The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[pippin]

Well at least the Holiday Cards are selling for like 1.60 buck. It's something, I guess?

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

lol my measly 1024 gems wouldnt buy an empty twinkie wrapper at gabens personal cafeteria

 

[oscar]

The amount of clicking isn't even remotely worth being able to get some shovelware title.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

The promotion is gone and gems are wiped from the marketplace. I guess Valve had to hit the big red button since their event was so broken it allowed people to get essentially infinite cards and completely ruined card prices. Which is a shame since I've been saving them for a year to cash in during a (Normal) winter sale event. Oh well. Win some, lose some. Will be interesting to see if they try to fix the event and re-launch it before the winter sale or if they just sweep it under the rug and do a normal sale and pretend this never happened. Despite the lowered card prices.

 

[Abu Antar]

How do you get Holiday Cards this year? I see people from my friends list having some.

Is it only for buying games like other years?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

How do you get Holiday Cards this year? I see people from my friends list having some.

Is it only for buying games like other years?

At the moment it would be from crafting badges. That's how they've had event cards before the actual event before. Then once it goes live they'll probably have other ways of getting 'em like voting for community choice deals and spending money and shit.

 

[Don Peste]

Was this another brilliant idea of that Greek Economist Mastermind they hired?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Quite possibly, although the fault most likely couldn't be pinned to him. What sank the gem ship was whatever exploit or bug that let people get near-infinite gems. Without that it would've just been a normal stupid Steam metagame.

 

[Turjan]

What's with the "ORIGINAL STRIFE" insistent terminology? Gamefaqs says the only other game with that title is some yet unreleased MOBA.

"Unreleased" is a relative term here. The Strife Closed Beta keys had been in a Humble Bundle not very long ago, which means that the Strife MOBA has been the more visible item until now.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Quite possibly, although the fault most likely couldn't be pinned to him. What sank the gem ship was whatever exploit or bug that let people get near-infinite gems. Without that it would've just been a normal stupid Steam metagame.

No,no,no the exploit will be the scapegoat.Even without it the ability to make packs with gems would have destroyed all cards value.

 

[Don Peste]

If Gaben really were Santa, he would reintroduce the coal system from the 2011 Sale...

 

[Jick Magger]

I honestly didn't expect this to explode quite as catastrophically as it did. Just expected it to be a modest failure because, well, nine users out of ten can't be bothered dicking around with their inventories to get all the gems necessary to buy shovelware they can just wait a few days to purchase for real money during the Christmas sales.

 

[Konjad]

I'm awaiting the day when I can sell all my humble bundle shit even for 1 cent per game and buy a proper game instead (or another CK2 DLC )

 

[Don Peste]

I'm awaiting the day when I can sell all my humble bundle shit even for 1 cent per game and buy a proper game instead (or another CK2 DLC )

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...travaganza-thread-begging-also-welcome.78755/

 

[Correct_Carlo]

Strife looks awesome.....never heard of it before. I've mostly been playing old games lately and could totally go for a 2D FPS after playing Realms of the Haunting.

 

[Astral Rag]

Strife is cool, I wouldn't recommend getting this "HD" re-release though (unless the price is very low and all these out of place effects are purely optional) You can easily enable all opengl features of your favorite Doom source port if want to make id tech 1 games look weird and ugly.

 

[pippin]

Dude who makes Freeman's Mind did a video about Strife:

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Oh god, over-the-shoulder view.

Also the burning animations remind me of Street Fighter

 

[LundB]

Strife is cool, I wouldn't recommend getting this "HD" re-release though (unless the price is very low and all these out of place effects are purely optional)

Night Dive tends to price games pretty cheaply and put them on sale often, and the video explicitly showed that you can turn off so called 'hd mode' to play it without the bullshit if you want.

The promotion is gone and gems are wiped from the marketplace. I guess Valve had to hit the big red button since their event was so broken it allowed people to get essentially infinite cards and completely ruined card prices. Which is a shame since I've been saving them for a year to cash in during a (Normal) winter sale event. Oh well. Win some, lose some. Will be interesting to see if they try to fix the event and re-launch it before the winter sale or if they just sweep it under the rug and do a normal sale and pretend this never happened. Despite the lowered card prices.

The shit hit the fan while I was offline, looking at prices now it seems that cards are back to their standard price for the most part, maybe a tiny bit lower. The sale will likely bump them back up.

 

[Infinitron]

Night Dive tends to price games pretty cheaply and put them on sale often

Speak of the devil: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/nightdive

 

[TripJack]

mother of godgaben

 

[Icewater]

System Shock 2 for $1? YES PLEASE

but before I do, are there any known issues with the Steam edition of SS2?

 

[pippin]

None at all from my experience, and it's technically DRM free so buy it if you want.

 

[Infinitron]

but before I do, are there any known issues with the Steam edition of SS2?

None except don't install it under a protected directory like Program Files if you wanna install mods and such with no problems