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STEAM | June 2015 II - Click the Monsters You Monster

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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Black Soma said:
Is Dead Island Riptide region locked?
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All of the game's Eastern European-specific retail packages are runtime-restricted.
This package can only be run in specified countries

Russian Federation, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine
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Kiru

Kiru

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freshVeggie said:
Neat. Activated and now have the uncensored version of Borderlands 1. Yipee!
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Yay!
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Dusk Golem

A 21st Century Rockefeller
Grrrr, to the Steam Trading Card drops taking forever, I have a theory on why this is, but I don't think I can say anything because of confidential signings with Valve, grrrr.

What I think I can say is this, the cause for some games having ridiculous card drop rates may have a cause that isn't what you guys are expecting.

I don't want to break contract or leak Valve's secrets or anything like that, but it can be frustrating seeing all of you guys having an issue, and then thinking, "Ohh, that's probably...", but not being able to say anything since it's probably confidential.
 
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cyba89

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Dusk Golem said:
Grrrr, to the Steam Trading Card drops taking forever, I have a theory on why this is, but I don't think I can say anything because of confidential signings with Valve, grrrr.

What I think I can say is this, the cause for some games having ridiculous card drop rates may have a cause that isn't what you guys are expecting.
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jshackles

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.
Dusk Golem said:
Grrrr, to the Steam Trading Card drops taking forever, I have a theory on why this is, but I don't think I can say anything because of confidential signings with Valve, grrrr.

What I think I can say is this, the cause for some games having ridiculous card drop rates may have a cause that isn't what you guys are expecting.

I don't want to break contract or leak Valve's secrets or anything like that, but it can be frustrating seeing all of you guys having an issue, and then thinking, "Ohh, that's probably...", but not being able to say anything since it's probably confidential.
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Interesting...
 
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wilflare

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how are you guys managing your podcasts? soundcloud? pocketcasts? etc?
been thinking of giving Idle Thumbs and Player One a listen - think they were mentioned here
 
jshackles

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.
By the way Enhanced Steam's servers are currently offline. I spoke to the provider who told me they have a local power outage whose length has surpassed the capacity of their backup batteries and generators. So hopefully they'll come back online soon.
 
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Khronico

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wilflare said:
how are you guys managing your podcasts? soundcloud? pocketcasts? etc?
been thinking of giving Idle Thumbs and Player One a listen - think they were mentioned here
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I don't really use any podcast management stuff so I can't comment on that.

The early days of idle thumbs were excellent but I kinda stopped listening to them around a year or two ago (Great compilation of the early days here). IDK the quality of the current run.
 
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the_firewithin

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Dusk Golem said:
Grrrr, to the Steam Trading Card drops taking forever, I have a theory on why this is, but I don't think I can say anything because of confidential signings with Valve, grrrr.

What I think I can say is this, the cause for some games having ridiculous card drop rates may have a cause that isn't what you guys are expecting.

I don't want to break contract or leak Valve's secrets or anything like that, but it can be frustrating seeing all of you guys having an issue, and then thinking, "Ohh, that's probably...", but not being able to say anything since it's probably confidential.
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talk about leaving us wanting more....
 
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freshVeggie

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Dusk Golem said:
Grrrr, to the Steam Trading Card drops taking forever, I have a theory on why this is, but I don't think I can say anything because of confidential signings with Valve, grrrr.

What I think I can say is this, the cause for some games having ridiculous card drop rates may have a cause that isn't what you guys are expecting.

I don't want to break contract or leak Valve's secrets or anything like that, but it can be frustrating seeing all of you guys having an issue, and then thinking, "Ohh, that's probably...", but not being able to say anything since it's probably confidential.
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Black Soma said:
Yeah, but it's even cheaper on Nuuvem :/

This reminds me, what should I check to see if a game is region locked or not? So that I don't have to bother people here each time I need to know :p
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Look it up on SteamDB and then comb through the package list, taking particular note of Store/Retail Key and CD Key ones. Packages that are restricted to certain countries at the activation level will have the PurchaseRestrictedCountries flag and a list of eligible/ineligible countries (depending on what AllowPurchaseFromRestrictedCountries is set to -- either "yes" [in which case only users in the listed countries can activate keys] or "no" [in which case only users not located in the listed countries can activate keys]) while those restricted further, at the runtime level, will also have either onlyallowrunincountries or prohibitrunincountries. In exceedingly rare cases you also need to be mindful of language restrictions, but this is generally if not entirely limited to more recent Call of Duty titles and Ubi's full-price/near-full-price games.

That all being said, in select cases there may be region-specific packages that the publisher doesn't actually use, so I always say that it's still better to ask even if you know what to look for.

Edit: The above information is specifically in relation to retail keys. I assume you're aware that Valve has cracked down heavily on cross-region trading on Steam itself.
 
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Black Soma

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JaseC said:
Look it up on SteamDB and then comb through the package list, taking particular note of Store/Retail Key and CD Key ones. Packages that are restricted to certain countries at the activation level will have the PurchaseRestrictedCountries flag and a list of eligible/ineligible countries (depending on what AllowPurchaseFromRestrictedCountries is set to -- either "yes" [in which case only users in the listed countries can activate keys] or "no" [in which case only users not located in the listed countries can activate keys]) while those restricted further, at the runtime level, will also have either onlyallowrunincountries or prohibitrunincountries. In exceedingly rare cases you also need to be mindful of language restrictions, but this is generally if not entirely limited to more recent Call of Duty titles and Ubi's full-price/near-full-price games.

That all being said, in select cases there may be region-specific packages that the publisher doesn't actually use, so I always say that it's still better to ask even if you know what to look for.

Edit: The above information is specifically in relation to retail keys. I assume you're aware that Valve has cracked down heavily on cross-region trading on Steam itself.
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Yes, I know about the cross-region trading. The rest sounds a bit complicated, but I should be able to manage.

Thanks for all the help!
 
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Maniac

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It can't really be like Splatoon though. Splatoon has locked content on-disc, whereas Hitman will be digital only until at the very least, late 2016, if not foreveerrrr
 
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Chance Hale

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I don't understand why people can't just wait to see what comes with Hitman at launch. They've said it will be similar in scale to what other Hitman games launched with but even if you don't believe them......just wait and see and if you aren't satisfied don't buy at launch.
 
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Chance Hale

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Jawmuncher said:
I can't support Hitman until I get word of what happened to Kane and Lynch at the end of 2.
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Their airplane gets shot down by the Chinese police, they both die.
Although they both appear in Hitman Absolution so I guess you could surmise they make it out somehow.

I am reminded of how hilariously awful Kane and Lynch 2's ending is. It just ends out of nowhere Rage style.
 
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Annubis

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Stumpokapow said:
for my 2000th game...

*redeems some random turd bundle filled with junk i've never heard of and won't play*

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Row Row fight the power.

I went to see how many games I have but I'm much more scared of my Steam playtime record.
2243.0 Hours... damn...
Guess I can't say I don't play the games I buy.
 
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ashecitism

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That Hitman thread is just weird. People should wait how it turns out and then decide. We're talking about free updates here. But people are almost painting it worse than paid DLCs and season passes.
 
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