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Steam Summer Sale 2017 |OT| The Weather's Hot and the Deals are Not
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Tizoc
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You CAN send gifts via Steam but it must be sent INSTANTLY; as in as soon as you are buying it it must be sent to the recipient via Steam.
Sourtreats
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ModBot said:Instructions for Sourtreats:
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I should stop wasting money on GMG Lootboxes and just buy a decent game.
You can schedule it, I thought.
But you have to choose the recipient the moment you buy the gift, that is true I suppose.
GenericBadGuy
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Right but in that case the giveaways here on GAF don't function unless you had a key from before or off another site? Take the giveaway above as an example - I can no longer figure out how to do that just buying from Steam. Unless ModBot has been updated with that in mind, but all I can find is the old tutorial. Seems adding random folks as friends is the only way then but no clue how to do that as a giveaway.
I suppose later I can just ask who is interested and gift them the game.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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It's kind of sad that many games I want actually have worse discounts than they have had previously. Almost not even worth looking at steam sales anymore. The discounts are long gone.
thesaucetastic
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What I'd do is make a modbot giveaway, but instead of the key, link your steam profile (with I guess a keyword or something they have to message you to prevent impostors), and have the winner send you a friend request. Then you can just gift the game to them afterwards.
Duebrithil
Member
Any of the DLC worth it in your opinion?
Yeah, after what happened near the beginning of the steam sale and earlier posts, they are crap.
Unexplored!
It's one of the best roguelikes of 2017 and its still getting post-release development. Austin Walker over at Waypoint has a great video on it, if you want to see some gameplay.
This right here.
That Austin Walker video sold me pretty quick.
Now Unexplored is in a locked hovering pattern at the top of my GOTY list.
Really special game.
Not unless you see a car-specific brand that you're really into.
Save your money for CMS2018. The few gameplay vids I've seen make it look pretty damn hot, but I have no idea what the launch price will be.
Likely $20, which is Day One for me, but perhaps a harder sell for newcomers.
Mob Rule Classic is free for limited time:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/600420/Mob_Rule_Classic/
It was free before, but this time it's No Cost and gives +1 and stays in library.
You need to remove previous from account details to "upgrade".
http://store.steampowered.com/app/600420/Mob_Rule_Classic/
It was free before, but this time it's No Cost and gives +1 and stays in library.
You need to remove previous from account details to "upgrade".
Thanks!
SSPssp
Member
Nice, thanks!
The 8-Bit Raider
Member
Could not help myself:
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pipyrat
- Bad Mojo Redux
- Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth
- Thief II: The Metal Age
Rockin' Ranger
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I think you could run into a situation where you couldn't gift the game to the winner of they live in a another region with a different price with the other new gifting restrictions.
thesaucetastic
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Think I'm done with the sale unless money falls into my lap somehow. I ended up getting the White March Expansion for Pillars of Eternity, Life is Strange, One Way Heroics Plus, and the Mark of the Ninja DLC. Think I'll either revisit Pillars (I hope my save is still on the cloud) or start LiS first.
Oh yeah, that would blow. Forgot all about that.
As far as gifts are concerned, the best you can do is give away an IOU and ask that the winner contact you, but there is the risk of the price difference (that is, the game being >10% cheaper in your region) being too high. If a key is an option (e.g. GamersGate selling the same game for ~the same price), that'd be the way to go.
thesaucetastic
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Does Valve have a legal case if they were able to collect evidence? How they would I'm not sure.
RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tAmIAB63OA
Oh god.
Even I'm not as big of a Assassin's Creed fan that I would touch that.
Oh god.
Even I'm not as big of a Assassin's Creed fan that I would touch that.
Saucycarpdog
Member
Are Hand of Fate's keyboard controls decent? All gameplay videos I've seen of the game has the player using a controller.
I assume by "Torment" you mean the new Torment, because otherwise I'd need to kill whoever said that about the writing/story.
Personally, I liked the new Torment well enough. It's certainly not as good as its spiritual predecessor, but the setting and the quality of the side quests make up for many of its other shortcomings, in my view.
Anyway, I can't help with your question, because I haven't actually played Tyranny yet!
I haven't done any Windows 10 updates since before Anniversary Edition, and everything works splendidly
Well, I certainly wouldn't call the quality of writing in Planescape: Torment anything other than 'serviceable'.
Still a major improvement over other games, where it ranges from horrifying through downright terrible to bile inducing.
I mean, really, compare it to Banks or Vonnegut or Lem. No contest.
I haven't done any Windows 10 updates since before Anniversary Edition, and everything works splendidly
This won't help you much once the branch you're on stops receiving security updates. :\
(6 more months for pre-AE, AFAIK)
meanwhile steam is perfect for me.
I disagree. It's good. Just because there is even better writing out there doesn't make it less than good.
I've certainly read moderately highly acclaimed novels with worse writing than PS:T.
Rickenslacker
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I managed to get all the stickers for the volleyball scene. When you do that it unlocks the ability to scale, rotate, and place any sticker you've collected onto the scene and showcase it on your profile, so I did.
Unfortunately it does not seem like there is an option to remove the sticker showcase from your profile once you've put it on there so now I've got this ugly large picture smack-dab in prominent view.
Unfortunately it does not seem like there is an option to remove the sticker showcase from your profile once you've put it on there so now I've got this ugly large picture smack-dab in prominent view.
someguyinahat
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Happens to me too. Lately I have to close and restart Steam to make it work properly.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Holy shit, there are so many ways to interpret this.
UcchedavÄda
Member
I played it with m&k and it controlled perfectly.
I should probably focus on D3's new Necromancer, but I bought yet another game (Slime Rancher) and I'm excited to try it. Although.. I really want to start Ori. And play more FFXIV.
Steam sales are evil not only because of wallets, but because it's too fucking hard to stick with just one game.
Steam sales are evil not only because of wallets, but because it's too fucking hard to stick with just one game.
someguyinahat
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Ucchedavāda;242005896 said:
I was, actually...I opted out now. It'll take me a while to figure out whether that fixed things since, you know, I just restarted steam and that was the normal fix.
No, the game's HUGE. You definitely need that stuff. Keep playing, it's amazing the more you go on, the beginning is actually kinda weak compared to the rest of the game.
UcchedavÄda
Member
I've just opted out as well.
It being a problem with the beta seems like the most likely explanation to me, but we'll have to wait and see, as you say.
Phoenix RISING
Banned
Dude is being hyperbolic. The writing in PT is better than what the average person will read in their lifetimes.
It's the gameplay that is bad.
rainking187
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I wonder if some people just missed the memo on the sale. The usual suspects that never go on sale aren't on sale, but I also see a lot of stuff that I fully expected to be on sale with no discount. For example the only Ludosity games that are on sale are the ones that aren't self published.
someguyinahat
Member
What can change the nature of a game?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Planescape writing is God-Tier for a video game.
I feel like we should let this point of view go already, there are plenty of games on steam with good writing without resorting to "for a video game" tier.
Writing should just be good, we don't say that graphics are OK... for video game, or that music is Ok for a video game, we shouldn't treat writing any differently, right?
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