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STEAM | June 2014 - Enhanced Electronics Edition

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nexen

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JaseC said:
Buying things you don't need just because they're cheap is always exciting. :p
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It is. The inner hunter-gatherer needs to be sated.

Mavromatis said:
We are the people who never levels up their pokémons besides the main party, we just collect them and send to someone's PC.

We are the people who stocks all the potions up to x99 and never sue them.

We are the people who collect all the loot and can't run because they are encumbered.
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I never played pokeman, but the other two fit me to a T. You should see my Breezehome in Skyrim. Good lord.

Arthea said:
it is mystery to me too, I have so many games I want to play, and no time to play them, still, I'm awaiting sale for some unfathomable reason. (><)
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Same. I can't wait for it to start. Tomorrow, right?

Garcia said:
The past Winter sale was my very first Steam sale ever. It was pure feels overload. Outrageous prices, great games everywhere, giveaways go wild as well; I even got lost in the midst of chaos and missed quite a lot of (amazing) deals for games that I had no idea even existed.

I'm already getting prep'd for this one, even though my body and wallet won't ever be ready.
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The first Steam sale is always the best Steam sale. You're just chasing the dragon after that.
 
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Baron_Calamity

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I can't remember how this goes. Should I craft badges or sell cards? I'm at level 52 and i don't want to "improve" my profile but I don't want to miss out on any deals that may be had from crafting. I kinda just want to sell to avoid the annoyance.
 
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The_Monk

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I also like the Community Voting part but my votes never win...! They always aim for the biggest discount no matter how often that game goes on sale. Borderlands 2, Magicka, Garry's Mod are a few examples.
 
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Sub Zero

his body's cold as ice, but he's got a heart of gold
It's all Steamgaf's fault, before joining or lurking I had a lot of self control when a Steam sale was around. For example, in the Autumn sale I only bought Tropico 4, Rogue Legacy and Age of Empires II HD. Since I joined this damned community I became a reckless Steam hoarder
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Baron_Calamity said:
I can't remember how this goes. Should I craft badges or sell cards? I'm at level 52 and i don't want to "improve" my profile but I don't want to miss out on any deals that may be had from crafting. I kinda just want to sell to avoid the annoyance.
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Wait until the sale begins as items may replace sale cards as a crafting reward. You're not gaining anything by crafting now -- if you really want a sale badge it'd be far cheaper to just buy the cards themselves after you've exhausted your sale funds and voting opportunities as opposed to earning them through crafting.

If you care about none of the above, then, sure, go right ahead and sell now.

Edit: Impulsive purchasing habits vindicated:
pandora_188knk.jpg


pandora_27pkhy.jpg
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CheesecakeRecipe

Stormy Grey
I quite like the way things get during sale times. Very similar to how SteamGAF usually operates but amplified because we're getting more eyes on the thread than usual. People want suggestions for games to look out for, in-depth recommendations, validation for buying Yet Another $2.50 Throwaway Game that they will never look at nor play.

We scream WAIT FOR THE DAILIES and yet still more souls fall to the temptation early, lessons being learned in real time with the sound of cash registers in musique concrète for the backing soundtrack.

Yet more people asking "who the fuck is that in JaseC/Panda/ClassyPenguin(miss you bro)/etc's avatar" and the glut of off-the-wall responses to said question.

All of us screaming at our screens at our respective 4AM timezones just dying for the voting to roll over and see if we need to stay up another hour, only for god damn mother fucking shitlording Borderlands 2 to win the vote yet again.

The immense generosity even in the quietest moments. We're all Dupy for at least a day.

I don't buy a whole lot during the sales as my library is already fairly fat but I enjoy the community and spectacle of it all. SteamGAF's my home thread on GAF and it makes me happy to see some strangers poke their heads in sometimes and get a taste for what makes this place great. Sales tend to put those head-stickings into overdrive. I still enjoy the sales but for a different reason than most.
 
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MMBosstones86

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Sub Zero said:
It's all Steamgaf's fault, before joining or lurking I had a lot of self control when a Steam sale was around. For example, in the Autumn sale I only bought Tropico 4, Rogue Legacy and Age of Empires II HD. Since I joined this damned community I became a reckless Steam hoarder
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Completely agree. SteamGAF gets me to buy things i'm not even remotely interested in all the time.
 
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Dr Dogg

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It's just dawned on me that the next couple of weeks is going to bring the old "when's the sale starting/ending?", "oh X is in sale for so much should I buy it now or wait?" And "why haven't the deals changed over? You suck Valve!" string of posts. I think due to the volume Steam threads get to these days that shit is going to give me an aneurism

Oh well what with the WC and all that I could do with a GAFcation. See you on the flip side SteamGAF and you know where I am if you want to hear me whittle on.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Dr Dogg said:
It's just dawned on me that the next couple of weeks is going to bring the old "when's the sale starting/ending?", "oh X is in sale for so much should I buy it now or wait?" And "why haven't the deals changed over? You suck Valve!" string of posts. I think due to the volume Steam threads get to these days that shit is going to give me an aneurism

Oh well what with the WC and all that I could do with a GAFcation. See you on the flip side SteamGAF and you know where I am if you want to hear me whittle on.
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my favorites are the "LOL ONLY 33% DAILY VALVE SUCKS" posts 30 seconds into the new deals, while they are still switching over
 
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nexen

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Dr Dogg said:
It's just dawned on me that the next couple of weeks is going to bring the old "when's the sale starting/ending?", "oh X is in sale for so much should I buy it now or wait?" And "why haven't the deals changed over? You suck Valve!" string of posts. I think due to the volume Steam threads get to these days that shit is going to give me an aneurism

Oh well what with the WC and all that I could do with a GAFcation. See you on the flip side SteamGAF and you know where I am if you want to hear me whittle on.
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Lets make Steam bingo cards for this. Whenever someone completes a card, they have to buy a game and have a drink.

Will we pass out drunk or go broke first?
 
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MMBosstones86

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Atraveller said:
How do you guys deal with the guilt when you bough too many?
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What is this 'guilt' you speak of?

Dr Dogg said:
It's just dawned on me that the next couple of weeks is going to bring the old "when's the sale starting/ending?", "oh X is in sale for so much should I buy it now or wait?" And "why haven't the deals changed over? You suck Valve!" string of posts. I think due to the volume Steam threads get to these days that shit is going to give me an aneurism

Oh well what with the WC and all that I could do with a GAFcation. See you on the flip side SteamGAF and you know where I am if you want to hear me whittle on.
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and you just explained why I stay the shit out of the sale threads. It's impossible to keep up with and 95% of the posts contain the useless crap you mentioned above.
 
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Arthea

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according to modbot, these games are still for taking and it seems I have older ones not taken still, I had no idea, so I'll try to make updated giveaway with those too.

send a PM to ModBot

Zero Gear -- MB-F7E9939CC5830A56 - Taken by fuzzy123
Humanity Asset -- MB-7014DFAE1CE4EAB3
Nosferatu Wrath of Malachi -- MB-84E0C7DF03F32D23
Tiny & Big in Grandpa's Leftovers -- MB-97BE5D82EBEDAA2B
Lume -- MB-B5CB63AB46C717C2
Hostile Waters Antaeus Rising -- MB-1EF032A8FF7F1BCD
Grimind #2 -- MB-D493CE42C15AFBF6
Metal Drift -- MB-C1E1405ACD1CBB3E
Grimind -- MB-0DF8FB1C177E6D17
Cognition An Erica Reed Thriller 1 -- MB-F7FECF5722E46F04
Foreign Legion Multi Massacre -- MB-2A9A4D6F4C91BD44
The Journey Down Chapter 1 -- MB-06294FBDC8B4A5BA
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians -- MB-9D6E148D94838F4F
Ether Vapor Remaster -- MB-B456F45E739052D3
GEARCRACK Arena -- MB-A4AEB1A2EB4EDEBB
Thomas Was Alone -- MB-F382D80290122803
Time Gentlemen Please Ben There, Dan That -- MB-1B04BF4362422588
Soulbringer #2 -- MB-E986708C55038141

edited: if I nuke some keys, should I get reply from modbot these were nuked, or not? Last time I tried to nuke keys, it didn't work, so I don't know. Or should I pm my loot again, to be sure?
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
just realised I never got the 2 DLC for Saints Row 4, I need to fix that. 66% on them at gamersgate, and I bet Steam wont have 75% this sale yet...hmmm
 
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LurkerPrime

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Baron_Calamity said:
Valve as a company controlling the platform worries me.
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Valve's arrogant response to the exploit is rather disquieting, especially in the wake of Heartbleed.


Edit: More people should play Zero Gear and get those achievements. I don't like that game clogging up my "Rarest achievements" showcase.
 
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Arthea

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Rhaknar said:
just realised I never got the 2 DLC for Saints Row 4, I need to fix that. 66% on them at gamersgate, and I bet Steam wont have 75% this sale yet...hmmm
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I used blue coins on
anime
one
you know you want it, others are irrelevant (><)
then again I bough season pass before that, so irrelevancy part is up for discussion.
 
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Copons

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LurkerPrime said:
By the glory of Gaben, this exploit sounds apocalyptic - especially in the dawn of the Summer Sale.
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Eh, well, I don't know.
I mean, I had the same reaction of yours as soon as I read the dev post, but then I realized that actually things are a bit different.

If I understood correctly, the issue here is that Valve allows javascript in Community Announcements, that AFAIK are "managed" directly by devs.

Now, I understand that allowing javascript to tons of people is never a good idea, but those same people are also the ones who release games for us to download.
And, you know, doing so they have way more "power" to hurt us than posting some javascript in their posts.

So, if Valve trusts them to release potential viruses to us, I guess they just trust them with full posting privileges too.


This said, I think Valve totally overreacted here, because it's clear the ETS2 dev did what he did in good faith, trying to warn Valve of this issue after months since he just told them about it and they didn't do shit (and I guess the reason they didn't is what I said before).
 
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Zeeman

Member
Arthea said:
according to modbot, these games are still for taking and it seems I have older ones not taken still, I had no idea, so I'll try to make updated giveaway with those too.

send a PM to ModBot

Zero Gear -- MB-F7E9939CC5830A56 - Taken by fuzzy123
Humanity Asset -- MB-7014DFAE1CE4EAB3
Nosferatu Wrath of Malachi -- MB-84E0C7DF03F32D23
Litil Divil -- MB-9CD247A58C1D39F8
Tiny & Big in Grandpa's Leftovers -- MB-97BE5D82EBEDAA2B
Lume -- MB-B5CB63AB46C717C2
Hostile Waters Antaeus Rising -- MB-1EF032A8FF7F1BCD
Grimind #2 -- MB-D493CE42C15AFBF6
Metal Drift -- MB-C1E1405ACD1CBB3E
Grimind -- MB-0DF8FB1C177E6D17
Cognition An Erica Reed Thriller 1 -- MB-F7FECF5722E46F04
Foreign Legion Multi Massacre -- MB-2A9A4D6F4C91BD44
The Journey Down Chapter 1 -- MB-06294FBDC8B4A5BA
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians -- MB-9D6E148D94838F4F
Ether Vapor Remaster -- MB-B456F45E739052D3
GEARCRACK Arena -- MB-A4AEB1A2EB4EDEBB
Thomas Was Alone -- MB-F382D80290122803
Time Gentlemen Please Ben There, Dan That -- MB-1B04BF4362422588
Soulbringer #2 -- MB-E986708C55038141

edited: if I nuke some keys, should I get reply from modbot these were nuked, or not? Last time I tried to nuke keys, it didn't work, so I don't know. Or should I pm my loot again, to be sure?
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Thanks, I grabbed Cognition!
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Arthea said:
I used blue coins on
anime
one
you know you want it, others are irrelevant (><)
then again I bough season pass before that, so irrelevancy part is up for discussion.
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I only want the single player story stuff, so dominatrix and santa

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 80% off on Gamersgate, unironic fuck yeah!

Although, their complete pack isnt complete at all, its missing 2 DLC /rage
 
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nexen

Member
Copons said:
Eh, well, I don't know.
I mean, I had the same reaction of yours as soon as I read the dev post, but then I realized that actually things are a bit different.

If I understood correctly, the issue here is that Valve allows javascript in Community Announcements, that AFAIK are "managed" directly by devs.

Now, I understand that allowing javascript to tons of people is never a good idea, but those same people are also the ones who release games for us to download.
And, you know, doing so they have way more "power" to hurt us than posting some javascript in their posts.

So, if Valve trusts them to release potential viruses to us, I guess they just trust them with full posting privileges too.


This said, I think Valve totally overreacted here, because it's clear the ETS2 dev did what he did in good faith, trying to warn Valve of this issue after months since he just told them about it and they didn't do shit (and I guess the reason they didn't is what I said before).
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If any one of those dev accounts are compromised then it becomes a real problem though. Now that people know about the exploit the dev accounts are an extremely inviting target.
 
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Copons

Member
nexen said:
If any one of those dev accounts are compromised then it becomes a real problem though. Now that people know about the exploit the dev accounts are an extremely inviting target.
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Yeah, but if a dev account is compromised, the "hacker" or whatever could both post some javascript hidden in a Community Announcements, and, like, patching one of the dev games with a full fledged virus...

So, again, if Valve is "forced" to trust devs with their games, why shouldn't they trust them with blogging privileges?


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HoosTrax said:
Unless I misunderstand what happened, isn't that black hat or at the very least gray hat behavior on the part of the developer, to not let Valve know about the issue discreetly? Versus doing it very openly and making it known to any possibly malicious person?
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As it seems, the dev privately notified Valve months ago, with no answers.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
HoosTrax said:
Unless I misunderstand what happened, isn't that black hat or at the very least gray hat behavior on the part of the developer, to not let Valve know about the issue discreetly? Versus doing it very openly and making it known to any possibly malicious person?
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He did let them know discretely months ago. They declined to fix it because it is purportedly not a bug. This was responsible disclosure.
 
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LurkerPrime

Member
Copons said:
Eh, well, I don't know.
I mean, I had the same reaction of yours as soon as I read the dev post, but then I realized that actually things are a bit different.

If I understood correctly, the issue here is that Valve allows javascript in Community Announcements, that AFAIK are "managed" directly by devs.

Now, I understand that allowing javascript to tons of people is never a good idea, but those same people are also the ones who release games for us to download.
And, you know, doing so they have way more "power" to hurt us than posting some javascript in their posts.

So, if Valve trusts them to release potential viruses to us, I guess they just trust them with full posting privileges too.


This said, I think Valve totally overreacted here, because it's clear the ETS2 dev did what he did in good faith, trying to warn Valve of this issue after months since he just told them about it and they didn't do shit (and I guess the reason they didn't is what I said before).
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Well, I would assume that a person would only need access to a developer's account, not that they would need to be a developer for Steam themselves. After Heartbleed, which compromised Steam itself, they should have taken steps to fix the issue.

By punishing the ETS2 developer for revealing it, Valve was aware that the exploit could be abused. But they chose not to act, because it is easier to use security through obscurity than to actually fix the problem.

Valve's response of "We trust the developers" seems arrogant, because it suggests that Valve's judgment in accepting developers is perfect. We know that's not the case, and all we need to do to reaffirm this is take a look at the handful of games pulled from Steam for being scams or misleading.
 
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