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Hell yeah - finally got in relatively ground floor, played it kinda right, and made a little money. Somehow got a buy in for about 70 $.03 bags of gems last night, converted them into dozens and dozens of boosters, opened those and sold off the cards as the prices plummeted. Two or so hours of clicking like a fool later and my steam wallet went from $2.50 to $15 and change. I ALMOST MADE MINIMUM WAGE ON STEAM!
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I missed this. Someone tell me what I need to do to become a captain of industry when it launches again.
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Dec 12, 2014 15:31
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CSM posted:I missed this. Don't do anything. Just put some money in your Steam wallet and buy games when the sale starts. I took a look at this for a few minutes last night. I purchased some backgrounds, turned those in to 5K gems, and then picked up a few booster packs. Got a Ys Origin foil out of it at least which netted me $2. After 20 minutes I realized this entire thing was dumb as hell. I instead worked remotely for an hour, made $50, and put that toward the sale. It's really not worth it in the long run. You could be doing things that are actually fun. But boy did I laugh myself to sleep when I watched everything crash and burn later in the evening.
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Dec 12, 2014 15:41
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I'm not hard up for money either, but most people don't have the option to work remotely for 50$ an hour. If I make 5$ playing a system that's interesting anyway, that's a decent way to spend my non-work time. I'm really curious to see what they do with the gems. I made back anything I spent (which was all card money anyway) and I've still got 16 pages of cards and a couple hundred thousand gems. I wonder how many gems were removed from the system.
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Jordan7hm posted:I'm not hard up for money either, but most people don't have the option to work remotely for 50$ an hour. If I make 5$ playing a system that's interesting anyway, that's a decent way to spend my non-work time. It's just a moonlighting gig, so I can't do it all the time, but the point I was getting at is to do something fun instead! Rather than make $3 an hour, go play some of your Steam games during that time you dummies.
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Dec 12, 2014 15:52
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Ragequit posted:It's just a moonlighting gig, so I can't do it all the time, but the point I was getting at is to do something fun instead! Rather than make $3 an hour, go play some of your Steam games during that time you dummies. The steam metagame is a game, you dummy. 
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Dec 12, 2014 16:01
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Somebody who made big bucks on the event buy Satellite Reign and tell the rest of us how it is
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I was just quietly trashing unwanted backgrounds and emoticons, and using them to make booster packs for badges I wanted. I hope I can craft some more boosters with my remaining gems - BlazBlue booster packs and cards are waaay too expensive for the justify spending my meager card sales pennies on.
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Dec 12, 2014 16:03
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Maybe this was all just a honey pot to catch idiots
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Dec 12, 2014 16:09
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AlmightyBob posted:Maybe this was all just a honey pot to catch idiots Steam is a honey pot to catch idiots (with too much disposable income).
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Dec 12, 2014 16:12
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CSM posted:I missed this. You could also try speculation that the gems might go up in price once the auctions actually start firing off, but that seems iffy to me since there's a huge supply of poo poo nobody wants which people can buy and grind up. CrashCat fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Dec 12, 2014 16:12
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Gaben, is he actually Smaug?
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Arnold of Soissons posted:Somebody who made big bucks on the event buy Satellite Reign and tell the rest of us how it is Well I didn't make money off this weirdness but while I was playing SR I hacked a flying cop car, got into it, rode it into a secure compound past the gates with my new credentials instead of shooting the place up. Unfortunately when I tried to park the car in an open lot the car started spinning out of control in place and I couldn't get off, and since I was in plain view of the cop's camera I couldn't get out to either hack it or hide from it so I alerted the compound. Then ate a grenade after killing one of the cops that tried to attack me in my flying tank. Edit: Making foils? As in playing a game that randomly gets you foil cards if you're lucky, or some other process?
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Jordan7hm posted:I'm not hard up for money either, but most people don't have the option to work remotely for 50$ an hour.
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Tony Phillips posted:I ALMOST MADE MINIMUM WAGE ON STEAM!
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evilmiera posted:Well I didn't make money off this weirdness but while I was playing SR I hacked a flying cop car, got into it, rode it into a secure compound past the gates with my new credentials instead of shooting the place up. Unfortunately when I tried to park the car in an open lot the car started spinning out of control in place and I couldn't get off, and since I was in plain view of the cop's camera I couldn't get out to either hack it or hide from it so I alerted the compound. Then ate a grenade after killing one of the cops that tried to attack me in my flying tank. Sounds like everything I ever asked for in my life.
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Dec 12, 2014 16:35
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I think I just witnessed the entirety of a reverse Dutch tulip speculation in the span of a few hours.
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This is the dumbest loving thing.
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Dec 12, 2014 16:38
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Mordor is 18 $ along with some other good deals over at https://www.g2a.com , Its one of my personal GOTY. Also Divinity for  , im really tempted to bite, I think the general consensus in here is positive about that one right ?
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Acquire Currency! posted:Gaben, is he actually Smaug? Smaug doesn't have enough piled-up cash to qualify as Gaben.
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Now that the gem drama is over (or at least laying in wait) two questions in advance of the Winter Sale: 1. I rather like the Warhammer 40K Inquisitor stuff (still hoping for a proper RPG based around an inqisitor and his acolytes investigating some messed up chaos stuff, battling demons and eldar and whatnot at some point). Space Marines, on the other hand, kinda bore me. Are any of the W40k games worth checking out if I'm not into Space Marines/strategy? 2. Last time I asked, the thread gave me an interesting list of hidden objects games, but couldn't tell me which among these was just pure HOG without too many adventure game elements / an overbearing plot (Mystery PI style, ideally). The steam group also had nothing to contribute. Help?
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Dec 12, 2014 16:48
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I figured out my problem with FFXIII-2. The Settings in the main menu only affect new games. You have to change it from the in game menu once you load your save for them to stick.
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Dec 12, 2014 16:49
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Tippis posted:Smaug doesn't have enough piled-up cash to qualify as Gaben. What was it he promised you, a share of the treasure? I will not part with a single piece!
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Dec 12, 2014 16:50
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admataY posted:Mordor is 18 $ along with some other good deals over at https://www.g2a.com , Its one of my personal GOTY. Mordor is $16.59 for me. That's a hell of a price to pass up... Edit: Actually it's $19 if you buy it with G2A SHIELD, in case you get boned by the seller? Weird. Ragequit fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Dec 12, 2014 16:51
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Ragequit posted:Mordor is $16.59 for me. That's a hell of a price to pass up... It's a really great game and a good buy at that price.
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Xander77 posted:Now that the gem drama is over (or at least laying in wait) two questions in advance of the Winter Sale: Nope!
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I think the gem event was supposed to launch monday, because the auctions were supposed to occur every 45 mins from 3pm Dec 15th.
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Xander77 posted:2. Last time I asked, the thread gave me an interesting list of hidden objects games, but couldn't tell me which among these was just pure HOG without too many adventure game elements / an overbearing plot (Mystery PI style, ideally). The steam group also had nothing to contribute. Help? There aren't any old-school Russian language HO games on Steam.
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ZearothK posted:Sounds like everything I ever asked for in my life. I should say the car spinning was a bug , or I presume it was anyway. I mean, that didn't make it any less fun, but still.
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Ragequit posted:Mordor is $16.59 for me. That's a hell of a price to pass up... I asked about G2A Shield a while back and people said they've never had an issue with not buying it.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:08
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Dec 12, 2014 17:15
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GreenNight posted:I asked about G2A Shield a while back and people said they've never had an issue with not buying it. Is it generally ideal to go with the G2A selected offer? There are other sellers listed. The cheapest is $2 less than the G2A selected offer.
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Ragequit posted:Mordor is $16.59 for me. That's a hell of a price to pass up... Edit: Here's the one about pretending to be a reviewer. A majority of them could be through price errors, regional or distribution discounts, or even just straight hacking, but who really knows, that's why it's the gray market. Doom Goon fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Doom Goon posted:Yeah, G2A user sellers (and other sites like that) do weird poo poo like social engineer keys off developers and junk. Apparently when you buy Shield (both ways?) they require you to enter the key while using TeamViewer or something. Pretty shifty, but if you just care about the lowest price... Well poo poo, now I feel like a douche for buying something from there.
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masato tatanka posted:I think the gem event was supposed to launch monday, because the auctions were supposed to occur every 45 mins from 3pm Dec 15th. I don't think so, they specifically said that the first set of auctions were going to last for three days AFAIR.
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Slimy Hog posted:Well poo poo, now I feel like a douche for buying something from there. Don't feel too bad. People in here always insist that sites like G2A are legit, only they mean "well the keys mostly seem to work!" as opposed to "this site doesn't have anything to do with keys obtained through theft or region fuckery".
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Not much different than ebay. The guy at the other end could have stolen those games fair and square.
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