brotkasten
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Came here to say how frustrated I am about MS announcing another Forza without a PC version (I know the series has never been on PC). Then I checked the OP and it's using an image of Forza Motorsport 5 for GRID: Autosport.
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STEAM | June 2014 - Enhanced Electronics Edition
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Atraveller
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I can't not enable steam overlay without launching steam as admin on my laptop, yet it works perfectly fine on my desktop pc, anyone knows how to fix it?
This Uplay 'garbage' has this thing going on:
I'd say it's high time we all uninstalled Steam and switch to their superior product.
Good timing. I crafted a few badges earlier today and one of the coupons was -50% 8bb.
Yeah, my watch_dogs experience (and the fact I couldn't even sign into Trials Fusion on a console when it came out) means that I'm now putting all Ubi games into the "Wait for sale" category.
CosmicQueso
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Excellent summary... will add a couple points.
Slow starters at retail becoming a success can really be narrowed to one game, Guitar Hero. It had an inverse decay curve, which you just don't see. Other than that, if you know the day 1 sales, the volume that will come over the next two years can be predicted with a comfortable range of error of about +/- 20%.
And price protection reserves come from the publisher. So, if a game does poorly, the publisher will refund $x per unit to a retailer to allow the retailer to lower the price. Some publishers do this slowly, others more proactively, and the speed of these drops will depend on many factors, including the publisher's upcoming games slate (if they want to sell in a new game, they'll often drop the price on the old games) and the competitive slate, among other reasons. The catch is that demand in games is price insensitive for the most part, meaning that lower prices do not cause dramatic increases in sales (exception of course being STEAM sales, where everything goes crazy).
A drop from $60 to $50, for example, will net in a +10% increase in the next weeks' sales, but by week 6 the game will be back on it's old sales curve. It gets better lower on the scale, a drop from $30 to $20 will net you +30% or so the week following the drop, but that's mainly because retailers like Target will get your games out from behind glass and put them on the Value section, where people can just buy the game without talking to a salesperson.
Quality is the highest correlative metric for predicting future sales of a game, but the correlation is weak, only about 20-30% of the variability in sales between titles can be explained by changes in quality. Many highly rated games don't sell, and some lower rated games sell well. So, being a "good game" is no guarantee at all of success, unfortunately.
All that said, I'm looking forward to the game.
Already bought this on release, so here is a spare of one of the best games of 2014.
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Unearthed --MB-4F587992FAA65C38- Taken by Hasney
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Also for anyone curious, the cheapest place to get Murdered: Soul Suspect cheapest in American USD regularly would be GamersGate. The game's regular discount price on the site is one cent cheaper than GamersGate, and you get Blue Coins for it (not much, but basically you'd get like... $2 back?
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-MSS/murdered-soul-suspect
The cheaper alternative would be AMD vouchers from Ebay or something.
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-MSS/murdered-soul-suspect
The cheaper alternative would be AMD vouchers from Ebay or something.
Cheers. Can't wait to play the GOAT.
All of this sounds good to me, especially the last part.
Just dipped a toe in steamtrades. I'm a little dizzy from all the possible savings. But I'm not knowledgeable enough to bite without the risk of a nasty region lock, a scammer etc... Still, some people are selling new games pretty cheap.
Jase, why U no steamdatabase turorial ?
Jase, why U no steamdatabase turorial ?
maneil99
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Just dipped a toe in steamtrades. I'm a little dizzy from all the possible savings. But I'm not knowledgeable enough to bite without the risk of a nasty region lock, a scammer etc... Still, some people are selling new games pretty cheap.
Jase, why U no steamdatabase turorial ?
look for people with alot of rep ( + Green Numbers )
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.
New bundle day yay!
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Jase, why U no steamdatabase turorial ?
He does have other concerns in his life you know. Those GBs of Saoirse Ronan pictures aren't going to organise themselves.
MMBosstones86
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I can't help you, but that avatar is terrifying.
Thanks for Unearthed.
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.
I wish retail copies of Wolfenstein (2009) activated on Steam. I have an unopened copy that I'll probably never play because I haven't owned a computer with an optical drive in at least 5 years.
I know it gets a lot of shit, but I actually found it enjoyable (in a sadistic kinda way) and I hope you do too!
This Uplay 'garbage' has this thing going on:
I'd say it's high time we all uninstalled Steam and switch to their superior product.
Don't need no ctOS to figure that out
Da DreadLord
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Tizoc
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Too slow, wanted Zack Zero haha.
OldAsUrSock
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Yeah I'm not too concerned on the scammer front. There is the rep system, there is the added protection of trading with keys, etc... But I don't know steamdb enough to tell if a game is region restricted. People talk about subs, packages and surely other things I forget. And I'm awfully lost in all that chatter.
derExperte
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TIL that Troy Baker is in Unearthed. What.
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
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I've been looking forward to playing it for the same reasons I like to watch bad movies. I think I know what I'm getting into and relish it.
JaseC will probably explain the steamdb thing in detail any minute but any decent high rep CIS/RU/BR trader on steamtrades will probably tell you if the games you want are region locked or not.
Atraveller
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bobnowhere
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I'm so waiting for BM13 to arrive, for some reason I really want to play Nekro.
corrosivefrost
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Your edit is my reaction after I bit on the shinyloot daily of subject 9 for $2 since I missed it in a bundle before.
See above. >_<
Baron_Calamity
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Which site is doing a new bundle?
OldAsUrSock
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Indie Gala
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.
tomorrow at 11 AM Pacific Time.
Atraveller
Banned
Alright alright I'll change it!
That avatar reminded me of the Dark Souls' primordial serpents.
Subs and packages are the same thing. As far as determining region-lock measures are concerned, the big ones you want to watch out for are:
- (Subs) The AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting flag: this region-locks gift copies from South American (due to cheaper BRL prices), Eastern European (due to cheaper RUB prices) and South-East Asian (due to the incoming cheaper THB prices) at the activation level (unused gift copies that have been traded away are also affected, so always activate ASAP)
- (Subs) The allowonlyrunincountries and prohibitrunincountries flags: the former restricts the ability to run the game to users in the nominated countries while the latter, as the name implies, disallows users in the nominated countries from running the game
- (Subs) The AllowPurchaseFromRestrictedCountries flag: if set to "no", users in the nominated countries will be prevented from redeeming keys (not gift copies, just keys); if set to "yes", users in the countries not listed will be prevented from redeeming keys
You can get around all three of the above with a VPN, but I'd recommend against doing so for the first two (the first because it may get your account restricted; the second because unless you have a paid VPN service it's a cumbersome, far-from-ideal solution -- either use Offline Mode or, provided the game uses CEG/"Steam DRM", the app id trick). On the rarer end of the scale there's also:
- (Subs) Region-specific subs that have different depots (e.g. South Park ROW versus South Park AU) as this may mean that the game is censored or language-locked
- (Apps) Region-specific apps, for the same reasons as above (e.g. Wolfenstein ROW and Wolfenstein DE)
Once an app has been released, you can view depot descriptions by checking the depots tab of the app itself. For example, continuing with the former above example, the depots for South Park ROW are:
Whereas South Park AU's are:
Clearly you want to stay away from South Park AU.
I think I'm going banana on the sheer quantity of good trade deals. It's like a steam sale. 45€ games for 15€, I mean... Just a little noob question. I don't know of any cases of it but I prefer asking before buying : ok, there is the region lock thing to be aware of, but has there ever been censored or cut russian version of games ?
Edit - A wild Jase appeared above, so I will sit up and read carefully now. Thank you in advance for the post.
Edit - A wild Jase appeared above, so I will sit up and read carefully now. Thank you in advance for the post.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
I've reached one of those lulls where I have unplayed games but lack the desire to play them. I've been plowing through my backlog pretty hard since April, so I guess I finally just burnt myself out.
Even crazier when there's a sale, summer sale is one month away too if you can wait.
MMBosstones86
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Refresh it.
I just added a little bit to explain how you can gain some insight into whether or not a difference in depots is a bad thing.YianGaruga
Banned
Haha, good luck with that. The Full Boar foil I earned mere hours after the game released has still yet to sell.
Yeah screw the foil market for small indie games
Since MAYBE one person buys one of these foils in a week, it's a race to the bottom to be the lowest offer at all times. You just can't win there.
Cheers, bruh!
Ok I will try with a specific game, as I still don't know what all this means. Well, I understand on principles, but in practice I think it will be better with an example.
So I saw Age of Wonders 3 Deluxe was 10 keys. 16€ for a 45€ game, I like.
1/ Go to steamdb - I can do that ^_^
2/ Look for the sub - Problem here, there are a ton of packages and if I can understand that specific forms of a game have specific subs (prepurchase, deluxe, etc.), why does the game have multiple RU packages for the normal version ? How do I choose which package I must check ?
18383 Age of Wonders III - CD Key Only CD Key
35148 Age of Wonders III Store or CD Key
35167 Steam Sub 35167 CD Key
35168 Age of Wonders III For Beta Testing CD Key
37414 Age of Wonders III Deluxe Edition Store or CD Key
37424 Age of Wonders III Prepurchase Store or CD Key
37425 Age of Wonders III Deluxe Edition Prepurchase Store or CD Key
38809 Age of Wonders III Prepurchase (RU/CIS/EU) Store or CD Key
38810 Age of Wonders III Prepurchase (PL) Store or CD Key
38813 Age of Wonders III Deluxe Edition Prepurchase (RU/CIS/EU) Store or CD Key
38814 Age of Wonders III Deluxe Edition Prepurchase (PL) Store or CD Key
38815 Age of Wonders III Deluxe Edition Prepurchase (ROW) Store or CD Key
39113 Age of Wonders III HU Store or CD Key
39114 Age of Wonders III Deluxe Edition HU Store or CD Key
39118 Age of Wonders III RU/CIS/EU Store or CD Key
39119 Age of Wonders III PL Store or CD Key
39120 Age of Wonders III HU CD Key
44842 Age of Wonders III Prepurchase (RU/CIS) Store or CD Key
44843 Age of Wonders III Deluxe Edition (RU/CIS) Store or CD Key
44844 Age of Wonders III RU/CIS Store or CD Key
3/ Ok, so let's try the Deluxe edition. Let's go with "44843 Age of Wonders III Deluxe Edition (RU/CIS) Store or CD Key"
The steamdb page shows this :
AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting No
AllowPurchaseFromRestrictedCountries Yes
PurchaseRestrictedCountries expand AM AZ BY GE KZ KG MD RU TJ TM UZ UA ID MY PH SG TH TR MX
This means I won't be able to activate the game without VPN shenanigans ?
I hope I'm not annoying or derailing the topic. At first glance I would say there are surely other Gaffers in my case and that could be a useful discussion. But on the other hand it must have been discussed a hundred times already in the past.
EDIT - This post was written before seeing Jase's edit, maybe it's redundant now.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Best unearthed review
This reminds me of my classic "Garshasp is superior to God of War in every objective measurement" argument.
SSPssp
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Thank you very much for the game!
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