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Steam Winter Sales 2012 | Deal quality keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
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zerokoolpsx
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Forge won? wtf. Wanted Miasmata too.
Yes, Sleeping Dogs is a Steamworks title.
Everyone's bringing it so far, except for Steam.
I've bought way more games over the past couple months at Amazon and GMG than I have from Steam.
PrematureQuiche
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Bet Forge won because people still think the buy one get one free offer is on.
phantomspiker
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Infinite Justice
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Without bothering to go through the next few pages and seeing if there's a reply, are you trying to buy from your workplace/a proxy? I had that problem and it was because the proxy server in work wasn't letting the IP address be known to GMG. Because GMG couldn't verify my IP, they come up with some standard "declined" email.
Felix Lighter
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Sleeping Dogs for $16 is an amazing deal.
Typographenia
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Forge over Miasmata? It really is the end of the world.
Curse you, steam voters!
Curse you, steam voters!
phantomspiker
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Wanted Miasmata
So... I Am Alive? What say you, GAF? Worth $5?
Does it have any new/interesting gameplay mechanics and/or a good story? Or is it emotionally resonant?
I enjoyed it quite a bit.
The combat is interesting because you use fear to take out your enemies one by one. Resources such as food and ammo are also very limited, you even have to use your saves sparingly.
I know, right? Forge does not look like least bit appealing to me. The screens and the store page description are pretty gross tbh.
Infinite Justice
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The bugged timer for community choices is still there LOL
I feel like such an idiot for not buying Skyrim @ $22 a couple days ago. Hopefully Amazon or Steam will have something similar in the winter sales.
Steamworks is such a gift for GMG and Amazon, they must be selling tons after that was introduced. Is it official if Valve gets a cut on every Steamworks title sold on other services?
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Found some info from 2010, apparently not. http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/SteamworksBrochure2010.pdf
Steamworks is such a gift for GMG and Amazon, they must be selling tons after that was introduced. Is it official if Valve gets a cut on every Steamworks title sold on other services?
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Found some info from 2010, apparently not. http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/SteamworksBrochure2010.pdf
Bought. Thanks!
edit: so far this steam sale is kind of weak for me. I'm tempted to just go blow the rest of my entertainment budget on the amazing GOG sale.
Does it have annoying Ubisoft DRM (or the goddamn uPlay client)?
At GMG?
Continuing this post - Would someone mind buying Monkey Island for me, and I will return the money via PayPal on Sunday?
I thought about just using my normal credit card, but I've never used it for anything online before, so I'm a little worried :/ Plus, I don't know that it will work since I live in Israel and I don't know if my particular card can be used outside the country.
Not confirmed yet, it was spotted on the website.
I voted for forge, knowing nothing about any of the 3 games, lol.
Spirit of Jazz
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I just bought a wired 360 controller for my PC and I get home to find DMC4 for just over a quid, I couldn't ask for much more.
Where?
Forge won
Same here. Miasmata looks super interesting.
Ugh seriously! Wish Miasmata won! Wanted to support that!
phantomspiker
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It definitely doesn't have Uplay. Can't remember it having any other annoying DRM either.
Felix Lighter
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Sorry, people were mentioning that it appeared on GMG but it may have been a mistake or an early reveal of a later deal.
I really like it. Started playing with the Alpha in Chrome.
Steamworks is an incredible deal for Amazon and GMG.
They get 100% of the revenue from the sale of the game and practically 0% of the costs associated with the downloading the game as you can be pretty much assurmed that everyone will download the game from Steam itself.
Valve -- on the other hand -- gets 0% of the revenue from the sale of the game and 100% of the costs associated with the downloading of the game from Steam.
They get 100% of the revenue from the sale of the game and practically 0% of the costs associated with the downloading the game as you can be pretty much assurmed that everyone will download the game from Steam itself.
Valve -- on the other hand -- gets 0% of the revenue from the sale of the game and 100% of the costs associated with the downloading of the game from Steam.
Do you think the starter pack is a worthwhile investment?
Except for the part where they lose money selling a lot of these games as loss-leaders. Amazon almost certainly does this with a lot of their deals.
Sold, thank you so much.
They have this:
And no icon means you may try using a controller but its hell.
Thanks - I think I'll get it. I already have the 360 version, but I enjoyed PoP 2008 so much I want to play it again on the god machine. (And you never know, perhaps good sales will convince Ubi to give us a real sequel to PoP 2008. *hopes*)
Right.
Although I think both games are easily "worth it" at $9, there's still a good chance they will be featured as a daily or show up as a flash deal.
I'm talking about Telltale's Tales of Monkey Island, not the original Special Editions (which I bought last night for less than $4).
And like I said, I own the PS3 version of ToMI.
You really think they'll be back?
Thanks!
I bought ArtRage Studio Pro as a present, apparently it's a really good/popular software for painting. It'll be gone in five minutes from flash deals.
Playing it now, plays like a dream
Mr. Luchador
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Thanks guys, think I'll bite!
OH wow, Dungeons is mega cheap too. Loads of 'stealth' bargains.
Ahh ok, thanks.
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