I have been waiting for this sale, but now I can't use it. The links bring me to the home page and the horrible, horrible steam search engine comes up with nothing...holy shit it says its not available in Korea. Fuck you Valve. Punish me for being in the military, that is great business strategy.
I have been waiting for this sale, but now I can't use it. The links bring me to the home page and the horrible, horrible steam search engine comes up with nothing...holy shit it says its not available in Korea. Fuck you Valve. Punish me for being in the military, that is great business strategy.
You can (probably) paypal someone who it is available for and have it gifted to you
I've been wanting to play it on the PC for a while now and missed out the Bioshock 2 pre-purchase, making it difficult to justify an additional $20 for the prequel especially when funds are a little tight. If anyone has an additional copy and would like to negotiate a deal cheaper than that on Steam, it would be great.
Gifting and receiving a free copy would be even greater though!
I have been waiting for this sale, but now I can't use it. The links bring me to the home page and the horrible, horrible steam search engine comes up with nothing...holy shit it says its not available in Korea. Fuck you Valve. Punish me for being in the military, that is great business strategy.
Unfortunately, it's not Valve's decision. They can't really help it if publishers insist on setting arbitrary limitations on price and regional availability.
EDIT: Also, what Spoit said. It's how a lot of us get around crazy pricing / regional non-availability. Gifting seems to work wherever you are. Interesting factoid: The Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2 was heavily cut, but if you got a friend from a non-censored region (US/UK for example) to gift it to you, you got that version and not the Australian version.
I like steam even more now, I never though of how useful gifting could be.
This was the first Christmas my friends and I used Steam's gifting, and it was ridiculous. With all of the insane holiday deals we were all getting and giving games left and right. My list got crazy huge crazy fast.
Yeah I think I only had TF2, Portal, and some other game. I always thought that flagging games as "Favorites" was silly. "Who would use this?" I asked. "Who could possibly have so many games that you would need to have favorites so that some would be easy to get to?" Now I know.
Trying to decide whether I should hold out for a midweek sale, or just give in and grab Arcanum off GOG.
Personally I always prefer to go with GOG when the opportunity is there. DRM free is definitely the way to go, plus they like to provide extras like soundtracks and stuff.
That and from what I understand older GOG games tend to do better on new systems than Steam games do, one of their key points is tweaking games so that they'll run on modern OS's.
Is Sacred Gold any good? It looks like it could be an enjoyable diablo clone and it is only $10..
In case you couldn't tell I am a bit biased but if I were going to buy a Diablo clone it would be mother effin Torchlight. It goes on sale for $10 every now and again. Well worth $20, even.
Is Sacred Gold any good? It looks like it could be an enjoyable diablo clone and it is only $10..
In case you couldn't tell I am a bit biased but if I were going to buy a Diablo clone it would be mother effin Torchlight. It goes on sale for $10 every now and again. Well worth $20, even.
The best part of Diablo is playing it with friends
Is Sacred Gold any good? It looks like it could be an enjoyable diablo clone and it is only $10..
In case you couldn't tell I am a bit biased but if I were going to buy a Diablo clone it would be mother effin Torchlight. It goes on sale for $10 every now and again. Well worth $20, even.
The best part of Diablo is playing it with friends
I own all of the above mentioned diablo clones. :P
Far Cry 2 runs okay on my system. It's a bit odd really. The frame rate drops when I go into a town or what have you, but besides that it runs okay. No clue how to get all this DLC crap to work though.
Trying to decide whether I should hold out for a midweek sale, or just give in and grab Arcanum off GOG.
Personally I always prefer to go with GOG when the opportunity is there. DRM free is definitely the way to go, plus they like to provide extras like soundtracks and stuff.
That and from what I understand older GOG games tend to do better on new systems than Steam games do, one of their key points is tweaking games so that they'll run on modern OS's.
Not that I care about extras, but I usually stick to GOG for my older games as well. I know that's shocking.
Trying to decide whether I should hold out for a midweek sale, or just give in and grab Arcanum off GOG.
Personally I always prefer to go with GOG when the opportunity is there. DRM free is definitely the way to go, plus they like to provide extras like soundtracks and stuff.
That and from what I understand older GOG games tend to do better on new systems than Steam games do, one of their key points is tweaking games so that they'll run on modern OS's.
Really? I thought Steam did a great job with the X-com series and Dosbox. Took me zero effort to get it started on Windows 7 64-bit. Just installed and played.
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Yeah I think I only had TF2, Portal, and some other game. I always thought that flagging games as "Favorites" was silly. "Who would use this?" I asked. "Who could possibly have so many games that you would need to have favorites so that some would be easy to get to?" Now I know.
Same! Before I installed all my old games and imported their shortcuts to steam I only had TF2. Then I got about 10 more. Yesterday I bought the Total War Pack. I might buy the id pack when that goes on sale.
Jesus you should have gotten the id pack during the Christmas sale man. It was like $23 for a million games.
:x NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I was on vacation for two weeks and didn't go online at all.
This is what you need to do if you find yourself away from the internet around Christmas time:
1.) Find a friend, someone you know and trust
2.) Give them $50-$100
3.) Give them your Steam login
4.) Give them these instructions - "Buy whatever is awesome"
5.) Come back afterward and check what is new on your Steam list
The id pack is awesome. I've already played through most of it, but it was definitely worth the chump change I paid for it.
Trying to decide whether I should hold out for a midweek sale, or just give in and grab Arcanum off GOG.
Personally I always prefer to go with GOG when the opportunity is there. DRM free is definitely the way to go, plus they like to provide extras like soundtracks and stuff.
That and from what I understand older GOG games tend to do better on new systems than Steam games do, one of their key points is tweaking games so that they'll run on modern OS's.
Really? I thought Steam did a great job with the X-com series and Dosbox. Took me zero effort to get it started on Windows 7 64-bit. Just installed and played.
I'm the same (Windows 7 64-bit) and frequently encouter problems when running dosbox games - or at least, the colours seem to be fairly consistently messed up without tweaking. And notoriously with some games (such as King's Quest 7) they flat-out refuse to run on newer systems.
But that's not really the point - compatibility and such on Steam is entirely determined by the devs/publishers. They can go in and add HD resolutions, widescreen, quicksaves and a new multiplayer framework (like Rebellion with AvP classic), or just dump the existing files from 10 years ago on the server without testing (like Red Faction II). On GoG, it's the GoG staff themselves who fiddle around with stuff, and they place a much larger emphasis on testing on a wide variety of setups. The tradeoff is that everything is handled centrally, it takes longer to rerelease a game, and the individual game price can be slightly higher.
Everything else being equal, I'd go for GoG every time, but the massive sales and bundling means that Steam can sometimes be drastically cheaper.
Is Sacred Gold any good? It looks like it could be an enjoyable diablo clone and it is only $10..
In case you couldn't tell I am a bit biased but if I were going to buy a Diablo clone it would be mother effin Torchlight. It goes on sale for $10 every now and again. Well worth $20, even.
The best part of Diablo is playing it with friends
Get Titan Quest not Torchlight.
I agree the best part of Diablo is playing with friends but I think Torchlight is definitely a superior game compared to Titan Quest, especially in just the fact to me that Torchlight feels better to play compared to Titan Quest, but I would say if you can go for both.
Trying to decide whether I should hold out for a midweek sale, or just give in and grab Arcanum off GOG.
Personally I always prefer to go with GOG when the opportunity is there. DRM free is definitely the way to go, plus they like to provide extras like soundtracks and stuff.
That and from what I understand older GOG games tend to do better on new systems than Steam games do, one of their key points is tweaking games so that they'll run on modern OS's.
Really? I thought Steam did a great job with the X-com series and Dosbox. Took me zero effort to get it started on Windows 7 64-bit. Just installed and played.
I'm the same (Windows 7 64-bit) and frequently encouter problems when running dosbox games - or at least, the colours seem to be fairly consistently messed up without tweaking. And notoriously with some games (such as King's Quest 7) they flat-out refuse to run on newer systems.
But that's not really the point - compatibility and such on Steam is entirely determined by the devs/publishers. They can go in and add HD resolutions, widescreen, quicksaves and a new multiplayer framework (like Rebellion with AvP classic), or just dump the existing files from 10 years ago on the server without testing (like Red Faction II). On GoG, it's the GoG staff themselves who fiddle around with stuff, and they place a much larger emphasis on testing on a wide variety of setups. The tradeoff is that everything is handled centrally, it takes longer to rerelease a game, and the individual game price can be slightly higher.
Everything else being equal, I'd go for GoG every time, but the massive sales and bundling means that Steam can sometimes be drastically cheaper.
Thanks for all the good information. My position has been that I want to use Steam for everything because it's got the biggest market share and the best prices, because I don't want to keep track of a half dozen providers and accounts. I didn't realize GOG was so differentiated in its positioning, enough so that they warrant the effort of keeping track of separately with Steam.
Ideally I'd like to see Steam and GOG work together, but I guess I'll suck it up and give GOG a bookmark and check them out occasionally.
Someone I know bought Trine last week. He'll probably regret that when I tell him about the current midweek madness. Trine 75% off.
Never heard of it. Thoughts? Or his thoughts (aside from the unlucky timing of his purchase)?
It's fantastic. Old schoolish side scroller/physics/hack and slash/puzzle game with a pretty good story and characters. I still need to wrap it up myself but it really is great.
Someone I know bought Trine last week. He'll probably regret that when I tell him about the current midweek madness. Trine 75% off.
Never heard of it. Thoughts? Or his thoughts (aside from the unlucky timing of his purchase)?
It's fantastic. Old schoolish side scroller/physics/hack and slash/puzzle game with a pretty good story and characters. I still need to wrap it up myself but it really is great.
Trying to decide whether I should hold out for a midweek sale, or just give in and grab Arcanum off GOG.
Personally I always prefer to go with GOG when the opportunity is there. DRM free is definitely the way to go, plus they like to provide extras like soundtracks and stuff.
That and from what I understand older GOG games tend to do better on new systems than Steam games do, one of their key points is tweaking games so that they'll run on modern OS's.
Really? I thought Steam did a great job with the X-com series and Dosbox. Took me zero effort to get it started on Windows 7 64-bit. Just installed and played.
I'm the same (Windows 7 64-bit) and frequently encouter problems when running dosbox games - or at least, the colours seem to be fairly consistently messed up without tweaking. And notoriously with some games (such as King's Quest 7) they flat-out refuse to run on newer systems.
But that's not really the point - compatibility and such on Steam is entirely determined by the devs/publishers. They can go in and add HD resolutions, widescreen, quicksaves and a new multiplayer framework (like Rebellion with AvP classic), or just dump the existing files from 10 years ago on the server without testing (like Red Faction II). On GoG, it's the GoG staff themselves who fiddle around with stuff, and they place a much larger emphasis on testing on a wide variety of setups. The tradeoff is that everything is handled centrally, it takes longer to rerelease a game, and the individual game price can be slightly higher.
Everything else being equal, I'd go for GoG every time, but the massive sales and bundling means that Steam can sometimes be drastically cheaper.
Thanks for all the good information. My position has been that I want to use Steam for everything because it's got the biggest market share and the best prices, because I don't want to keep track of a half dozen providers and accounts. I didn't realize GOG was so differentiated in its positioning, enough so that they warrant the effort of keeping track of separately with Steam.
Ideally I'd like to see Steam and GOG work together, but I guess I'll suck it up and give GOG a bookmark and check them out occasionally.
Usually GOG will have better prices than Steam for their games.
Someone I know bought Trine last week. He'll probably regret that when I tell him about the current midweek madness. Trine 75% off.
Never heard of it. Thoughts? Or his thoughts (aside from the unlucky timing of his purchase)?
It's fantastic. Old schoolish side scroller/physics/hack and slash/puzzle game with a pretty good story and characters. I still need to wrap it up myself but it really is great.
raaaaaaaad
I love these kinds of co-op games.
Well that's the one drawback to the game is that it's local co-op only so you both need to be playing on the same pc.
Someone I know bought Trine last week. He'll probably regret that when I tell him about the current midweek madness. Trine 75% off.
Never heard of it. Thoughts? Or his thoughts (aside from the unlucky timing of his purchase)?
It's fantastic. Old schoolish side scroller/physics/hack and slash/puzzle game with a pretty good story and characters. I still need to wrap it up myself but it really is great.
raaaaaaaad
I love these kinds of co-op games.
Well that's the one drawback to the game is that it's local co-op only so you both need to be playing on the same pc.
never tried co-op but I assume it boils down to who gets to be the thief and who gets the other two choices. Though it is a good indication of who the bitches are in your friendships.
Game is still well worth it and so far has topped my list of the 40 games that I purchased during steam's christmas sale.
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I can't figure out how to properly exit Pets Horsez 2. I click the Quit button and it goes to credits which last for 3+ minutes. Seems like a terrible design choice, and no button press will exit.
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You can (probably) paypal someone who it is available for and have it gifted to you
I've been wanting to play it on the PC for a while now and missed out the Bioshock 2 pre-purchase, making it difficult to justify an additional $20 for the prequel especially when funds are a little tight. If anyone has an additional copy and would like to negotiate a deal cheaper than that on Steam, it would be great.
Gifting and receiving a free copy would be even greater though!
Unfortunately, it's not Valve's decision. They can't really help it if publishers insist on setting arbitrary limitations on price and regional availability.
EDIT: Also, what Spoit said. It's how a lot of us get around crazy pricing / regional non-availability. Gifting seems to work wherever you are. Interesting factoid: The Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2 was heavily cut, but if you got a friend from a non-censored region (US/UK for example) to gift it to you, you got that version and not the Australian version.
This was the first Christmas my friends and I used Steam's gifting, and it was ridiculous. With all of the insane holiday deals we were all getting and giving games left and right. My list got crazy huge crazy fast.
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Personally I always prefer to go with GOG when the opportunity is there. DRM free is definitely the way to go, plus they like to provide extras like soundtracks and stuff.
That and from what I understand older GOG games tend to do better on new systems than Steam games do, one of their key points is tweaking games so that they'll run on modern OS's.
In case you couldn't tell I am a bit biased but if I were going to buy a Diablo clone it would be mother effin Torchlight. It goes on sale for $10 every now and again. Well worth $20, even.
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The best part of Diablo is playing it with friends
Get Titan Quest not Torchlight.
Steam games are like Pokemon, just collect em all
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Far Cry 2 runs okay on my system. It's a bit odd really. The frame rate drops when I go into a town or what have you, but besides that it runs okay. No clue how to get all this DLC crap to work though.
Not that I care about extras, but I usually stick to GOG for my older games as well. I know that's shocking.
Really? I thought Steam did a great job with the X-com series and Dosbox. Took me zero effort to get it started on Windows 7 64-bit. Just installed and played.
:x NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I was on vacation for two weeks and didn't go online at all.
It's good for time wastin'. Got a few minutes to spare? I'll play one of the several Wolfensteins.
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I would have bought that so fast.
If I didn't already own practically everything with an id logo on it.
This is what you need to do if you find yourself away from the internet around Christmas time:
1.) Find a friend, someone you know and trust
2.) Give them $50-$100
3.) Give them your Steam login
4.) Give them these instructions - "Buy whatever is awesome"
5.) Come back afterward and check what is new on your Steam list
The id pack is awesome. I've already played through most of it, but it was definitely worth the chump change I paid for it.
I'm the same (Windows 7 64-bit) and frequently encouter problems when running dosbox games - or at least, the colours seem to be fairly consistently messed up without tweaking. And notoriously with some games (such as King's Quest 7) they flat-out refuse to run on newer systems.
But that's not really the point - compatibility and such on Steam is entirely determined by the devs/publishers. They can go in and add HD resolutions, widescreen, quicksaves and a new multiplayer framework (like Rebellion with AvP classic), or just dump the existing files from 10 years ago on the server without testing (like Red Faction II). On GoG, it's the GoG staff themselves who fiddle around with stuff, and they place a much larger emphasis on testing on a wide variety of setups. The tradeoff is that everything is handled centrally, it takes longer to rerelease a game, and the individual game price can be slightly higher.
Everything else being equal, I'd go for GoG every time, but the massive sales and bundling means that Steam can sometimes be drastically cheaper.
I agree the best part of Diablo is playing with friends but I think Torchlight is definitely a superior game compared to Titan Quest, especially in just the fact to me that Torchlight feels better to play compared to Titan Quest, but I would say if you can go for both.
Thanks for all the good information. My position has been that I want to use Steam for everything because it's got the biggest market share and the best prices, because I don't want to keep track of a half dozen providers and accounts. I didn't realize GOG was so differentiated in its positioning, enough so that they warrant the effort of keeping track of separately with Steam.
Ideally I'd like to see Steam and GOG work together, but I guess I'll suck it up and give GOG a bookmark and check them out occasionally.
Never heard of it. Thoughts? Or his thoughts (aside from the unlucky timing of his purchase)?
At least I didn't Empire. I figure Rome and Medieval will fill my strategy appetite for the time being.
It's fantastic. Old schoolish side scroller/physics/hack and slash/puzzle game with a pretty good story and characters. I still need to wrap it up myself but it really is great.
raaaaaaaad
I love these kinds of co-op games.
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$5
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Usually GOG will have better prices than Steam for their games.
Thanks gents, I guess that's $5 more that Steam will get from me.
dammit.
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Well that's the one drawback to the game is that it's local co-op only so you both need to be playing on the same pc.
Game is still well worth it and so far has topped my list of the 40 games that I purchased during steam's christmas sale.
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I can't figure out how to properly exit Pets Horsez 2. I click the Quit button and it goes to credits which last for 3+ minutes. Seems like a terrible design choice, and no button press will exit.
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