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I still don't understand how come Newell acts so surprised that price cuts and weekend deals make sales skyrocket. I mean, sellers have known for centuries that limited deals and price cuts can actually make you more money than not. How is this news to Valve? This is basic economics. Do grocery stores have to deal with "angry customers that feel cheated" when they put pork sirloin on sale? No, they just move a whole lotta pork sirloin.

Item on sale at a good price=people buy more.

I'm a sucker for the deals. My recent acquisition of DHSGIT is why I'm still up, actually.

 

Sort of makes one wonder how many more bicycles the gaming industry has to invent before it can cast off the diapers.

 

Ok, so will they drop STEAM?

 

Well service irather vey high, though the global recession has put a damper on things. unless service is free

 

That's all well and good, but their 1 Euro = 1 USD policy is horseshit. I don't know how much the publishers are to blame for this, but even Valve's own games have the same conversion. Since the price change near the end of last year I haven't bought a single thing off Steam.

Steam was supposed to have cheaper games since the costs that come with retail (packaging, shipment etc.) don't come into play. Instead it's now more expensive than retail.

So while they tout the greatness of their customer relationship they are also fucking Europeans up the ass. Double-faced much?

 

They'd better not TOUCH me in ANY way.

 

Steam is one big DRM nightmare, they even keep track of you when you are playing a game, e.g. how long it takes you to complete a level.

 

If Valve aims to touch its customers every three weeks, then where's my free Portal and Half-Life 2 downloadable content?

 

STEAM is the definition of spyware. That shit tracks how long I play, when I play, how I play, where I died, what weapons I used, how long I took at a certain level...... And I'm never asked if I want to submit that data. Not to mention the unasked patches that I can't refuse unless I completely turn off patching altogether. A prime example is here, on a thread I started some time ago where valve dumbed down episode one based on their amazing spying shit. A lot of dumbasses died on a challenging area of the game, so valve with their infinite wisdom dumbed the whole shit to appeal to a bunch of fags and to promote their innovashunive <s>spyware</s> STEAM technology.

 

The first time is always scary.

Is there an option to scale the difficulty?

 

There are three difficulty settings, but valve dumbed down that level in a way that it doesn't matter. The only way to play that level the way it was meant to be is to use a warez version of EP1 that is unpatched.

 

Spying on you is all part of the service. It helps us make the games you love, even better.

 

Is it not in the EULA somewhere?

Patches that you don't want are quite rare, I'd rather have an autopatch that is a benefit 95% of the time, than no autopatch, which would be helpful only about 5% of the time. If you don't like Ep1's difficulty curve, don't play it. If Steam han't been a factor, they would simply done it the old way and buried the balance changes in a patch with fixed a bunch of real bugs, and you would have still been screwed.

 

So many tards started playing when they cut the price for Left 4 Dead I had to quit

 

Hi. The FPS difficulty rating you want is that way *points to the various pugs, pick ups, gathers, scrims and matches of TF2, Quake, CS etc*