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STEAM | February 2017 - Giveaways are back
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NeoRaider
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It's always like that.
I mean not just GAF, in general.
Steamgaf is hypocritgaf now.
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This time they are claiming they are collaborating with publishers in order to provide legit bundles, so maybe it's something different.
LurkerPrime
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That feeling when you see something from a different perspective.
Like so: (Pillars 2 gif)
Like so: (Pillars 2 gif)
Finished Abzû. The last area was really beautiful. Shame that the camera tended to swing really wildly in one part though, made me a little motion sick. Also unfortunate that it crashed 3 times.
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Back to playing Tales of Zestiria. First "Tales of"-game I am playing, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
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Back to playing Tales of Zestiria. First "Tales of"-game I am playing, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
That feeling when you see something from a different perspective.
Like so: (Pillars 2 gif)
Thing is, it will still have terrible performance, like Pillars 1 did.
(It brought my old 970 to its knees on the highest quality setting)
It's a victimless crime. Except for the guys getting their credit cards stolen.
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I got 60fps on my 960 no problem...
I got 60fps as well, but the sound made by my GPU's fan while playing the game was terribly offputting.
I find that really hard to believe, taking into consideration one of the games in the bundle is a delisted one.
spindoctor
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Well, I've been dealing with some Windows update related shit for the last hour so I figured I'd post about it here.
Basically if you're on Windows 10, Windows update will try and force an Nvidia display driver update (376.53) on you if you are using 376.33 or below (which are from December of last year).
If you have Win 10 Home then you won't have much of a choice about the download (unless this registry edit works for you).
If you're on Win 10 Pro then there's a tool you can use to try and hide the update from Windows update so that you don't have to download it. This tool has worked for me in the past but it didn't this time around.
Letting Windows update actually update your driver for you is not a good idea because it *apparently* lets your OS takes control of a temp folder (C:\temp\NVIDIA) and will not let you write to it. This folder is used for every Nvidia driver installation so you will not be able to install Nvidia drivers manually in the future until you take back ownership of the folder.
Or you could do what I did which was to update to the newer 378.49 drivers directly from the Nvidia website which will eventually (it takes a while) stop Windows update trying to push those drivers onto you. Apparently the 378.49 drivers could cause some issues for you in which case you might prefer getting the beta 378.57 hotfix drivers.
More information in this reddit thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5sqj05/windows_10_forced_a_37653_driver_update/
Basically if you're on Windows 10, Windows update will try and force an Nvidia display driver update (376.53) on you if you are using 376.33 or below (which are from December of last year).
If you have Win 10 Home then you won't have much of a choice about the download (unless this registry edit works for you).
If you're on Win 10 Pro then there's a tool you can use to try and hide the update from Windows update so that you don't have to download it. This tool has worked for me in the past but it didn't this time around.
Letting Windows update actually update your driver for you is not a good idea because it *apparently* lets your OS takes control of a temp folder (C:\temp\NVIDIA) and will not let you write to it. This folder is used for every Nvidia driver installation so you will not be able to install Nvidia drivers manually in the future until you take back ownership of the folder.
Or you could do what I did which was to update to the newer 378.49 drivers directly from the Nvidia website which will eventually (it takes a while) stop Windows update trying to push those drivers onto you. Apparently the 378.49 drivers could cause some issues for you in which case you might prefer getting the beta 378.57 hotfix drivers.
More information in this reddit thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5sqj05/windows_10_forced_a_37653_driver_update/
If the price is right, the majority of Steam GAF will gladly fuck over the developer. This is a known fact.
Baron von Loathsome
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It seems legit by G2A standards. I grabbed it, but I don't see myself supporting the site again.
Fable 3 is not on Steam anymore, but Amazon US recently got a stock of Steam keys for it. Not saying that G2A are legit on this one, but it's not impossible.
Edit: I decided against the bundle, btw. G2A suck.
I've just looked at the bundle and the description makes it seem that it's provided by another site, one where Chrome refuses to open the page because of a privacy/security warning when you click the link in the description.
Yep. Definitely not dodgy at all. Not at all.
<snipped the rest>
This is why I keep backups of important drivers and software, and update them every couple of months. I can clean install Windows, boot into it the first time, disconnect the internet connection and then install all the important stuff before Windows chucks it at me. Nvidia drivers, Creative drivers, WiFi and mobo stuff.
If you've got a spare USB stick or external drive, it's totally worth doing.
Different situations though, Fable 3 was delisted because of the GFWL marketplace shutdown, while DiRT 3 was likely delisted due to licenses ending (wouldn't really make sense for it to be delisted otherwise).
Plus DiRT3 was free on humble bundle not long before it was delisted, that sounds like a rather possible source of keys for G2A.
It's fantastic.
There's not really much that compares to Atelier, gameplay-wise. Really, I can't think of anything. It's a slice-of-life non-linear alchemy-focused JRPG series.
CPU requirements aren't high. It runs on a ultraportable laptop.
Ah, yeah, that's a good point - forgot about the Humble giveaway. Very suspicious. :/
Baron von Loathsome
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I'm pretty sure the Dirt 3 keys from the Humble giveaway have already expired.
There was a time limit on when the keys could be redeemed, but dunno if there was a time limit to the keys themselves.
Atelier Sophie is at 7.5K currently. Considering the game sold a mere 60K in its first week in Japan, that's sill more than 10% of that number, and its not been a week yet. It could easily end up at 30K in a few weeks, and with sales even reach 100K. For their first game on a new platform with no prior audience, that's adequate.
But maybe they had SquareEnix-type expectations of grandeur, I dunno.
But maybe they had SquareEnix-type expectations of grandeur, I dunno.
texhnolyze
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Just make sure that you're not the only one doing that.
GhostTrick
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Damn. SE better deliver or Duckroll will have my head.
Also the number of owners on steamspy is based on 3 days samples, and the game didn't appear in the new releases part of Steam for like a day or so.
The numbers will likely still increase a bit more before we get more reliable early days/week 1 numbers.
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LurkerPrime
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I'll admit, that was my first thought on seeing the gif.
This is what brings my card to its knees?
Geez.
When Windows auto-installed that driver and my monitor blanked out, I assumed the worst, having no idea it what was happening. (I was watching a Giant Bomb video at the time. The last time my computer froze while doing so it turned out my CPU was dead.)
I think the driver itself is technically a security update moreso than just for the GPU, because that same driver (well, .33 rather than .53) is the one that patches the driver-level exploit that Nvidia fixed a while back.
Do we know how much it sold in the west at launch? Would be interesting to know.
I doubt they had many expectations, but at least it looks like Koei America has managed to convince their Japanese part to try a little harder.
The non-insane launch pricing, relatively decent port in comparison and them actually listening to feedback and patching things pretty fast are a good start.
The bad rep isn't going to go away overnight though.
Never bet on SE when it comes to PC. Or SEGA. After all, you can't write SEGA without SE.
I'm glad this isn't happening with my AMD card, but the way Win10 handles updates is easily the worst part of the entire OS.
First just to be clear i am always for supporting devs. But people often scream left and right think about devs. Meanwhile Valve and most of those devs simply don't care about parts of their userbase. Year or two ago when there was EU2 region on Steam only handful of devs used it and those were mostly ones from EU2 region. For majority of them EU2 region didn't exist so prices were same as in the rest of the Europe. What if i tell you that average salary in my country is lower than in Russia but because we are small market nobody cares and we have full prices here.
Even though i personally really care about supporting devs, i care more for my life and as much as i try to use stores that i know got keys from devs or official distributors you bet that i will occasionally take some good deals from shady places.
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What's up with all these anonymous giveaways
Are you ashamed?
Are you ashamed?
Poland being within that EU2 region, I'm pretty sure the Superhot devs understand that.
And why make them pay for other developers mistakes? That just reads like you justifying cheap games any way you can.
G2A actively hurt the industry and they know it. Their recent AMA basically confirmed that. Even if this is by some miracle genuine they do not deserve a single penny of support.
And why make them pay for other developers mistakes? That just reads like you justifying cheap games any way you can.
G2A actively hurt the industry and they know it. Their recent AMA basically confirmed that. Even if this is by some miracle genuine they do not deserve a single penny of support.
Baron von Loathsome
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What's up with all these anonymous giveaways
Are you ashamed?
My giveaways are always anonymous, but yes, I am also ashamed of using this site.
Baron von Loathsome
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That it turned out to be such a great bundle on top of that is the cherry on top.
Wok
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Keys being revoked, accounts being charged twice, unusual fees, G2A being hacked, something fishy.
There is no more EU2 region and only devs that used EU2 pricing (at least on my Steam Store) were Croteam, Valve and few other regional devs. Super Hot was always full price here. And i am and i will justify cheap games and deals (at least for cases like mine) as long as devs and publishers treat small regions like mine like they don't exist.
Superhot went on sale February 25th, after the end of the EU2 region. They never had the chance to use EU2 pricing. Now, as far as I know the devs don't have any way within Steam to treat countries like yours differently to anywhere else (Unless they use a separate region locked store). If they could I am sure they would... because again, they are based within the old EU2 region.
If you want to take it out on anyone, take it out on Valve.
Developers can set prices per country still.
I did well subscribing to the annual plan in early January it seems...
Per country? I always thought it was per region. Now this I didn't know.
Isn't CDkeys at least kind of legit? I thought they were just legit but different region keys? I never used them but that's what people told me before.
And i explained to you that even EU2 region was there for years almost nobody used it. Square Enix did interesting thing, they are selling cheap retail copies here and they put us in RU/CIS region for retail keys. We still get full prices on Steam but we can activate RU keys and buy cheap retail versions.
Well, I've just tried this. Not far enough to use any of the DLC yet, but the soundtrack selection is crazy.
It looks like you can overide any of the songs with whatever you want from all previous Atelier games, and even choose mulitple ones which will then randomly choose between them.
I've added some Mana Khemia tracks into the battle theme selection, the nostalgia is hitting me hard
Also I've come across a new bug with the recent patch (at least I think it's new), where the game won't lose input focus when alt-tabbing, which is both amusing and annoying.
Can't write a quick post on GAF without running around/moving through menus in the background, haha.
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