The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[gerey]

the only similar thing i've seen, it's been on ubishit client: someone of you gave me a splinter cell blacklist key and some time later they decided to remove the game from my inventory. fuck them, literally worse than hitler.

This happened to me once with Steam - I bought a game from a reseller only to have it removed from my inventory a few days later because it turned out that the key on the store had been bought with a stolen credit card.

It was 7 eurobucks so no big deal, and when I asked the key store for a refund they actually did so, though by giving me in-store credit.

Also worth mentioning, in the nearly 5 years I've been buying from key resellers this was the first and only time this happened.

Valve cannot legally ban you from accessing your account, or take it away from you, because by doing so they'd be opening an unpleasant can of worms.

Even if a game is delisted from Steam and you're not able to purchase it anymore, if you have it in your library you can still download and play the game without issue.

 

[Curratum]

I've been buying keys almost exclusively from key reseller sites for over 5 years now. Around a hundred games, give or take. Never had a single issue with any of the keys or with activating them on Steam / having them removed.

All you have to do is not use the shittiest resellers (wink wink g2a) and buy from sellers with over 1000 transactions and good ratings.

 

[Terra]

Valve cannot legally ban you from accessing your account, or take it away from you, because by doing so they'd be opening an unpleasant can of worms.

Even if a game is delisted from Steam and you're not able to purchase it anymore, if you have it in your library you can still download and play the game without issue.

You'd think not, but digital storefronts have been a law unto themselves for years now.

Around 10 years ago, I wanted a Steam copy of Vampire: Bloodlines, it was on sale at the time 75% off, around £3-£4 iirc. I paid by Paypal at the time, little did I know that my card details on Paypal were out of date. Paypal, instead of emailing me to let me know, initiated a chargeback and my Steam account of (at the time couple of hundred games) was "temporarily suspended". So, for a number of days until I'd liaised with Valve support, I couldn't login or play any of my games. I think in recent years, Valve's been smacked down for this shit, likely primarily by various European laws, so if similar situation were to occur now, they'd just remove the problematic game from you account. But the fact that they could do this in the first place over essentially pocket change was very concerning.

I've had EA Origin key activations silently revoked from my account, they're probably the worst as their system won't even alert you. At least with Steam you get a big notification that you have to manually dismiss. Best advice with keys though is if the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is, compare the going rate for a given game/key before committing. But for the overwhelming majority of key-based dealings, I've had no problems, stick with known resellers, avoid fly-by-night one-man listings.

 

[Catacombs]

I've been buying keys almost exclusively from key reseller sites for over 5 years now. Around a hundred games, give or take. Never had a single issue with any of the keys or with activating them on Steam / having them removed.

What reseller do you use?

 

[Curratum]

I've been buying keys almost exclusively from key reseller sites for over 5 years now. Around a hundred games, give or take. Never had a single issue with any of the keys or with activating them on Steam / having them removed.

What reseller do you use?

I just hit allkeyshop com and search there, it's a key reseller price aggregator.

Used to shop on Kinguin a lot, but lately much better prices have been cropping up on Eneba and Gamivo, so mostly those two over the past 2-3 years.

 

[gerey]

Best advice with keys though is if the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is, compare the going rate for a given game/key before committing. But for the overwhelming majority of key-based dealings, I've had no problems, stick with known resellers, avoid fly-by-night one-man listings.

That's true, but nowadays you're usually pretty safe. Best way to figure out if a deal is "too good to be true" is to look into why they're selling the game cheap. That usually happens because the game was bundled somewhere recently (usually Humble Bundle) or there's been a big sale (so people that got gifted the game and don't want it are trying to make some money off of it). Also, most key resellers track how many successful sales any given sellers has, so if you have to choose between some duded with a 99,9% trust rating and thousands of transactions and some no-name guy with a few transactions under his belt, the choice is obvious.

The situation with Control (and Ghostrunner before that) is nearly unprecedented. They're being sold for literal pennies, which is strange. Then again, the game has been sitting in my GOG account for a few weeks now so I assume it will stay there for the foreseeable future.

I just hit allkeyshop com and search there, it's a key reseller price aggregator.

Another alternative is gg.deals, since they track both official and grey market stores.

And another piece of advice, try to avoid purchasing gifts whenever possible - they usually work, but I've had a few duds because of regional restrictions. The reseller was a good sport though and always refunded me whenever that happened.

 

[mastroego]

So you guys'd risk it even with this exceptional Control price?
I don't know, it feels like stealing...

 

[mediocrepoet]

So you guys'd risk it even with this exceptional Control price?
I don't know, it feels like stealing...

It was free on GOG as an Amazon Prime bonus.

 

[Sore Loser]

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[Casual Hero]

Sometimes I enjoy purchasing new games.

 

[mastroego]

Well I got the ultracheap Control key.
But it's for GOG: I can afford having even the entire GOG account nuked.
In fact, I never meant to buy anything again from them.... but then I didn't, even now, as a matter of fact.

 

[c2007]

Bought LA Noire on sale, after pirating it and playing enough of it to say, uh ok. It is decent, but there are some mesh problems and I have gotten stuck to things a few times which is fucking jank. Oh well. Will play some more. The historical low price was decent, I think worth it for the game. Interesting to recognize these actors.

Despite loathing Origin, there were some Star Wars titles I consumed at their cheap prices. Interested to see how I feel about Fallen Order.

The backlog has grown with these sales, and I spent maybe $40 on 6 games. Not bad.

Oh, and have grabbed Ghost Runner and a couple other decent games for free thanks to the Prime account. Thanks Lord Bezos, you're a cunt but I'll take my crumbs.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

need a good sci-fi game with a story to play, pls recommend

 

[Heroic Liberator]

need a good sci-fi game with a story to play, pls recommend

Primordia.

 

[GloomFrost]

need a good sci-fi game with a story to play, pls recommend

Xcom 1,2, Starcraft 1,2, Dex, Deus ex, Mass Effect, Technomancer, Elex, Homeworld, Terminator Salvation, Bulletstorm, Gamedec, Black Messa, Metro, Underail, Encased, Insomnia, Tiberium Sun/Wars, Primordia, Stasis.

 

[mediocrepoet]

need a good sci-fi game with a story to play, pls recommend

Space Invaders (1978) while listening to the audiobook versions of the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Anachronox maybe.

need a good sci-fi game with a story to play, pls recommend

 

[mediocrepoet]

need a good sci-fi game with a story to play, pls recommend

Space Invaders (1978) while listening to the audiobook versions of the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.

Actually, more seriously, what sort of game are you looking for? I mean, this could be pretty much anything from a flight sim, strategy game (RT or TB), RPG, etc. Good and sci fi do narrow it down a lot, but there are still pretty vast differences in what's out there.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

need a good sci-fi game with a story to play, pls recommend

Maybe try that Due Sex game everyone keeps talking about, it has conspiracies and nanotechnology and everything.

 

[mediocrepoet]

need a good sci-fi game with a story to play, pls recommend

Maybe try that Due Sex game everyone keeps talking about, it has conspiracies and nanotechnology and everything.

Yeah, Invisible War was badass and a classic. It even brought in one ammo type for everything years before Mass Effect did the same.

 

[Irata]

This is the first time since the end of flash sales that Steam actually has a few decent discounts. But only a few. Still not buying anything.

If you just want to have a laugh over the Steam Awards nominate Crab Game for GOTY. If you want to piss off Xbox players upset over cosmetics then nominate Halo Infinite.

 

[Lagi]

i buy bunch of games but only enjoy one

the ambient is worse than in Darkest Dungeon - graphic, no narration. But the gameplay is very good. And i feel less railroaded, I have more freedom in what I am doing. Also the card and inventory system is interesting, quite fresh idea. Hmm.. I think i still prefer Darkest Dungeon, but Derelicts is very good nevertheless.

platformer Ori 2 - Will of the Wisp gameplay was very good. Controls of your character is very nice, i almost never get angry that i dont land on narrow place (air control) or didnt reach the edge (climbing). Load system after death is flawless. Game starts dull, but once you start exploring map and gaining new abilities, you just cannot stop. Flow of game is much better than Blasphemous. I stop playing because I get headache from the graphic after few hours of game - all this blur and lights, Blasphemous art style is so far the best.

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i play warhammer 2, i was surprise it run on my integrated card (on lowest setting). Camera control on WSAD is great, monsters and flying units are fantastic. All this tiny human scattering around after charge is a good fun. However the units are very tiny, and normal gameplay is watching Icons(banners) with HP bars moving around the massive battle zone. The campaign is interesting at first (voice acting are great), but then i get tired from clicking end turn over again, waiting to move my lords to next city, waiting during siege, or waiting for upgrade/construction to finish.

i play medieval 2 - its relief that my soldiers are not so tiny. But the campaign with this movement points, and slow figures reaction was repelling. After few "quick battles", i buy...

Medieval 1 - campaign map is great. Movement area by area is perfect. building time of 6 turns to upgrade your farm is wearisome. battles with 2d sprites are very readable, but the combat is not so exciting, and the controls are clunky.

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the sad think is, last 2 weeks i was replaying over and over again warcraft1 open source campaigns :/ . This game is dead simple, not sure what i find in it so appealing, graphic? - maybe im dumb.

after weekend with nu-games, i want to play Doom1 again

 

[ferratilis]

For anyone interested, Prey (2006) can still be bought online even though it was delisted from Steam. I got it from Eneba for less than 2 bucks. Usually, these delisted games can be very expensive, but this one isn't. Might be worth grabbing a key if you liked it. I'm definitely glad to add it to my library.
https://www.eneba.com/us/steam-prey-steam-key-global

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

delisted from Steam

y tho?

 

[ferratilis]

delisted from Steam

y tho?

Because there are no more CD keys being generated. The only ones remaining are the ones you buy from third parties. It's a bit strange because the game is still available on Xbox, but that's how it is. For whatever reason, the publisher refuses to generate more keys. It's not uncommon with some older games, hell even newer games sometimes run out of keys to sell and they have to pull it from sale until publishers give Valve more.