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TychoCelchuuu
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THANKSGIVING SAAAAALE
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BIG OLD LIST OF GAMES ON SALE
Most Frequently Asked Questions
Helpful Stuff
Steam Price Guide
Do you have the misfortune to live somewhere other than America? Steam hates you! Luckily, this cool website with prices for Steam games all around the world is here to help, so you can know if you want to ask an American friend to buy the game for you or not.
Cool Community Add-Ons
The Mis-Adventures of LewieP
As funny as the following comic is, LewieP does spend a lot of time looking for bargains, for us.
The Steam Circle of Life
This image is from the SomethingAwful forums Steam thread. Hilariously enough it basically describes our Steam thread too:
Steam iPhone App
You have an iPhone? That money could easily have been spent on Steam games. If you want to make the best of your shiny gadget, however, check out this Steam iPhone app. For less than the price of a grande mocha frapaacino or whatever, you can buy an unofficial program (which appears to have been created by a PA guy who has not stepped forward if the Armadeaddon screengrab means anything) which does all sorts of Steam shit.
Speaking of iPhones...
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BIG OLD LIST OF GAMES ON SALE
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
Steam Price Guide
Do you have the misfortune to live somewhere other than America? Steam hates you! Luckily, this cool website with prices for Steam games all around the world is here to help, so you can know if you want to ask an American friend to buy the game for you or not.
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
This is apparently a sortable list of all the cool stuff on Steam that you can narrow down via categories (like "on sale") but it may have ceased to work.
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
This is apparently a sortable list of all the cool stuff on Steam that you can narrow down via categories (like "on sale") but it may have ceased to work.
The Mis-Adventures of LewieP
As funny as the following comic is, LewieP does spend a lot of time looking for bargains, for us.
The Steam Circle of Life
This image is from the SomethingAwful forums Steam thread. Hilariously enough it basically describes our Steam thread too:
Steam iPhone App
You have an iPhone? That money could easily have been spent on Steam games. If you want to make the best of your shiny gadget, however, check out this Steam iPhone app. For less than the price of a grande mocha frapaacino or whatever, you can buy an unofficial program (which appears to have been created by a PA guy who has not stepped forward if the Armadeaddon screengrab means anything) which does all sorts of Steam shit.
Speaking of iPhones...
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http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998983368 anyone?
Ladies, gentlemen, gird your loins and ready your credit cards.
Well, I'm awake even though I don't want to be. I've gone to work already this morning to catch up a bit, and now I'm sitting and waiting.
In the meantime I think I'll try to figure out how to get my PS3 BT Headset to work with my computer.
And my fingers are crossed for a World of Goo gift pack...
My Backloggery
None of the games I have bought so far were on that list.
Is it me, or is it really annoying how each week it just takes all the money you've been accumulating, setting your stock back to nearly zero and forcing you to hit a higher mark the next week?
So we no longer think Recettear is getting a gift pack. What does that leave for today?
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
Edit: Saving a copy for Dírhael and Alegis at least, and I think there was at least one other person that sounded pretty sure yesterday.
Alegis & UncleSam had a group together, but I think they've gotten 6 at this point.
Edit: Beat.
Edit 2: As for what's left from LewieP's list. I think it's just the following:
- Indie Air Pack: Altitude, DogFighter, Flotilla, Gratuitous Space Battles, Plain Sight
- Indie Puzzle Pack: Cogs, Droplitz, Puzzle Dimension, Shatter, Tidalis
- Aliens vs Predator (2010) 6-pack
- Braid 10-pack
- Just Cause 2 8-pack
- Mount & Blade: Warband 6-pack
- Osmos 12-pack
- Splinter Cell: Conviction 6-pack
- Trine 8-pack
- World of Goo 12-pack
It's in Flash's appdata folder.
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\UQ2AB9XA\localhost\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\vvvvvv\vvvvvv.exe\
Steam ID: The Jester
Steam ID The Jester
We must be missing some of the standalones because that is far fewer than any previous day has had.
it's pretty good
New thread smell! It makes my head hurt...
And sadly, I will of course be out again when the roll-over for the new day takes place. SO SAD. PREPARE FOR GIFTS WHEN I RETURN!!
Friend invite sent!
Yeah, I've never gotten very far in Legends due to constant crashing. One reason I didn't bother getting the others in this sale, since it's almost unplayable for me. Unfortunately I don't know how to fix this.
Galactus what does event viewer tell you about the crash
Sent a STEAM Friends invite over to you.
I'm afraid to see what the stand alones are as well...
Aside from this, this is the third and last time I'll ask: Why can't I get Freedom Force to work? it crashes as soon as it loads and just says "freedomforce has stopped working"
That doesn't really give us much to work with.
Mount and Blade: Warband is the big one for me on that list. I definitely want a piece of that action.
random giftings to people on my friends list today.... are we friends? should we be? o_O
I had this problem too, I notched down the graphics settings and it hasn't crashed since.
Also, maybe use the latest stable drivers instead of beta?
Yes, I just wonder if Prophesy of Pendor has released a Warband compatible version.
At a glance, I believe the things in packs are often on sale on their own (I'm not saying that's absolutely how it is, but for example we had the Chaos Rising pack the other day, and DoW2 Gold (with CR) was also reduced by a good amount, and then there's a bunch of things that were on sale but not in packs.
So I'd assume that the 6-10+ pack stuff will mostly (if not all?) be on sale individually as well, and then we'll have a bunch of non-packed sales alongside them.
Having beaten and loved Trine, I think I'll be in for at least one pack today.
Anyway, what's the opinion on MW1? I already have it for Xbox 360 and I really liked it... I think it would be nice to have a more portable version for when I have some free time over winter break. Thoughts?
I hope the Splinter Cell bundle happens.
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