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Steam Winter Sales 2012 | Deal quality keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
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Gifted my house mate bad rats for Xmas and this for new years, I think he might kill me when I come home
Is that even possible?
Of course, I finally found the path on google. I copied the folder from my old Program Files\Gog.com\ folder to the Steamapps\common folder and steam found it right away. Only had to download 300megs (which are probably from updates that came out since the last time I played the gog version). Sure beats re-downloading the whole 20+ gigs!
Oh right, I see. I was thinking you didn't own the game on your Steam account and were trying to fool it into thinking you did.
Wok
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Remember to sign in this giveaway, or to have a look at this little gem.
As you wish. Edit: I have no key left.
To satisfy people in a different timezone, I have created another little 8-hour giveaway.
English Country Tune is an abstract 3D puzzle game, which introduces a wide range of game mechanics in about 120 levels. The level design is really clever, as one could expect from the dev, increpare. There is a 75% discount on the Steam store.
If you need an invite to the Steam group, ask over there.
As you wish. Edit: I have no key left.
michaelius
Banned
It's kinda sad but apart from triple dipping on Witcher 1 i haven't bough any other game from this sale.
Was $17.50 at GMG.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I got a friend Bad Rats but he upped the ante by getting me Petz Horsez.
Yeah I know but he didn't want it until he saw me playing it today. He has a bunch of steam wallet money so he would like to buy it from steam. I was just wondering if its already been a flash deal or not.
Was really quite tempted to get Endless Space as a kind of tutorial in getting my into 4x space games and then I'd move onto GalCiv 2. But it just seems a bit expensive considering there's a lot of criticism about AI and a lack of "depth" to the game.
Might wait for it to drop to less than £5 ... or force myself to just stick with GalCiv 2 and try to learn by playing.
Might wait for it to drop to less than £5 ... or force myself to just stick with GalCiv 2 and try to learn by playing.
I'm pretty sure it was $25 or ao the other day. Someone could confirm. Like most big names, it will likely be duplicated in this sale.
Thanks for the link, never knew about that. If I'm seeing that graph right it looks like it was a flash deal or community winner early in the sale as well as a daily. Hopefully it gets put up a 3rd time then.
Does this not show up as 'owned' for anyone else that bought it? On the store page or cart, really bugs me for some reason
http://store.steampowered.com/app/99614/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/99614/
Been having that problem for a very long time, it's normal.
And page 400! Is this the first time we had make a new thread?
Payed the full price, didn't regret it a bit. it might have some problems, but it's still the most beautiful and straightforward 4x I've ever played.
UnblessedSoul
Member
This winter has definitely been one of their worst sales
I suspect this is intentional. They're trying to get folks to buy things at higher prices.
Agreed. Apart from the games that were not available in the summer, 99% of what I bought was available in the summer for the same price. But, then again, the summer had a ton of triplicate sales.
Please put up World in Conflict Complete and Silent Hunters III. These have never received 75% discounts and are old but have been on my wishlist forever... I'm stubborn!
YianGaruga
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Looks like this is becoming the standard now.
Looks like this is becoming the standard now.
$10 for the games $35 for the bundle. Makes complete sense. They would of had my monies for the quake collection if they dropped it below $15 or 50% off but no.
There's an arcade mode I've read plus you can redeem the key ... well here ... http://steamcommunity.com/app/61010/discussions/0/864951657973930016/
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
What do you mean by this? I have been watching/reading so much about this since I decided to get a CH Fighterstick.
That's what interests me about it. I have not been impressed by how the more complex elements in other games actually affect the gameplay. They always come off as glorified boardgames to me when I actually play them, so I'd much rather have something that straightforward. But if you're going to be like a board game, you may as well make it look fucking gorgeous since it's not actually a board game. And not just the battles, either. From what I have seen in videos, the UI is super slick and gives great feedback.
cicero
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THIS! I have been waiting for a World in Conflict sale for quite some time now.
To my knowledge, A-10C ranks up with Falcon 4.0 as the most hardcore (if not) combat flight simulator on the market. There are arcade features within the game, but none of them turn it away from being an incredibly detailed simulator of the A-10C Warthog. On a enthusiast forum, a US pilot of the A-10C spoke of how close it was to the real thing. I have spent many hours ans still cannot take off properly.
Hispanicguy
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Still haven't bought anything this sale but I think that may change and I'll pick up BIT.TRIP BEAT later today.
The game was on 75% off just a few days ago, on Steam. I have the Fighterstick and Pro Throttle. I have a little difficulty getting the Pro Throttle itself to work in A-10C, but I think it is due to the CH Products software not exactly being user friendly (despite what forum users might say). The game is incredible. But, you need quite a beefy computer to run it well. Doesn't hurt to have an SSD if you don't want to wait forever for loads.
With in-game images like this:
and this:
the game can be an awe-inspiring sight to behold... before crashing because your trim was 1 degree off.
Some people go nuts with their setups:
I played 2 or 3 hours of B1 a couple of months ago, and while I loved the atmosphere and writing, the gameplay totally ruined it for me. I don't feel like going back to it, even though I've been waiting to play it for 4 long years.
cicero
Member
Wow... They literally just changed the price of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit from $4.99 (75% off) to $9.99 (50% off) as I went from putting it in my cart to go check on a couple of other game. I came back and suddenly there was a price shift and a message from Steam. Is it just me? I didn't think the sale could get any worse, but they are really topping themselves here. This is pathetic and annoying.
Not just you, the discounts of all NFS games in the flash sale just went down to 50% =\
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Oh shit, it just went 75% off flash sale right now. I should be able to get to the bank before it ends (and study pre-flight procedures for a week or two before my fighterstick arrives, lol) Sweeeeet.
I have a Radeon 5850, AMD Phenom II X4 955, and 8GB RAM. I think I'll be okay, though I may have to tune it down some.
Would it be okay to play with just the Fighterstick? Can you turn on individual aids so maybe it could take the edge off if things are a bit hairy with limited hardware?
That's not nuts, THIS IS NUTS
Hopefully it's just an error and will be fixed, if not lolea
And sadly people will still buy it without looking or thinking. Like the Bit.Trip pack, whose bundle costs 5 bucks more than buying the games separately.
Looks like this is becoming the standard now.
EDIT: just realised that's where your pic is from, lol
cicero
Member
Which were the normal sale prices... I just wanted to buy this and finally get some sleep.
exmachina64
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They do have an economist at the helm now. I imagine if Steam started to significantly slip in the DD market, we'd see amazing fire sales.
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