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Re: On Sale |
Dec 31, 2012, 15:42 |
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Beth owns id now, and they are probably in charge of the pricing.
About the steam repeats, the repeats are mostly the flash and voted deals. I don't think the dailies have repeated themselves. |
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| News Comments > New Year's Eve Metaverse |
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Re: New Year's Eve Metaverse |
Dec 31, 2012, 15:39 |
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Creston wrote on Dec 31, 2012, 14:13:
As for the fake youtube views, I'm sure the fucking RIAA will blame it on the pirates. Might be a little tough, when most of it was targeting the big music companies, looking like they paid some groups to pump up their views. Plus, youtube removed the actual VIDEOS too, so suddenly a lot of the big name companies are missing a bunch of official music videos from their channels. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 31, 2012, 08:36 |
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The Half Elf wrote on Dec 31, 2012, 05:24:
GAH Warthog went on a flash sale! Its on a flash sale now. I thought about getting it, but after reading reviews I think I'll wait. While it sounds like it has awesome graphics and sounds, its also a very accurate simulation, so it would require a huge investment in time to learn everything. I thought about it and decided I'd rather have something more like the old Jetfighter games, where it gives you a feeling that you are flying a flight sim in combat, but has all the tedious details removed.
Maybe someday if I have a better dual joystick setup, and lots of time, and it goes on another good sale. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 30, 2012, 23:16 |
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MisterBenn wrote on Dec 30, 2012, 21:15:
Yep - Civ 5 Gods and Kings for UK£2.99 from GMG can't be bad! It should have been £2.10 with the voucher but their payment page went wrong on me (said my payment had been refused before I'd even entered any payment details then emptied my basket) and then I missed the voucher deadline! You know that automatic 15 minute timer they put into every single person's cart on every single item on GMG, does NOT mean the voucher expires then, right?
If something is "expired" after the 15 mins, you just go back to home page, re-add to cart again, re-add voucher again and its ok again. The 15 min thing is mostly to encourage you to impulse buy (yeah it says price guarantee, but that is fairly meaningless). The only case in which it would actually matter is if you were buying during the last 15 mins of the sale. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 30, 2012, 13:28 |
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netnerd85 wrote on Dec 30, 2012, 13:05:
Good to see Dark Souls got some love during the flash sale. Must have sold a lot of copies to make top ten from a flash sale. Top 10 of the WEEK, and its in total revenue, not just copies. Since it was on sale for $20, that might help explain it. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 30, 2012, 12:35 |
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Repost of what I said in yesterdays sale thread:
Green Man Gaming has Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings Expansion Pack (PC Digital Download) for $4.49 - 30% off voucher code GMG30-DPLIM-DN831 = $3.14.
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Dangit, I shoulda waited. I paid like $6 or $7 on steam a day or two ago. |
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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Re: On Sale |
Dec 30, 2012, 12:30 |
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Green Man Gaming has Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings Expansion Pack (PC Digital Download) for $4.49 - 30% off voucher code GMG30-DPLIM-DN831 = $3.14.
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Dangit, I shoulda waited. I paid like $6 or $7 on steam a day or two ago.
Optional Nickname! wrote on Dec 30, 2012, 11:25:
Bruno Ferreira wrote a controversial headline and failed to match the article's content to it. I think you meant to comment in the Op Ed thread 
Also, while its not without problems, steam is a large factor in starting the indie game resurgence, as well as helping ensure that we get at least ports for many console games. |
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| News Comments > Tomb Raider Multiplayer |
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Re: Tomb Raider Multiplayer |
Dec 29, 2012, 17:37 |
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Prez wrote on Dec 29, 2012, 16:18:
Umm... Why?  Because marketing said so, so publisher said so?
We can only hope they don't pull too many resources off of single player. |
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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Re: On Sale |
Dec 29, 2012, 17:34 |
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Reminder, most things on GMG are on sale with this code:
GMG30-DPLIM-DN831
Speaking of SSDs:
Amazon had 256GB Crucial M4 2.5" SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive SSD (CT256M4SSD2) for $159.99 with free shipping.
A couple days ago. Its gone back up though. Pays to keep an eye on Slickdeals.net though if you are shopping for SSD. |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Dec 28, 2012, 11:16 |
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| Those 700,000 sales (I'm guessing almost entirely on steam) are the main reason I think. He probably figures that if he can get close to a million sales for a load of crap like that, nothing else matters. |
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| News Comments > Diablo III PvP Nears; Team Deathmatch Shelved |
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Re: Diablo III PvP Nears; Team Deathmatch Shelved |
Dec 28, 2012, 01:25 |
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| translation "Sorry, but we are selling it so good now, there's really no point to add pvp in. Too much effort since most people who wanted D3 already have it. Since we already have their money, no real point to putting it in" |
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Re: On Sale |
Dec 27, 2012, 10:01 |
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GMG sale, BL2 season pass for about $10, with this 30% off voucher (in addition to the 50% off sale):
GMG30-DPLIM-DN831 |
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| News Comments > Christmas Metaverse |
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Re: Christmas Metaverse |
Dec 26, 2012, 16:25 |
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Its easy enough to test offline mode. Disable your network connection and see what happens. Steam has had bugs with offline, but they've also fixed many bugs.
I've tested it, and you do NOT have to go into offline mode while you are online. You do NOT need an internet connection to enter offline mode. |
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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Re: On Sale |
Dec 26, 2012, 14:59 |
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Someone was asking or talking about looking for a BG sale on GoG. Well its on now.
BG 1/2, planescape, NWN, etc.
nin wrote on Dec 26, 2012, 13:08:
<looks at todays steam sale>
Repeats already?!
Repeats of flash sales, not dailies. They often vary it up. And the voted ones (ALL the choices not just the one) always happen on a daily or flash at least once. |
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Re: On Sale |
Dec 26, 2012, 12:42 |
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Creston wrote on Dec 26, 2012, 11:45:
Snuggle Truck FTW! Who doesn't have a copy yet? *grins evilly*
Btw, PC gamer actually wrote a really funny article for a change.
Creston I dont have the latest AC games, is what they are saying in those things accurate? Pretty funny if so. |
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| News Comments > Christmas Metaverse |
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Re: Christmas Metaverse |
Dec 26, 2012, 11:59 |
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Shineyguy wrote on Dec 26, 2012, 09:43:
Just as YouTube is a very poor indicator as well. You can have the greatest connection in the world, and be able to download a file at 5MB/s, but YouTube will stream ungodly slow because they don't have the bandwidth available on their back end to handle all the requests. I don't believe this is a lack of bandwidth from youtube. I believe its a problem with their streaming algorithms which tended to be tuned to err on the side of not streaming enough. Since many people skip around on a video or to another video, they don't want to load more than you might need, but they try to load enough too. |
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| News Comments > Christmas Metaverse |
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Re: Christmas Metaverse |
Dec 26, 2012, 00:40 |
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And besides, it isn't bandwith that valve is lacking for.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
Its load management of what bandwidth they ALREADY HAVE AND ARE PAYING FOR. They are actually WASTING money since lack of adequate load management prevents them from using all of what they already have. Users get errors about no connections available to download when there's still plenty of bandwidth left in their region. Plus the store front end often has errors popping up (in big sales and releases) since the load management for that can't handle all the requests.
Even if they can't adequately serve game downloads (which isn't the case since they always have spare bandwidth in any regions any time I've checked, even during peak sales when I've gotten errors), the store front end should be TOP PRIORITY for having as close to 100% uptime as humanly possible. Thats pretty much the ONLY way they have to get money. If they can't accept orders and process credit cards, they can't get money. They can and DO lose sales over that. Even if the majority of people will come back, some won't. Plus, if its a new customer, would it fill you with confidence to visit an unknown storefront and have it error out multiple times when trying to buy something? You might decide just to hit amazon instead, trust them instead with your credit card, especially when amazon is cheaper.
This comment was edited on Dec 26, 2012, 00:49. |
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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Re: spiderman |
Dec 25, 2012, 18:09 |
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Saboth wrote on Dec 25, 2012, 17:57:
nin wrote on Dec 25, 2012, 15:00:
Looks like amazon has XCOM (steam key) for $24.99 today, among other deals.
Seems like Amazon's deals are stomping all over Steam's. Dark Souls is a Flash deal at $19.99 right now, but I picked it up on Amazon for $14.99 yesterday. Most of the Steam deals have been in the 25-50% range, and the older games have been 75% at best. What happened to the 75-90% deals? Publishers dictate pricing on steam. Also, in many cases the normal non sale prices have been reduced. So instead of saying 90% off of $60, they say 75% off of $25.
Perhaps they should go the best buy route of raising prices before a sale so the percentage off is inflated
But yeah, I agree that I've seen some better deals in past holiday sales. Plus I miss the events. My guess is that it was an idea that sounded great in a brainstorming session at valve, but after they did them a couple times they realized how much work it was to do it, so it wasn't fun and interesting to them anymore. Plus all the exploiters who were buying many thousands of humble bundles at 1 penny to get all the entries to win free games on steam, kinda killed that idea.
And I'm not sure how amazon is doing that. My guess is that whatever the wholesale price is, they are doing it at close to cost or under cost, just like GMG is, to get market share. Even if that marketshare is to be a steam reseller.
But it pays to check for game sales at a few places before just straight buying it on steam.
This comment was edited on Dec 25, 2012, 18:23. |
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Re: On Sale |
Dec 25, 2012, 17:08 |
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El Pit wrote on Dec 25, 2012, 17:07:
Thx, Dev! No problemo.
And thanks for the Christmas gift!
Oh and before I forget, Merry Christmas to all! |
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Re: On Sale |
Dec 25, 2012, 16:51 |
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El Pit wrote on Dec 25, 2012, 16:50:
Hi Dev,
can you help me out over at Steam? You got mail.  Here's what I put in the other thread (contact me on steam msg, I don't see the mail yet):
El Pit wrote on Dec 25, 2012, 16:36:
Dev wrote on Dec 25, 2012, 15:03:
Are you talking from amazon? From GMG? A steam gift? Or?
If you paypal me enough to cover the game and the paypal fee, I can probably get you what you need. I have no idea if the game will end up being the version you need, but I'm in the US if that helps.
Dev, I'm talking about the Steam sale. Are you in the Steam Blue's News Group? Yep!
I'll go run snuggle truck and idle in it, so you can know who I am in that group
I've got a party to go to in a couple hours so don't take too long (I'll be on again probably in about 8 or 10 hours from now)
I've done group buys with Prez and Bats among others (both where I paid them for a game, and ones where I bought a group package and they paid me) if you need any references.
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