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Originally Posted by xGunCrazyx Might be that Valve has consistently offered gamers incredibly cheap games over the years with the least intrusive form of DRM in the industry.

Having the best price doesn't make me loyal to any one company. It just gets me to make the purchase with that store.

Disk check is the least intrusive form of drm. And it's just as effective as Steam because most pirates don't hack games. They get the cracked games from the people who do.

Originally Posted by xGunCrazyx Might be that Valve has consistently offered gamers incredibly cheap games over the years with the least intrusive form of DRM in the industry. Sure, D2D has saved us $1.50 this time, but Steam has saved me thousands of dollars over the years that I have been a member... Edit: http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/xguncrazyx I've probably paid around $1000 or so on this account and it does not take into account the prices of the past (Now it is just calculating games at current dropped prices)

Very cool site. Thanks for posting.

Hey, not bad...I used that 10 for 20 weshop deal and got Mafia II, the Xcom bundle and pre-ordered Dungeon Defenders for a grand total of 11.44!

According to the Steam list of retail keys , Mafia 2 keys in that format are eligible, so am I correct in assuming that I could buy from D2D and then just plug the code into Steam and DL it that way?

Originally Posted by DirkBelig According to the Steam list of retail keys , Mafia 2 keys in that format are eligible, so am I correct in assuming that I could buy from D2D and then just plug the code into Steam and DL it that way?

Yep, that's what I did!

Thanks.

Definitely a cheap purchase. I was originally confused about the discount but I will say it is good that I got a good price purchase. I liked Mafia (PC) but I guess I will have to see if Mafia 2 is good but I heard it is a good rental and I think $6 dollars is a good buy for this game.

Copped last night..thanks OP!

thanks OP, worked perfect.

Originally Posted by DirkBelig According to the Steam list of retail keys , Mafia 2 keys in that format are eligible, so am I correct in assuming that I could buy from D2D and then just plug the code into Steam and DL it that way?

when i bought it from D2D the directions actually have you do it that way. doesn't even look like you can download it directly from D2D.

Originally Posted by xGunCrazyx Might be that Valve has consistently offered gamers incredibly cheap games over the years with the least intrusive form of DRM in the industry. Sure, D2D has saved us $1.50 this time, but Steam has saved me thousands of dollars over the years that I have been a member... Edit: http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/xguncrazyx I've probably paid around $1000 or so on this account and it does not take into account the prices of the past (Now it is just calculating games at current dropped prices)

Thanks for the link, and although the inquiry is OT a little, I'm not getting that tool to work. At all. I tried the 17 digit # and it says I've been a member since 1970 and have 0 games. I tried my two "Profile names" and neither get hits. Does anyone else have issues with this tool? The help page is obsolete, so to say, as the instructions are for an old version of STEAM.

BTW, I like how STEAM updates more fluidly and automatically than it seems D2D wanted to. I didn't like the fact that files for games are floating around the web called "D2D version patch"...that doesn't inspire a sense of simplicity/automation.

D2D wanted me to install Comrade or whatever it's called, and the GUI is clumsy and it's "game finding" mechanism was even worse, calling all sorts of apps on my PC "games" and not finding others, it was just a hassle. I have 5 games from D2D, but I like STEAM's discounts, simplicity and reliability. No patches or discs on my part, and the GUI and discounts are preferable to me.

Originally Posted by BWS1982 Thanks for the link, and although the inquiry is OT a little, I'm not getting that tool to work. At all. I tried the 17 digit # and it says I've been a member since 1970 and have 0 games. I tried my two "Profile names" and neither get hits. Does anyone else have issues with this tool? The help page is obsolete, so to say, as the instructions are for an old version of STEAM.

Are you using the name of the account and not your display name?
(Use the name that you use to log into Steam)

Sorry for going off topic as well

Yeah, the display name, the login name and the 17 digits that display in the URL line were all attempted. The only one that had a "result" was the 17 digits it says to do as "the ID" in the instructions, and I wasn't even alive in 1970, let alone enjoying STEAM.

Strange that you're getting that error. Under the steam program, I click the community tab and reference the URL. From here I get (from my account)

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Miloz/home

I then paste the word "Miloz" into the Steam Calculator and it pulls up everything.

Odd, not sure what the problem could be.

$6.36. Sold!

Alright I got it to work by setting up a custom URL, then I at least got it to "find" the account...then after that instead of friends only, I had to set it to public. The ID it came up with after all this was the one I was putting in in the instructions so I'm not sure why that was a problem. For whatever reason I found and beat a glitch in the process. Custom URL's I guess (the private part wasn't a stated issue until it found my account, I had to make it find it first)...