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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them
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Leon Belmont
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Thanks Grief!
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
good grief
DyslexicAlucard
Member
I think you guys are getting a little bit ancy for the Summer Seal. Doesn't it usually start mid-to-late July?
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Yeah, but this thread is 3 pages away from death.
Historically it's begun late June more often than ~mid-July. I'm hoping it's the latter again though as tax time starts on July 1st here.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Gun Monkeys is coming to Steam
It's a 2D, online competitive shooter. Looks pretty interesting. According to the dev, if everything goes well the beta will be out this week, and the game will be out the week after.
DyslexicAlucard
Member
Historically, it's been starting later and later. Look forward to early August, guys!
Side note: I thought Grief was talking about the Summer Sale thread. My bad!
Gun Monkeys is coming to Steam
It's a 2D, online competitive shooter. Looks pretty interesting. According to the dev, if everything goes well the beta will be out this week, and the game will be out the week after.
I want to believe but these games are tough to pull off. Showdown effect was the last game to try.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Honestly, the only thing I didn't like about TSE was the lag. I guess Awesomenauts is the success story for this style of game, although it's more of a MOBA than a shooter.
It should start in September, so then we have four months of back-to-back sales (Summer, Halloween, Autumn and Winter).
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Do you think Steam can out-sale Amazon?
I hate to say it but before this I never had any interest in Counterstrike.
The best strategy here it to play them against each other. So we win in the end. And by we I mean them because they'll have all the money.
buying this
DyslexicAlucard
Member
Can they? Yes. Will they? Probably not. They have no impetus to, now that the Steam Sales are so ingrained into PC culture. I rarely see the amazing "OMFG, that's INSANE!" deals anymore. There are lots of "good" deals though -- just not incredible.
cicero
Member
They haven't for over a year now. Valve seems content with lower percentage sale price drops. At this point, as long as greenmangaming, Amazon, and GamersGate are willing to continue to pick up the slack, give us crazy deals, and have it eat into their margins, who cares what Valve does.
What they can do is continue to provide free cards for games, ensuring that I will be able to sell them and cover any purchases through Steam.
I am Michael Bolton
Banned
Yep. I can't recall the last sale on Steam that really impressed me. Amazon, GMG, and others impress significantly more so. Also, a few people on GAF in the Buy/Sell thread have delivered much better deals for Steam games than any retailer. Not keys mind you but gifts through Steam.
I was quite impressed with the recent Brave New World sale, and I recall the winter sale ending with an "omg wow" Sleepy Dogs sale.
I just hope they bring back Left-Foot Lara and the full-featured narratives and non-exploitable events like they had in the halcyon days of Summer 2011.
Try ask the support
http://support.humblebundle.com/
And how did you accidently pay 25 instead of 10?
StopMakingSense
Member
HB default price is 25.
TaroYamada
Member
Does anybody know what happened to the games.opensteamworks.org charts? They've been down forever. Really annoys me, I liked looking at those.
PetriP-TNT
Member
I am interested on cheap HL2 + Episodes too as I had them but lost the account some years ago (wasn't my account, was my friends that he got VAC-banned or something and gave it away, hehe)
Servizio
I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
Traveling back in time to October, 2007 and preordering it.
There aren't any, but it'll be 75% off during Steam's upcoming Summer Sale.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Hmm, looks like no big Steam summer then.
Also I just realized that Skyrim Legendary is very cheap here, like 20 bucks lower.
Also I just realized that Skyrim Legendary is very cheap here, like 20 bucks lower.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Dude, it's only June.
Da DreadLord
Member
June is the new August
StopMakingSense
Member
It's not even summer yet lol
dark_inferno
Member
I think summer sale will begin when Dota 2 comes.
Civilization V is so addicting. It was almost midnight, so I decided to play a bit more before bed...I look at the time and its almost 3 am!!
I'm trying to do a diplomacy victory on Pangaea with 3 other civs.
Things started out well, with myself (Rome), America, Russia, and China all on very good terms.
That lasted until Russia started to get pressed for territory and declared war on myself and America. I took Yekaterinburg and Moscow, while America was beaten up trying to take St. Petersburg.
Then I declared war on America to reclaim some territory they sneakily snatched up. I took San Francisco, Rome, and Atlanta from them as well as a city-state that had some good resources.
Now I have a sprawling empire, a shaky peace with both America and Russia, and on good terms with China.
I don't see myself butting heads with China, they are kind of separated from the rest of us on the continent.
Cool story.
I'm trying to do a diplomacy victory on Pangaea with 3 other civs.
Things started out well, with myself (Rome), America, Russia, and China all on very good terms.
That lasted until Russia started to get pressed for territory and declared war on myself and America. I took Yekaterinburg and Moscow, while America was beaten up trying to take St. Petersburg.
Then I declared war on America to reclaim some territory they sneakily snatched up. I took San Francisco, Rome, and Atlanta from them as well as a city-state that had some good resources.
Now I have a sprawling empire, a shaky peace with both America and Russia, and on good terms with China.
I don't see myself butting heads with China, they are kind of separated from the rest of us on the continent.
Cool story.
Servizio
I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
Speaking only for myself; My Steam wallet is fat with card sales and I'm looking to grab Skyrim's DLC which I can't get at other DD sellers.
Lord British
Member
So are we gonna get 100+ pages of "when is the summer seal"
There aren't many Steam-redeemable games offered by third parties that I don't have, whereas on Steam itself there are a good ~450 (excluding games I missed the boat on and F2P titles), so for me it's less about the quality of the discounts and more about the quantity.
After giving it some more thought, one game in particular I'd like to see at 66%+ off is Star Trek, since these days I'm paranoid about publishers abruptly abandoning licenses attached to bombas (see: Acti abandoning the James Bond license not even three months after 007 Legends released).
There's bound to be less of that this year as if the sale does skip June then the next assumption will be ~mid-July. Last year the notion that the sale would begin in July was seen as a nothing more than a cruel joke since both years prior it'd begun late June (well, 2011's begun July 1st here, but I digress).
My sweaty armpits say otherwise.
One Foul Note
Member
You are correct, it is a £1.99 iOS game. And not a very good one to be honest, it has a fan base so perhaps it is just me but I found it really dull. At a cheaper price it might make a good mindless activity to fill the time while you are listening to a podcast or anything, but at ten dollars I can't recommend it unless they've added a hell of a lot more interesting content.
Yup, don't buy it at that price. I got it for $2 on android and it's okay. Definitely not worth $10.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Wait, why are iOS games becoming more expensive when brought to Steam
DiscoJer
Member
Button tax.
PSP owners had to deal with it the last few years, now it's moved on to Vita/3DS and now PC
Eaten By A Grue
Member
Build a mighty army of legion units against Americas tanks. Send them a message that you will not be bullied.
jediyoshi
Member
Trailer up for SpeedRunners, new game by the guys who made no time to explain.
www.youtube.com/watch?&v=r-1qEEKpTGg
Gonna be steam, beta signs are up http://tinybuild.com/
www.youtube.com/watch?&v=r-1qEEKpTGg
Gonna be steam, beta signs are up http://tinybuild.com/
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