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STEAM | June 2015 II - Click the Monsters You Monster
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crazyrabbits
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The salt is real, and my $50 haul (paid with by card money) says otherwise. It was another great sale this year.
It'll show back up. Don't worry.
I haven't a clue why. Probably because something specific they wanted wasn't given a steeper discount through daily/flash/community. I didn't pick up as much as I did the past winter or last summer, but it was still enjoyable. The lack of repeats was lovely, even if the discounts weren't the greatest for every single game.
I'm under the impression too many PC gamers are just too cheap now.
The only thing I can see people really complaining about is the meta game, but even then it's not like the cheats were secret. Nothing in that respect was wrong with it. It just didn't invoke any interest. It was boring. No spirit to it, no real "competition" like last summer.
Cosmic Schwung
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Bunch of people who bought arkham knight season pass codes off CDKeys are redeeming as something called Beaver. Anybody got any idea what that is? Anyway, take this as a reminder not to buy from unauthorised resellers, kids.
Happened three times to me too but I received a booster pack for each game I made a badge from shortly afterwards.
Happened three times to me too but I received a booster pack for each game I made a badge from shortly afterwards.
I spent more money this sale than I have in several years, and it was good to see Valve wake up and greatly increase the number of games on sale. The event game was at least an attempt to make things more interactive, which I'm all for. Overall, I'd say it was a dramatic improvement from the winter sale.
Yeah, this was a great sale. I spent $80 total, $40 from steam wallet credit from some gamestop trade ins, and $40 from card money. Great sale, and I could have spent double that if I had more.
I made a few badges at the start of the sale and didn't get cards for two of them, they never popped up later either. Now today I didn't get one and I'm afraid to make more badges...
Kurt Russell
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Toukiden: Kiwami got a benchmark and it seems that it's locked to 30fps 
www.gamecity.ne.jp/toukiden/kiwami/bench.html
www.gamecity.ne.jp/toukiden/kiwami/bench.html
Se7enSword
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Looks like the game bewitched you!
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( •_•>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■That's disappointingToukiden: Kiwami got a benchmark and it seems that it's locked to 30fps
www.gamecity.ne.jp/toukiden/kiwami/bench.html
Not a very good sales assistant!
Sale was fine. In most cases, there's just diminishing returns on sales, because you no longer have the surprise of "wow AAA games for $5" when it's expected going in, and people's gamecounts have been expanding to the point that a lot of the games on sale are already owned. Especially with things like Humble Bundle in the mix. It's inevitable that it would happen, but I can understand why people would continue chasing the dragon of their first Steam sale.
Though I'm sure certain key games not getting good enough sales, or being featured in daily sales despite not having a real discount probably ruffled a few feathers as well.
Personally, I didn't end up picking up much that I'm excited about. A lot of the games I was wanting to pick up on sale didn't get good enough discounts (though at least Axiom Verge's devs said up front that it wasn't going to go on sale for several months if I recall). I still picked up a bunch of games off my wishlist that finally hit impulse buy prices, but looking at my list, none jump out at me as something I can't wait to play.
Though I'm sure certain key games not getting good enough sales, or being featured in daily sales despite not having a real discount probably ruffled a few feathers as well.
Personally, I didn't end up picking up much that I'm excited about. A lot of the games I was wanting to pick up on sale didn't get good enough discounts (though at least Axiom Verge's devs said up front that it wasn't going to go on sale for several months if I recall). I still picked up a bunch of games off my wishlist that finally hit impulse buy prices, but looking at my list, none jump out at me as something I can't wait to play.
Cosmic Schwung
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Huh, I assumed everyone was getting the booster packs. Would be a massive coincidence if I got a booster for each game I just made a badge for but didn't get a card.
Black Soma
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You have to play on offline mode if you want to be able to pause the game.
MMBosstones86
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Limited repeats (if any), an actual legit mini game (that was pretty great), and a lot of smaller titles got featured. Am I legit pissed about Dark Souls 2? Yup...but it was still a pretty great sale.
Other than the wealth of EA stuff and a couple of 'non daily' dailies.
Kurt Russell
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Looks like the game bewitched you!
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That's disappointing
Just ran the bench myself, it's locked at 30fps but at least they ported the ps4 version this time.
Completly agree, the minigame has been the best since the achievements one like 2011.
Doesn't help that was holding a preowned copy in my hand
Se7enSword
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Oh, was the PS4 version also 30fps?
Jawmuncher
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Was this posted?
Did you end up just buying it despite the lack of sale, or are you leaving it to winter?
Pretty sure I'd lose my job at GameStop if I told a customer that and my superiors were around.
I was about to say, even if it is true. You should say that differently and recommend something else.
When I used to work at GameStop. A guy came in wanted to buy the Walking Dead Survival Instinct. I told him it wasnt really good. But if he wanted a great Walking Dead game. The TellTale one would be amazing. Sure the isn't an action type of gameplay. But I'm sure he would enjoy it.
The other way of doing is a sure way of losing a customer.
Edit: lmao, you work at GameStop too Sch1sm??
Kurt Russell
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Yep, that's what I read (don't have a PS4)
Hopefully there's a way to unlock the fps.
Jawmuncher
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However might be a case where unlocked FPS break the animations.
Ori's prologue is masterful storytelling to the point that I was a bit disappointed when it abruptly switched to its actual gameplay loop
That's pretty much what I'm telling those people.
And they answer me about inflated prices like GTA5 or the fact that it's the sale they spent the least, like it objectively matters something.
Oh and the hate against the mingame it's also unbelievable. Like Valve is forcing people to join a room and click on stuff, or else the sale would suck, except it will suck anyway because people already have everything on sale at less than 5 [any-currency] and can't admit, even with themselves, that they're too cheap to buy a game on top of their wishlist for 10 [currency], also people just enjoy complaining for the sake of complaining.
Yeah. It's a real hard life.
Those games are very dependent on frame timings, it would probably break a lot of stuff. Assuming it's similar to MH, I haven't played toukiden.
It's still bullshit.
Especially since I "continued" in offline mode and I had to basically restart the whole chapter.
Se7enSword
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I certainly hope there is a way!
Yeah, sometimes I felt that way too.
PandaPedinte
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The sale was fine. No repeats, no community voting for BL2 or Alan Wake to get discounted for billionth time.
MarcoZombieCannon
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I was actually really glad to not see a community vote this time for that reason.
And yeah, I didn't buy like 100 some-odd games like my first Steam sale, but that's more because of my backlog of shit than anything else.
BinaryPork2737
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The only repeats that I can remember from this sale were the enhanced editions of Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewind Dale being flash sales twice. I'm glad that they were because the enhanced edition of the first Baldur's Gate was given a higher discount the second time whereas it remained 50% off when BG2 was the main flash sale game.
MarcoZombieCannon
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What about them stinks?
There was also Zombie Army Trilogy, which was featured as part of the Sniper Elite sale for 30% off, and then was made 50% off for its own flash sale. I guess that might have been the page being slow to update, since ZAT is 50% off now as part of Sniper Elite's encore sale.
Wok
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my one criticism of this game is that 80% of these deaths came from the last two bosses
oipic
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Room 2 is god-tier - super impressive, congrats to you guys who made it into there. I fumbled under pressure and mistyped the room number when it was announced, and was kicking myself at the time, but I made it into room 3 when it opened. It pales in comparison to 2, but should easily make it in a few hours or so. Badge hope is alive!
After having missed all the good rooms in the past days, I kinda feel I deserve to be right here right now in R2.
But, when they gave out the number, I joined and everything was crashing and for more than a bunch of seconds I thought of trying to join R3 instead.
Thank my laziness I stayed here.
MarcoZombieCannon
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It'll be back when you see it in your Steam wallet
Unless you refunded it to a bank account or whatever.Last Baron
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Guess Volvo isn't gonna fix the Stick of Truth price error
They should push out a Room 6 as soon as Room 2 gets to 100M (we're at 92M atm, so it won't be long, I guess).
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