Morning guys, 14 pages already? damn, too tired to read
Anything important happened apart from the Evolve price mistake? is it still going btw?
Nope, dead.
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STEAM | November 2014 - Ride of the Valkyries
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Nope, dead.
Nope, nothing really. And it ended already. It was only available for 3-4 hours.Morning guys, 14 pages already? damn, too tired to read
Anything important happened apart from the Evolve price mistake? is it still going btw?
was it a promotion or really a price mistake. The price for the retail copy is going around 16$ in my country so I dont think the game should be priced 60$
Slow down, internet, you're going too fast!
Couldn't you of bought it in 10 years when it goes 50% off? Lets face it your not gonna play it and even if you are the PS4 version would have more Aussie players.
It was a mistake. The game was priced at 59,000 RP instead of 590,000 -- somebody missed a 0.
I could have, but in doing so I would have missed out on the pre-order incentive DLC.
NingenJanai
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You know, the conspiracy crazy in me thinks that every now and then. Gaben would says "hey, we should give them a price mistake, I feel like we been catching too much heats over the past few months. Let make a 'price mistake' so they can be happy and forget about it."
"Hey Tom! Change the Indonesian price of Evolve from 590,000 to 59,000. We'll switch it back to normal in 4 hours or so."
Price mistakes are just Valve way of keeping us happy every once in a while. Mistakes, yeah right.
"Hey Tom! Change the Indonesian price of Evolve from 590,000 to 59,000. We'll switch it back to normal in 4 hours or so."
Price mistakes are just Valve way of keeping us happy every once in a while. Mistakes, yeah right.
okay I'm done with the crazy theory.
crazyrabbits
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I've thought that as well. The Bioshock Infinite Season Pass went on a glitch last year for $5 - twice - during the same winter sale. Either that's a hell of a coincidence or someone wanted to sneak it past like that.
Well, first off, that's not just aimed at you specifically. Whenever Obsidian comes up around on NeoGAF, the reaction is inevitably, "Obsidian is amazeballs! Best writers in the business! Everything they touch is golden! Such incredibly deep characters, dialogue, and plots! WOWOWOWOWOW!" As far as I'm concerned, Obsidian is capable of doing some cool stuff, writing-wise, but they also have a propensity for doing some things I don't like*, and none of their stuff has ever really impressed me like it has other people. They have some pretty decent writers working for them, but they've never really succeeded in making me feel much for their characters. For all the shit Bioware gets from people about their characters, I think I cared more about the characters in ME, DA:O, or hell, Jade Empire than I did almost anyone in NV. Some of them were interesting, sure, but about the only ones I think I actually gave a damn about were Veronica and Arcade. And for me, an emotional connection to the characters in an RPG counts for a lot more than whether or not they're interesting in an academic or literary sense. It's part of the reason it bugs me when they're held up as some kind of high-water mark for writing in games.
So while I'm exaggerating for effect about the Pulitzer thing, the whole "Obsidian's so amazing" mindset constitutes "putting them on a pedestal" from my POV, since my view of them, writing-wise, is "pretty decent overall, but hugely overrated".
*Chris Avellone shouldn't be allowed with 100 yards of anything related to Star Wars for the rest of his life, IMO - if I'm buying a Star Wars game, I don't want to play a deliberate deconstruction of the setting written by someone who avowedly hates the Force, regardless of its merits as a stand-alone story - but that's a discussion for another day.
MrNyarlathotep
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Play Alpha Protocol and be prepared to do an opinion U-turn on the comparative quality of Obsidian and Bioware
I've had Alpha Protocol sitting in my backlog for about a year now. I really do need to get around to checking it out.
NingenJanai
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Yes, you do, Alpha Protocol is amazing, so well written.
That was just because store discounts stack by default and while the price was fixed the first time, the actual discount configuration wasn't, so it happened again. Both its general sale and featured deal discounts were set to 50%; put them together and you get 75% off.
Evolve alpha for all the poor souls who missed $5 evolve like me
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MrNyarlathotep
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Go into Alpha Protocol like its an RPG that happens to have a third person camera, not a third person shooter.
Jiggaloboy
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Owners of XCOM:EU get in the beta now.
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It was granted to owners of XCOM: Enemy Unknown for the remaining duration of the alpha period.
Edit: b10.
So it will be taken off my library once it's out of beta? How about the keys that everyone is giving? They'll keep them, right? If so, any way to claim a key while temporarily owning a game?
Those who activated keys will also lose the game once the alpha has ended, and any unused ones will be useless. 2K isn't giving away the game for free.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Halloween sale is kinda lame
Oh, so these keys are separate from the price mistake. Derp, my bad. I thought all those giveaway were bought from the price mistake earlier, lol.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Ty for the alpha key btw
Well, some people gave away the full game, but, yeah, the keys people have been dumping like unwanted lollies are for the alpha.
MarcoZombieCannon
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They gave me 9 extra keys. What the hell do I do with all of these?
I think you're out of luck. GMG and Scamco are still fighting; GameFly doesn't stock anything Dark Souls; and Nuuvem isn't selling the Season Pass for some reason.
You could hold on to them and hope that 2K forgets to blacklist the keys/empty the sub, haha.
crazyrabbits
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I see. I just hope it comes back again - missed it during the sale.
Crimsonclaw111
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Do I need to buy a TF2 key or something before I can sell or trade TF2 items or something? I still can't sell my stuff.
I've never bought or used TF2 keys.
I've never bought or used TF2 keys.
If the issue is that you have a free account and not a premium account, then purchasing anything from the Mann Co Store will do the trick. The Giftapult is 10c.
Crimsonclaw111
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Thank you sir. Didn't realize that was the issue.
i dunno i don't think the obs crowd is as you make it be. most of the people love obsidian for the pedigree of the people that work there more than what they've actually released, what with obsidian being so very much an extension of black isle and all.
personally i see a lot of ambition in obs games which is what i like about them, new vegas gave me the fallout i've wanted for so long and alpha protocol did with choice and consequence what mass effect couldn't. kotor 2 also grabbed a universe i don't care much for and turned it around in a way i found interesting. i heard it's kind of the same with mask of the betrayer although i haven't played that yet, sadly. and eternity looks like it might dodge all the mistakes from wasteland 2 and be pretty crazy
for better or worse they're always pushing for their stories and characters to mean something beyond the obvious and for choice and consequence to be relevant and i find that to be worth a lot considering how other big developers like bethesda and bioware are actually slowly removing the roleplaying part out of their rpgs
also i gotta wonder which fo3 character you found able to emotionally connect. my memory's really bad about that game but i'm really having a hard time thinking of one. maybe dogmeat.
also yeah play alpha protocol. alpha protocol's great
Wolf Akela
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Is the demo for TEW always available or just this Halloween?
NingenJanai
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Anyone wanna play some SpeedRunners? I need a rest from XCOM EU, and Alien Isolation freezes with the latest nvidia drivers.
Id imagine it'll always be available.
Stumpokapow
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god dang that shadowrun returns halloween emote is siiiiick
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Nabs
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I'm down for some if you can get others to play. (/nabs)
I just had a really fun 4 player Lethal League session with SteveWinwood. It's clear that Lethal League is the best game in the world, and something you all need to get on. It brought me back to the old Smash Bros Melee days.
NingenJanai
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SpeedRunners game:
1 - NingenJanai
2 - Nabs
3 - Ozium
4 - Deques
We are no Dunder, let's have fun.
1 - NingenJanai
2 - Nabs
3 - Ozium
4 - Deques
We are no Dunder, let's have fun.
SpeedRunners game:
1 - NingenJanai
2 - Nabs
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We are no Dunder, let's have fun.
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