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[STEAM] I hear there's a sale on
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WHAT IS STEAM?
Except that this has all been resolved now, and pretty much every major publisher has many or most of their games up on Steam, the fast, free digital distribution platform that lets you download the best PC games in your underpants, while serving you demos, trailers, slightly-delayed patches, and the like.
WHAT'S NEW WITH STEAM?
Check the Steam News page for all your Steam... news.
PENNY ARCADE + STEAM = COOKED PENNY ARCADE?
No, PA + Steam = awesome. First of all, you've got this thread. In this thread we talk about new Steam releases (what's worth buying, what isn't, what's on sale, etc). We also do other cool stuff, like check prices in US DOLLARS for LewieP of games that don't have anything to do with Steam, or get off on tangents about puppies or DRM! Sometimes, this place is like one giant thread for PC gaming and Steam goes and sits in a corner downloading an update to Day of Defeat: Source.
Second: Here is the Penny Arcade Steam Group! Someone reading this thread ought to be able to invite you, as long as you can provide your SteamID. The group is basically useless but it would be ludicrous not to have a Penny Arcade presence on the coolest digital distribution system this side of GoG.com! It actually IS helpful to join, because it identifies you as a Penny Arcader on the Internet and makes it easy from the PA forums who you friend to say "oh, right, I know this guy from the Steam thread." We're the most wangalicious group, too.
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! HE SAID HE WOULD KILL ME IF I DID NOT WRITE THIS OH GOD SAVE-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.
Sample signature:
Also there are some Penny Arcade Steam Groups you may enjoy (this is only a sampling!):
Plain old Penny Arcade
PAX Forumers
Penny Arcade League
You get the idea. This Steam thread is not the place for these groups; they live in their own threads. For example, the Armed Assault PA Steam Group (PAJOE) is in the Armed Assault thread, whereas the Company of Heroes PA Steam Group is in the CoH thread, and so on.
Cool stuff on the Steam website:
Grand list of all price reductions. This is slightly obsolete now that the store has a "Sales" tab but it's still useful.
Steam skins to make it look less like army boot camp
Awesome stats
The store page in case you want to, you know, buy some games or something
IF I BUY A GAME FOUR TIMES BECAUSE I'M STUPID CAN I GIFT THE EXTRA COPIES? WHAT IF I BUY A 2-PACK EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY OWN ONE OF THE GAMES?
You can't really do that. In almost every case, if you buy a Steam game, it's for you and you alone, even if you already own a copy somehow. If you want to give the game to someone else, buy it as a gift, not for you. Steam is a selfish service or a selfess service, but almost never both at once. Gift or buy, but do not combine!
I WANT TO REGISTER MY GAME ON STEAM BECAUSE STEAM IS SEXIER THAN MY WIFE
Good idea! Unfortunately Valve games are just about the only games that let you do it. If you want to see if you're lucky though, 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.
WHY DOESN'T NOVALOGIC SELL DELTA 4OURCE 5: ROID RAGIN' 'RINES IN MY HOME OF SOUTHERN BUTTCRACKISTAN?
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. In the meantime, America has lots of free space for immigrants.
MY STEAMS IS BORKED
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.
THE THREAD TITLE ALSO HAS "SOURCE" IN IT
Yeah, this is a great place to talk about Source mods and Source games. Source is the engine for Valve's Half-Life 2, and all that jazz is linked intimately to Steam, so you can bet that most people in here are pretty big fans of the Half-Life series and are willing to try out the newest mod that's been released or take a look at your Hammer map or something. This is the Valve thread just as much as it is the PC games thread. Post your favorite mods we might not have heard of! It's a great way to judge if there's any interest before making an entire thread.
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I spent way less than that. I haven't ever bought a full price game. A bunch of them are from promo codes, a load of them are from retail serials I got for a lot less, and the rest are from sales.
Oh, and I got HL2 free with a 9600xt.
Also, I'm sure I'm not the only one that is afraid to check how much my Steam collection is worth. I don't want to contemplate how much monies I've spent.
Yeah, I haven't spent close to that much.
Also: What is the default resolution for Mirror's Edge and how do I change it? My 22 inch monitor is bitching that the input signal is out of range.
But yeah, I think I've spent maybe 200 max. I don't remember how much I paid for HL2:GOTY or Orange Box retail, and the only thing I've spent more than 20 bucks on online is the THQ pack.
Gonna grab Assault on Dark Athena thingy, never played Riddick.
http://www.ddgamer.com/2009/11/30/new-steam-calculator/
$328
I can only think of like three I paid full price for.
My SteamID page is: http://steamcommunity.com/id/elextremo
Thanks in advance! Unless I don't get an invite. Then I'll just cry.
Like this --->
BTW, if one was to buy a Bejeweled-style game, which one would be the best one?
Ricochet is not $5. I don't recall even buying it. It just showed up one day, like a squatter.
If you are quick, Quantz is worth looking at.
You own 34 games worth: $719.67
Mine:
You own 164 games worth: $2,872.90
Pretty accurate.
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AAARGGGH. You just had to do that, didn't you?
Though, like almost everyone, I didn't pay for most of those at full price. Probably only Fallout 3, DA:O, and maybe one other did I pay full price for.
Holy Jesus, thats alot of games.
Me: You own 32 games worth: $664.69
I own 55 games worth 835.47€
What happened to the old calculator that took packages into account?
That's another dudes website. He's a douchebag though, so I split off months ago. Just got around to rewriting the calculator now. I do have all packages in the database, just need to figure out a good way to go about presenting it. Packages will be included. Maybe as soon as tonight.
Oh I played the original on OXBOX, so I know how cool it is. The issue is that it has never been available on STEAM here in Australia until it just appeared in this sale. I don't know if I could handle getting all the way to checkout only to be let down.
and i've only spent $20!
Eh, I've probably spent about $700-$800. Maybe less.
lol @ Wild Metal = $99.99 and each Monkey Island game coming up as $34.99 each.
My will power is amazing! :P
God damn. I'm a whore. A dirty whore.
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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.
langfor6 is my steam ID
Also, I held off on some of the deals for fear of having too much to play during finals. I only grabbed Batman and Mirror's Edge, but I'm thinking that I'll have to buy the THQ pack before going to bed... or else I won't be able to fall asleep. We'll see. I really wish that Fallout 3 had been included in the deals, and I regret not picking up a few things (namely Dead Space), but I still need to finish Torchlight and some Wii games. Plus, there's always Christmas!
usually i get 1.1 megs a second, but this is atrocious.
Actually I spent $60.
I paid $55 for Dragon Age Digital Doodad Edition and $5 for HL2: Ep 2.
Half-Life 1 and all its companion games were gifted by a friend IRL. Some nice person here gifted HL2 and EP 1 to me a few years ago.
You own 33 games worth: $480.71
Did the math with all the sales and such and its closer to 200$. Hoorah for steam!