Se7enSword
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STEAM | June 2015 II - Click the Monsters You Monster
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Tizoc
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for my 2000th game...
*redeems some random turd bundle filled with junk i've never heard of and won't play*
¯\_(ツ_/¯
You really should've consulted us on what to get for your 2000th game, boss.
I have more playtime just in TF2 and Tribes Ascend. There's probably some DOTA 2 guys in here with more than that. That game does something to you.
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'm so close - only 17 games to go.
abracadaver
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How?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Oh my, going to consult SteamGAF for the 3000th game? I'm a little over 400 games to the 3k badge. Backlog I can never complete in large number badge form, you shall be mine~
freshVeggie
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You're children will shed a tear when they inherit a giant collection of turd bundles.for my 2000th game...
*redeems some random turd bundle filled with junk i've never heard of and won't play*
¯\_(ツ
Bought the Humble Borderlands bundle. Only after activating could I see it was a censored German version. Requested removal of the game from my account at Steam Support. Got a key for BL1 from USA friends.
It's a hassle for sure but fight the power!
Kiru
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Let someone outside of Germany buy you the Humble Bundle. Might also work with VPN while purchasing, dunno.
Yeah, weird stuff. I think it could turn out great.
(Who want's overall story to tie all assassinations anyway.)
I'd be happy with TV-series like "case of the week" approach.
electroflame
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Alienware Witcher 3 code finally came in a little while ago.
It's the GOG version.
I should be able to upgrade it to the Steam version for about $7 by selling the GOG code, though. (Hopefully!)
I'd really like something to play in the meantime while the whole Arkham Knight fiasco gets sorted out.
It's the GOG version.
I should be able to upgrade it to the Steam version for about $7 by selling the GOG code, though. (Hopefully!)
I'd really like something to play in the meantime while the whole Arkham Knight fiasco gets sorted out.
I have over 4000 hours of LoL and I nearly fell into depression when I typed my final /played just before quitting WoW.
#What am I doing with my life
Terra_Ex
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Strikes me as using an episodic content model without strictly being episodic. Just more content being delivered over time, not unlike say a Telltale release. However, on the face of it, it's eminently fitting for the Hitman franchise *if* the devs follow through on their promises. Taking Blood Money as the template and expanding on that, sustaining it with regular new content, a player-sustained "Contracts" selection of missions in larger sandboxes and (presumably) new official levels and missions being added in over time. Sounds like they're focusing on the right things so far, if they nail it the game could have very long legs and could be the game to topple Blood Money.
Couple of indieroyale codes - use em before they get squashed!!!!!
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To put that in perspective, that's more games than my entire library.
The price of gitting gud.
Chance Hale
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I'm at just over 700 and I don't plan on making any big jumps as I've stopped buying bundle garbage like I used to. Combined with the extinction of the Russian bear and owning consoles+handhelds as well means I will only buy games I will at least play 5 minutes of for the most part.
Jawmuncher
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Same here, I've slowed down a lot when it comes to steam purchases.
Hero Prinny
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I slowed down after my first year on steam, I realized I would never have the time to play them, mind you this was during high school when we have the most free time. Only buy games I plan on playing within 6 months, if not ill pass. Also stopped buying bundles unless it has games I actually plan on playing not ones that are like "maybe one day ill give it a shot"
Leafhopper
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If the game Arcsys is spoiling really is Battle Fantasia I will finally be able to play with people.
I actually liked it.
I actually liked it.
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've played a few hours of Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, and I have to say I'm really enjoying it. It's obviously heavily inspired by Zelda (specifically, Wind Waker) but that's a really good thing because it captures the spirit of the Zelda series well.
I'm about 17% complete according to the in-game counter after 2.5 hours but I think I'm actually about a third of the way though the main story. So I'm guessing it'll be about an 8-10 hour game. I recommend it if you're a Zelda fan and are looking for something to play.
I'm about 17% complete according to the in-game counter after 2.5 hours but I think I'm actually about a third of the way though the main story. So I'm guessing it'll be about an 8-10 hour game. I recommend it if you're a Zelda fan and are looking for something to play.
Se7enSword
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That's good to know, i've been interested in the Zelda series recently, and iwas skeptical of Oceanhorn, but i'll buy it when I see a good price for it.
Thanks!
lashman
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That's good to know, i've been interested in the Zelda series recently, and iwas skeptical of Oceanhorn, but i'll buy it when I see a good price for it.
Thanks!
http://www.nuuvem.com/item/oceanhorn-monster-of-uncharted-seas
PandaPedinte
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$Unavailable is a pretty good price.
It shows at R$29.99
Se7enSword
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Nuuvem </3 Australia.
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.
So my server host informed me that they had multiple catastrophic failures in multiple data centers, and that Enhanced Steam's servers will be offline until they can bring things back up.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
So my server host informed me that they had multiple catastrophic failures in multiple data centers, and that Enhanced Steam's servers will be offline until they can bring things back up.
Yeah the extended power outage scenario is the worst case imaginable really.
I ran into a server problem a few years ago (before modern cloud deployment stuff) that worked like the following:
- A planned maintenance situation in a datacenter got messed up
- My server suffered an irreparable hardware failure as a result
- They set me up a new physical server and mounted the old server's drive as a slave
- Something messed up in the slaving process
- When I finally managed to get the server up and the data copied, I went to change my DNS information
- The DNS service I was using went paid in the years between when I set it up and the day of the failure; they kept serving requests, but I could not change the DNS info
- I contacted the person who had control over the domain, it took him a day or two to get back to me
- Total downtime: >5 days, with no way to get an error message up to users.
Since I'm no longer a sysadmin professionally, I thankfully no longer get night terrors where I wake up at 3AM crying and convinced a server has failed, but the memories still haunt me. I still get mega-stressed when ModBot's server undergoes maintenance, hahaha.
It shows up as unavailable for me too. So UK is also in the same loveless boat.
You can probably add entire Europa to that list.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Looks like my average cost per game on Steam over the last 8 years has been $1.005. That's heavily skewed from the early years where I was paying $5-10 a game; this year I'm averaging $0.53. That's sub app store pricing levels.
someguyinahat
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Yeah I've been playing a lot lately too, it's got the same downfalls of most F2P shooters but it's damn fun to play.
I enjoyed it as well, and I think the bugs I had with it have been fixed since then. Everyone should grab it at some point, even if the Steam version doesn't have Uematsu and Ito music.
Still a bit sad that you can't break pots with your sword though.
That's progress at least.
electroflame
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"...Sorry it's still basically unplayable, though. We've got top men working on it! Top. Men."
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Jawmuncher
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Waiting for better performance over anything. Also has Dr Dogg come back yet? He got really mad when you guys didn't let up.
http://community.wbgames.com/t5/Official-Announcements/PC-Update-June-27th/m-p/581703
We are slowly getting there. Rocksteady should lead devs from the start.
We are slowly getting there. Rocksteady should lead devs from the start.
Walking into a server room i had just inherited that had turned into a sauna after the security manager had failed to notify anyone a change in the alarm system meant that no-one would attend the site after a short power failure and no-one telling me that said power failure would kill the server rooms aircon wasn't my best of days.
Luckily though what looked like three dead servers turned out only to be a failed UPS...
Decided not long after that and with the company having no cash to replace said dodgy hardware i decided maybe it was a good idea to move on.
These two are the ones I'm waiting for to get crossed off before I jump back in.
I mean performance improvements are always appreciated, but I didn't really have problems in that regard yet. But low resolution texture bugs stick out so much that I can't deal with it.
And the ram and vram usage is pretty nuts.
My laptop really disappoints me. Despite having 1 Gb 750M, 8 Gb RAM and an i7, it's really not up to par, at times it performs worse than my previous laptop from 2010. I think the heatsink is somehow not doing it job right, because it basically overheats to 100-101 °С in graphics games which makes the driver drop GPU core frequency from ~900 MHz to 200-400. Shit's nasty, as a result I get ~20 FPS in games like Arkham City and Dawn of Discovery (as opposed to 50-60 before it overheats, which takes 1-2 minutes) and 6-8 FPS in The Witcher 3. Tried taking the bottom cover off, but it doesn't give you access to the actual heatsink which needs some further disassembling. I'm really not into this stuff, but I guess I'll have to do this when I have the time (w/ some help from a tech savvy rommate), despite not being really hopeful. Still, it's obvious that things couldn't get much worse, so might as well try and perform the whole heat paste replacing/dust cleaning routine and see if it helps a little.
If there's any advice someone could give beyond that (and obvious things like disabling power saving in Nvidia control panel etc), it'd greatly appreciated.
If there's any advice someone could give beyond that (and obvious things like disabling power saving in Nvidia control panel etc), it'd greatly appreciated.
Good to hear. Hopefully they get most of that done sometime in July; I'll pick it up then. The console version does not perform as well as I thought a "tour de force" would imply.
Stay positive.
I really hope Dirty Bomb takes off. The gunplay is excellent, and I am a huge fan of the way the maps play out with new objectives as teams clear content, and the business model is very fair.
Angry Joe posted an extremely ignorant video, even for him, on the business model. I really hope that didn't kill the games chances. Dirty Bomb peaked at 11K concurrent players today, so it seems to be experiencing some solid growth.
Se7enSword
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