. Those were the days.
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these days I consider myself lucky if I get all cards to drop before finishing the game



Deques said:
Cards should be given instantly after each purchase or two weeks after purchase for those who have refunded :/
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you know that would make most people to refund some random game just to get this arrangement, 2 weeks delay, totally beats 6-8 hours idling per game.




edited: I know it's too late to worry, but I can't help it. How safe is that Microids site, I wonder.
 
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TheLetdown

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Deques said:
Cards should be given instantly after each purchase or two weeks after purchase for those who have refunded :/
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No way.

That would flood an already flooded market. Locking it behind having to either play or "play" the game at least keeps a small degree of scarcity in the supply/demand of cards.

The current rate of drops sucks, though. Another victim of refunds.
 
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milena87

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That Microids thing was pretty fun and I won 2 games that I didn't have. I couldn't complete a single card collection, though...

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accel

accel

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Arthea said:
edited: I know it's too late to worry, but I can't help it. How safe is that Microids site, I wonder.
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I don't know how safe it is, I mean, they are probably really Microids, because they seem to have a lot of keys for Microids games and these keys seem to work, but who knows what backdoors their site has.

But I don't think sharing Steam account info amounts to much. Here's what Steam says:

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By signing into <whatever site it is> through Steam:

* the site will be able to identify you within the Steam Community and retrieve public info such as your stats and achievements.
* a unique numeric identifier will be shared with the site, rather than your Steam login credentials.
* basic information about your Steam account will be shared with a third-party web site.
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That doesn't look dangerous.
 
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