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Welcome to the Steam Deal Thread V9! I'm your new host, Psydero.
You can find link to past threads at the bottom of this post. Read post #2 of this thread for Steam FAQs and more.

Steam Sales on Steam

$6.79
 

  $14.99




Steam Sales Elsewhere on CAG - Updated 11/2


Indie Bundle Threads - Updated 8/26

Free Stuff - Needs Updating

There are quite a few free and free2play games and mods on steam. You can find a full list here. Note that free games are not permanently attached to your Steam account like actual purchases would be. You'll need to manually download a game again from the website if you uninstall it.

Past Special Sales
Visit www.steamgamesales.com to check previous sale prices on Steam games. We do keep track of some older sales here though:

Past CAG Steam Deal Threads

 
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The Sifu said:
Valve is very supportive of in-game purchases. Besides Pinball Arcade, there are plenty of Paradox games that also have an in-game store, featuring content not otherwise advertised on the store page. Clicking on a link to purchase content from within a game kicks the user to a Steam shopping cart with the requested content placed inside. EA objected to Steam getting a cut of their DLC revenue, which is what really caused the rift between the companies.
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Right, that's what I meant by "going through Steam". As you said, as long as Valve get their 30% they're happy (and we're all just a little bit poorer...)

 
Drabelincoln said:
And Platinum Games for Bayonetta
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Neuro5i5 said:
Wait for JakeNome's price or get it in the inevitable bundle.
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Steambox humble bundle

$1 tier for controller

upper tier for steambox

I'm in for the upper tier as long as they don't use that stupid six dollar forced pricing on it

Edit: Although if they use the account linking forget it

 
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vince_carter said:
i want dat steam controller badly

why do i get the feeling it will be horribly overpriced?
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I doubt it - if Valve wants to see it adopted as much as possible they'll sell it at cost (though it may still end up being expensive compared to other controllers). I'm sure Valve can afford it.

 
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pasports31 said:
Is anything on there not 24/25 percent off? I got an email claiming "up to 75 percent off" but I can't find anything for that amount off, unless I'm overlooking it.
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I got an e-mail claiming the same thing, and it also says it right on the page. However, when I do a search, I get 107 results for 25% and 0 results for 75%. I keep checking every few hours hoping it's a glitch and most of it will go to 75% off, since I kind of want that London Olympic game for $5, but nothing has changed yet.

 
MysterD said:
Yup.

And they'd also be offered-up in he Humble Bundle w Steam-keys, too. ;)
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Meh, I'd pass. Not a big fan of the genre. I'd pick up a dollar tier on the off chance I could trade w/someone, but not with this stupid account linking. Foiled again.

 
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spoderman said:
Oh god, MysterD is infecting the CAG population.
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noonono he has not infecct tebow world this war aint over til i say so. i have sunasun mindlink we will defeat him

MysterD said:
Just imagine if the whole population was nothing but clones of MysterD...
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no aint going happpen it aint time

MysterD said:
Not that I seen - unless I'm going blind, too.
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hehe u hacker

pasports31 said:
Would they be DRM free?
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prolly

Neuro5i5 said:
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noo neuro u traitor i paid to silence

MysterD said:
Yup.

And they'd also be offered-up in he Humble Bundle w Steam-keys, too. ;)
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ew without account linking?

pasports31 said:
Meh, I'd pass. Not a big fan of the genre. I'd pick up a dollar tier on the off chance I could trade w/someone, but not with this stupid account linking. Foiled again.
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lol what genre lol

MysterD said:
How can anyone not be a fan of the MysterD genre?

{mind blown}
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no i hate it i like sunasun genre

 
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vince_carter said:
well, yea $60 is overpriced

but i expect this will be $80-100
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I'm looking at getting a gaming keypad (either the G13 or Razer Orbweaver) and I'm just having a horrible time deciding (analog stick with suspect ergonomics or an 8 way D-Pad with better ergonomics; I have huge hands and bad wrists for the record) so I would easily pay 80-100 for a controller solution...

Do we have a release date on the Steam Controller? (If its close maybe I should wait...)

Edit: Or Not (http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/steam-controller-beta-hands-on/)

Without ample practice using Valve's controller, games that require quick reaction times and snap decisions are simply more difficult than when using a standard gamepad. In Metro: Last Light, for instance, Valve's own designers were impressed when I survived the first encounter with enemies. We acknowledged the goofy cliché that PR reps stroke demoers' egos with such false claims as, "You were the first person to beat that today!" Then they confirmed that to be the actual truth (full disclosure: I'm not very good at video games, so this was no credit to my skill).
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fuck I don't know what to do...

 
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pasports31 said:
Speaking of Steam holiday sales:

What's at the top of everybody's wishlist? Top three to five games or so you want on sale and at what price does (Santa/Krampus/whatever) Gaben have to drop them to for you to buy them these holidays (realistically speaking).

Edit: I want Bad Rats, five cents or bust.
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I keep waiting for the developers of Bad Rats to release the second half of their moneymaking scheme: make the game unremovable except through the use of a $25 uninstall key.

pasports31 said:
Has anybody played Path of Exile? I've heard good things about it, any thoughts? Also, how's the F2P work w/it? I'm always a bit hesitant about F2P.
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Path of Exile and Marvel Heroes have, between them, occupied the overwhelming majority of my gaming time in 2013. It's not a coincidence that they're both ARPGs, with "free-to-play" terms that don't mean "pay-to-win".

Path of Exile is much closer to the Diablo archetype; a ruined world, swords and sorcery, evil and bewitched and undead enemies crawling out of the muck to drink your soul. Marvel Heroes is set in comic-book environments; the bad guys are thugs or mole people or robots. It's up to you to decide whether you're actually killing them, or just rendering them unconscious for their unseen trip to Comic Jail.

Path of Exile's calling card is its skill tree. There are half a dozen classes available, as in Diablo; but they all start out at different spots on the same tree; you're not tied to a single set of skills for each class. Marvel Heroes went the other direction; each "class" is a different superhero, each with its own skill tree. There are 25 playable heroes right now, with Loki joining the list later this week, Gambit before the end of November, and others down the road (Ghost Rider and Nightcrawler are rumored for December).

One major difference between the two games: Path of Exile will let you play any class from day one. Marvel Heroes will let starting players choose one of five "starter heroes"; as you play through the story mode, you collect drops called Eternity Splinters. Splinters can be traded in for a new hero; so all heroes are available through gameplay, but not immediately.

Both games avoid the pitfalls of "pay-to-win" play. Path of Exile sells different cosmetic looks for gear, pets that don't do anything except follow you around, stash tabs, and so on. Marvel Heroes will sell you heroes, if you don't want to grind for them; they'll also sell alternate costumes, Marvel-themed pets that don't do anything except follow you around, stash tabs, and so on. You'll run out of stash space very quickly in both games, unless you decide to open up the wallet and buy some more.

Since we're talking about F2P games and Steam, I'm going to bring in the Pinball Arcade comment:


seamoss said:
I'm surprised that Valve let them do this (unless it still goes through Steam under the covers). That was the whole fight between Valve & EA regarding in-game DLC purchases.
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For F2P games, Steam has clearly decided that it's okay just being a payment processor. I linked my existing Path of Exile account to Steam; any attempt I make to buy points in the PoE in-game store will take me to the Steam overlay where I can approve the transaction. Same thing for Marvel Heroes. Steam is making no effort to get involved in the actual in-game storefronts; they're just transferring the dollars and taking a cut for their troubles. Steam is the new Paypal. (On the other hand, this allows another outlet for all those free Gabenbucks.)

So, which game is better? Depends on whether you prefer swords and magic staves and spraying blood, or mutants and cosmic rays and pow-biff-snikt. Or... depends on whether you prefer looking at rusty well-worn armor, or superheroes and superheroines running around in skintight underwear.

Flowette said:
It gets worse. Since he's been born I've:

A) missed the launch price of not one but two Indie Royale bundles;
B) allowed up to half a dozen games with cards to go un-farmed;
C) gone to bed rather than stay up for an hour's gaming.

I am everything that's wrong with modern society.

On the plus side, the tiny little poop machines are pretty fun.
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This is my future. Sometime between the Thanksgiving sale and the Holiday sale, my gaming universe is going to drop into severe offline mode. :baby:

I think I might have written the above comparison just to prove to my future self that I actually played games once.

 
Mac the Geek said:
Both games avoid the pitfalls of "pay-to-win" play. Path of Exile sells different cosmetic looks for gear, pets that don't do anything except follow you around, stash tabs, and so on. Marvel Heroes will sell you heroes, if you don't want to grind for them; they'll also sell alternate costumes, Marvel-themed pets that don't do anything except follow you around, stash tabs, and so on. You'll run out of stash space very quickly in both games, unless you decide to open up the wallet and buy some more.
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Maybe if you are the type to play 5 different characters all at once and need multiples of everything for each, but in my experience, the default inventory space is pretty generous in PoE.

 
travathian said:
Maybe if you are the type to play 5 different characters all at once and need multiples of everything for each, but in my experience, the default inventory space is pretty generous in PoE.
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Its not too horrible in MH also... but only if you play one character. Doing two or more it gets pretty rough. (Granted, with the new itemization they have there's not a whole lot of reason to stash stuff.)

 
travathian said:
Maybe if you are the type to play 5 different characters all at once and need multiples of everything for each, but in my experience, the default inventory space is pretty generous in PoE.
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Depends on what you're saving. Skill gems and orbs don't take up a lot of space, but tower shields and longbows eat up 8 squares each. I've only got three characters in progress, and three out of the four stash tabs are full.

In MH, each piece of gear only takes up one slot, which is good; but there are only 48 slots in each stash tab, and you get only one by default, so it fills up faster than PoE. (On the other hand, MH has 40 slots in the on-hand inventory, which allows a lot fewer trips to "town" when you're out leveling a character.)

 
Neuro5i5 said:
My list for Satan Santa:

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified + DLC

Saints Row IV + DLC

State of Decay

Metro: Last Light + DLC

Call of Duty WaW/BlOPs/MW2 (gotta complete my library)

Deadly Premonition

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Outlast

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing

Betrayer

Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches

BioShock Infinite Season Pass

Borderlands 2 DLC

Really, I want everything, but I'm told that's "unrealistic".
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why u scratch my name out?

pasports31 said:
If only obamacare had a guide this simple.
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it is simple, all boxes eventually flow to YOU"RE fuck ED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MysterD said:
That'd be a great signature for when you reply to MysterD Client issues! :D
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I also came up with a help line persona, see below. :)

spoderman said:
Oh god, MysterD is infecting the CAG population.
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MysterD Client Enterprises, and it's subsidiaries humbly ask you to refrain from any negative comments about MysterD, it's employees, digital client, and/or crappy games.

Rajanikant A Tamila, Legal Department

figure I should take a Hindi name.

First one to tell me what it means in English wins their choice of either Trainz Simulator 12, GT Legends, Rig N Roll, or Air Conflicts: Secret Wars.

 
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Rajanikant A Tamila, Legal Department
figure I should take an Hindu name.
First one to tell me what it means in English wins their choice of either Trainz Simulator 12, GT Legends, Rig N Roll, or Air Conflicts: Secret Wars.


I'll take a wild guess that it has to do with burgers and moonshine :beer:
 
Holy shit man, over one year later and I'm still finding traces of that damn Gamestop download client on my computer. That thing infested my PC and uninstalling it left all this shit behind that I come across now and then.

 
More info about the FrenchCows bundle was posted on their blog.. looks like the games will be split into "packs".

Here's the name of the packs and some of the games (not sure if they'll contain more games):

LegenDairy Pack:

Gulag Paradise (enhanced version)
Get Well Soon
Never Alone Hotline (enhanced version)

Holy Cow Pack:

The Queen of Snakes
Eggz
Strange Masks

Rainbow Jail

 
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Neuro5i5 said:
Oh, I agree. It just irks me. It's like, why don't they just use a 1-5 or 1-4 scale if you're just gonna say 1-5 are all equally bad. With the way current reviews are, your game is either internet acceptable (7.5+) or shit (<7.5). I never liked it in school either. (For the record, I was either a A-B or straight up 0 student.)
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The reason most game review sites do not usually give review scores between 1-5 is because they do not go out of their way to review the really bad games. Most games they review are higher profile games from well known developers or games that have received a lot of hype/buzz on the internet. These games are usually above average quality which is why the scores on review sites are more skewed between 7-10.

A good example of this would be the game Radical Roach. It is a terrible game that barely anyone has heard of that deserves a score around a 1 or 2. No review site is going to take their time to review that game when they could be using that time to review a higher profile game. If you type in Radical Roach review in Google the number 3 search result is actually a review by MrNinjaSquirrel.

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&q=radical+roach+review&oq=radical+roach+review&gs_l=serp.12...0.0.0.426874.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..31.serp..0.0.0._rhOkBpeq7o

 
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