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STEAM announcements & updates 2011 Thread 3 | Buy now, play later.
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Wichu said:I doubt anyone cares, but here's a spreadsheet I made that shows my PC game expenditure so far. I need to stop buying so many games; before this summer, I only had Minecraft, Portal, Terraria and Civ V; now look what's happened
Wasn't sure on whether to include some of the games (such as GTA I/II), seeing as they're now free to download... Technically, they were part of the bundle, so I included them.
For 'normal price', I used the non-bundle price on the Steam store when available (Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII are only available as a bundle, so I just split it between them). I've never bought a PC game full-price; saving nearly £400 on total RRP feels good
Haha, I would not even want to make this. I added up what I spent in the past 2 months and it's not pretty. Let's just say my Steam gifts and guest passes box alone somehow got up to 14 pages. And I missed the summer sale because I was away. It'd probably be best if I go away again in December. Seriously though, help me.
And I'm tired of all these games switching over to a new format. Witcher 2 had to download like 10 gigs.
Wichu said:I doubt anyone cares, but here's a spreadsheet I made that shows my PC game expenditure so far. I need to stop buying so many games; before this summer, I only had Minecraft, Portal, Terraria and Civ V; now look what's happened
Wasn't sure on whether to include some of the games (such as GTA I/II), seeing as they're now free to download... Technically, they were part of the bundle, so I included them.
For 'normal price', I used the non-bundle price on the Steam store when available (Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII are only available as a bundle, so I just split it between them). I've never bought a PC game full-price; saving nearly £400 on total RRP feels good
Yah, I have a running spreadsheet of all my expenditures. A few months ago there was a thread about how much we've spent so far and I was surprised to see how much I had spent, so I've stopped buying games just because they are cheap. It actually feels pretty good, I mean it's great and all to get games for insanely cheap prices, but my backlog is already insane and I was just being silly.
Still getting Skyrim and maybe a few games for the Xmas sale.
Wichu said:I doubt anyone cares, but here's a spreadsheet I made that shows my PC game expenditure so far. I need to stop buying so many games; before this summer, I only had Minecraft, Portal, Terraria and Civ V; now look what's happened
Wasn't sure on whether to include some of the games (such as GTA I/II), seeing as they're now free to download... Technically, they were part of the bundle, so I included them.
For 'normal price', I used the non-bundle price on the Steam store when available (Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII are only available as a bundle, so I just split it between them). I've never bought a PC game full-price; saving nearly £400 on total RRP feels good
that looks like a good way to manage expenditure
would you mind sharing it? ^^
It's just an Excel spreadsheet with some formatting applied. Here's the xlsx file for the template (made in Excel 2010); it's got all the formulae and formatting in it already, so all you have to do is delete the example stuff and put your games in (and possibly change the currency formatting). To add new rows, either drag the little handle in the bottom-right corner, or right-click and choose 'Insert Table Row'.wilflare said:
I'd wait for now - seems they must send the keys manually or something - quite a few people, including me are still waiting for keys a few hours after ordering.iSimon said:
I'm going to remove the original post about the deal until I actually get my key and can confirm it works. As I said, the company are legit and run plenty of download sites, but there seems to be a long wait until they actually send out the Steam keys.
Zero-Crescent
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I got the "conversion" dialog box for Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. It converted it to the "new format," but afterwards, it rolled back the unofficial patch. After it finished, I had to turn off automatic updating for VtMB again, and re-install the unofficial patch. After it was done, VtMB started up just fine.
DyslexicAlucard
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Is anyone interested in starting a 4 pack of Renegade Ops, or have a spare copy I can buy for $7.50?
balladofwindfishes
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nope, still downDerrick01 said:
Madrugador
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Is community down for someone else?
powersurge
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So kotaku says steam's forums got hacked. If your password for that forum is the same for anything else I'd change it asap. Hope they catch these assholes and lock em up in a Gulag.
graywolf323
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Dice said:
ditto if so
DyslexicAlucard
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I've already got a copy of RO, but thanks, guys. You can probably make your own 4 pack, though.
Also, who can help me with the Skyrim D2D deal? I can Paypal you $46 right away.
Also, who can help me with the Skyrim D2D deal? I can Paypal you $46 right away.
Netrunner2k2
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crimsonheadGCN said:
Cool-looking game + Poets of the Fall music = must-buy for me.
Aww, yeah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cos8RTooA
Stallion Free
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The passwords are for the *forum*, which is completely separate from your Steam account and the people who post on them are so awful that it's hard to care.epmode said:
epmode said:
Yeah they've been really useful to me too. I go check them when I have technical issues with games since Steam has no technical support database or FAQ for third party games. All they have is page saying to contact the publishers. Usually the important thread regarding technical problems are stickied so it's fairly easy to find a solution to your issue.
crimsonheadGCN
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iNvidious01 said:
Thanks for this.
jaundicejuice
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Has anyone tried out Stealth Bastard? An entirely free stealth, puzzle platformer? I can't get the damned game to run.
UnluckyKate
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Jzero15 said:
No because last time, there were individual codes for each game and no bundle code added in the Steam Registry
jaundicejuice
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AcridMeat said:
Try installing it in the root of your C drive. Just create a Stealth Bastard folder there and install. Did the trick for me. Brilliant little puzzle game actually. They should get it up on Steam for 5$.
jediyoshi
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Neat, the menus/ui could use some polish but most everything ingame is pretty nifty. Instantly thought of Revenge of the Titans looking at itjaundicejuice said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkYLhATQJs
Joe Molotov
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Joe Molotov said:
Got a phone call from my bank like an hour after I ordered this, "Are you sure you wanted to make this purchase?" "Yes, it's fine" then I waited around all evening, never got my CD-Key. Finally this morning I get an email from Gamesplanet saying my purchase failed to authorize, and my order has been cancelled. Fuck.
Edit: I tried again using Paypal this time. I hope this doesn't come back to bite me in the ass.
I can confirm the GamesPlanet deal works. I was wary of posting it last night as I ordered around 8pm and hadn't received my key, but I got it this morning - activated fine and it's currently downloading through Steam.
Seems they must do manual verification during working hours, so if you order tonight, be prepared to wait until tomorrow morning for your code.
Seems they must do manual verification during working hours, so if you order tonight, be prepared to wait until tomorrow morning for your code.
Stumpokapow
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epmode said:
As far as we know so far, the people who hacked the forum just compromised a mod's account, meaning that they wouldn't have access to the password info, encrypted or otherwise.
That being said, the passwords being encrypted doesn't save anyone. It depends on the encryption algorithm being used, whether the passwords are salted at all, whether the passwords are salted individually or as a whole, and whether getting database access allows an intrude to discover or derive the salt.
(This is not the first time I've written about this kind of thing on GAF tee hee)
Stumpokapow
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wutwutwut said:
There are plugins to make vBulletin use many hash functions, and I haven't looked at it in years, but the last time I did the default md5(md5(password) . salt) with the salt being per-user and stored in the users table in a separate column. So, good enough to avoid most rainbow tables, but not ideal.
Was Valve using vBulletin?
Joe Molotov
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Joe Molotov said:Got a phone call from my bank like an hour after I ordered this, "Are you sure you wanted to make this purchase?" "Yes, it's fine" then I waited around all evening, never got my CD-Key. Finally this morning I get an email from Gamesplanet saying my purchase failed to authorize, and my order has been cancelled. Fuck.
Edit: I tried again using Paypal this time. I hope this doesn't come back to bite me in the ass.
They cancelled my Paypal order and refunded the money, and then Paypal put a hold on the money while they "reviewed". FML
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