Syphon Filter
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Anyone have Windows 8? Is it true that directdraw games have issues on it?
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STEAM | July 2014-3 Let Off Some STEAM Bennett
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MMBosstones86
Member
I have good news for you.
PetriP-TNT
Member
No problems with directdraw games for me.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Well don't I look fucking dumb now.
Lololol
Thanks Steam GAF.
Lololol
Thanks Steam GAF.
Krusenstern
Banned
What's directdraw? All my games are working perfectly on Windows 8.1 so far.
derExperte
Member
Note that he's the dude that seldom activates gifts. For example no Darkness 2 in his account (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=122096500&highlight=zerooman#post122096500). No Bureau (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=121987288&postcount=2497). No Thunder Wolves (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=121869988&postcount=903). I'm sure there's more. We called him out a while ago after which he activated one won game and that was that.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Don't judge me GAF I rarely keep up with Origin news.
Haha.
Haha.
MMBosstones86
Member
The power of DetectiveGAF.
How is said individual not been blacklisted yet?
it's ok.
Strazyplus
Member
neither do I. ^^
Origin is like a disease on my computer that I try to control.
I managed it so well that I do not need it. as theres nothing Origin provides that I want and the day its the same for steam it too will have the similar fate, but like most of us...
I have over 130 games...
Kiru
Member
Also no Bastion from me. Makes sense why I never got a simple "thanks" :'(
Awesome! One day I will totally play this.
I don't either. But reading the few posts before yours informed me of that giveaway.
DaBargainHunta
Member
Is anyone else's Oozi: Earth Adventure registering on Steam as "Oozi: Earth Adventure for beta testing" or something like that?
Why does he enter then? He just wants to trade the game or something?
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Blessed be thee SteamGAF who is helping me with Origin.
Fix'd
corrosivefrost
Member
Apparently nobody has had the balls to put him in the perm list.
If we're certain on this, I will do it the next time I give something away.
(if you want more games to check, he's won three from me: Dead Island Epidemic, Hoard Complete Pack, Risen -- I checked, he at least owns Hoard and Risen... so take that for what it's worth.)
someguyinahat
Member
But is it worth installing Origin?
Gianni Merryman
Member
I have Windows 8.1 and have been having problems with just a few games, not sure whether they use this directdraw thing; whenever the screen is flickering with bands and stuff, if there's the option for windowed mode that fixes it, otherwise I have found a sort of workaround, that is I press ALT+TAB a few times until it fixes it
it didn't work with Shufflepack though
By the way I have found "indows 8.1 to be much faster and overall better than Windows 8, so I would recommend you to do the upgrade.
MMBosstones86
Member
trading, selling, or giving away to friends
all have happened before
To be honest, this is the first I've heard of this guy. I know people get moved the perma list after so many times being blocked, but with something this damning it should be an automatic ModBot perma. I don't know how exactly Stump has handled these things in the past.
HalfwayOrb
Member
For The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection? Absolutely!
Damn that's pretty sad, what would you even do with those games anyway if you win them and don't activate them? Kinda silly why else would you enter?
derExperte
Member
He is on my and several others personal blacklists but that doesn't affect anyone else who doesn't use the BLACKLIST rule. Which then uses the community blacklist on which he may or may not be. I hoped he'd change his behaviour after the last time someone noticed but nope.
None of them are there, not even Epidemic.
If anyone is interested, the user agent of the Steam browser:
So like March 2012 -> May 2014
Code:
Old:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; Valve Steam GameOverlay/1405474565; ) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19
New (beta):
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; Valve Steam GameOverlay/1406138455; ) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.86 Safari/537.36So like March 2012 -> May 2014
Remember me to do the same. In fact, I'll do it now. Just gotta find the ModBot instructions thread, as I don't remember how to do that.
With enough SteamGAFfers putting him on their personal blacklists, he may end up in the global one.
DaBargainHunta
Member
What new browser are you referring to?
corrosivefrost
Member
Blacklist should default, like PMTHANKS does now.
And someone add him to the community BLACKLIST. I think it's PERMBLOCk <user>.
The Steam GUI browser.
Surely Stump could give us his loot summary so we can crosscheck others.
here is how to block:
You can permanently block any user by sending a PM to ModBot with the subject permablock. The body should be a list of usernames, one per line, that you wish to block
MMBosstones86
Member
3 times is 3 to many
Alien8
Member
The steam client browser, which has been improved in the latest beta. It seems quite fast to me too.
Edit: corrosivefrost'd
Black Soma
Member
And of course I didn't win the DreadOut giveaway 
Would have been an interesting game to play while waiting for Fatal Frame 5. Hopefully they'll put it on sale one of these days. 50% off would be nice.
Would have been an interesting game to play while waiting for Fatal Frame 5. Hopefully they'll put it on sale one of these days. 50% off would be nice.
this is not to be taken lightly, of course
FiveElementNinja
Member
I believe PERMABLOCK only blocks them from all your future giveaways, not add them to the community blacklist. I think if enough people add a person to their personal blacklist, they go into the community blacklist. I could be wrong though.
I don't think that's gonna happen, no need for more drama. The information is there though if you want to do the homework.
corrosivefrost
Member
Fair enough, I'll add him next time I give away something.
If someone would answer my question about the new IndieRoyale Stealth Bastard content, I might buy one of those and give it away.
derExperte
Member
Absolutely as you can't unblock someone. Well, Stump could but he won't.
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
And then never get a booster that's actually worth anything.
I want this too, it would save at least a little bit of space in my already too long wishlist. But I guess it's Valve being Valve again and not wanting to implement it because, as you pointed out, those subs won't last forever and I guess they'd rather not deal with having to come up with a fix for telling users to remove the packs when they're gone.
I spent a $20 Steam card I got as a birthday present almost exclusively on Steam Cards.
But now you can raise your steam level to get even more foil drops. All according to Valve's keikaku.
I'm not really sure why anyone would be mad about something like that other than wanting less people to enter mega giver raffles so they have a better chance of winning. To me, there's a big difference in giving away games that have been in bundles and dumping seven Adventure of Shuggy keys (that anyone could have gotten for free during the summer sale) at once into a raffle. One is clearly trying to get mega giver status and the other is more benign. There's a reason the Shuggy giveaway was done anonymously.
Honestly, it's probably for the best, considering all of the other relatively higher hyped indie/small publisher games coming out this week. Darkwood deserves a chance of having a good opening week.
Blak_Status
Member
Did anyone pick up Planet Explorers since it's on sale? How is it?
I played it ages back and I thought it was pretty decent. I'd assume it's probably more improved now.
Just read it in Moddy's help thread, but thanks a lot anyway!
You dare tell me what I should or shouldn't do? PERM'D!
Of course I'm kidding!
PetriP-TNT
Member
The browser in the new Steam Client Beta (well, the Steam Client that is, which is a glorified browser)
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