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Steam Winter Sales 2012 | Deal quality keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
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vikingvessel
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The GG BL 4Pk has completed the cycle. Email/Refund/Removal from GG library. None of the keys were redeemed, as I was waiting for the smoke to clear and be a hero and give them away. This was the first one @$11. My original Single/Pass combo @$21+ were redeemed at time of purchase with no follow up in regards to refund...yet.
Rocketeering asshole, maybe. Feeling a little sick today.
Its true Gaben beat me at water polo, I must now wear the brain slug.
Was it me or The_Monk? I dont have a pm from you about it. Inbox has plenty of space.
wakajawaka
Member
I was mobile, just realized, I may have forgotten a subject in the PM, and the mobile doesn't let me know when it does so!
My bad. Well anyways, I have it for your thread!
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
This is what I understood as well.
I haven't gotten any Bethesda bundle refund emails or messages, and they're all still in my library. And I already used the Blue Coins on Hotline Miami.
EDIT: I redeemed one code each of Dishonored and Skyrim. I bought two bundles.
Mavromatis
Member
Great news, fokkusu pointed out that we are keeping our precious blue coins after the refunds. Thank you gaming gods.
Baconsaurus Rex
Member
Wait, what?
Cave story please! Probably too late
Awesome, thanks!
Heart Attack
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derExperte
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He's not saying NV was removed from Steam, only from his GG account. Also don't panic, you bought Skyrim from me and you will get your money back if push comes to shove. But GG hasn't refunded my bundle yet.
He's trying to claim I took a key that was supposed to go to someone else, when in fact I was just trying my damndest to finally win a "first-to-quote", and hadn't even read the whole post.
Also, still wasn't first to quote.
Mavromatis
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CecilRousso
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Got my refund back for the Borderlands 2 4 pack, but they did waste a lot of my time on this, and I still haven't gotten my key for Cargo Commander yet. And since they adjusted the price for Mass Effect 3 right after I bought it, I'm beginning to wonder if they will try something fishy with that too. 
I'm not anymore stupid then I understand that they most likely wouldn't be able to deliver the keys for the BL2 4 pack, but since their track record for this sale is so abysmal, I did send them an email where I said that I expect them to do something for me if they want to keep me as a customer after this.
I'm not anymore stupid then I understand that they most likely wouldn't be able to deliver the keys for the BL2 4 pack, but since their track record for this sale is so abysmal, I did send them an email where I said that I expect them to do something for me if they want to keep me as a customer after this.
Remember guys.
Buy FTL from the developer site instead of Steam.
Same price, larger cut goes to the devs, and you get a Steam key or DRM-Free version.
Thats not true. i bought the bethesda pack excluding dishonered for a very very reasonable price of 17.5$
Okay, starting to get worried now that everyone who had their games removed from their library also got the email and refund at the same time.
I thought it might just take a while, but nothing so far.
I've sent their support an email since the actual website isn't working, hoping there won't be any issues.
I thought it might just take a while, but nothing so far.
I've sent their support an email since the actual website isn't working, hoping there won't be any issues.
Yup. We had plenty of Gaffers offering reasonable, fair prices on the stuff they didn't need from the bundle.
Then we had those trying to sell 2 games for more than the price of the bundle.
Those are the ones who belonged in the buy/sell/trade thread and not here.
Personally I bought all but Brink and Dishonored for $16, then traded DOOM BFG for a Dishonored key which I then gave away in this thread. Good times.
Baconsaurus Rex
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You are a terrible person. Literally worse than Hitler.
Can I have the Bioshock key please?
I could never do a "quick doodle" and have it look that good. Kudos.
LMAO. Yup. Mecha-Hitler levels.
tamaster92
Member
Want to buy xcom but can't bring myself to pay that much when I know it'll be cheaper in a few months :/
zerokoolpsx
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Not to surprised. I always got mixed reviews on it, since its pretty much the single player campaign to CS.
I still have my Bethesda pack on my shelf. Some keys reclaimed. Not worried really.
It was $22.50 on Gamefly with a discount code and $25 on Amazon. They might do a repeat of those deals.
SolarPowered
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FTL is finally on sale! *bought*
Based on what I've read in the previous pages... I can understand the gripes about Steam's sale prices for older titles when compared to Amazon/GMG, but you got issues if MotN, Deadlight and FTL at 50% off are bad deals. There are quite a few games like those and retail games that only came out 2-3 months ago. Taking 66% off is some unreasonable shit. Devs gotta eat too, guys. These guys are not EA. They can't take the hit.
It's the holidays. We got threads with hundreds of gifts being donated. Is sparing an extra $2.50 for people who want to bring you enjoyment such a crime?
Based on what I've read in the previous pages... I can understand the gripes about Steam's sale prices for older titles when compared to Amazon/GMG, but you got issues if MotN, Deadlight and FTL at 50% off are bad deals. There are quite a few games like those and retail games that only came out 2-3 months ago. Taking 66% off is some unreasonable shit. Devs gotta eat too, guys. These guys are not EA. They can't take the hit.
It's the holidays. We got threads with hundreds of gifts being donated. Is sparing an extra $2.50 for people who want to bring you enjoyment such a crime?
YianGaruga
Banned
If you worry about losing your games from the Bethesda and Borderlands 2 bundle, just send the games as gifts to yourself. Now the games are new entries in the library and not subentries of the bundles.
When the Borderlands pack was removed from my account, I still kept those self gifted entries.
When the Borderlands pack was removed from my account, I still kept those self gifted entries.
Yes you can, that's great.Can I have the Bioshock key please?
And yeah, GAF rocks.
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Brilliant.
It's a joke. Do you seriously think that someone selling a $15 Dishonored/Skyrim key is in it to rip people off? Why does it matter if the person selling the key got it cheaper, as a gift, or won it in a contest? It'd be silly enough if the nice person that sold you the bundle at that price was going on this internet crusade to call people scumbags, but instead you have people that couldn't get the bundle trying to dictate what everyone else MUST sell their keys for and calling them names when they're selling them for less the lowest price Steam itself has offered this sale. Somehow going out of your way to be an asshole to people is in the spirit of the holidays but selling Dishonored for $15 is crossing the line!
YuriLowell
Member
Then I won't buy, I gotta eat also.
vikingvessel
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LumpOfCole
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Sleeping Dogs being $16.99 for the Flash Sale is tempting me. Any GAFers here have a good experience with that game? It looks like a Hong Kong GTA-ish sort of game with morality choices. Looks pretty fun to me.
For anyone who has purchased Sleeping Dogs, is any of the DLC worth it? It's also all on sale for just a bit under $3 total.
For anyone who has purchased Sleeping Dogs, is any of the DLC worth it? It's also all on sale for just a bit under $3 total.
MikeE21286
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I have spent $0, and it's not because I own a to of Steam games.
Hmmm... Now I wonder if I should do that.
cicero
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Come on, don't backpeddle on your position now. Exactly what is the line in the sand that makes someone a "profiteering asshole" and a "non-profiteering asshole"? I grabbed for a fantastic deal, like anyone would. Like you did. If you had actually responded to my messages and gone through with it, you would have been "profiting" from a pricing error on GamersGate, just to a lesser degree than I was. Your "profiteering asshole" comment is hyperbolic and reckless. It slams everyone without going into specifics. Now you make allowances for behavior now deemed by you to be not "profiteering asshole" worthy.
Come on.
No different than selling Borderlands 2 keys. Which apparently WASN'T me being a "profiteering asshole"...BUT WAIT!
So I am a "profiteering asshole" after all! I fully intended to have any extra non-gifted copies of BL2 *GASP* pay for my TWO 4-Packs and hopefully have enough to buy Unity of Command + DLC and Endless Space. But apparently you came into our intended arrangement entirely innocent of any reasonable knowledge about just how or why Borderlands 2 was being sold for $10 a KEY? It is your unreasonable former remarks that are causing you to have to go through these ridiculous mental gymnastics to try to justify yourself, when you could just admit that you were going to profit from an obvious error, just like the rest of us.
YuriLowell
Member
Its been on sale at GMG for half the steam price before, just wait a week it will pop up.
I say this once again: it's profiteering, and trying to bring that profiteering into these threads is the issue. Take it to buy/sell/trade where it belongs and there's no issue.
I got the parts of the bundle I wanted, this has nothing to do with that.
You're missing the point. You PM'd me, hence I did not call you a profiteering asshole, because you took such things to a place where they belonged. Coming into THIS thread trying to sell Skyrim to someone who couldn't checkout with the Bethesda bundle would make someone an asshole. PMing someone who asked about extra copies in the thread is not the same thing.
You'd still be profiteering, but I wouldn't say it makes you an asshole at that point. That's the distinction.
But as I said, once I realized how cheap the bundles had been, I had no interest in buying them at your price, so I simply dropped it.
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