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[Refyref]

Anyone buy Receiver? It had looked like an interesting time waster, but I'm reluctant even at $2.99.

I've got it for a long time already. It doesn't have too much content, but I find the gun handling a very interesting thing that everyone should experience. So if you want to try an interesting take on FPS mechanics, you should really get it.

 

[yamo]

The first game I have bought on Steam was last summer, at the Summer Sale. All of my other games were from boxed copies / bundles. According to Steam, I have 387 games and 151 dlcs.

How do I check this?

 

[MonkeyDot]

so what's up besides my dick?

 

[I H8 Memes]

Curious, why do so many people use a steam wallet and talk about balances? Do they not have a credit card?

Honestly curious because steam being wired to my credit card makes purchasing almost one-click simple and obviously means I don't have to worry about maintaining a balance in my steam wallet (which seems like a huge stressor for lots of the posters here)

With multiple purchases during the sales a credit card can end up blocked when they suspect fraudulent activity. Happens to people all the time.

 

[scorpscarx]

Curious, why do so many people use a steam wallet and talk about balances? Do they not have a credit card?

Honestly curious because steam being wired to my credit card makes purchasing almost one-click simple and obviously means I don't have to worry about maintaining a balance in my steam wallet (which seems like a huge stressor for lots of the posters here)

Visa/MC Banks commonly place blocks on repetitive small purchases in rapid succession to Steam during these sales in a LOT of locations.

 

[Razorskin]

Curious, why do so many people use a steam wallet and talk about balances? Do they not have a credit card?

Honestly curious because steam being wired to my credit card makes purchasing almost one-click simple and obviously means I don't have to worry about maintaining a balance in my steam wallet (which seems like a huge stressor for lots of the posters here)

In my case, I just wanted to get rid of an EB Games giftcard.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Seemingly still not working for me. :/
Or I did something wrong.

Fixed and you should see stuff propagate through now, it was a glitch with the loot queue thing. 100% solved now, guaranteed.

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why arent we using steamgifts?

You are totally welcome to use Steamgifts. Which requires registration to another site for both you and the receivers and is much slower than using a method built on GAF itself (despite momentary hiccups with the code during the low period of the day during beta testing). I think most people would prefer this for that reason--and that's why 1350 games have been given away in the last week alone through ModBot. But you can use Steamgifts all you want.

 

[VisceralBowl]

Curious, why do so many people use a steam wallet and talk about balances? Do they not have a credit card?

Honestly curious because steam being wired to my credit card makes purchasing almost one-click simple and obviously means I don't have to worry about maintaining a balance in my steam wallet (which seems like a huge stressor for lots of the posters here)

Some may have gotten money from item sales. If they do it goes straight to the wallet.

 

[CreepingFear]

I'm going to take a chance and hope that the Chivalry deal repeats. I'm waiting for something bigger for other games first.

 

[Juice]

With multiple purchases during the sales a credit card can end up blocked when they suspect fraudulent activity. Happens to people all the time.

Oh interesting. Hasn't happened to me and I seem to be making ten purchases a day. Knock on wood.

 

[lmpaler]

Voted for Mark of the Ninja, but Orcs and Deadlight looked good too. Probably the most difficult vote I've made this sale so far. System Shock was a no brainer even though I own it

 

[Rawket Lawnchair]

Think Chivalry will get to be %75 off again this sale or is this the last chance?

Why not buy it now, if you want it? It won't go lower and it may or may not come back.

 

[Tambini]

I just spent nearly an hour playing faerie solitaire....I need to get out more

 

[Toki767]

Does Modbot keep track of how many times someone has won a game? Would be interesting to see like a list of shame at the end of this.

 

[rrs]

Well this is a cool feature

 

[MachoSuave]

Every time I go to sell a card.

I just, I can't do it, I'd feel a fool as soon as the sale was over.
That said, Summer cards gonna skyrocket, all of a sudden I don't care for that badge.

 

[Crayons]

With multiple purchases during the sales a credit card can end up blocked when they suspect fraudulent activity. Happens to people all the time.

This happened to me yesterday. Card was denied when ordering food.

 

[Prophane33]

Yes! Thanks to selling cards I was able to get all 3 games I wanted during this sale. Now to just save up that wallet money for impulse buys.

 

[Martian]

Think Chivalry will get to be %75 off again this sale or is this the last chance?

You can still get it for 75% off for another hour

 

[derExperte]

Do you guys recommend I pull the trigger on Civ 5? My laptop can't play anything but I might be getting a Macook Pro sometime in the near future. Do you guys think it will play on it just fine?

Not a daily or flash deal right now. So no (don't know about the Mac part).

 

[kadab]

so how is deadlight ?

 

[CreepingFear]

Why not buy it now, if you want it? It won't go lower and it may or may not come back.

I've already gone way over my budget and I want to see if some games I desire more go on sale first.

 

[RetroMG]

Curious, why do so many people use a steam wallet and talk about balances? Do they not have a credit card?

Honestly curious because steam being wired to my credit card makes purchasing almost one-click simple and obviously means I don't have to worry about maintaining a balance in my steam wallet (which seems like a huge stressor for lots of the posters here)

Because it lets me say, "This is the amount of money I am prepared to spend on Steam games during this sale. When the money runs out, it's time to stop buying."

That's the theory, anyway.

 

[Tenrius]

so how is deadlight ?

Borderline mediocre.

 

[liezryou]

Does Modbot keep track of how many times someone has won a game? Would be interesting to see like a list of shame at the end of this.

Yes and we have asked stump to post it, he doesn't wanna .

 

[More_Badass]

Is the thread usually this slow on weekends? I'm gone for a few minutes and it's still the same page when I get back!

Or is everyone else waiting for the next Dailies/Flash and we're just the hardcore GAF crowd?

 

[phantomspiker]

Just quote this message and paste the quote in the thread:

I am giving away a Steam key. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line and copy the key line below into the body of the PM.

Rules for this Giveaway:
- If you are a lurker--if you have both five or fewer posts in this Steam thread and five or fewer posts in the immediate previous one--you are not eligible for this giveaway.
- This giveaway has a manual blocklist. The giver has identified members who abuse giveaways and restricted them from participating.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:

Zeno Clash -- MB-F0674B98C69053E0 - Taken by Accent

Hope this works.

 

[Crayons]

Curious, why do so many people use a steam wallet and talk about balances? Do they not have a credit card?

Honestly curious because steam being wired to my credit card makes purchasing almost one-click simple and obviously means I don't have to worry about maintaining a balance in my steam wallet (which seems like a huge stressor for lots of the posters here)

If you go and charge $5 here $2 there etc the bank gets suspicious.

 

[CosmicQueso]

No offense, but the numerous posts on how much you've spent on Steam is just as bad as the "look at the list of games I've bought!"

Why not just post your Steam levels now or your favorite badges?

 

[e36wheelman]

wow at the pictures with how much some of you guys have spent on the sale.

To be fair, I've had Steam for 9 years. That's a long time to spend that much money. $2,000/9 is $220 a year. In the console world that's 3.5 AAA at launch titles a year.

 

[kadab]

Borderline mediocre.

thank. voting on mark of the ninja

 

[scorpscarx]

I am going to start hoarding the summer cards to see how high they can go weeks after the sale, but I bet they will still drop, somehow, if they don't then yea, these are going to skyrocket.

 

[BHK3]

Black screen when I start playin system shock 2...and the forum is down...

 

[ShizWhiz]

Hope this works.

Zeno Clash is such a weird, weird game. I found it fun though.

 

[Lighthouse]

everyone get Super House of Dead Ninjas. so good.

Already got it my friend, along with FTL, Super Hex, and Fez.

Gonna pickup Mark of the Ninja when it wins the vote and Isaac when it hits the daily.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Yes and we have asked stump to post it, he doesn't wanna .

I've posted it once or twice but I'm not out to name and shame people. The throttle now prevents abuse by the top group of people and blocking features make it easy to block people who are apparent abusers so I feel OK with the status quo.

 

[Sportbilly]

Curious, why do so many people use a steam wallet and talk about balances? Do they not have a credit card?

Honestly curious because steam being wired to my credit card makes purchasing almost one-click simple and obviously means I don't have to worry about maintaining a balance in my steam wallet (which seems like a huge stressor for lots of the posters here)

I usually use PayPal, but if I have money in my wallet from selling stuff on the market, I'll use that first.

 

[Crayons]

I've posted it once or twice but I'm not out to name and shame people. The throttle now prevents abuse by the top group of people and blocking features make it easy to block people who are apparent abusers so I feel OK with the status quo.

But that goes against America's puritan values.

 

[chugen]

still one hour... and i have nothing to play while waiting ;-;

 

[More_Badass]

Curious, why do so many people use a steam wallet and talk about balances? Do they not have a credit card?

Honestly curious because steam being wired to my credit card makes purchasing almost one-click simple and obviously means I don't have to worry about maintaining a balance in my steam wallet (which seems like a huge stressor for lots of the posters here)

For me, no credit card or paypal, only can use Steam Wallet cards for $$

Plus it acts as a budgeting technique

 

[liezryou]

I've posted it once or twice but I'm not out to name and shame people. The throttle now prevents abuse by the top group of people and blocking features make it easy to block people who are apparent abusers so I feel OK with the status quo.

I wanna get shamed so badly.

EDIT: Ok WOW that came out wrong.

 

[fantomena]

Super Hexagon is super awesome. Buy it those who don't have it.

 

[Sportbilly]

Yes and we have asked stump to post it, he doesn't wanna .

It seems to be working very well now things have settled down, plus the rules (both general and user-defined) are preventing abuse. No real need to start a potential witch hunt.

 

[chugen]

I wanna get shamed so badly.

 

[phantomspiker]

Zeno Clash is such a weird, weird game. I found it fun though.

Yeah, I've had the first game sitting in my inventory since I preordered the second game.

 

[Turfster]

Curious, why do so many people use a steam wallet and talk about balances? Do they not have a credit card?

Honestly curious because steam being wired to my credit card makes purchasing almost one-click simple and obviously means I don't have to worry about maintaining a balance in my steam wallet (which seems like a huge stressor for lots of the posters here)

It's a way of limiting your budget.

 

[kadab]

Super Hexagon is super awesome. Buy it those who don't have it.

will buy it thanks

 

[liezryou]

still one hour... and i have nothing to play while waiting ;-;

*Checks your Steam Library* Yeah right, work on your backlog!

 

[hom3land]

Think Chivalry will get to be %75 off again this sale or is this the last chance?

Could look around for someone who bought the 4 pack.. It comes to only $4.69

 

[Alien Bob]

Alright, now that ModBot2 finally sent me the key, I'd like to thank the anonymous benefactor who gave away Adventures of Shuggy.