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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.
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As far as I know, almost everyone on those sites get their keys semi-legitimately through retail copies on cheap markets or in bulk from hardware companies. Last year I sold like a thousand SimCity keys that I got that way.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:05
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted: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". Yeah, that's unfortunate. I'm all about some deals but I'm not so hard up that I'd wanna support jackasses being jackasses.
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I really wonder if there's going to be any sorts of controls on the auctions to keep a tiny portion of the userbase from hoovering up all the games. If Valve somehow didn't think they needed that before they pushed the button, they must be aware now.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:09
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Zombie Samurai posted:I really wonder if there's going to be any sorts of controls on the auctions to keep a tiny portion of the userbase from hoovering up all the games. If Valve somehow didn't think they needed that before they pushed the button, they must be aware now. I don't think an account can win a game more than once, and it looks like they go to your library, so they aren't gift/tradeable. What would be the point of having 100 burner accounts with Zigguraut registered to them?
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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: Not really, no. They sold the rights to make an Eisenhorn game (one of the best 40k book trilogies) to a phone game developer. 
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Dec 12, 2014 18:33
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Are people getting the holiday cards from crafting badges? I seem to remember those always starting out way, way higher and gradually dropping as people get shitloads of free ones, but if boosters were effectively free last night that would explain it.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:40
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Everblight posted:Why does it matter if a small subset of users spend more money than the games actually cost to 'win' them? Because then it's a lovely disappointing event for everyone else? I didn't notice that the games aren't transferable so that's definitely good, but it's still not doing anyone any favors to let events get monopolized by a handful of people who launder money through their Steam accounts or whatever. I'm sure most people would at least like the chance to turn the useless junk in their inventory into a game.
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heat posted:Are people getting the holiday cards from crafting badges? Yep.
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Zombie Samurai posted:Because then it's a lovely disappointing event for everyone else? The poor folks can at least make booster packs, at least that's something.
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Zombie Samurai posted:it's still not doing anyone any favors to let events get monopolized by a handful of people who launder money through their Steam accounts or whatever. I'm sure most people would at least like the chance to turn the useless junk in their inventory into a game. Do you know who got rich in the 1849 gold rush?
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Dec 12, 2014 19:00
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So in the interest of seeing Steam's competition I got invited to the GOG galaxy alpha, and I'm already uninterested because there's no Small Mode, it opens in a giant window, and it looks like this Not remotely as slick as their web design to say the least. But back to no small mode, I think this is why I keep coming back to Steam over any other launcher, because I have too many games to scroll through a grid or large pictures. I just want to be able to flick my mousewheel down a text list of game names and choose one!! Hopefully they consider it for the future since this is just an alpha but Origin and uPlay don't have one either as far as I know. I just don't like large bloated clients. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Dec 12, 2014 19:00
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poo poo yeahhhhhhh Night Dive Studios publisher sale If you were too dumb to pick up System Shock 2 or Tex Murphy or the old Sid Meier games before, now's your chance to fix that.
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But steam grid is the most popular mode?
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Quest For Glory II posted:So in the interest of seeing Steam's competition I got invited to the GOG galaxy alpha...
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Kuule hain nussivan posted:Just out of curiosity, how did you get signed up for this? I'd be very interested in testing it. RBX posted:But steam grid is the most popular mode?
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Quest For Glory II posted:Not sure if it's still taking invites but here's the URL: http://www.gog.com/galaxy/alpha
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Quest For Glory II posted:So in the interest of seeing Steam's competition I got invited to the GOG galaxy alpha, and I'm already uninterested because there's no Small Mode, it opens in a giant window, and it looks like this You can change the size of the window. It's already better than the old downloader and it's just alpha.
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Dec 12, 2014 19:12
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You can resize it a bit in each direction but I would rather have the option to turn off the website side of the UI entirely (and the ability to launch from the left side of the menu as well)
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Zombie Samurai posted:poo poo yeahhhhhhh Night Dive Studios publisher sale Everyone buy I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream because it's the darkest P&C adventure ever and Harlan Ellison himself plays AM
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Quest For Glory II posted:So in the interest of seeing Steam's competition I got invited to the GOG galaxy alpha, and I'm already uninterested because there's no Small Mode, it opens in a giant window, and it looks like this I also got an invite for the client and completely agree on this. I'm small font, view as list guy. I mainly want a clean design with a list of games without all the extraneous advertising you get with Origin and UPlay. Hopefully with this being an alpha build, GOG will allow for a fair bit of tweaking in the future.
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Everblight posted:Everyone buy I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream because it's the darkest P&C adventure ever and Harlan Ellison himself plays AM Hmm, I forget, but didn't the Steam version lack the opening? I seem to remember that either GoG or Steam skipped right to the character screen.
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Zombie Samurai posted:poo poo yeahhhhhhh Night Dive Studios publisher sale poo poo yeah, some of these deals are loving nuts. I'd definitely recommend Bad Mojo Redux from the sale. One of the more unique (and admittedly disgusting) adventure games I've played.
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Dec 12, 2014 19:17
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I love that when I go into random Rocksmith streams and yell "FREEBIRD!!!" the user will invariably play it.
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I signed up for the GoG Galaxy Alpha some time ago and have yet to receive a key, so YMMV. To be fair, they do say it will be sent out in batches, so no biggie.
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TheNintenGenius posted:poo poo yeah, some of these deals are loving nuts. I'd definitely recommend Bad Mojo Redux from the sale. One of the more unique (and admittedly disgusting) adventure games I've played. Seconded. The only thing I would recommend is to solve one of the puzzles (the power meter one) before you're supposed to be able to to prevent a large trip back.
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afkmacro posted:
It's gonna be funny when they have to pull down the auction again.
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afkmacro posted:You get to keep the duped gems you bought I guess. That's not what "All Gem purchases from the Community Market will be reimbursed" means.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Did anyone actually get duped gems back or just the ones they made themselves from their own inventory items? I got back the gems I made, like the image says. I currently have gems I bought on the market for $0.03 in my inventory, but it sounds like they're going to take those and give me back the credit. Nothing has happened yet though.
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Quest For Glory II posted:So in the interest of seeing Steam's competition I got invited to the GOG galaxy alpha, and I'm already uninterested because there's no Small Mode, it opens in a giant window, and it looks like this Isn't this literally just the same thing as Steam at this point? All the games on Galaxy that are DRM free are also DRM free on Steam, both are just used as downloaders that happen to have friends lists. I find it absolutely hilarious the same people that run into the proverbial internet streets naked screaming about how Steam is big brother and GoG is the revolution are eating this poo poo up. Unless there is some huge reveal I don't know about, they seem to be the same thing, just one has less games. Also EA gave a big gently caress you to anybody who decided to buy stuff from them over the last week from their sale. They readjusted the prices on all the games people were talking in this thread about buying, so rather then be $10, they went down to $6 ( or $3 if using Mexican Origin! ). No mention of this elsewhere of course, the sale just ended, and they decided to put up a better sale in it's place. I swear every time I buy EA games they find a way to gently caress me for it.
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pseudorandom name posted:That's not what "All Gem purchases from the Community Market will be reimbursed" means. Doesn't necessarily mean they will take the "goods" back.
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When you could still convert backgrounds and emotes into gems, how did that work? Like was the gem amount specific for each emoticon and background, or did common backgrounds = X gems, uncommon = Y gems, etc?
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Jizz Festival posted:When you could still convert backgrounds and emotes into gems, how did that work? Like was the gem amount specific for each emoticon and background, or did common backgrounds = X gems, uncommon = Y gems, etc? Everything from Valve was worth 100 gems. Others varied in price between 20-80 from what I saw.
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Dudes! I have $1.67 from card sales. I have a choice between 3 games, which are all on sale on my wishlist: System Shock 2 Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum Tex Murphy: Mean Streets I've never played any of these games, and yes, I realize I'm like part of the 0.03% of the population that hasn't played SS2. I don't mind jumping into old games for the first time.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Dudes! I have $1.67 from card sales. I have a choice between 3 games, which are all on sale on my wishlist: Stop being part of the 0.03%.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Dudes! I have $1.67 from card sales. I have a choice between 3 games, which are all on sale on my wishlist:
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Get System Shock 2, how is this even a question.Quest For Glory II posted:Well the popular kids hosed UP then cause small mode is where it's at  true postI just read the entire gem saga which, apparently, I completely missed by actually playing a game on Steam. This amuses me. I don't think it's irony, but it's funny just the same. at the end of the day I hope they figure something out - basically, if I can get rid of junk backgrounds and emotes in my inventory and turn them into cards, no matter the mechanism, I'll be happy. So many junk backgrounds. And I have ~20 card sets completed and ready for crafting so that'll be a shitload more useless emotes/wallpapers.
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Thanks, done! FINALLY!!! I will be elevated.
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