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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
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.
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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:
Avatars
http://www.ddgamer.com/signatures.php. Select Avatar from the drop down list.
You need to delete your Avatar under:
Edit Avatar
Then add that URL in the Avatar URL field in:
Edit Your Details
Also, the border changes colour based on if you're online, offline or in-game.
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:
Avatars
http://www.ddgamer.com/signatures.php. Select Avatar from the drop down list.
You need to delete your Avatar under:
Edit Avatar
Then add that URL in the Avatar URL field in:
Edit Your Details
Also, the border changes colour based on if you're online, offline or in-game.
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:
More fun comics
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Even better than PSN. Oddly enough, they are now both on PS3. I never thought I'd see the day.
Hmm... works for me.
Not a slight on Steam in any way, just annoying that the camp network is set up this way :P I want Fate of the Worlds, damnit!
Wait are they technically two copies?
At least you have your copy. Amazon keeps sending me the 360 copy despite my repeated attempts to get them to stop :P
I'm on the chapter Cursed... Where the hell am I supposed to go?
You get a disc, which works like any other PS3 disc based game.
You also get a single use code to activate a free PC/Mac version of the game.
How it works is you get the disc, put it in the console, load it up, log into PSN, pair your Steam account with your PSN account, and once you've done that, you're able to enter the single use code into the PC version of Steam, which gives you a PC copy of the game too.
Unless you've paired your PSN and steam account, Steam won't accept the serial. Since PSN is down, I've not been able to do this.
Set liberty city stories to download, started civ5, made sure it was still downloading, then played for 4 hours while it finished.
Checked back and it re-paused the download as soon as I started a game.
They really need to make that something you can disable.
It's pretty effing long, too. It's chock-full of moments where you're running away from a high-powered enemy only to return about 5 hours later and stomp the shit outta them. Very satisfying
But doesn't it make it impossible to play both at the same time?
I don't have the network infrastructure to test that, but wasn't the idea always less a "buy one copy, get one free" deal and more a "buy one license to use in two different formats" thing?
Hate Guns 'n Roses now though, which kinda sucks I guess.
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The only issue being that my main problem with the game, the fact that the difficulty seems to be all over the place, is apparently even more of an issue in multi where the creep combinations are randomized.
Too bad the one DLC that mattered never came to the PC. And then the same thing happened for NFS Hot Pursuit. For all the praise Criterion gets for supporting their games, I really don't see it, at least if you buy their games on the PC.
(I guess that's how jilted 360 TF2 players must feel.)
I'll just slip this in here.
Also, the Steam thread should have more contests.
But that's really an unfair expectation unless it was somehow subsidized. So ultimately, Steam should have ridiculous holiday-level sales all the time.
The license for the disc based game is totally transferable. Since all the discs are totally the same, it obviously can't be attached to any consoles or accounts.
As long as you activate the free PC copy with a Steam/PSN account that is separate from the one that the person with the disc has, I can't see any way that it could possibly prevent you from playing against each other.
Well, I've played it for 3 hours so far and haven't encountered anything resembling a bug.
The game is, however, Europa-Universalis-Complex-as-hell. More in predicting the results of your actions than your actions (there aren't that many things to do, but the ramifications are endless...)
Yes, that is correct.
Right, but that contiguousness of disc-based media only goes one way. I can't think of any even relatively easy way for Valve to jump through its PSN-based hoops re: PC copies for the PS3 bonus...license...thing without doing some painful logistical gymnastics.
To maintain what they're trying to do here, Valve would have to create a way to replicate their PSN-based validation functionality that both A) validates the user as at the very least a person with both a valid code and a valid PS3 disc (without using a PS3, mind you),
I would not be surprised if at some soonish point Valve just washes their hands of Plan A and figures out a way to validate something else on existing PS3 copies and sends out codes via form or email that way. But I'm sure they'll hate it, since they were trying to use Portal 2 PS3 as a way to gather data for a proof of concept, and this horribly-timed issue beyond their control just threw that completely sideways. I would also not be surprised in the least if this whole thing results in Valve never relying on someone else's network interface to deliver one of their own selling points.
I did before PSN went down. I was on PS3. It worked very very well, except for two things. 1. You can't voice chat during loading screens. It's easy to forget and annoying when you have to repeat yourself. And 2. the voice quality could've been better.
But other than those miner quibbles, it was great! No noticeable lag even. We were even on opposite coasts.
Load up PS3 and link my PSN and my Steam account on my main PSN ID. Log into PC and download portal 2. Switch from my regular PSN ID to my secondary PSN ID. Made a steam account for that ID and loaded up the disc copy of Portal 2. Loaded up my PC Version of Portal 2 which was registered to my main Steam Account. Done.
You can register as many steam accounts as you'd like to PSN IDs, you just can only use the code once to get a PC Version. Anytime you want to play portal you need to be logged into a steam account but it doesn't necessarily have to be the steam account you use as your main one. You can create a throw away one just for an alternate PSN ID and invite friends over to play same house Co-op.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
They may also laugh.
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