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Steam Winter Sales 2012 Thread 2: [Extended To Jan 7th For Encore Deals]
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No way, unless we see portal on origin @@
It's EA. I think all newer EA titles are relegated to Origin.
YianGaruga
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Not in the foreseeable future, no.
brandonh83
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This is why I refuse to buy the first two.
zerokoolpsx
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Not happening.
keltickennedy
Member
Hoping the Max Payne 3 sale will give a little burst in the multiplayer community. Its so so lonely.
That is tempting. Anyone here play it?
I think my new/only option with EA is- if it's published by them, get it on Origin. Sim City 5, Dead Space 3, etc. All those newer titles seem to have a safe haven there only.
I worry for the day that Ubisoft does the same- although U-Play is already a pretty dastardly service!
Valve games are available on origin.
Its possible, though unlikely.
EA moved crysis 2 over to Steam after all the dlc had been out for a while. So who knows.
It will probably be a ridiculous price. I got crysis 2 for $5 about a year before it was released on steam for $30.
No one buying it is doing so for the multiplayer.
YianGaruga
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For some reason Amazon.com has started selling Steam keys for Assassin´s Creed® III, so I wouldn't give up hope for that yet.
Tizoc
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I played it on the PS3 and it's a nice companion to the movies with some decent puzzles.
I wouldn't count on that. In the OT1 I said that one of the new Flash Sales would be a TF2 hat. Of course I was joking at the moment, but you can imagine my surprise when that exact same thing happened a few days later. Well, not exactly the same: there were TWO hats on sale, instead of only one.
So just for the record, I believe one of the dailies today will be a bunch of Tribes: Ascend* items. Then we may have the Portal franchise again, and maybe the Darksiders franchise too, if THQ is feeling generous.
*replace Tribes: Ascend with any random F2P game available on Steam
THAT TRADEMARK. Well, that is good news!
A Far Cry 3 Steam key showed up in the registry as well.
Will probably pop up on amazon eventually.
YianGaruga
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Things in the registry don't always equate to things actually happening, but I hope it will.
Despite all the hate sometimes, Ubi makes legitimately good games.
Games published via EA Partners are free to also go elsewhere, mind you that arm of EA is not exactly brimming with releases (the most recent being The Secret World). Although Crytek seems to enjoy sharing a bed with EA, I imagine it'll eventually push for a release of Crysis 3 on Steam a la Crysis 2's reappearance with the Maximum Edition label.
cicero
Member
It is the new kind of Steam sale. Expect the worst.
opticalmace
Member
I guess I'm waiting for the summer sale (or next winter sale?) for Skyrim. Boo.
brandonh83
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Good point about dead space. If DS3 isn't Steam bound I wont get the first two if they go on sale.
cicero
Member
Garry knew that he couldn't beat a GamersGate deal that ended up giving Skyrim to people for free after a refund.
ScepticMatt
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Only because Crytek isn't owned by EA
So after the Dota pass went on sale earlier this week, I kind of got interested in playing the game, but didn't really understand how the early buy-in worked, and missed it at 75 percent off.
After watching a bunch of videos and reading some guides, I'm pretty well sold in the game, but I don't know if I want to spend $22 to find out for sure. Is it worth grabbing that bundle, or maybe does anyone know how often beta codes are sent?
After watching a bunch of videos and reading some guides, I'm pretty well sold in the game, but I don't know if I want to spend $22 to find out for sure. Is it worth grabbing that bundle, or maybe does anyone know how often beta codes are sent?
Send me your e-mail or steamid via PM and I can give you one my my beta codes.
ScepticMatt
Member
everyone and their mother has free dota 2 keys. PM me if needed
I sent a PM, thanks for the advice.
Sent you a friend request. Otherwise I can send the code directly if you pm your e-mail.
I don't think I will ever understand this fascination of having everything on steam. You are willing to spend $10 to grab the base game, and its DLC, after spending $10 on the base game elsewhere, just so it can be in your Steam library?
One or both of:
1) +1 to Steam game count
2) The desire to have everything as possible under the one, well-managed roof -- the client handles installation/uninstallation as well as game updates, and in some cases the Steam variants of non-Steamworks games have Steamworks support (achievements, cloud saves, etc.)
zerokoolpsx
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More of #2 than #1. Just sign into Steam and BAM, there is all my games.
So JaseC, do you buy games to collect or play?
So JaseC, do you buy games to collect or play?
I have only played a little(i.e. 40 minutes or so) of T3, but the tropico series has more political influence. Meaning you could be an ruthless dictator, or a caring loving president. Assassinations and propaganda play a role too, as you will have to be reelected every few years. And whatever promises you make, (I think) become goals for the next set of years. The music gets annoying though.
Ok, I understand that, but enough to double dip?
Completely this. I've bought games for really cheap on Amazon, that weren't Steam activated, and involved some crazy forum searching for the right update to get it to work on Windows 7. I like it just running/updating from the same place. Also, when switching computers, it'll be nice to have games accessible from signing into one service.
You missed the daily deal on it earlier. When Skyrim at 50% off was the daily deal, the DLC was 50% off too.
Certainly. Although in Soi-Fong's case, since he's weighing up one option against the other, I'd advise against it, everybody has their price point where purchases go from being considered to whimsically indulged.
it'll probably show up again then
Angelus Errare
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For me personally I only buy games from other sites that will activate on Steam. Saves me much trouble. Only time I've ever double dipped was when GMG had a great deal on Batman: Arkham City and alluded that it was the Steam version. They then announced it wasn't the Steam version and the only way to get the Steam version is to buy it on Steam. I felt the double dip was necessary because I was under the impression the Steam version was devoid of GFWL in favor of Steamworks not that they would BOTH be in the Steam version.
So to this day I have a key for Arkham City from GMG that I have never used and unfortunately no one wants to trade me something for it. So it continues to sit
i wanted to laugh then realized this has a good chance at happening.
and i can picture them looking at what games to put up, with the 6th slot between Fallout NV and this, and they choose this.
Lazy code giveaway incoming. I finally got around to picking up the Humble Bundle and there are redundancies to take care of. Whoever activates these Steam keys first gets these games!
Binding of Isaac+DLC (wonderful game): WKL9J-I8I8Y-PY4IW
Cave Story+: X0TD7-IH9XF-TYD7R
Shank 2: YIPA8-ZPKXL-PYJHF
Binding of Isaac+DLC (wonderful game): WKL9J-I8I8Y-PY4IW
Cave Story+: X0TD7-IH9XF-TYD7R
Shank 2: YIPA8-ZPKXL-PYJHF
Red Blaster
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come on rollercoaster tycoon 3
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