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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions

Well Im ready come at me volvo
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Good lord
 
Well for some reason I bought 2 of those Square Enix Surprise Boxes. I didn't think it would be exactly the same games in both of them... but... they were.

Thief - The Master Thief Edition
The Last Remnant
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light
Deus Ex - The Fall
Nosgoth Founders - Warlord Pack
 
It's coming


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Deus Ex - The Fall -- MB-0EE95422CB2F8B6A - Taken by cardinalmind. 13 entrants total.
The Last Remnant -- MB-64C6E4F851D9B4FC - Taken by Annubis. 3 entrants total.


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Onionkid

Member
Oh damn, Sale is about to start. That reminds me that I have to idle for some games with remaining cards.

Yeah, I like to live on the edge.

Ha, yea. In a rush to finish off the few games I have cards left in as well.

Little over an hour and a half left :) I maybe buy 5-6 games per sale at this point, but I'm still so excited for em!
 
Still not higher than they were a week ago and they'll drop as soon as people get them for voting and buying games (which is already happening but many of course will wait). If I still had some, I'd sell them now.

im gonna hold and see how day one works out. At worst, i'll break even on my cards if they start dropping in price.
 
Well for some reason I bought 2 of those Square Enix Surprise Boxes. I didn't think it would be exactly the same games in both of them... but... they were.

Thief - The Master Thief Edition
The Last Remnant
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light
Deus Ex - The Fall
Nosgoth Founders - Warlord Pack

Would you be willing to sell a copy of Murdered to me for cheap?
 
Nuuvem doesn't care. I still have my Football Manager 2014 key that I bought about a year ago. Just don't be shocked if you get a refund rather than a replacement key should you at some point use a VPN to buy a game and the key is invalid.

I see, good. Thanks for all your help.

Oh, and I found the MGS:GZ key in my account immediately. So I guess they already got a new stock.
 
Some spares I had sitting there
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Ravensword Shadowlands -- MB-3C4CBE29A0B6FDE8
Dear Esther -- MB-E81746AB641C83FC - Taken by Naked Snake. 4 entrants total.
Titan Quest -- MB-18EDE1364624721E - Taken by Vlad. 1 entrants total.
Bridge Constructor -- MB-77C02A98B422415B - Taken by opticalmace. 2 entrants total.
Monaco -- MB-34D738BFC8A912A9 - Taken by Pranay_. 2 entrants total.
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Vuze

Member
Seriously. Be pals and get this crap off my hands if you don't have copies. I got way too many copies from Indiegala last week -_-

At the very least, some of these have cards you could idle for!


EDIT: If one of your keys doesn't work, let me know and I'll see if the link went dead for some reason.
Cheers, I picked up Platypus, name sounded good lol

Well Im ready come at me volvo
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sweet lawd
 
WTF. I bought my first ~~gaming mousepad (aka first pad that's totally not just some shitty rag) and the speed and accuracy is insane. I have been a high sensitivity user since mid 90's and this is just crazy
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Nuuvem winter sale begun

http://www.nuuvem.com.br/promo/ressaca-fimdeano

....how those that work with the steam regon lock ?

The region-lock Valve imposed doesn't affect retail keys, with one exception.

Tempted to pick up MGR from Nuuvem. Would I be able to activate it or would I have region locking to deal with?

The sub is region-free as far as retail keys are concerned.

Well Im ready come at me volvo
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Not bad.
 
Well for some reason I bought 2 of those Square Enix Surprise Boxes. I didn't think it would be exactly the same games in both of them... but... they were.

Thief - The Master Thief Edition
The Last Remnant
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light
Deus Ex - The Fall
Nosgoth Founders - Warlord Pack

Huh, I'm actually disappointed I missed out on that. Thought it would be full of stuff I already had like last year. C'est la vie.
 

Lomax

Member
That's surprisingly accurate.



Yes, of course it's a good thing. I feel bad when the servers get overloaded during the big sales, because a lot of the time that's when users need these features the most. Every big sale I try to account for more and more traffic and it seems like the servers always fall flat despite my planning. So each subsequent sale, I allocate more and more server resources to the API servers thinking it will be enough. I hope this is the time where finally it is.

The Autumn sale this year wasn't too bad - the servers only went down for 30-45 minutes each day when the dailies flipped over. So maybe I'm on to something.

Either way - thanks again to all of Enhanced Steam's Patreon supporters who without their generosity none of this would be possible.

You think it would help if you intentionally disabled it during the first hour after sales roll over and just have a message delivered that enhanced steam is down for the changeover and will be back up in an hour? Because I have to think the constant reloading and such of people trying to get it to work just makes it worse. Then maybe do the behind the scenes stuff with the prices changes during that time? Just a thought, I don't know if that's even related to what crashes it.

Keep up the great work as always.
 

TheTux

Member
Have some spare keys to give you. By the way could someone invite me in NeoGaf's Steam group? Thanks in advance.

edit: got the invite, thanks!

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Deus Ex - The Fall -- MB-7ED57D1B2D74A781 - Taken by Woody Invincible. 22 entrants total.
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris with Season Pass 33% OFF SQEX Store Voucher -- MB-002FF952CC450BBC - Taken by Reg. 10 entrants total.
Thief - The Master Thief Edition -- MB-4639BA6D9CD63F50 - Taken by Cosmic Schwung. 41 entrants total.
The Last Remnant -- MB-9EFB0A19DCAC2BE3 - Taken by ElMexiMerican. 29 entrants total.
FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 50% OFF SQEX Store Voucher -- MB-49E58DE48EB7A749 - Taken by SniperHunter. 10 entrants total.
FINAL FANTASY III 50% OFF SQEX Store Voucher -- MB-3AF9921CDD2309E6 - Taken by Anustart. 3 entrants total.

By the way, there were some errors processing your keys...
Note: The key you added for Deus Ex - The Fall was already listed in ModBot from a previous giveaway of yours, but was not taken. Updating key info to match new giveaway.
Note: The key you added for Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris with Season Pass 33% OFF SQEX Store Voucher was already listed in ModBot from a previous giveaway of yours, but was not taken. Updating key info to match new giveaway.
Note: The key you added for Thief - The Master Thief Edition was already listed in ModBot from a previous giveaway of yours, but was not taken. Updating key info to match new giveaway.
Note: The key you added for The Last Remnant was already listed in ModBot from a previous giveaway of yours, but was not taken. Updating key info to match new giveaway.
Note: The key you added for FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 50% OFF SQEX Store Voucher was already listed in ModBot from a previous giveaway of yours, but was not taken. Updating key info to match new giveaway.
Note: The key you added for FINAL FANTASY III 50% OFF SQEX Store Voucher was already listed in ModBot from a previous giveaway of yours, but was not taken. Updating key info to match new giveaway.


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jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
You think it would help if you intentionally disabled it during the first hour after sales roll over and just have a message delivered that enhanced steam is down for the changeover and will be back up in an hour? Because I have to think the constant reloading and such of people trying to get it to work just makes it worse. Then maybe do the behind the scenes stuff with the prices changes during that time? Just a thought, I don't know if that's even related to what crashes it.

Keep up the great work as always.

Nah, the price changes are all handled by IsThereAnyDeal.com and Enhanced Steam simply uses a private API to grab that information. The servers catching on fire are simply an issue of "too many people, not enough pipe". In fact on the hosting company I used last year they disabled all of my servers for several hours when the big sale started because they thought I was being DDoSed (they were trying to be helpful, but it was annoying).

You are right that people constantly refreshing their pages only compounds the problem, but there isn't much I can do besides try to keep the servers running in top shape.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Do the coupons stack over the already existing discount?

Coupons earned from crafting don't; those obtained by other means (Alienware giveaways, loyalty rewards from devs, and so on) generally do.

Edit: Oh, I see you're referring to the Squeenix coupons. They're for Squeenix's own store, not Steam. But the games themselves are Steamworks.
 
ah nvm about my dragon age comment earlier, the first code was the one with most of the dlc, i thought it was the base game since the 2nd code had "DLC: -key-". sorry guys, no dragon age origins giveaway ;(
 

Spyware

Member
The Christmas Surprise was a pretty good little bundle of games. Sadly I already owned all of the ones I find interesting. Activated the Thief key anyway since I only had it on PS4. Now I can trade in that copy and play the superior version. Yay!

Truly recommend Lara Croft and Murdered. Enjoyed those a lot.

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Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light -- MB-646036F74C2342AC - Taken by Milamber. 4 entrants total.
Nosgoth Founders: Warlord Pack -- MB-A16D5884EF94AA81 - Taken by DocSeuss. 1 entrants total.
The Last Remnant -- MB-FEE22534B8052BFE - Taken by RyanPierre. 3 entrants total.
Deus Ex: The Fall -- MB-0C35041EDFF46D1B - Taken by redlacs. 6 entrants total.
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Murdered: Soul Suspect -- MB-8B65F987DE674042 - Taken by Diedac. 23 entrants total.


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When did you buy from Nuuvem?

Because I bought from them like 2 hours ago and still don't have a key.

I bought a key from them for GZ last night and got it immediately. I didn't use any VPN or anything...just used paypal. I know on their site it mentions something where if you use a credit card and not paypal it may take a few days to get the order completed...I dunno

If I read that wrong I'm sure someone will say the correct info
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
When did you buy from Nuuvem?

Because I bought from them like 2 hours ago and still don't have a key.

You are looking at the "Your Games" section of the Nuuvem site, right, and have clicked on the Ground Zeroes image? Nuuvem doesn't send out keys via e-mail.
 
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