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STEAM | May 2014 - every time improve protection Steam Guard
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Atraveller
Banned
Speaking of Playfire rewards, the money I earned in May has not been added to my GMG account, should I worry?
Hey, it's a nice idea to begin the day.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/likao/
Please friend me. I'm nice people.
Is it really excessive though? I mean, there's a finite, small amount of games that are supported, and the rewards themselves are generally pennies.
You can get the same rewards with writing reviews for GMG and I'm not seeing people griping about other people reusing your Steam/Gamersgate/GOG reviews there and 'gaming' the system.
Disclaimer: I'm not using nor planning on using Playfire Rewards, just playing the devil's advocate here.
I'm not sure how playfire works at all, it shouldn't and it probably won't in the long run. But cheating in any way in games isn't really a crime, although I don't like it and don't like people who do this, can't even say why, it's just how it is.
I never used SAM, but from posts in this thread I gathered SAM can unlock any achievement in seconds? If that's the case, it always will be too tempting for many people.
Even outright banning anyone suspected, won't stop this. We see enough examples of that.
good luck with that!
I never used SAM, but from posts in this thread I gathered SAM can unlock any achievement in seconds? If that's the case, it always will be too tempting for many people.
Even outright banning anyone suspected, won't stop this. We see enough examples of that.
good luck with that!
derExperte
Member
I was worried about scenarios like this myself because it could absolutely happen to me, I had a few bugged achievements lately and don't check Playfire regularily. I even asked the Playfire dude about their policies. That's one thing. Doing this regularly is another.
It's mentioned in the FAQ that unlocking achievements dishonestly will get you banned from the program and Valve will be alerted, although I don't think Valve actually cares much about achievement cheaters since they aren't tied to anything other than a completion showcase. There's also the fact that the credit GMG hands out eat into its profit margins, but the logic at play here is similar to that behind Valve's motivation for providing free Steam keys to publishers for external sales: the hope is that the program will bring enough new business to the GMG store to make up for the credit handouts.
I guessed whose account that is and was right.
I have never bothered to send a support ticket. The money will sooner or later be transfered to your GMG account
What I meant is that the shady practice of GMG charging your credit card as soon as you place your pre-order instead of charging it when it is delivered. I don't agree with it.
https://greenmangaming.zendesk.com/...ou-charge-my-payment-provider-for-a-preorder-
As I said, it's not all black and white. Steam does this too. Amazon charges when you get the game.
EDIT: As for them being able to track it or not, I'll take their word over yours and assume that all cheaters will be banned/blacklisted.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Horror is one of those thing you'll either like or not very strongly usually, so it's a-okay. There's a reason horror is an honest niche these days, even if it is growing in popularity back-up these days. Oh, also quick horror enthusiast thing, to get people up to date on each one. Quick guide to the horror games yet to release that are releasing this month.
May Horror Game Guide for Steam Releases this month:
DreadOut is an old-school styled indie Indonasian survival-horror game that is heavily influenced by Fatal Frame. When a group of high school students stray from their vacation trip, they discover an old deserted town. Linda, as the main protagonist, feels the stirrings of a strange and mystical power within herself. This spiritual power just might be the only way to save herself and her friends from an unknown evil. Linda has lots of modern gadgets at her disposal including smartphones, digital cameras, and digital video cameras. With these instruments she can interact with and capture the various kinds of unique South East Asian Ghosts, and also solve the many varied puzzles of the deserted town
Release Date: May 15th
DreadOut Launch Trailer
The Forest is a first-person open-world survival-horror game. You crash in a plane in a strange forest full of strange monsters and mutants. You have to collect supplies and build a fort or base of operations for when night falls, as that's when the madness really begins... You must collect food and eat, you can build traps and structures manually, make crude weapons, or survive by being hidden and stealth-like. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Release Date: May 22nd (Early Access)
The Forest Newest Trailer
Claire is a 2D psychological survival-horror game, that takes inspiration from mainly Rule of Rose, Silent Hill, and Alan Wake. The game features a girl named Claire, who we watch through various stages of her life (from young child to teen to adult). She is aided by a dog companion, and finds herself facing nightmarish monsters of shadows that can only be combated by light. As she travels a world that is a nightmarish reflection of her own, she finds her only escape is linked to helping the forlorn people she comes across.
Release: TBA May (Early Access)
Claire Teaser Trailer
Darkwood is a rogue-like survival-horror RPG where players must survive harsh conditions in the woods as you fight your inner demons. The fear of unknown is powerful – and the unknown will try to remain unseen, forcing you to watch your back. Your senses will be deceived, your sight fooled, your smell tricked by Darkwood's surreal terrors. No answer will be given to you for free, yet somewhere in the woods lies the truth, an explanation to what has happened in this godforsaken place.
Release: TBA May (Early Access)
Darkwood Early Access Teaser
And a few others on the Greenlight side, like Middle of Nowhere.
May Horror Game Guide for Steam Releases this month:
DreadOut is an old-school styled indie Indonasian survival-horror game that is heavily influenced by Fatal Frame. When a group of high school students stray from their vacation trip, they discover an old deserted town. Linda, as the main protagonist, feels the stirrings of a strange and mystical power within herself. This spiritual power just might be the only way to save herself and her friends from an unknown evil. Linda has lots of modern gadgets at her disposal including smartphones, digital cameras, and digital video cameras. With these instruments she can interact with and capture the various kinds of unique South East Asian Ghosts, and also solve the many varied puzzles of the deserted town
Release Date: May 15th
DreadOut Launch Trailer
The Forest is a first-person open-world survival-horror game. You crash in a plane in a strange forest full of strange monsters and mutants. You have to collect supplies and build a fort or base of operations for when night falls, as that's when the madness really begins... You must collect food and eat, you can build traps and structures manually, make crude weapons, or survive by being hidden and stealth-like. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Release Date: May 22nd (Early Access)
The Forest Newest Trailer
Claire is a 2D psychological survival-horror game, that takes inspiration from mainly Rule of Rose, Silent Hill, and Alan Wake. The game features a girl named Claire, who we watch through various stages of her life (from young child to teen to adult). She is aided by a dog companion, and finds herself facing nightmarish monsters of shadows that can only be combated by light. As she travels a world that is a nightmarish reflection of her own, she finds her only escape is linked to helping the forlorn people she comes across.
Release: TBA May (Early Access)
Claire Teaser Trailer
Darkwood is a rogue-like survival-horror RPG where players must survive harsh conditions in the woods as you fight your inner demons. The fear of unknown is powerful – and the unknown will try to remain unseen, forcing you to watch your back. Your senses will be deceived, your sight fooled, your smell tricked by Darkwood's surreal terrors. No answer will be given to you for free, yet somewhere in the woods lies the truth, an explanation to what has happened in this godforsaken place.
Release: TBA May (Early Access)
Darkwood Early Access Teaser
And a few others on the Greenlight side, like Middle of Nowhere.
This isn't the first time I've seen you talk about some potential giveaways whenever someone mentions your bragging or cheating in this thread. Dude, please stop.
They should get banned from Playfire. They are cheating the system, knowingly or not.
** runs away **
Well yeah, I've seen people post screenshots here of getting Dark Souls 2 for ridiculously cheap thanks to Playfire, and that is (hopefully) through genuine means, so imagine how it would be if they used SAM. They're pennies but they can easily stack up plus new rewards are being added very frequently, and if it's so simple to earn Playfire credit, why would anyone buy anything from GMG without a significant amount of credit?
toddhunter
Member
Thanks for that.
Random prediction, The Forest will suck. I'm not sure why, it just has that smell about it. I think it will perhaps be short, very limited in what you can do (one enemy type? bad combat? no real story?)... I don't know why, because it all looks promising, I'm just dubious about it all. I think it is because each trailer has progressively made the game look less about surviving in a forest and more about being just another Rust type clone.
DreadOut? I'm guessing a slow burner that will take some time to get into.
I was talking about Kifimbo's Aura key. Turns out the key wasn't used after all, sorry about that!
I sure hope not! Too few decent survival horrors in PC.
Using SAM specifically to unlock GMG credit is a bad thing. That GMG charges immediately when pre-ordering doesn't change the fact that the credit handed out as part of the Playfire Rewards program eats into GMG's profit margins when used. If someone earns $60 of GMG credit via SAM and uses that to buy a $60 game, GMG makes exactly $0.00 on that sale.
Atraveller
Banned
Well, I had the ticket sent already. But it's not like I'm in a hurry or something, GMG is still blocking my country.
toddhunter
Member
The other method seems to be to "buy" a free EVO online 14 day trial. For some reason this makes your balance come through straight away.
ashecitism
Member
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
They got all those achievements with 0h playtime?!
Dayum! dey has mad gaming skillz!!!
Where the fuck is this abomination from ? It has potential to join Resident Evil 4's Bitores Mendez in my personal nightmare list.
Da DreadLord
Member
Don't worry. Once we get on the throne..
Haha. Thief has an achievement for spending 15 hours in the single player campaign; I saw someone who with a total steam gameplay time of 4 hours and had unlocked the achievement.
ashecitism
Member
The Thing 2011
Shortest game ever. I'd demand my money back.They got all those achievements with 0h playtime?!
Dayum! dey has mad gaming skillz!!!
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
LOL
I don't understand this mentality at all. What is the point of accruing achievements if one hasn't actually unlocked them through one's own efforts?
Not that I care about achievements at all 99% of the time. I just don't understand the mentality. *shrug*
derExperte
Member
Check again. Things have.... changed.
You'll probably know this but the sad... thing is that they had built all those nasty looking real models and make-up (there are videos on YT) only to be forced to scrap all that for whatever reasons.
Movie still wasn't terrible imo but it could've been much more.Yeah, I was going to mention that but figured there was no point, haha.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Those are some awfully specific achievements you are unlocking while not knowing they are tied to rewards.
ashecitism
Member
Yeah, I know Producers or test audience didn't like it or something. smh
Producers or test audience didn't like it or something. smhusually, it's bragging rights, but now it's paid job too, apparently (><)
It does kill meaning of achievement, though, if you are getting it without achieving anything. I can't say, I understand it also.
Exactly, don't really care about achievements either. Aside from that one horrible, horrible Stanley Parable achievement with the baby. Genuinely getting that should earn you a personal visit from Gabe or something.
Maybe people don't care about achievements either but they still want to get that 24/24 achievement or whatever on their game profile?
My Stick of Truth achievements look dodgy due to having to play it offline. Steam uses time stamps from when you sync your achievements and not when they are obtained so I've got 36 unlocked all at 8 minutes after the game unlocked here with only 30mins played.
I guess that what I get for impatience and not waiting for the game to unlock officially
But how many people really care about what someone has on their profile? You would be surprised how little if not none.
I think it's sort of insecurity, well, I have to come with some explanation (><)
Well, if that's the case, then they still do care about achievements -- or more specifically, the displaying of them. "I don't care about achievements but I do care about what they represent" is an oxymoron in practice because you can't have the latter without the former.
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
Yeah, I know. Bragging rights and/or caring what others think about my gaming prowess? meh
I just wish play fire worked at all for me. My play fire account is seemingly frozen to some arbitrary day in February (yes my account is public). Haven't earned a single reward cent. Ticket going on 20 days or so. I'm more annoyed at the lack of response at this point rather than any credit ( though due to the volume of issues it is understandable).
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
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I had the same problem, it was frozen on April 14th and remained frozen till May, then suddenly it got back to life again. I didn't even contacted support, last time I tried that, they answered after problem fixed itself too and it wasn't a helpful answer (><)
Loosing some credit? I can live with that.
thank you for this opportunity! entered
dunno how I could forget to buy it, but I did
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