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The [STEAM] Thread: Sale is over, now you have to wait another 15 years to buy Quake
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Coping With Steam: Reinterpreted Artistic Commentary on Our Shared Affliction
Most Frequently Asked Questions
1. Steam's search tool is cumbersome and not very informative. Is there a website, other than Steam's, I can go to find out what's on sale?
2. Can I register this copy of (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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. How do I get an invite to the Penny Arcade Steam group?
The most convenient way is to just post a link to your Steam profile page (getting one of the swank signatures described below makes it easy) and ask for an invite.
Some Words on Gifting
If you receive a game or pack via a gift or a contest, remember to thank that person either through a PM or by announcing it in the thread. We are classy gentlemen and will act as such.
If you are having trouble sending a gift to someone or want to grab a game at sale price to be used as a gift sometime down the road, remember you have the option of sending a gift via e-mail, including to your own e-mail! You can then forward the e-mail message to the intended recipient at some later time, as long as the hyperlink to actually open the gift hasn’t been clicked.
An Important Word on Contests
If you decide to run or participate in a giveaway contest for gift copies of games, please remember that all entry submissions must now be made via PM. The forum mods have stated that pages of the thread being filled with pictures, videos, etc. submitted as contest entries will lead to such contests being banned. So please, for the sake of the thread – take it to PMs.
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:
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 color 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 Roulette
Having trouble picking a game out of your burgeoning [strike]backlog[/strike] gamebank to play? Let VicWhiten's Steam Roulette decide! Just type in your Steam community ID (easier if you set up a custom URL on your Steam profile page), and Steam Roulette will read your library and randomly pick one game every time you hit "Spin the Wheel!" It even connects to Steam to allow you to install or start the game with a single click.
In closing, remember our words:
WE SERVE THE NEWELL.
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Steam ID: Good Life
My Backloggery
Oh also, besides CTSW and BOD7 coming out on the 13th, we're also getting Dungeons of Dredmoor on that day. I love a fresh hot indie RPG injection.
We didn't find out that we were approved for Steam until relatively late so we don't have any Steamworks features at the moment. Maybe our next game.
And yes, Dungeons of Dredmor also comes out on Wednesday. I'm in the beta and it's an awesome roguelike so make sure to add it to your cart when you're buying our games.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
say no more
sold!
Holy crap I made the OP? Thats my site, still working on making it better and whatnot. Thanks!!!
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SvK and Manetherenwolff
Runner up EvilMonkey
And once again big thanks for the extra prizes to the classy
Blackbird SR-71C
Nathrak
Forar
And thanks to everyone who played!
For those stuck on Puzzle 2, if you still wanna play:
"he who died that day is the key"
all lowercase, with space.
Steam ID: Good Life
Gaslight, any room for the comics to come back in the OP?
Snuggles, Borderlands does tell you about the lock on when you first get into the car. You can also check the OP of the Borderlands Thread for this and other frustration avoiding tips.
Skoal Cat, what's your Steam ID?
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
On that note, I was looking at the page this morning right before the sale closed. I read your recommendation, and bought it because of that (Well that and hearing people rave about it, but your recommendation pushed me over the edge haha).
While on the topic of CSTW/BODVII (Thanks Again!!!!), I take it Steam Art for List and Grid view is on its way?
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... I'm sensing a theme here.
Ten is probably decent. I've got plenty of friends with two or three entries (not really trying). Don't feel bad about not having 30+ tickets like all us crazy Steam sale obsessed veterans. You will join us soon. It is inevitable. Think of how much better your chances would be with just one more ticket... just one more. Wait for Christmas. (unless The Newell decides to implement quarterly sales... or more events like the Potato Pack...)
<Palpatine>Soon the Alliance will be crushed, and Zilla will be one of us.</Palpatine>
Origin: Viycktor
Speaking of comics...
No fancy artwork though
Thanks again to Zeboyd for the review copies of BoD and Cthulu!
Now this makes me an OFFICIAL GAME REVIEWER and also coincides with my FIRST BRIBE for FAVOURABLE TREATMENT.
In UNRELATED news my reviews for BoD VII and Cthulu Saves the World are IN!.
ELEVEN THUMBS UP!
:!:THANK YOU IOLO!:!:
You are a fine upstanding gentleman for gifting me Mass Effect 2.
Yikes, just 11, huh. I guess they'll have to bribe harder next time.
Attention all budding game devs, I'll give you at least 24 thumbs in whatever direction (or orifice :winky: ) you want for review copies of your games or of other games or for money or food or if you wink at me the right way.
Feels like I have been waiting for it for so long, so so long.
Bravely Default / 3DS Friend Code = 3394-3571-1609
Guessed I missed it.
I have a more immediate problem regarding Hitman: Blood Money. Here's my post from the same thread which has yet to be addressed.
Would love to get this sorted out.
I also asked about Vampire's fan patch; there's a program called VPK Tool that has a textures tab listing things like "Trilinear" and "Antiscoptic" under a Headlines bar. I was wondering if checking these terms means I would enable such enhancements on the game itself.
Also, how do I make a cool games collection image like the one above?
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When you consider that only two of those thumbs were ones I was born with, it's a much more impressive score.
Should anyway. I had to make a whole bunch of different sized header style images for CSTW and BODVII for Steam
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Born with only 2 thumbs? Pfft. Peasant.
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or just click the little boxes representing Grid on the top right hand side of the "Library" panel. (the 3 icons are Detail/List/Grid)
Bravely Default / 3DS Friend Code = 3394-3571-1609
Not to rain on your parade, but they've just been adjusting the release date all along. A few months back it was listed as Q1 2011
And prior to that it had actual specific release dates, and at one point they even waited until the day it was supposedly releasing to change the date
You have forty tickets?
I always think people like you must exist in some lucky, paradoxical confluence of both free time AND money. :P
It's a good job I had the foresight to lop off some spare hands. Children don't need hands anyway, they'd only waste them on finger painting or exploring electric sockets.
As long as i'm caretaker, yes, I just haven't saved all the good ones so I need to track them down. That one will be in, and if Simone could be so kind as to re-post the original I SERVE THE NEWELL one again?
Either way consider both bought so hard the second they show on the store.
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Anyone know of a fix?
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Yeah they should be both together for $3 I believe.
So if you were a bad forumer and forgot to set aside a little cash for these gems, I have got your back.
Err, aren't we already in Q3?
But yea I've been waiting for this to come out for PC for so long now too
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