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STEAM | November 2014 - Ride of the Valkyries
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PepsimanVsJoe
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Going through my Desura library.
It's an interesting experience.
NPPD Rush - http://pepsimanvsjoe.blogspot.com/2014/11/desura-look-nppd-rush-milk-of.html
It's an interesting experience.
NPPD Rush - http://pepsimanvsjoe.blogspot.com/2014/11/desura-look-nppd-rush-milk-of.html
CoD: AW is so weird for me. I can play the game with 60+ FPS on 4K with everything except supersampling activated in both coop, sp and mp. But in the menus the game lags and freezes sometimes.
That makes it a bit dificulty to make a video, but Im currently in the process of doing so.
That makes it a bit dificulty to make a video, but Im currently in the process of doing so.
Jawmuncher
Member
Only if you get caught.
Everything is resting on Jurassic World now.
At this point we have the highest chance of a lego game oddly enough, since they have the license for sets. TT might also still have the license for the game since their game hasn't been pulled from stores yet. So maybe they'll add a new one to their lineup. I didn't mind the first attempt. But it was evident that they were still trying to find a fit for their style when that came out.
Speaking of Desura, it got bought from Linden Lab by Bad Juju games.
They're promising a lot, we'll see what happens.
We seem to have done it differently. But who is right?
Looks the same to me, other than maybe some messy copying and pasting.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Be careful not to scratch the paint!
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.
Could be interesting, since Desura's client is pretty terrible and they're promising to give it a facelift.
Yeah, probably got kinda lost with the lines covered up.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
One thing I'll give Desura over Steam is that activating keys is faster.
TheAutomator
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Yup. Disappointed when I saw the discount removed, now I wish I bought it at that price.
Any chance it will get a decent discount in the winter sale?FiveElementNinja
Member
Oh man, so jealous. I still dream of one day buying an old Ford Explorer and converting it to the Jurassic Park one.
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.
And, it's possible to activate them on the web which helps tremendously. Additionally, it's much less confusing when trying to determine a key's status (whether it's used or not) since Desura will tell you whether a key is valid first, then tell you if it's for something already in your account.
Seahorse looks positively demonic
Any plausible reason why Steam hasn't adopted this method?
Ban Puncher
Member
Is that the same car that went through all that drama with Telltale Games a while back?
I'd be willing to bet they'll do a 33% off during the winter sale since that would match the pre-order discount. I think the russian price is around $10 currently as well. It's well worth the $15 though.
They really should have extended the discount through the first week though, I agree. All "pre-order" discounts and deals should at least include the first day on sale in my opinion. Those people are just as much early adopters as the people that bought the day before.
So Linden bought them and did nothing with it? Bizarre.
Must have needed to launder some of that dirty Second Life money.
jshackles hasn't tried to implement it in ES yet.
well i said she looks puffy in that photo
Jawmuncher
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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.
Turfster stole my line.
I'm almost certain it has to do with how it was originally developed and most likely hasn't been touched (much) since then. Valve is pretty notorious for doing things that way. But then again, it seems like this code MUST have been touched as recently as a few months ago when they made it so that redeeming a key also removes the item in question from your wishlist so who knows.
It also boggles my mind that redeeming a key on Steam doesn't place the game in your activity feed ("jshackles now owns ...") since that's essentially free advertising space to your Steam friends for those games.
And the lack of web redemption is kinda silly, considering other sites like Humble can redeem keys to your account via an API, but you can't do this yourself without signing in to the client.
Perhaps they have valid business reasons behind these practices, but I would lay money on it simply being a mindset of "What we have works, so there's no reason to change it".
And my GMG Store credit is gone
I have $4 and some change waiting to be used. If only codes and credit were still compatible.
lashman
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Turfster stole my line.
I'm almost certain it has to do with how it was originally developed and most likely hasn't been touched (much) since then. Valve is pretty notorious for doing things that way. But then again, it seems like this code MUST have been touched as recently as a few months ago when they made it so that redeeming a key also removes the item in question from your wishlist so who knows.
It also boggles my mind that redeeming a key on Steam doesn't place the game in your activity feed ("jshackles now owns ...") since that's essentially free advertising space to your Steam friends for those games.
And the lack of web redemption is kinda silly, considering other sites like Humble can redeem keys to your account via an API, but you can't do this yourself without signing in to the client.
Perhaps they have valid business reasons behind these practices, but I would lay money on it simply being a mindset of "What we have works, so there's no reason to change it".
in other words: Volvo gonna Volvo
Oh no, Accoun and dani commited Sudoku
See, what happens here in Community? See it!?
You knew I was bored with my life, you were the one that gave me that last push!
So, laziness. Gotcha :/
Yeah, this blows my mind more than anything. It seriously took me less time to redeem 20 games on Groupees yesterday than it did redeeming 4 actual keys in the client.
I wanted to save that credit for GTA V but when they delayed it i decided to use it for something else. And when GMG added ACU Gold Edition in VIP section that was too good to be passed
PetriP-TNT
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Turfster stole my line.
I'm almost certain it has to do with how it was originally developed and most likely hasn't been touched (much) since then. Valve is pretty notorious for doing things that way. But then again, it seems like this code MUST have been touched as recently as a few months ago when they made it so that redeeming a key also removes the item in question from your wishlist so who knows.
It also boggles my mind that redeeming a key on Steam doesn't place the game in your activity feed ("jshackles now owns ...") since that's essentially free advertising space to your Steam friends for those games.
And the lack of web redemption is kinda silly, considering other sites like Humble can redeem keys to your account via an API, but you can't do this yourself without signing in to the client.
Perhaps they have valid business reasons behind these practices, but I would lay money on it simply being a mindset of "What we have works, so there's no reason to change it".
I was thinking about making a redeem-on-Steam site but the redeem API is private, though I'd think that they are freeding it sometime soon as more and more bundle sites seem to have 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.
After visiting their offices and seeing the size of their staff, I'd attribute it more to them being understaffed than laziness.
I also feel like these sorts of changes are typically the direct result of the developers themselves coming up with the ideas then implementing them, given the nature of how Valve's organization is structured. I totally agree that it's a better system then these sorts of changes being dictated to them by some sort of management structure, but I feel like they need to bring in new people with new ideas every now and again if they want to continue innovating.
I inquired about the API myself, because I wanted to add a web dialog to Enhanced Steam to allow people to redeem keys via the site. I was told that this API would remain private and would only be available to "approved partners".
And my GMG Store credit is gone
wait... i must have missed something. why are they removing GMG credit?
PetriP-TNT
Member
Well that's a bummer.
He used it for game?
Well then, Gabe needs a kick in the ass and get with the times instead on staying in the status-quo. I mean, how hard can it be to implement key redeeming like Desura?
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.
Not hard at all. Like I said, I could do it with Enhanced Steam if I had access to their already available API.
I don't know if anyone posted this, but Kotaku has some interesting details on the new GTA V:
- On PS4, the light bar will flash red and blue when you're being chased by the cops.
- Also on PS4, you can touch the touchpad to switch modes between first- and third-person. There will be a few options to control when the game's in first-person and when it switches back to third - you can have it so that shooting is in first-person but it snaps back to third-person when you're in cover, for instance.
- Police radio and phone calls are now emitted by the DualShock 4's speaker.
- You can create first-person-only missions in GTA Online.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
It's silly I can redeem Steam keys on humblebundle.com but not on steampowered.com
It more like they don't want. Maybe they fear possible abuse ('bureforce' testing keys).
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.
There are already measures in place to prevent an account from attempting to redeem too many keys in a specific time period. There's no reason to believe that these same safeguards wouldn't be in place for web redemption as well.
Mavromatis
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And I hope the game will run properly on a PC. I think you have higher standards.
I think you need to prepare your own bundles. ENHANCED BUNDLES!
Many websites have it to prevent possible abuse so even if you give the right combination it would still say its wrong.
Strazyplus
Member
I do not get it... what about it?
Max Payne 3 ran and scaled well on PC, so I have hope Rockstar will put forth some effort with the PC version, especially since it was delayed.
Durante was given early access to Valkyria Chronicles.
We know it's not happening man..
Woody Invincible
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Totally agreed.
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