-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Steam Summer Sales 2014 |OT2| The valiant never taste of death but once
- Thread starter Salsa
- Start date
- Status
TF2 is game about hats. And you are forced to pay real money to get a good collection of hats.
AstuteClass
Banned
Thank you to whoever voted for this community choice!
Got me Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition and Dues Ex.
I'm tempted by the Dead Island pack as well. Is that game any good? Heard bad things.
Just waiting for Fallout 3 now, and then I'll have the Skyrim, New Vegas and Fallout 3 triumvirate I came into the sale for (and spent a shit tonne while waiting for them to show)
EDIT: If I bought Mass Effect 1 and 2 from this flash sale, then bought ME3 on Origin, would my choices still carry over, even if between platforms?
Got me Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition and Dues Ex.
I'm tempted by the Dead Island pack as well. Is that game any good? Heard bad things.
Just waiting for Fallout 3 now, and then I'll have the Skyrim, New Vegas and Fallout 3 triumvirate I came into the sale for (and spent a shit tonne while waiting for them to show)
EDIT: If I bought Mass Effect 1 and 2 from this flash sale, then bought ME3 on Origin, would my choices still carry over, even if between platforms?
General_Frags
Member
Summer foil is 100.
I approve your avatar and name combo, even if it's my mortal enemy and not lead Protagonist!
glad you asked, don't look at those DX: the Fall gifs if you want your morning any good!
MMBosstones86
Member
dark_inferno
Member
Nether costs money and is p2w. TF2 is free and is not p2w. All those weapons are balanced as fuck and are just alternatives to handle some situations better and some not.
Hmm, only really interested in Amnesia and Gunpoint, which seems a bit much for the price. Then again, it's MSF...
Yes, I know. But that doesn't dismiss the fact that players that DO PAY, and in very large amounts for gear/weapons have a better chance of winning than a total non-Premium naked class character. The pay-to-Premium thing alone closes the case on this issue. It's F2P, so it's obviously going to cater more towards people who are willing to pay meta bucks into the system. Nothing wrong with it. Just the way it is.
I personally liked Dead island. You have to like first person action rpgs though.
MMBosstones86
Member
waiting for more things to not buy.
bitching over how boring the meta-game is now.
The usual.
Just to clarify, can I still enter this one if I've won a Steam key from another ModBot competition recently?
/newbie
That isn't pay 2 win then. They aren't winning, they just look cooler.
AHA-Lambda
Member
It's worth a playthrough but I'd honestly take bastion over it.
Swings and roundabouts but I think transistor has better and deeper combat however the story really suffers compared to bastion, which I really liked :/
Rickenslacker
Banned
What are uber crafted weapons and items? Everything mechanically different falls under being the most common kinds of item drops in the game, and before long you just end up scrapping them because they're so abundant.
Getting permanent premium status simply requires any purchase in the in-game store, so the cheapest item (which at last check was
Poetic.Injustice
Member
Any chance of a KOF flash sale?
Isn't looking good all that matters?
What 's the use of winning, if you look bad?
It's not really a MOBA. It has PvE as well as PvP and It's pretty fun, actually. The only similarity it has to MOBAs is that you rank up during matches. You maintain your character progress otherwise and the PvP is not like a MOBA. They are kind of doing themselves a disservice with the whole ZOMBA tag.
If you watched it the first couple of hours, what he says is exactly what happens. Initially effort is put into getting one color a lead. This lead doesn't have to be all that big in terms of number of points because of the way the graph looks. Most people in this thread had written off the day within an hour in favor of pink when the lead was barely 20k points. Human nature is for the winning team to jump on board and the losing teams to back off. So yes, a couple dozen people can effectively "rig" the game in favor of one color or another. Now, it will be interesting to see if one of the whales in a color that is "supposed to lose" decides to stockpile 1k chips and fight back early, then we may get a circumstance like day two where two teams run neck and neck for the entire time. But with the color change tokens, it's more economically logical to just jump ship to the winning team than it is to pour money into trying to compete.
But everyone pointing to what has happened as any sort of evidence that Valve is rigging this just doesn't understand how easily people are manipulated and how powerful trends are. In fact, I'd wager Valve is irritated it isn't as much of a competition as it was supposed to be, not because they care about the money (card sales are still increasing day by day but the volume produced is slowly overwhelming demand), but because if it was a great competition each day that would generate a lot more publicity across the web than the current state is.
ThatGayWolf
Member
Yeah, with thousands and thousands of players on each team would it make much sense otherwise? Besides, 1 point, ten points, 100 points, does it matter what crafting a badge gets if every other player gets the same amount for the same thing? Did you want some extra zeros with that or something?
True, you aren't a true pyro unless you're roasting fools while wearing a Chef's Cap and some Deus Ex Specs. Fabulous
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
I get the feeling that ever since Amazon Tony left they've been a bit off. I may just be attributing too much to Tony but it felt like he could get some shit done over there.
Not really a good way of looking at it. The DLC isn't 3x as good as the main game, but its inclusion really makes for an amazing full package. For $10, its a bargain.
You can add them to paypal. Request money through another paypal for one.Okay so for the M&M cards...
I have 30 dollars in winnings from it and I'm afraid to spend it on Steam because of the aforementioned locking of the Marketplace.
However, I have Paypal as a payment option.
So technically I could add the cards to my Paypal account and then just pay through that right?
I'm so scared to use this money because I want to buy virtual cards.
But, but, what's this locking you're talking about? I've had $12 directly added to my steam wallet sitting for two days.
derExperte
Member
Doesn't mean it's the epitome of p2w. Far from it, there are truly despicable schemes out there that make TF2 look like the most harmless f2p game ever.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
It's not even the runaway winner that get's me.. its the parity otherwise.
was on a vote earlier, so still a decent chance.
You should be good for this one.
That doesn't make any sense, probably even not 1/10th of any team follow neogaf or reddit, for that matter. We are talking about thousands of people here, if not millions.
MMBosstones86
Member
So you deny any evidence that paying money into TF2 in some ways can grant a greater chance of success? If not, that = Pay 2 Win, regardless of how low that bar may be.
Has anyone actually played Nether here, and played through it, without paying anything? It's possible. Just like playing TF2 without paying anything is possible. I'm just not giving any bias either way.
Have you looked on Amazon? They have matched almost every daily deal and flash sale.
I really miss Tony. He was great.
I feel his banning was a huge overreaction. He added to the community and made it a better place. It was a mistake getting rid of him permanently.
Oh. I think you should have deselected "add card for future payments" to bypass steam wanting you to verify?
Wait, you are telling me that Dendi's Pudge Set doesn't magically raise my skill level to that of Dendi's when playing Pudge? :/
AHA-Lambda
Member
Still holding out for broken age, consortium and ether one, come on make today the day Gabe!
danielg1138
Neo Member
The money gets added (the transaction goes through and it seems to be in there... although I haven't tried buying a game with it yet), but for some reason when you add a new payment method, Steam forces you to verify it before you can buy or sell on the Market. Normally you could just go and verify it and be good, but since the card was already used to buy the Wallet credit, it seems to just shut down and not take any more charges, so the verification fails. It's a pain
abracadaver
Member
What is Nether ? Worth it ?
derExperte
Member
It's still there....?
Haha. Is Trading frowned upon here at all? I've seen people discussing it and thought I'd give it a shot.
My friend's gf wanted Civ V so I thought it'd be a perfect excuse to test the waters as it's going for 1 key.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Locked