Curious about one thing. Some people mentioned that they got DOTA 2 gift from the contest. Is this just the beta access, or for the full version of DOTA 2?

What happened to that person... I hope he's still alive

Indeed... added by quite a few big games that was supposed to come out in 2011 but gets delayed to 2012, so now 2012 is full of big games coming out.

Back to normal. Its been fun.

Good luck everyone for the final lucky draw

For me I'm hoping I can refrain from buying games even in Summer Sales ... or at least, spend lesser

I need to save up for a new graphic card this year. Makes no sense to buy so many games but not the hardware to play it

Haha, wow, someone actually tested it

Sent the invitation. I'm Hornet85 there

Welcome to Steam

No full price for me these days.

At most I've paid for a single game is $40, for BF3 russian edition, and Skyrim on Steam sales.

If something is too good to be true, it probably is.

Be careful with all this sudden free stuff. Who in their right mind will offer strangers a game for free?

Contact Steam support and clear the matter with them. Maybe they can investigate.

This is probably what you wanted to know:

1. Yes your are VAC clean. VAC has nothing to do with Trade Ban.

2. VAC ban is indisputable and irreversible no matter what happens, even if someone hack your account. However, you can probably reverse a trade ban if you can prove that you did not commit any fraud.

Thats the difference between the 2 ban

Good luck

Anyone can say anything in a chat.

I can claim I never receive a game even if I did. However, trade history doesn't lie. We don't have access to it but maybe Valve did

Which is why IcedMelon should contact Steam support

Yep, trading problems come when people trade outside of Steam trading system by sending gift and expect something in return.

No matter how good the offer is, please refrain from trading outside of Steam trade system. Don't trade something expecting a CD key or a gift later. Either trade in the trade system or don't do it at all.

Age of Empire 3 on Steam

Wonder why suddenly revive that game and bring to Steam. Age of Empire 4 coming?

I've read about many ppl who done that for Russian key they bought from CD key sites, it do works and you should be fine.

Only problem is you should ensure your key is a legit retail key and not stolen or generated from key gen. In any case, should the key become illegal, Steam will just remove it from your account.

Kind of weird though. He's US resident which should have access to everything there is on Steam. According to SAPI ranking, he's ranked 18 and other US resident have 50-60 or more games than him. Even if we take into account previous games that were removed, 50 looks like a big number.

You guys still got money buy games... I'm almost bankrupt already after Steam sales

LOL, must be an error it went into New Release

But I'm glad to see the new Metro 2033 coming to Steam.

I miss the days when the community are allowed to create their own map and distribute it for free.

Thankfully we still have some games like The Elder Scroll and Fallout that allow us to mod the game and even Bethesda fully support the modding community by releasing official modding kits.

Interesting stats. I got this.

Hornet85
Has logged 654.3 hours of playtime — that's 27 days, 6 hours, and 18 minutes, where The Sims 3 is their most played game, which accounts for 15.0% of their playtime

Nope, no extra charges. You get charged exactly the price of the games you are buying, or the exact amount of Steam Wallet funds you are buying.

I'm currently using Paypal since I don't have any credit card. Usually use the Steam wallet and my Paypal is charged exactly $50.00

As far as I know, Steam only takes USD from Paypal, they don't take MYR and exchange it to USD themself, so it depends on Paypal.

For me anyway, since I have to add funds to my Paypal first before I can buy anything online using Paypal, the funds in Paypal have to be in USD according to Paypal if I want to pay anything in USD, so my exchange rate is according to Paypal's rate.