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STEAM Announcements/Updates 2013 - Summer sale start date? No one knows, don't ask

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cicero

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The most slippery of slopes.

No cards are regularly selling for only 12 cents. The closest are the TF2 cards that are in the 30s. I have instantly resold cheap cards I have bought multiple times, usually making at least 40-50 cents profit.
 

Ezalc

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Summer sale... I am ready.

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Best armor to use against the sales, is the armor of poverty.
 

Addnan

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Anybody activate a copy of Company of Heroes 2 they bought outside of Steam? My one is just listing it as the beta, but can see the DLC when I go on properties.. hmm

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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
This is a nice humble sale. Was just going to buy Stealth Bastard Deluxe the other day. Thankfully I held off. :)
 
In my world, Super House of Dead Ninjas would be seen as the de facto roguelike platforming game and not Spelunky.
I prefer this world then. Super House is still good and all, but its focus on rushing downward with invincibility rage time makes it less interesting than navigating the traps and risk vs reward of the generated levels in Spelunky.
 

HoosTrax

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To celebrate International Picnic Day, save 75% on Go Home Dinosaurs! today!
I wonder how the discussion to convince Valve that "International Picnic Day" was a valid reason for having a sale promotion went...
 
I don't know if this has been answered but do the devs/pubs get a cut of Valve's share on card selling ? It could be a pretty nice incentive for some publishers to go on Steam since Valve is basically printing money out of thin air right now (well there's still the art cost).
 

Acorn

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I don't know if this has been answered but do the devs/pubs get a cut of Valve's share on card selling ? It could be a pretty nice incentive for some publishers to go on Steam since Valve is basically printing money out of thin air right now (well there's still the art cost).
I asked before but I don't think anyone knows.
 

dave is ok

aztek is ok
I don't know if this has been answered but do the devs/pubs get a cut of Valve's share on card selling ? It could be a pretty nice incentive for some publishers to go on Steam since Valve is basically printing money out of thin air right now (well there's still the art cost).
I really doubt it. But they benefit from the fuckton of extra sales that having trading cards gives them
 

HoosTrax

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I don't know if this has been answered but do the devs/pubs get a cut of Valve's share on card selling ? It could be a pretty nice incentive for some publishers to go on Steam since Valve is basically printing money out of thin air right now (well there's still the art cost).
It's been asked and answered quite a bit, and it's in the STC FAQs.

- The developer (or publisher) gets 10% of the price when a card gets sold in the Steam Market.
- Valve gets 5% of the price

(Valve gets 15% total for STCs for L4D2, Portal, CS:GO, DOTA2, HL2 etc for obvious reasons)
 

Acorn

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It's been asked and answered quite a bit, and it's in the STC FAQs.

- The developer (or publisher) gets 10% of the price when a card gets sold in the Steam Market.
- Valve gets 5% of the price

(Valve gets 15% total for STCs for L4D2, Portal, CS:GO, DOTA2, HL2 etc for obvious reasons)
That is a decent incentive right there. Imagine the amount of money big games could make from that for sticking some concept art up.
 
It's been asked and answered quite a bit, and it's in the STC FAQs.

- The developer (or publisher) gets 10% of the price when a card gets sold in the Steam Market.
- Valve gets 5% of the price

(Valve gets 15% total for STCs for L4D2, Portal, CS:GO, DOTA2, HL2 etc for obvious reasons)

Allrighty then, thanks.
 

Grief.exe

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Hey Grief how about my "Take one, give one Steam gift thread" thread?

I also need to add in the Trading Card thread as well.

Those will take a little time since I have to Photoshop up some more backgrounds. I also want to edit the original ones since they aren't cut out correctly.

Anyone know what was used for that striped black background in the Steam pictures? If I had a high resolution render I could start one from scratch.
Right now, I pieced it together by cutting out part, copy/ pasting, and lining up the diagonal lines.


This is what I am referring to, what was the original render for the background?

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Giran

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Anyone know what was used for that striped black background in the Steam pictures? If I had a high resolution render I could start one from scratch.
Right now, I pieced it together by cutting out part, copy/ pasting, and lining up the diagonal lines.


This is what I am referring to, what was the original render for the background?

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It's just a gradient and a pattern.
 

coopolon

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When I saw the last thread had been locked my first thought was that the summer sale had started.

Then I realized it was probably just the post count.
 

Giran

Member
Good point.

Wont it be pretty tough to match it up to look exactly like the original?

Normally it would be since that is jpg compressed so coming up with an identical one would be somewhat tedious, but you can settle for one that just looks very similar. Like this.

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HoosTrax

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I hope they change the "Badge Collector" showcase to let you specify which 6 badges to display. I kind of just want to get a set of six level 5 or foil badges for the indie games I like the most, and call it a day and sell any other cards I come across.

Hope Dean hurries up and finishes the trading cards for Dust.
 
From what I've seen of the trading card markets, I wouldn't advise buying games solely for the trading cards, you'll almost certainly lose money. That said, it's a nice bonus for games you're always going to buy (or have already put down money for, such as Skullgirls and Carmageddon Reincarnation in my case).
 

Tenrius

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I got two foil cards from Brutal Legend, one of them in first three minutes.

EDIT: Had 44 card drops in total, no other foils.
 
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