TheMightyEthan Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 Alright, I'll be at my parents' for dinner when the next user voted sale starts, but if you send me a private message on here it'll send the notification to my phone so I'll get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 (edited) I tried with my IP maskin software and it actually got further down to the process to the point I actually had the chance to press "purchase" and the transaction appeared as failed in my transaction history. Which is a good thing, since it means it's not the steam servers themselves, just my card being used not in the US, and the ip masking software probably can only do so much, but it doesnt work with Steam 100%. I might ask a friend via FB if anybody is online right now. I'll see how it goes. edit: found a method in the steam forums that work. Changed billing address to have the same address as my texas residence, but changed the country to where I currently am. Also I'm using my debit card, which is usually not as much of a pain in the ass to work with as a credit card. Edited July 14, 2012 by Waldorf And Statler 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maritan Posted July 15, 2012 Report Share Posted July 15, 2012 To my steam friends: fill out your wishlists, the games are very-very cheap here(asscreed pack was less then 10 bucks on the first day of sale), so I might gift you something you really wanted but didn't want to spend a lot of money on. I just hope my mood won't change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 15, 2012 Report Share Posted July 15, 2012 PSA: don't bother with the Civilization Collection. Just get Civ V for quarter the packs price, that's likely all you'll play anyway. Oh and for folks who have a habit of buying me things on steam: I keep my wishlist fleshed out due to steam doing competitions. Quite often I don't wholly care for what's on there (especially as by now I own pretty much all the games I like on steam). Though it is ordered, you can click ndrag them (then hit "save") in order of preference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted July 15, 2012 Report Share Posted July 15, 2012 I only truly cared about Civ V Gods and Kings and that's only on sale for like 20% off. I'd rather wait till it's half off or something. I have no rush to buy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 15, 2012 Report Share Posted July 15, 2012 QUBE is 75% in the flash sale for whoever it was that wanted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 15, 2012 Report Share Posted July 15, 2012 I'm the same way as Dean with my wishlist: it's mostly stuff I'm mildly interested in, combined with a few things I'm waiting for a price drop on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 QUBE is 75% in the flash sale for whoever it was that wanted it. That was me! And I missed it ... oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vargras Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Bastion's on sale right now for 3.74. Grab it while you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 store.steampowered.com/app/22380/?snr=1_702_4_ Buy it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 ^The version with the DLC is only $5 more for those interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Referring to Fallout: New Vegas for those who don't want to go back a page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 http://steamcommunity.com/groups/NewSteamCommunityBeta#announcements/detail/1604670252580163051 Community Beta out for "Game Guides", basically a Steam version of GameFAQ pretty much. Could come in useful I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 I feel this issue will soon evolve into a growing Valve/Steam issue of allowing unfinished or absolute garbage and lies to be sold by them since they have absolute control over what gets plastered in the store. Sure its a buyer beware sort of deal going on in brick and mortar stores and hell, most online stores too but TB brought to my attention of something regarding digital stores since he sort of hinted at it... digital stores can have a different expectation and it can be solely because of Apple's App Store and their known "quality" checking practice. This topic isn't really in the scope of this thread's topic so I'll end it here... And I'll continue it as it was something that was mulling over in my mind last night but I was in bed at the time. This whole kerfuffle does reflect very badly upon Steam, and I would hope the wider audience maybe takes Gabe off a pedestal for a bit and realise this. Steam currently has a very weird balance between the Apple App store and Android App store in that it's closed off, you can't just throw your game on their and expect to be admitted, yet it also has next to no review process beyond (at the moment) Greenlight. Which Valve seem pretty fluid on how they use it given as best I can tell War Z is now on Steam, with the new "everything new must be through Greenlight" rules, yet Hammerlight and OP Productions are completely new to Steam and were never voted in. And this isn't the second game to hit Steam in an unfinished state, Towns had an issue of launching on steam in an Alpha state, and also having screenshots of the games that are using mods. (and hasn't updated their page to reflect this).Yes Valve can't be held account for every bug and issue a game may have, but this should be held accountable when the store pages on their client/website are deceptive and when devs are allowed to abuse Valves supplied community hub pages. (And edit the TOS to disallow refunds, which I'm pretty sure is illegal and surprised to find that's something in the devs hands and not the distributors). edit: Also since this had become a bit of a general Steam thread, and most of the deals going in the Game Deals thread, I have tweaked the title and subtitle to suit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 (And edit the TOS to disallow refunds, which I'm pretty sure is illegal and surprised to find that's something in the devs hands and not the distributors). Yeah, it's got to be illegal to lie about what your product offers and then be like "nope, the TOS you agreed to says no refunds". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1747660173332716773 Steam for Linux now in open beta.I'm gonna give it a spin on my netbook (running Lubuntu) and report back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Reporting back: So installing it was a bit of a pain. It spat out it's dummy I was missing a dependancy, so I just hit the update manager and updated all 125 now out-dated packages (because the dependency missing will likely have being "0aug_tzr", Linux still being pretty fucking obscure.) After that it now didn't spit out it's dummy and even offered to grab the three missing dependencies. Then it's installed and same log-in process as normal. I now hit the second issue. You see I'm doing this on my netbook, not the largest screen in the world, and Steam default skin isn't the most space efficient so I go to add in Pixelvision. I have no fucking idea where Steam is installed And due to the way Linux filesystem works the Steam icon isn't a shortcut you can "go to file location" with. A Google shows that it's a hidden folder, you need to hit Ctrl+H to make it show up. ...and it turns out Skins don't work (at least ones made for the main client..awesome. Looks like you need to grab some third party skin manager. Also in rebooting to make the skin show up Steam had a pop-up on a suggested package to add to improve graphics, and ..well that was the only step it suggested and hitting "okay" just brought up the package manager so I don't have that package because I didn't note the name down. Another thing; this is my first time on a non-Windows version of Steam and I'm surprised the games you can't play show up. I kinda figured you'd get a OS-specific version that only showed games that would run on your OS. Not like it's hard thing to work out. There is currently 32 games for Linux, of which it seems I own 21 (mostly HIB games, I did say before now that the HIB will likely mean more games for Linux launch than that of OSX launch). It filters your library by OS btw, so that makes things much easier (obviously no need for a "Windows Games" filter in Library of main client since 100% of games are Windows games). It's a funny thing but one third of the Linux games.... I dunno which ones to try out, TF2 run on the netbook regardless of OS, and FTL doesn't fit. Oh wait Big Picture mode, I can try that and have my Steam....Fold...SteamBook(?) in all it's glory. Errm, well this is fun. Oh wait no I typed too soon (as in I sat staring at a black screen for a good few minutes while reading other threads).. we now have a mouse icon. And it's black again. And woot here's the UI. And yeah just as I expected the 360 pad doesn't work on Linux Well it's half three in the morning so I think I'll jump over that hurdle another day. What can I say, it's Steam on Linux. It's like Ronseal in the naming really and all that entails. edit: I spoke too soon, the Big Picture mode has twitched. edit2: Nah it was just settling. Also in the interest of science I swapped over Windows and booted up Big Picture and it runs much better (though still clunky), so yeah it's a Linux issue as first though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Apparently The War Z has been pulled from Steam. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-12-19-the-war-z-pulled-from-steam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 And nothing of value was lost... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Steeeeeeeam saaaaaaaaale. Allegedly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 I thought it was tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Sites are saying today. And we all know how reliable video game blogs are with their rumors... And it's live! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftwaffles Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Oh, it is today. My wallet is not ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 I thought it was tomorrow. You should read FB more often https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=522968251056349&id=141995829153595 Also as usual: Do not buy anything unless it is in the flash or daily deals, or it is the final day (4th January) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Uh oh! It's that time again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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