Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
While I want to believe, I won't kid myself that we won't see the same deals 3 times, and the voters voting on the interesting niche choices that haven't appeared as a yet in community voting.
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While I want to believe, I won't kid myself that we won't see the same deals 3 times, and the voters voting on the interesting niche choices that haven't appeared as a yet in community voting.
That's easy to think but the sale has crept up. It's going to start on either the 10th or 17th -- that's just 6.5 or 7.5 weeks away. I don't think I'm going to have as much money to spend as I did last year.
toddhunter
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Over or under 7 different deals for Skyrim, Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider?
Oh wow, snagged two of my entries. Thanks for Black Soul, too!
Or mores to the point how many times will the Bioshock Infinite Season Pass "accidentally" be on offer for 75% off before been taken down?
toddhunter
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Yeah that is a good one. You can just bet some marketing person is getting a raise because of the amazing increase in season pass sales.
PandaPedinte
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You forgot Borderlands 2
it has to, by now it's tradition of sorts. (><)
This summer sale will be hard on me, my wishlist now consist only of newer games, that won't be discounted much if at all at summer sale, but we had so many sales at spring and winter that there was no avoiding such situation.
I entered for Lucius... and got AVWW :sweatdrop:
Oh well, thanks anyway! At least we had the satisfaction of breaking Modbot
I must admit I am hoping for another sale on the CoD Franchise, if not to try and get my paws on Black Ops. I wonder though, why didn't Aspyr manage the Mac editions of the Modern Warfare titles?
I'm also ready
for the major TF2 update Valve always puts out right before the summer sale
toddhunter
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I try my very best
Given that they don't seem to give a crap whether your games keep working whenever the ToS change, I don't see not giving any kind of prior notice as being below these guys' standards. So yeah, put me in with my whole Steam library in the "won't bother telling their customers" camp.
Yeah, I'd like to experience love too :/
Oh, you mean Love? That's a great game, so make sure you try and enjoy it!
Thanks for Thomas and gravi.
I thought the same about the last sales, but than I got i.e. Tomb Raider for 75% off just 4 month after release. And than some other games, AAA and middle Devs alike.
Nabs
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I just noticed that I now own Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut. I guess they just made the switch.
Speaking of ToS and plugs being pulled, at times I wonder what will happen if/when Steam goes down. Is it true that Lord Gaben can just flip a switch and allow us to download our games in some sort of "DRM Free" form?
Last Baron
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Lego Batman 2 story finished. Better than Marvel, though both games need a better flying mechanic.
you have a point, I might get Thief for $5, that's all I'm willing to pay for it (><)
derExperte
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Killer is Dead is weird. And rather short on gameplay, many, many, many cutscenes and some episodes only consist of them and one bossfight. Thankfully there's a lot to unlock and replaying levels that don't involve just walking somewhere is fun enough. Being able to change the difficulty before every mission and skip cutscenes helps too, they learned after Shadows of the Damned.
Pakoe
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If you take a step back and look at it outside of the culture of Steam Sales (or with a heavy dose of cynicism) it's a very clever way at creating artificial demand. Considering you have a limitless supply that probably isn't selling too hot, you offer it as 75% off but after 6 hours or so pull the rug from under people's feet who were being indecisive or on the fence.
Then a couple of days later, low and behold the same "error" crops up again. Maybe those who were dithering before didn't hesitate the second time it comes up. I'm sure 2K has a certain threshold or salethrough amount and when that was reached just switched the discount back. Maybe even through word of mouth people then bought it at full price.
*adjusts tin foil hat*
Yes. Although Valve could render CEG inert, it obviously can't do anything about third-party DRM measures.
wait... they switch old one to dc?
so, what would happen if I redeemed simple Q.U.B.E after mine got switched to dc?
it makes sense, these price mistakes pop up with such amazing regularity, that it is suspicious, especially gamersgate ones. I think, I pull the trigger every time when it happens, even if I own games, you know, for gifts and such.
still some seem to be genuine mistakes, I doubt that gmg or devs were happy selling a new Warlord 2 with that discount. OTOH, may be they were.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/239430/discussions/0/522728268857232559/
Looks like it. I'd assume if you redeem a copy of the old one, you'll get the Director's Cut.
spindoctor
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I've got a separate entry for the DC in my library. So I guess redeeming a standard key will give you that and the new one.
The DC was added to the subs containing the original game. Speaking of, I didn't receive a response to my e-mail asking for a Steam key to give away.
You will get the original AND the director's cut.
And to a Nun With A Great Rack!
Nabs
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I should have said "flipped the switch" rather than made.
The drivers don't seem to be up just yet. The latest search result is just the 337.50s.
Edit: Well, the Japanese ones are.
And seeing as we all love a good tweaks guide Andy has done one for Watch_Dogs as well. Holy customisation's Batman! There's a few .ini things in there that look god to have a play about with.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...ng-guide#watch-dogs-optimal-playable-settings
Ha! I wonder how many people will still go on about it. Actually for those of you with CPUs that are a bit on the old or slow side there appears to me a lot of little tweaks in the above guide which can turn down some of the simulation and physics intensive tasks.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...ng-guide#watch-dogs-optimal-playable-settings
AndyBNV said:
Ha! I wonder how many people will still go on about it. Actually for those of you with CPUs that are a bit on the old or slow side there appears to me a lot of little tweaks in the above guide which can turn down some of the simulation and physics intensive tasks.
Judging from the 680 SLI recommendations I think I'll cap the game to 30fps and max it out save for AA (temporal SMAA) and textures (high, seeing as my cards are 2GB). I think I'll have to move up to 4GB cards in time for AssCreed Unity. Hopefully the 870 is out soon and there's a respectable performance jump versus the 770... and 4GB by default, please, Nvidia. Time to stop being so bloody cheap with VRAM.
It unlocks here in less than 8 hours so I don't think a pre-load is going to happen. Use the data from a cracked version instead.
More importantly, why don't I have mine?
They are giving it to all QUBE owners now
Well seeing as Titan Blacks in SLI with everything dialled up average around 45fps in most of the comparisons I think I'm going to do the same. Vsync being double buffered and D3DOverider not working with 64bit processes pretty much seals the deal. I think Watch_Dogs will be one of those games that would be great to revisit in 2 or 3 iterations of more powerful hardware. Of course I need to placate my checklist fetish now though
Shouldn't AssUnity be using Anvil Next though? If you could run AssFlags properly, you shouldn't have problems...
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