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Steam Summer Sales 2014 |OT| Day of Luigi
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corrosivefrost
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Why do people add an e to Marlow?
Bel_Air_Jeff
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Hero Prinny
Member
yea pretty much, poor red never even had a chance though.
Risk of Rain has 5 cards around 10p each, CS:GO also has 5 cards for around 7-10p each.
Why did this Orion Dino Horde game show up in the underrated category anyway? Isn't it supposed to be a giant turd even now? Apparently only the developers think it's underrated
Personally I think The Darkness II, would be a much better pick for the category, even though I already own it
Personally I think The Darkness II, would be a much better pick for the category, even though I already own it
AbundantChoice
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At least people in this thread seem to realize that this whole "competition" is completely useless and are just mentally invested in the "game" to have fun with it, rather than any sort of deluded chance they're going to win. People have about the same chance of Serhsa Romulan showing up at their doorstep with three boxed copies if your wishlisted games, and a nice plate of cookies, than they do of winning through this competition.
Also, just saw that Duality has a level 150 Adventurer Badge already.... ..... ...
Haunted
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I just picked it up. I have always been interested and then the trailer for Witcher 3 just looks amazing. For $4 I couldn't resist. Went ahead and picked up the first for $2 as well. Hard to beat that pricing.
Yay! I can haul beer and pretzels through Bavaria while siting on the couch and having beer and pretzels.
Stone Ocean
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The first couple flashs and community choices were okay-ish.
CosmicQueso
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Had to fix that for you... there are definitely some people here that do think they have a chance to win.
Remember back a couple years ago, when people were opening hundreds of alt accounts using humble bundles to try to get the all games on Steam prize?
Feel the Swift
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Yeah, honestly I just need a game to keep my attention in my spare time.
tiny raptor
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Yeah, what community choices and flash deals occurred during the night?
The co-op one won.
JawesomeJaw
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I feel like I need to check my Purple privilege. I didn't choose to be this way.
I wonder where is Team Pink now
My people will have their cake.
We were literally just talking about this a few posts up:
This is your best bet.
Not to mention you can add another $.95 to your GMG account if you can get the Playfire rewards for it within a week. Pretty rad.
But I've completed the game on 360 and going through Witcher 1 right now.
Moved all the most expensive games to the top of my wishlist.
It was a pleasure purple team, but now saving badges for my new team. The stuff Valve puts together for these sales, integrating little games like the whole store operates under a F2P model is light years beyond what the console companies can do. Just amazing. #drinkingthekoolaid, #suckeredin
SourCinnamon
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So, I did some calculations:
At 10:02 am, the average price of the 10 Summer Adventure Cards was ~$0.47. The average price of a team token was ~$14.24.
To craft a Summer Adventure Badge we need the 10 cards. That makes a total of $4.70. So, if we divide $14.24/$4.70 = ~3.
That means that (in average) to recover the money we spend buying all the 10 cards and crafting the badge the drop rate of the team tokens should be ~33%.
Obviously the real drop rate is much lower than that. At the moment the number of team tokens in the market is 99. So unless only 300 summer badges have been crafted (or leveled up) I would say that it's completely unprofitable to try to craft summer badges only for the possibility of recovering the money with the team tokens. Something that we all should know by now...
At 10:02 am, the average price of the 10 Summer Adventure Cards was ~$0.47. The average price of a team token was ~$14.24.
To craft a Summer Adventure Badge we need the 10 cards. That makes a total of $4.70. So, if we divide $14.24/$4.70 = ~3.
That means that (in average) to recover the money we spend buying all the 10 cards and crafting the badge the drop rate of the team tokens should be ~33%.
Obviously the real drop rate is much lower than that. At the moment the number of team tokens in the market is 99. So unless only 300 summer badges have been crafted (or leveled up) I would say that it's completely unprofitable to try to craft summer badges only for the possibility of recovering the money with the team tokens. Something that we all should know by now...
But I don't think Bulletstorm can.
tiny raptor
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I have no idea what the options were, so I don't know what was in that one (or any other one obviously).
You can either crack it or use xliveless DLL files and you will be fine.
If the shooter section wins, I'm going to pick up a copy.
Atraveller
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Can't go wrong with 5 dollars.
I'm convinced.
That's the plan!
Gianni Merryman
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Since I reckon right now FPS are generally more popular than racing games, I would be surprised if they didn't win.
Feel the Swift
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EDIT: NVM
AbundantChoice
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No, you really don't. Let's say you can craft a badge for 50 cents. So it "costs" you 50 cents to enter the raffle, assuming you are on the winning team already.
Let's make a very, very conservative guess and say that there are only 10,000 people on the winning team that contributed points (chances are it's way higher than this. Way higher). So that means you have a 1 in 3,333.33 chance of winning the raffle.
Even if the 3 games you end up winning are $30 a piece (so the prize is $90), and there really are only 10,000 points contributors on the winning team, the expected value of that raffle is... 2.7 cents.
Craft a badge if you want a badge (lord knows i'm repeatedly guilty of this across the last year), but don't craft a badge just for an infinitesimally small chance of winning 3 games off your Wishlist.
I like that site quite a bit. Made myself my first badge in months last night (Counter-Strike: Source lvl. 1).
It's explained in the OP.
Freedom = $1.05
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As i said earlier, Rage, Bulletstorm, and Gunslinger are all worth your time and money. They're all extremely competent and enjoyable shooters.
Feel the Swift
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Disregard that just read.
If the keyword is fun i'd go with Blood Dragon.
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