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yes, it is insane ... especially since the REAL average wage is closer to 400 rather than 700
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STEAM | July 2014-3 Let Off Some STEAM Bennett
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yes, it is insane ... especially since the REAL average wage is closer to 400 rather than 700
Even moreso if you consider that almost half of that is taken away for social security/public healthcare.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
It looks like I might have got a little too ambitious when making it display the game's name rather than the App ID and forgot to correctly escape special characters. Looks like this one has a © symbol in it. The function to get the name is working correctly, but when it tries to print "Starting game (whatever©) to idle cards" it's throwing an error.
I'll get that fixed up real quick and toss up a new version soon.
If it does get locked it won't be any further than cross-region trading/gifting being disabled (properly, this time), which wouldn't affect you since you've already activated your copy. In theory CDPR could lock it down further, but all such cases in the past were ultimately reversed because they affected international users who'd genuinely received the game as a gift, so fear not.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
youre fine. once you've activated it on your account it's safe : )
Only if they put "onlyallowrunin" on it, which is unlikely. You will probably be fine, although it can happen.
That would be true if it was a universal sub. It isn't, and CDR can still put "onlyallowrunin" on the restrictions rendering the game unplayable.
That happened a little while ago, Valve also added a listing called 'sortas' in the database that helps to sort games alphabetically.
For example, Dark Souls used to come after Dark Souls II.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
well then, commence the possible brick shitting till TW3's release.
How many years before the client starts counting playtime for non-Steam entries?
Good to know, thanks.
Yeahh, that'd suck. But that is so rare - I dont see a reason why they'd do that. Only game in recent memory that had that was Wolfenstein that refused to run in Germany, but that makes sense because of the law etc.
Just checked TW2 in the SteamDB, and one of the RU ones really has the onlyrunin flag. Hmm.. I'll just pray that wont happen lol
MMBosstones86
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There's no rush. Take your time writing code ໒(⊙ᴗ⊙
७✎▤IdleM@ster, changing the world one update at a time
Also can we call it IdleM@ster from now on? With the @ sign? Huehuehue
YianGaruga
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GMG please put FFIII 50% off so I can take it for free
I fully support this. Do we know this will happen or is it wishful thinking?
Also, I'm late but IdleMaster is the best name for a piece of software ever. Genius.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
It would be shitty if CDR did do that, though, considering their anti-DRM stance. ::crosses fingers::
derExperte
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Seriously, don't you have Amazon with their 'free when over xx$' policy available? Also you can send the mouse back if it's rubbish.
Wolf's wasn't retroactive, though. That's the distinction to make here.
As above. Amusingly, though, the retail-specific RU sub isn't region-locked (I have it myself).
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16 Jul 2011 The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Retail (RU) CD Key Freejshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
There's no rush. Take your time writing code ໒(⊙ᴗ⊙
IdleM@ster, changing the world one update at a time
Actually, it's already done. You can grab the latest start.exe on Github that should fix this issue.
PandaPedinte
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That's crazy and doesn't make sense at all, is there any reason to these high prices?
For comparison the average Brazilian wage converted to Euro is 647,66 and Ass Creed Unity is costing around 43,33.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Steam version has DRM, honestly...
It works ヽ(´▽｀
ノI also move the program be officially called IdleM@ster
Eh, not really, no.
Steam is a store
Steam CEG is DRM, a fully optional one. You only release games with DRM on steam if you wish to do so. There are plenty of drm-free games on Steam.
Steam itself is only DRM in the same sense GOG is DRM: You have to login to their service to download your games.
Jawmuncher
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It works ヽ(´▽｀
I also move the program be officially called IdleM@ster
Were still waiting on a crossover steam/m@ster banner.
Read my edit. No, it isn't, and the DRM that it has is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL and the developer's choice. If CDR wants, they can launch it completely region-free on Steam.
Neither do you on DRM-free steam games. It's the same thing. So yeah, the example works perfect.
Lol, you defeated your own argument here...
Any game on Steam can function without the client if the developer allows it.
jim-jam bongs
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So a question for the people here who love tits; if I wanted to play on a touch device, would I have any luck? Or is the point and click UI too complex?
PandaPedinte
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Anyone here that goes by the name Hyperion Mecer on Steam?
spindoctor
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Welp. Haven't seen this one in a while.
You should test your theory with any of these games if you own them
http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games#Launcher-free_games
Again, lies. Yes, I can run a game without Steam if it's DRM-FREE. Steam is not a way to manage digital rights. Steam CEG(which is the drm solution valve offers for free) is, and IT´S OPTIONAL and developer's choice. Steam itself is not, and it will never be a DRM system because that's not how DRM systems work. It's a store.
Err, yes you can, there are many games that already allow this
http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Trying to read back over the thread from last night. I see a lot of people had issues with Idle Master for games that had special characters in their names (which is now fixed) but was anyone else having any other problems?
I've got quite a few other "real life" obligations I have to take care of today (turns out, the timing of me launching this wasn't ideal) but if everyone is rocking along with the script I'll toss up a dedicated thread for it soon and try to answer any questions I can in that.
I've got quite a few other "real life" obligations I have to take care of today (turns out, the timing of me launching this wasn't ideal) but if everyone is rocking along with the script I'll toss up a dedicated thread for it soon and try to answer any questions I can in that.
Yaska
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I thought there were a bunch of game which could be run without Steam. (Tested this briefly with Ctulhu saves the world, which ran fine without Steam).
MMBosstones86
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You have no obligation to us dude. Do your thing.
I ran it over night and when I woke up the process wasn't running anymore and it looks like it stopped with one game left. Is there a timeout or something that will auto-close start.exe after a certain amount of time?
Other than that, it worked flawlessly. I wish I had more than 8 games with cards left. This tool is....something else man.
Gamesplanet daily deals:
- Fallout 3 GOTY 66%
- Castleyawnia Lords of Snores 2 40%
- Company of Heroes 2: Digital Collector's Edition 75%
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger 75%
- Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut 60%
- Napoleon Total War 75%
- Mars Warlogs 75%
- X Rebirth 40-44%
- Painkiller Hell& Damnation 75% off
Again, lies and misinformation. You can release DRM-free games on Steam and have Steamworks features.
And you continue to ignore that DRM use is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL and if CDR uses it, IT'S THEIR OWN CHOICE.
MMBosstones86
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are the sales actually good with this? I thought the game was pretty awful upon release, surprised it hasn't reached bomba territory yet.
StrangeTaco
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Snake you've already changed your argument from post to post, you went from no game can run without steam drm to there's only a few games that can't. You really should just stop while you're ahead.
billmcdougal
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I seem to have a small issue with Idle Master.
I ran it last night and got a drop or two. Then I slept my computer (I know, should have left it running for extra drops), but when it came back on, there was an error about finding the appID it was currently idling or something like that, so it moved to the next one.
The problem is that Steam wasn't showing me as actually being in a game. I closed Idlemaster and reopened it, but even still, steam shows no game being played, and that 2nd popup that shows the game logo is not appearing.
I ran it last night and got a drop or two. Then I slept my computer (I know, should have left it running for extra drops), but when it came back on, there was an error about finding the appID it was currently idling or something like that, so it moved to the next one.
The problem is that Steam wasn't showing me as actually being in a game. I closed Idlemaster and reopened it, but even still, steam shows no game being played, and that 2nd popup that shows the game logo is not appearing.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Python 2.x's unicode handling is by far the absolute single worst part about the language. Python 3 nicely fixes unicode, but supports basically none of the most popular modules. FIX THIS GUIDO
Don't move the goalposts. Learn from it and move on. You're not the first to erroneously assume all Steam games are tethered to the client and you won't be the last -- it's an understandable mistake as, yes, the vast majority of Steam games do use CEG/"Steam DRM". There's no shame in simply saying, "Oh, I didn't realise that. The more you know."
Just like on other platforms, you would likely be denied access due to incompetence.
How is that relevant? It's possible to run Steam games without the Steam client, and Steamworks features don't require the use of Steam DRM (see Transistor)
jim-jam bongs
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Gunstarheroes
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I got internet back, so hopefully today when i get back, Necrodancer and i can be together at last.
Also, i downloaded Idle Master, but sadly i have nothing to idle. Hopefully once i get back-logged on card drops again i'll be able to see Jshackles masterpiece.
Also, i downloaded Idle Master, but sadly i have nothing to idle. Hopefully once i get back-logged on card drops again i'll be able to see Jshackles masterpiece.
I wonder how long the Metro discount is going to last for previous owners? Going by the store description it says for pre-purchase. Hmmmmm?
Flawless for me so far. I'll grab the latest version when I get back but I imagine I'm going to be a bit busy listing a lot of cards! Any issues I'll wait until your up and around here. Take care dude.
Flawless for me so far. I'll grab the latest version when I get back but I imagine I'm going to be a bit busy listing a lot of cards! Any issues I'll wait until your up and around here. Take care dude.
i've brought it up with CDPR a couple times on social media and on their forums that their steam version should not have steam-drm, but have gotten no response from them. it bothers me to see them get so holier-than-thou about DRM, while at the same time forcing their customers to choose between DRM Free and steamworks features. of course if they allow all steam copies to activate on GOG (like TW1 and TW2) then that solves the problem.
almost all games with DRM Free copies sell on the humble store and they include steam keys. it's something us DRM Free fans have come to expect.
also, i vote for adding something to future OPs for the "steam is/isn't DRM" debate, the discussion pops up once a week it seems
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