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[STEAM] Only Unbridled Love Allowed
Suds
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Most Frequently Asked Questions
1. Can I register this __Insert Game Here__ on Steam?
Here's a list of games you can register on Steam. You can always add a non-Steam game to your Steam games list, so that people can see you playing it.
2. If I buy a game pack that already includes a game I own, can I gift that game?
No, this was a one-time thing for people who already owned Half-Life 2 and bought the Orange Box. Additional copies you own are lost forever to the ether.
3. Why isn't __Insert Game Here__ available in my region?
Many Steam games might be unavailable in your country if you have the temerity to live outside of the United States. This is not Steam's fault. Regional game availability is determined solely by the publisher, who should be the source of your ire. Gifting works regardless of region so you might find some helpful person in North America who can gift you the game.
Here's a list of games you can register on Steam. You can always add a non-Steam game to your Steam games list, so that people can see you playing it.
2. If I buy a game pack that already includes a game I own, can I gift that game?
No, this was a one-time thing for people who already owned Half-Life 2 and bought the Orange Box. Additional copies you own are lost forever to the ether.
3. Why isn't __Insert Game Here__ available in my region?
Many Steam games might be unavailable in your country if you have the temerity to live outside of the United States. This is not Steam's fault. Regional game availability is determined solely by the publisher, who should be the source of your ire. Gifting works regardless of region so you might find some helpful person in North America who can gift you the game.
Helpful Stuff
electricitylikesme wrote: »AUSTRALIANS!!!!
You need this program.
It reconfigures your Windows IPSEC settings (run it as an admin) to block out all but the servers which don't count towards your download quota on Steam. Now supports a bunch of ISPs through a graphical interface.
Basically guarantees you won't add to your download quota with Steam.
150KB/s
Download TCPview: TCPView
Then, use TCPview (run as admin if you're on Vista) to close all Steam TCP servers (this is important, NOT the UDP ones, just the TCP ones). Steam will then reconnect to a different server, which will hopefully get you a better speed. If you don't go faster in a couple of seconds, retry until you get a speed you like.
This shit totally needs to go into the OP, I've tipped this to so many people already.
Cool Community Add-Ons
Steam Signatures
With such a cool service, someone must have done some extra things to build on it. The forums have one such man, who made some super cool Steam signatures. Suds is his name and killing is his game. Except for the killing. The signatures automatically use backgrounds for the games and the correct icon. Pretty neat, and they're 100% free!
Sample signature:
Steam Calculator
You can also use a script on his Steam Calculator page to see how much your Steam account would be worth if you had taken advantage of some obscure, arcane combination of special deals that nobody could ever have taken advantage of. Or something sort of like that.
Steam Sales Tracker
You might want to add this page to the steam links section - a complete sortable list of every game on steam, the metacritic score, and if its on sale, the % its discounted by. Yes. http://steam.addhawk.net/[/QUOTE]
With such a cool service, someone must have done some extra things to build on it. The forums have one such man, who made some super cool Steam signatures. Suds is his name and killing is his game. Except for the killing. The signatures automatically use backgrounds for the games and the correct icon. Pretty neat, and they're 100% free!
Sample signature:
Steam Calculator
You can also use a script on his Steam Calculator page to see how much your Steam account would be worth if you had taken advantage of some obscure, arcane combination of special deals that nobody could ever have taken advantage of. Or something sort of like that.
Steam Sales Tracker
You might want to add this page to the steam links section - a complete sortable list of every game on steam, the metacritic score, and if its on sale, the % its discounted by. Yes. http://steam.addhawk.net/[/QUOTE]
The Mis-Adventures of LewieP
As funny as the following comic is, LewieP does spend a lot of time looking for bargains, for us.
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It was probably a Valve employee. They get every game that is released on Steam. (To help support people! Or something.)
Should be fixed now.
Edit: Shens, alabasterslim.com is no longer valid for the ddgamer sigs.
I... I can totally hear this in my head now. The Steam thread: Reminding me of things I didn't know I knew since the year Suds AD.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
heh heh heh
apparently 30 dollars a month since steam came out is 2000 dollars O.o
But Steam shouldn't really be sending whole files over to begin with, most people would already be running the previous patch so Steam can check that and then send a diff over.
I have TR: Underworld in my library. Do I want any of the other two TR games?
I already have Last Remnant, so I'll pass on that. It's a solid JRPG, imo, flawed by the fact that it simply ignores explaining a bunch of stuff. Stuff that you actually want to know.
ed: In fact Legend is the direct prequel to Underworld and a lot of stuff probably won't make sense unless you play it (or read a plot summary)
Legend is good, anniversary is a retread of the original game that is ok but not great.
Thanks, works like a charm! It's a very nifty tool, by the way.
If you enjoyed Underworld, then you've played a marginally more polished version of Legend. Anniversary is in the same engine again, but is slightly different in playstyle (more exploring tombs, less combat and plot). Both very polished, very well constructed games - only let down by the comparatively short length of the 'new' ones and that if you played them end to end you'd get a bit fatigued by the repetition.
Entirely possible, since it was actually released on Steam in the UK, and then pulled sometime over the weekend I believe. Any enquiries on why this is on the Steam forums have been deleted. Very strange.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
COME FORTH, AMATERASU!
That's crazy talk. Really. The campaign just becomes too much of the same thing. It really needed more variety. I wonder if the new expansion did. The chaos seem like to boring a choice though.
"Read twice, post once. It's almost like 'measure twice, cut once' only with reading." - MetaverseNomad
Congrats guys, come sit with us at the videogames table.
I just hope it leads to more games being coded with OpenGL. Start doing that.. all the sudden a whole bunch of porting problems go away.
DirectX has been good to gamers, but it's still proprietary, and it creates a lot of platform lock-in.
Course, not even John Carmack could stop DirectX, so maybe it'll never happen. But maybe Valve can have some impact.
I figure positive fan feedback is as good a method as any.
I stopped right before the final mission or at least what I think is the final mission, because I didn't want it to end.
Mine will look nicer.
I completed it after hitting the 90k campaign score or whatever is needed for an achievement. I definitely had my fill of the game at that point. I think some of the optional missions that were popping up even stopped awarding me with loot as a completion award.
Silent Hunter is one of my favourite series, but I will probably not get this until they decide to admit that they fucked up and remove the drm.
Agreed. I love playing 3 & 4, but it looks like this one takes the series to the next level (graphically and gameplay wise). If we're lucky we'll see that the drm hurts the sales, causing them to remove it and drop the price.
When it does though, we'll kill people with math.
I wish there was some sort of New Game+ or endless mode for the loot aspect of the SP, was really intriguing.
Indeed, I always appreciate a game that requires a TI-86 and notepad. (probably why I played EVE for so long)
I have 30gb free. It needs 7.30gb. Apparently I don't have enough HD space.
Ok. Sure. That makes sense. If my computer is a bloody reverse TARDIS!
Does D2D require it's own program? Can I d/l it more than once/infinate times? I reallllllly want to play SupCom1.
I use the excuse that someone in the submarine had better be good at math to justify using the calculator.
Direct2Drive uses the GameSpy download manager thing, but I think you can opt to use your browser downloader instead.
Unlimited downloads, though.
Someone said I could put Steam in "offline mode" and play it without patching, but if I try, all I get is a box telling me that it can't connect to the steam network and then it bloody quits.
Fuck me if they pull this shit on the Mac.
iTunes DRM is like heaven compared to this.