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STEAM | July 2014 25TH THREAD EDITION (2008-2014)
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Family Sharing is set to toss up a third-party account notice, but Ubi is rather inconsistent about supporting it -- some games disallow it (e.g. Child of Light) while others are fine, assuming of course you've the account details (e.g. Black Flag, IIRC).
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
My specs:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Pentium G630
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 2000
DirectX: Version 11 (This can't be right though, I thought Intel HD only supported up to 10.1, but that's what my dxdiag says)
Hard Drive: Doesn't matter, got tons of space
almostheathen
Member
It's a shame you missed out on the "sacred" Steam card beta, prices were so good.
thanks guysi'll wait. the amount i spent matches the total of money I have left. so I don't wanna overspend
Calling the bank should be easy. I had them check my transactions which were not showing up on my online statement and it was rather quick of them to tell me my transactions until it connects with what I have.
There's that, but I just don't want to dump keys in the thread for lurkers / non-members to grab.
I could have used the email tag quote thing but eh.
I've given away probably 3 times as many actual games vs that DLC and trial keys.
free money!
Pickles Spill
Member
Thanks for Nosferatu. I'll trust you that it's good.
I remember my little brother mentioning something about that (he's been doing this a lot longer than I have and managed to stash away at least $50 bucks each time a steam sale comes around). Yea, oh well, I'll wait till something else comes down the road and jump on that next.
Ooh, you're right I didn't. Well that's just silly, the same game I can understand - but any game? Well in most cases that isn't as neat as it sounds.
Chance Hale
Member
add me to wreck shit up on one of the best coop game of last gen
http://steamcommunity.com/id/RobertJSullivan/
No time this weekend as I have to study for exams/earn playfire rewards but added anyway. Can work it out at some point no doubt.
Huh, okay, I shifted a few things around and now I get this
Where and why does that "and" show up ;_;
Steam is combining SS if you uploaded them same hour, or same day i am not sure 100%
*the moment when you play "divinity original sin" and fondly remember Divinity 2, that you didnt finish. Trying to locate the DVD Version of the game and after 10 minutes think, fuck-it-I-wishlist-it-and-buy-it-when-its-in-a-sale-on-steam only to see, that you allready own divinity 2 on Steam*
Firstworldproblems.....
Firstworldproblems.....
Imo, the 3 month restriction for the megagivers rule kinda sucks for people like me who rarely buy bundles and don't have that many games on their account to give away the spares on a regular basis. I have given away around 65 games with only 15 of them being bundle spares. I don't plan to change that because of this rule and start buying spare bundles to give away here, If I want to spend my money to offer something to the community, I'd rather it be some expensive or high-tier game that many people are interested in and would appreciate rather than some bundle turds that everybody has. Like Stumpokapow said it emphasizes quantiy over quality and that's unfortunate
Not saying any of this because I'm butthurt or something. I care much more for giving away stuff rather than winning them and I own almost all of the big stuff that's being given away anyway (except JaseC's account) so it's no big deal for me.
Not saying any of this because I'm butthurt or something. I care much more for giving away stuff rather than winning them and I own almost all of the big stuff that's being given away anyway (except JaseC's account
) so it's no big deal for me.billmcdougal
Member
Ugh, I just bought a copy of Hammerwatch from the Humble Store and chose to purchase for myself even though I already have it. Oops.
There is not a gift button like with bundles. No way I can give it away, huh?
There is not a gift button like with bundles. No way I can give it away, huh?
Yeah it's not perfect for how some people would use it but it does seem heavily geared to single machine, multi account family use. I share libraries with my brother in-law (well my sister really but she mainly plays Facebook trash these days) which works out alright because he works mainly during the evening. Though when I switch accounts on any of my machines it always retains my installed library and asks if I want to ask my main account permission to share titles.
It's a nice feature but streaming is the game changer for me as that really has a lot of flexibility.
I just saw JaseC's giveaway and that's insane! Sharing his entire library of games! Will he also accept me into his home and feed me if I win?
You can always gift a bunch of copies of Divinity. Just saying.
Can't enter since I'm not a Megagiver, and it sounds somewhat risky.
You can always gift a bunch of copies of Divinity. Just saying.
Imo, the 3 month restriction for the megagivers rule kinda sucks for people like me who rarely buy bundles and don't have that many games on their account to give away the spares on a regular basis. I have given away around 65 games with only 15 of them being bundle spares. I don't plan to change that because of this rule and start buying spare bundles to give away here, If I want to spend my money to offer something to the community, I'd rather it be some expensive or high-tier game that many people are interested in and would appreciate rather than some bundle turds that everybody has. Like Stumpokapow said it emphasizes quantity over quality and that's unfortunate
Not saying any of this because I'm butthurt or something. I care much more for giving away stuff rather than winning them and I own almost all of the big stuff that's being given away anyway (except JaseC's account
I agree with this sentiment. the megagivers rule is ehhhh. But I enjoy giving away games, winning it sometimes is just a small perk. though i rarely enter that much. just for something I really want. I only buy bundles where the games are at least decent.
I had a megagiver restriction in my Divinity giveaway that you won yesterday (I hid it because I was curious to see how many entrats I'd get) so no need to stock up on Bad Rats yet
Really, the only potential issue is that winner triggers VAC bans for the sake of triggering VAC bans, which would suck, but not something that would be a terrible bother.
I realized that only a few days ago, started paying more attention to what I write on those since then.
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.
JaseC, you're crazy man.
Awesome giveaway though, I hope whoever wins won't be a dick about it and cause you any troubles. I'd enter, but having over 2,000 games myself I already have more to play than I could ever want to.
Awesome giveaway though, I hope whoever wins won't be a dick about it and cause you any troubles. I'd enter, but having over 2,000 games myself I already have more to play than I could ever want to.
ashecitism
Member
Didn't Valve patch that out months ago? I remember there was a huge uproar in the steam group.
Jase doesn't appear to have Second Sight in his library. How disappointing.
Haha, in Deep Silver I trust... because Crytek itself sure as shit isn't going to do anything about the game. Come September it'll have been two years since Crytek assumed ownership and thus publishing rights. I hate the whole "lazy devs" thing, but it seems largely accurate in this case.
I had a megagiver restriction in my Divinity giveaway that you won yesterday (I hid it because I was curious to see how many entrats I'd get) so no need to stock up on Bad Rats yet
Thats sneaky. I like it.
lashman
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What is the deal with Sharing and a secondary account getting banned via VAC or otherwise? Is only the secondary account responsible or does the primary account holder get in trouble too? I imagine the latter as the former could be gamed easily. Now that I think of it, the idea of it being called "family" sharing probably indicates that these people should be the most trustworthy anyway
Tbh we haven´t tried it for a long time. If it got patched i´m sorry for spreading lies!
Normally my brother and me don´t get in the others way.
Primary account takes the fall.
VAC bans are final regardless of the user.
Imo, the 3 month restriction for the megagivers rule kinda sucks for people like me who rarely buy bundles and don't have that many games on their account to give away the spares on a regular basis. I have given away around 65 games with only 15 of them being bundle spares. I don't plan to change that because of this rule and start buying spare bundles to give away here, If I want to spend my money to offer something to the community, I'd rather it be some expensive or high-tier game that many people are interested in and would appreciate rather than some bundle turds that everybody has. Like Stumpokapow said it emphasizes quantiy over quality and that's unfortunate
Not saying any of this because I'm butthurt or something. I care much more for giving away stuff rather than winning them and I own almost all of the big stuff that's being given away anyway (except JaseC's account
I just noticed this rule myself and while I already gave around probably two or three times the amount of games required (I think it's at 60-70 games, perhaps a bit less) it was a bit more than 3 months ago. I gave those games despite not having most of them and I've cut a lot on buying recent bundles because I do not focus on increasing my Library but instead, having interesting titles to play and keep a healthy Backlog.
I think it's a good rule, but a lot have changed for me and being without work, or worse, working for free, can change things when it comes to spend money. I know this can be really, really silly but I'm really embarrassed for not being able to give more via Modbot or personal gifts. It makes me a bit sad too because it simply feels so good to be able to do so. It really warms my hearth all this amazing kindness we became used to and I only hope that all these games from past and future giveaways can go to a good home. That's the most important thing.
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JaseC do you own the first Dirt game on Steam? Just for curiosity sake.
Primary gets in trouble.
It's another way to dissuade people from sharing with random strangers.
VikasNarula
Member
Yeah, but I do expect Valve to allow concurrent library access at some point, even if it's only primary + one secondary.
Yeah, and it's also the only Dirt game I actually bought -- 2, 3 and Showdown were all won through Dell/Alienware/etc. key giveaways, haha.
Edit: D'oh, forgot to switch tabs.
I think I've probably long gone off too but then again I've got a massive stack of spare keys floating about I usually drop into ModBot when their prices aren't at discounts and have long since past the bundle dumping cycles. Not like I'm bothered as I don't enter giveaways
Well alright I did once but there are far better homes to go to than my backlog.
at the very least, access to one game while another is played
Yeah, that's what I mean -- the account owner can play a game at the same time as one of the nominated secondary users.
This has been brought up before and many members correctly pointed out that it would result in it being a popularity contest. It would only work if Stumpokapow would manually operate it, but even then I can see some issues arising
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The reason why I've resisted doing this (it's not technically hard at all) is to avoid cliqueishness. Given the amount of this thread that's been sidetracked over the ethics of giving gifts and/or posting about gifts received, I think that was a good judgment on my part. I'm much happier with people setting eligibility guidelines based on a category defined by some objective principle than a subjective category, which is likely to invite disputes over the people who qualify.
Of course anyone is free to give away games in a manner other than using Modbot, such as by posting "First person out of this list of usernames: <list goes here> to PM me gets a copy of Blur for Steam." or whatever. Or even to use the secondapps countdown timer, inviting PMs, and using a random number generator to do the draw. Or hell, there's actually nothing preventing someone from making their own giveaway robot, except that it would be limited to one giver because it wouldn't have mod/admin access to be able to edit posts made by other users.
One of the reasons why I don't manually operate the community blacklist is precisely so there's no conflict of interest between me as moderator, me as modbot operator, and me as modbot giver and taker. Actually, I go above and beyond in that respect--GAF doesn't let posters put me on ignore because my name is red, but ModBot lets people block or permablock me, and if enough did, I'd be on the community blacklist just like anyone else.
NightmareTrigger
Banned
Just got to MONSOON in Revengeance!
Interesting! I think Priit also have the first Dirt, he offered to do this family sharing thing but I declined in the end.
I really hope that winner can be a honest person and nothing negative can come out of it (I do not know all the implications to this).
RazorbackDB
Member
i got off uni now and i'll play all my games, i don't care what you guys say.
Autofokus
Member
She is in her late 30s afair, so I don't really get the criticism. The 'technical' voice quality on the other hand..yeah, it's a 1-man project and it shows.
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