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post Feb 3 2014, 09:21 AM, updated 12y ago

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Tips to Survive Major Steam Sales

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Rule #1:
From now until the LAST DAY of the sale, if a game is on sale as a daily deal or flash deal, you can buy it. If it is only "on sale" through July 23, pass. Do not buy. Save your money (you may need it).

Rule #2:
Check each day for the daily deals, and monitor flash deals. As games come up that you want, you can get them. Just continue to exercise self control for games that are not a daily/flash deal.

Rule #3:
You can purchase the large packs, such as the THQ pack or Square-Enix/Eidos pack at any time if you wish. It is extremely unlikely that those bundles will be discounted any further, even though individual games in those packs may become daily deals. If you want a bundle, go for it. Lots of games, excellent price.

Rule #4:
On the LAST DAY of the sale, Steam traditionally makes its daily deals an encore of the most popular daily deals from the previous days. Go nuts. Buy everything you wanted. New games are almost never on the daily deals during the last day. At this point, it is safe to buy anything else you've been waiting on.

Rule #5:
If you miss a game from a daily deal, STILL DO NOT BUY IT until the last day. As I said, the final day often recaps previous days' daily deals, so there is still a chance the game you missed could come around as a daily deal again. Don't rush it. If it doesn't, you can still buy it at the standard sale price on the last day, and just be sad you missed the daily deal. Just remember that if you missed it on one day, it's not necessarily too late. Save money by keeping a cool head.


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What is Steam?
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1. Problem with steam updating?
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Steam seller:
(In case if you need someone to help you buy it because you don't have credit card or other problem)
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post Feb 3 2014, 09:25 PM

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QUOTE(Pedr0 @ Feb 3 2014, 05:53 PM)
Oh ok thanks.yeah my question is why are gamers feggits and virgin nerds?
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O'rly?

Didn't we have plenty of dads, mums and couples here? At least far more than /k where it was said that /k is for forever alones.
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post Feb 7 2014, 01:30 PM

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QUOTE(chtan @ Feb 7 2014, 12:05 PM)
Not interested in game with monthly subscription. There are already a lot of subscription that need to be settle every month, namely electrical bill, unifi, water. Gaming also need subsciption? No way. That is why until now I still haven't pick up FF Reborn.
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Paying for server is such an archaic system that should be dead by now, considering we arent paying for monthy usage for Steam servers, Appstore and Play Store.

I do not play MMOs because they need you to dedicate a lot of time to it and also the ridiculous amount of money i need to pay monthly.
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post Feb 7 2014, 02:47 PM

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QUOTE(d-ky @ Feb 7 2014, 02:25 PM)
advertising, you're free from advertisement with monthly subscription-based game
expansion, new expansion every 3 months ( most of the subscription-based games )
microtransaction, pretty self-explanatory
server, yes, steam is free, but it sells game, and by selling a game, it got covered up, likewise to appstore and playstore
personally, i don't mind paying for games if it is worthy to play, since it's only 15-20 usd
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The main problem is not about money, $15 is nothing compared to the time you'll waste in the game as MMO are designed to play long term and I am not interested in sticking to a game for a long time.
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post Feb 7 2014, 02:55 PM

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QUOTE(wingwp @ Feb 7 2014, 02:53 PM)
quite true la nowday the new mmo are all bout grinding and they'll try all effort to waste your time.. eve online i want to try very much but well too late already
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It just feels like most game companies are insecure to the point that they want to force players to play their games for thousands of hours.

No thanks, and I prefer smaller games that can be finished in a few hours.
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post Feb 7 2014, 03:41 PM

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Not everyone has the time to deal with a MMO these days. A lot of us are working where we only have an hour or so to play some games at night. So what is wrong if I choose to play Brothers instead of ESO. In fact, most games are deliberately padded with shitty content to be unnecessarily lengthy with hopes to keep players playing it for an extended amount of time. I rather have a short and sweet game, like Bastion or prosedurally generated games that focus on gameplay like FTL than playing a over focus tested piece of crap that is intentionally lengthy with a handful of amazing moments among boring crap.

The problem with F2P is, just look at the mess with Dungeon Keeper mobile and you'll see whats wrong with it. There are barely any decent F2P out there that actually respects your time and wallet.

Gamers nowadays are hard to please because all these large corporations are treating gamers like walking wallets for them to extract from. If they actually start making decent games that respects gamers, people wont hate them that much.

People complain a bit, then you got butthurt. Not everyone is a arse licker like you where almost every game out there is good.

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post Feb 9 2014, 11:55 AM

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Dont know about you, but ESO looks even worse than unmodded Skyrim.

They are using the Hero Engine for god sakes where visuals are probably the engine's lowest priority. TOR also used that engine with really blocky models and poor animations. Hero Engine is supposed to be cheap to ultilised and for quick development but I have no idea how the hell they managed to spend almost 200 million on this.

Hopefully, ESO doesnt fail like TORtanic because I still want more single player Elder Scrolls or more Dishonored. Bethesda is able to make some pretty good games, but hopefully this doesnt make them go burst.
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post Feb 9 2014, 04:17 PM

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QUOTE(lanux128 @ Feb 9 2014, 03:31 PM)
That doesnt look good. sad.gif
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post Feb 10 2014, 10:53 AM

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QUOTE(lanux128 @ Feb 10 2014, 10:52 AM)
Bureau is turn-based or real-time?
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Its real time with some bullet time-like slow down for squad command.
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post Feb 11 2014, 12:50 PM

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QUOTE(Boldnut @ Feb 11 2014, 12:34 PM)
I played the beta, pretty Average. It is not even worth $60 let alone $60 + $15. U better off playing Guildwar 2.

Unless ESO is free to play= it will be good
if it is a Pay to play like now = it is a overpriced JUNK (heck it is not just pay to play(P2P), it is P2P + DLC + collectors lol)

ESO is the best bug free elder scroll game, but it is also the worst elderscroll game. Stick with ur skyrim. Want Multiplayer = go play GuildWar 2
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I think this preview/impression does make a good point.



Its not going to be Skyrim with multiplayer which i think people has to stop comparing to that.

Still, despite I like Skyrim, I dont think I'll even consider ESO. $15 a month is expensive while I am not keen of playing a MMO. Also dislike the fact that they went with the Hero engine too, its a shitty MMO engine.
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QUOTE(FrostLance @ Feb 11 2014, 12:51 PM)
Graphics are actually much much better than vanilla skyrim. The textures are better. But combat and movement feels clunky most of the time.

The number 1 reason for the great bashing is due to the 15usd subs model. Im pretty sure if they didnt announce this, everyone would go to ends praising this as a new gamechanger MMO lol. They should of used GW2 model. sigh
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I dont know. Hero Engine is known for being cheap to use and it has some basic infrastructure featured out of the box, kinda like Unity but for MMO. The problem with Hero is, it a nightmare to work with which means patches or DLCs will take long to come because its a very programmer unfriendly engine. I think a programmer in TOR said that they rather make their own engine than use the shitty Hero Engine. And I really hate the block and plastic like textures in ESO. Its like a gritty version of Frozen or something. doh.gif

GW2 model would be nice, but i doubt it will be enough to recoup their 200 million investment. I am actually worried about Bethesda as this time round, it might not work out well for them, despite they took so many risks with Skyrim, Evils Within, Dishonored and so on.



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post Feb 11 2014, 03:19 PM

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QUOTE(s7ran9er @ Feb 11 2014, 03:01 PM)
after getting a new performance laptop lately, looking back at the massive backlog, I am ashamed. sad.gif

#pileofshame
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Which performance laptop did you get? biggrin.gif

M17x? G75? Illegear?

I think mine is even worse. Haha.

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post Feb 12 2014, 10:10 AM

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QUOTE(memphiz_zero88 @ Feb 12 2014, 06:52 AM)
YES, KONAMI DID IT AGAIN!!!! rclxm9.gif rclxm9.gif

Castlevania LOS2 is region locked, same lock with Metal Gear Rising. thumbup.gif
http://store.steampowered.com/app/239250
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Again?

They keep the game then. Damn Japanese studios for being an idiot.
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post Feb 12 2014, 04:54 PM

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QUOTE(SSJBen @ Feb 12 2014, 04:29 PM)
Just giving away some games that I got from Humble Bundle a while ago. Just posting the links here, not gonna go through the PM me 1st thing.
I know most here already have these games, but for those who don't then go ahead and redeem them.

Batman Arkham City GOTY
Civilization 5
Civilization 5 Gods & Kings DLC
FEAR
FEAR 2
Guardians of Middle Earth
Guardians of Middle Earth DLC
Mortal Kombat Kollection

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Would be better if you ask people PM you to get the keys as there are a lot of ninjas here that might take the keys and sell it.


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post Feb 12 2014, 05:14 PM

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QUOTE(pikachu01 @ Feb 12 2014, 05:03 PM)
It's  not easy to resell it cause you need to link your Humble Bundle account to redeem it (you can't re-regift it). Hence you either give your Humble Bundle account user/password or your Steam user/password. Both are a no-no to just earn a few bucks.

Edit: Oops, just noticed a typo. You cannot regift a gift hence making gifts almost impossible to resell unless you risk either your Humble Bundle or Steam credentials.
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Didnt know that but at least, cant these people say thanks or some sort of appreciation?

Just take and go. Its quite rude to be honest.
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post Feb 12 2014, 05:36 PM

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QUOTE(pikachu01 @ Feb 12 2014, 05:15 PM)
Yup. There's been a lot of giveaways in this thread, but I found that most won't even post that they got it. That's just plain rude. sad.gif

That's why we can't have nice things.  rclxub.gif
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Thats why I do not give out games in a giveaways at all.

No point giving out for free and more than half taken by some ungrateful people.
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post Feb 12 2014, 05:51 PM

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QUOTE(pikachu01 @ Feb 12 2014, 05:40 PM)
Well, just put in SteamGifts LyN group giveaway and put a high CV. Then people would need to give stuff themselves before they can participate in it.
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Cant be bothered. Steam Gifts is a nightmare to use.

And it is stuff that most people have it by now.
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post Feb 14 2014, 03:45 PM

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Just got Titanfall Beta. Its a 12GB download.


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QUOTE(faidz85 @ Feb 14 2014, 03:52 PM)
They emailed you with the origin email?

Anyone else gets the beta? I am still hoping for mine.
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I just got the email. Downloading now.
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QUOTE(ik3da @ Feb 14 2014, 04:18 PM)
Share some review/points bout it whenever you can do so, the game plays from YouTube look nice/fun so far.
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I dont know to be honest, it looks like CoD with mechs to me but actually playing it might be different.

I am not expecting much from Titanfall, considering its an EA published game. Dont have any confidence with EA now, after the whole BF4, PvZ2, and Dungeon Keeper fiasco.

I'll probably get South Park than Titanfall in March .

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