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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
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I'll believe No Man's Sky isn't a pile of superficially-impressive-but-boring-after-you-play-it-for-2-hours shit after I play it in 2 years when I pick it up on sale for 7.50

 
Foxhack said:
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/quakconweekend/

Really awful prices.
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I still remember not that long ago when Fallout 3, NV, TES V: Skyrim, TES IV: Oblivion, TES III: Morrowind as well as Wolfenstein: The New Order (if I'm not mistaken since I think I bought it at 75% off) were 75% off. It seems that after Steam refunds were implemented, publishers one after the other started lowering their discounts both during major and minor sales

TheKbob said:
Deals suck this week. Guess I have to be like, responsible with my money? lame

But, hey, there's No Man's Sky next week. That's gotta be great, right?
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Not all of them. I've actually looked through the Midweek Madness and the Week long sales and they seem to contain actually better discounts (though you probably own most of the games if you were actually interested in them at any point in the past). In regards to No Man's Sky - ehhh, I'm not exactly sure about how super amazing can a procedurally generated game be past the first 10 hours and even that's stretching it unless they do something really interesting and revolutionize the way developers do procedural generation (highly unlikely).

pasports31 said:
I'll believe No Man's Sky isn't a pile of superficially-impressive-but-boring-after-you-play-it-for-2-hours shit after I play it in 2 years when I pick it up on sale for 7.50
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If the game's going to be a huge hit (which it probably will after all the PR it got unless it really sucks), you might have to wait a while for a discount.

 
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So I tried to order Homefront from that shady key site yesterday. I used PayPal, got an email from them saying that my order has been put in for manual verification

This is what the email said

We need you to do the following 3 steps before we can approve your order(s):
Please reply this e-mail with these 3 simple steps.

Step 1.
Please confirm your OnePlay Account by giving us your name, address, and telephone number.

Step 2.
Please provide a picture ID with a signature.

Step 3.
Please provide a credit card with a signature (Please cover sensitive information)

Sounds legit.
 
Drabelincoln said:
So I tried to order Homefront from that shady key site yesterday. I used PayPal, got an email from them saying that my order has been put in for manual verification

This is what the email said

We need you to do the following 3 steps before we can approve your order(s):
Please reply this e-mail with these 3 simple steps.

Step 1.
Please confirm your OnePlay Account by giving us your name, address, and telephone number.

Step 2.
Please provide a picture ID with a signature.

Step 3.
Please provide a credit card with a signature (Please cover sensitive information)

Sounds legit.
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You sure that you didn't gloss over steps 4 and 5--please provide your social security number and lick your webcam so we can collect a DNA sample?

 
I called their customer service number and bitched to a person who seemed to be talking to me from across a room over speaker phone. I was not asked to provide anything but my e-mail address but had to continuously ask for the person to repeat things and vice-versa. He seemed to be watching a movie because I could also hear it over the phone. I was told that the key would then be sent to me. The person seemed very aggravated that they had to provide any customer service at all. I doubt I will buy again from them.

 
lostnumber said:
I called their customer service number and bitched to a person who seemed to be talking to me from across a room over speaker phone. I was not asked to provide anything but my e-mail address but had to continuously ask for the person to repeat things and vice-versa. He seemed to be watching a movie because I could also hear it over the phone. I was told that the key would then be sent to me. The person seemed very aggravated that they had to provide any customer service at all. I doubt I will buy again from them.
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They have a customer service number..? That's better than Valve

 
spoderman said:
They have a customer service number..? That's better than Valve
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Googled "valve customer service number". Google suggests: "Fax: (425) 827-4843". Well it's a number alright, not exactly customer service related or a phone number, but still a number. Also, the page they took it from doesn't seem to load. Though a guy in the second link does have a point:

No. 8 million customers can't get through a phone line. Origin doesn't have this issue because they don't have nearly the same amount of customers.
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spoderman said:
They have a customer service number..? That's better than Valve
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Yeah if you have tried this and want to have the same fun experience as I did here it is.

U.S.

US +1 (702) 919-5052

EU

+45 38 41 40 00

 
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Googled "valve customer service number". Google suggests: "Fax: (425) 827-4843". Well it's a number alright, not exactly customer service related or a phone number, but still a number. Also, the page they took it from doesn't seem to load. Though a guy in the second link does have a point:
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I think it's funny when people make that excuse for Valve (or any company with piss poor customer service). Last I checked Amazon has millions and millions more customers and I've never had an issue getting through to their CS either by chat, email, or phone. Volume is simply not an excuse for this BS. It just means you're being too cheap to pay for dedicated CS or you just don't care, which in Valve's case they just don't care.

 
Pickle14 said:
Anyone know how/where to get those Marvel Heroes 2016 Mystery Hero Box keys? Or is the event over?
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Seasonal Droppings:

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PR72-PGN6-C9BD-EGA7-AD38-7F83
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Dropped these in TheHangOut last night and I think the last one was used by Xealot but try them all. You guys should join the steam group lots of key drops Madjoki's MrG bot, random shet talk and some of your favorite CAGs are there, your welcome brohs.

 
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FoxyPie said:
I think it's funny when people make that excuse for Valve (or any company with piss poor customer service). Last I checked Amazon has millions and millions more customers and I've never had an issue getting through to their CS either by chat, email, or phone. Volume is simply not an excuse for this BS. It just means you're being too cheap to pay for dedicated CS or you just don't care, which in Valve's case they just don't care.
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Oh, trust me - I'm not justifying their piss-poor customer service one bit. Though I didn't have many dealings with them, some of my friends did and there's no excuse for letting important, "whoops money gone from your Steam account due to conversion error" tickets hang for several months.

Just saying that not all companies can justify phone based customer service, considering how technical some issues may get in a digital PC game distributor with huge volumes of users and the wide variety of possible problems, ranging from hardware related Steam client issues (that may require actual developers work on a patch to fix it) to issues with games, misaddressed as issues with Steam. Which is where the support ticket system should come in to save the day but...

 
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Oneplay 

 
headpiece747 said:
Seasonal Droppings:

PR72-PGN6-2E4G-4828-E3H9-EGAG
PR72-PGN6-C9BD-EGA7-AD38-7F83
PR72-PGN6-6634-ADD4-EHD8-CJ28

Dropped these in TheHangOut last night and I think the last one was used by Xealot but try them all. You guys should join the steam group lots of key drops Madjoki's MrG bot, random shet talk and some of your favorite CAGs are there, your welcome brohs.
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Nice got the second one to work, thanks!

Sure, shoot me an invite, I'll happily join. I'm in a few of the other CAG groups that a lot of people here are in, didn't know this one existed.

 
headpiece747 said:
Seasonal Droppings:
PR72-PGN6-2E4G-4828-E3H9-EGAG
PR72-PGN6-C9BD-EGA7-AD38-7F83
PR72-PGN6-6634-ADD4-EHD8-CJ28

Dropped these in TheHangOut last night and I think the last one was used by Xealot but try them all. You guys should join the steam group lots of key drops Madjoki's MrG bot, random shet talk and some of your favorite CAGs are there, your welcome brohs.
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Awesome, I got the first one.

I think someone (Syntax Error?) said something about having too many Diablo-clones and I wholeheartedly agree. I played the Van Helsing games for a little bit, then Marvel Heroes, and even a little Path of Exile before I realized: ain't nobody got time for this shit. It's hard enough trying to level and gear multiple characters in the same game, trying to do that across multiple games (of the same genre) just feels like a waste of time, since you just end up with a bunch of level 5 characters spread out across several games. I've decided to try and focus on one at a time (Marvel Heroes for now), so that I can see all the game has to offer instead of just seeing the first zone of each game.


Having said all that, I just booted up Victor Vran for the first time yesterday, and it's actually a lot of fun. I really like playing with the controller, I believe Van Helsing also had controller support but I remember not liking it too much. If anyone has it sitting in their backlog I definitely recommend checking it out.
 
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Diablo derivatives are boring. 

In fact, Diablo 3 is pretty boring. It's a loot based game that continuously trivializes your previous work and loot gains.  Nothing has any value; it feels like a hollow experience.  There is no sense of progression nor feeling of accomplishment.

 
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Nothing371 said:
Diablo derivatives are boring.

In fact, Diablo is pretty boring. It's a loot based game that continuously trivializes your previous work and loot gains. Nothing has any value; it feels like a hollow experience. There is no sense of progression nor feeling of accomplishment.
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D2 was awesome with d2jsp forum to trade on. I think I enjoyed playing the market as much as playing the game.

 
Nothing371 said:
Diablo derivatives are boring.

In fact, Diablo is pretty boring. It's a loot based game that continuously trivializes your previous work and loot gains. Nothing has any value; it feels like a hollow experience. There is no sense of progression nor feeling of accomplishment.
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While I get why you might feel that way, there's a pretty strong case to be made that the opposite is true. Opinions are like assholes, but there are subtle ways that you can measure your character growth and not-so-subtle ways. The former are the boosts to health, mana, and extra abilities that you can unlock. The latter are the many, many tiers and varieties of loot and loot enhancements that you can get or craft. That's the real meat of the game for many people. Some people (including a number of CAGs) really jump wholeheartedly into these systems, which Blizzard tends to tweak with every new major patch. You can spend a lot of time and energy getting that ultimate set of gear for your character(s). Personally, I don't have the time or patience to go much beyond the single-player parts of these games, but different strokes. . . . I like Diablo III because it's a good ARPG that tells an interesting story with Blizzard's patented fancy cinematic cutscenes; neither the gameplay nor the narrative will ultimately win any game of the century awards, but it's still worth playing, IMO.

 
zenii said:
I think someone (Syntax Error?) said something about having too many Diablo-clones and I wholeheartedly agree. I played the Van Helsing games for a little bit, then Marvel Heroes, and even a little Path of Exile before I realized: ain't nobody got time for this shit. It's hard enough trying to level and gear multiple characters in the same game, trying to do that across multiple games (of the same genre) just feels like a waste of time, since you just end up with a bunch of level 5 characters spread out across several games. I've decided to try and focus on one at a time (Marvel Heroes for now), so that I can see all the game has to offer instead of just seeing the first zone of each game.
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Yeah, pretty much. I have nothing against the genre as a whole -- there's something to be said for a mindless endorphin rush of clicking the mouse and having the game throw food pellets you for for a few hours -- but I've never finished a session of Torchlight II and thought "Now let's play Titan Quest for an hour!". One such game at a time is really all anyone needs and most feel pretty interchangeable to me so it's a hard sell that I need a sixth or tenth in my backlog that'll somehow be more worth it than the rest.

 
I'll outright say ARPGs tend to be trash, boring, pointless games that are barely one step above clicker games and I can barely stand them.  Like clicker games, I'll find one or two to hold my attention for a certain amount of time, but for the most part they get boring quick, are pointless, and I don't understand how otherwise sane CAGs who enjoy other good games can devote their time into most of them.  Every now and then a good one will come along, like How to Survive, and no, the draw there isn't really the zombies, it's Kovac and the weapons that infuse the game with some actual personality.  I tried to play Torchlight II with the bros a few years back, but it was just a borefest to me.  Just run around and see a whole bunch of shit spray across the game screen and it mixes with the enemy shit and at the end of it all there's a chest with some shit in it.  

 
Drabelincoln said:
So I tried to order Homefront from that shady key site yesterday. I used PayPal, got an email from them saying that my order has been put in for manual verification

This is what the email said

We need you to do the following 3 steps before we can approve your order(s):
Please reply this e-mail with these 3 simple steps.

Step 1.
Please confirm your OnePlay Account by giving us your name, address, and telephone number.

Step 2.
Please provide a picture ID with a signature.

Step 3.
Please provide a credit card with a signature (Please cover sensitive information)

Sounds legit.
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That's Phase 1...when you pass that you get to phase 2 you need to send in a cheek swab to make sure your DNA isn't the result of Yanni Crappuccino's and Shitty Slugs illicit affair....

 
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Drabelincoln said:
So I tried to order Homefront from that shady key site yesterday. I used PayPal, got an email from them saying that my order has been put in for manual verification

This is what the email said

We need you to do the following 3 steps before we can approve your order(s):
Please reply this e-mail with these 3 simple steps.

Step 1.
Please confirm your OnePlay Account by giving us your name, address, and telephone number.

Step 2.
Please provide a picture ID with a signature.

Step 3.
Please provide a credit card with a signature (Please cover sensitive information)

Sounds legit.
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That sounds like a hell of a hassle.

I'll just show him my ID and credit card when I go to his condo in Vegas next week.
 
Boy, I must be the biggest time waster of all time then...

Torchlight: 35 hours on record.

Torchlight 2: 182 hours on record.

Titan Quest: 33 hours on record (still need to play the expansion).

The Incredible Adventures on Van Helsing: 36 hours on record.

The Incredible Adventures on Van Helsing II: 37 hours on record.

Path of Exile: 24 hours on record (Doesn't count the time I spent on the game's alphas, betas and non-steam releases).

Dungeon Siege: 6.7 hours on record (never again...).

Deathspank: Couple of hours.

Grim Dawn: 24 hours on record (currently playing).

And I'm still missing the time I wasted on DIablo 1 (both on PC and PS1), Diablo 2, Divine Divinity, Kult: Heretic Kingdoms, Darkstone and Nox when I was a kid.

I'll probably start playing Victor Vran and Van Helsing III after I finish Grim Dawn, and at some point (who knows when), I might finally get to try Revenant, Sacred Gold and the original Dungeon Siege games.

Geez... I really love to play trash, boring, pointless games...

 
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jrodri86 said:
Boy, I must be the biggest time waster of all time then...

Torchlight: 35 hours on record.

Torchlight 2: 182 hours on record.

Titan Quest: 33 hours on record (still need to play the expansion).

The Incredible Adventures on Van Helsing: 36 hours on record.

The Incredible Adventures on Van Helsing II: 37 hours on record.

Path of Exile: 24 hours on record (Doesn't count the time I spent on the game's alphas, betas and non-steam releases).

Dungeon Siege: 6.7 hours on record (never again...).

Deathspank: Couple of hours.

Grim Dawn: 24 hours on record (currently playing).

And I'm still missing the time I wasted on DIablo 1 (both on PC and PS1), Diablo 2, Divine Divinity, Kult: Heretic Kingdoms, Darkstone and Nox when I was a kid.

I'll probably start playing Victor Vran and Van Helsing III after I finish Grim Dawn, and at some point (who knows when), I might finally get to try Revenant, Sacred Gold and the original Dungeon Siege games.

Geez... I really love to play trash, boring, pointless games...
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At least you're not one of those weirdos that only play clicker games

 
FoxyPie said:
I'll outright say ARPGs tend to be trash, boring, pointless games that are barely one step above clicker games and I can barely stand them. Like clicker games, I'll find one or two to hold my attention for a certain amount of time, but for the most part they get boring quick, are pointless, and I don't understand how otherwise sane CAGs who enjoy other good games can devote their time into most of them. Every now and then a good one will come along, like How to Survive, and no, the draw there isn't really the zombies, it's Kovac and the weapons that infuse the game with some actual personality. I tried to play Torchlight II with the bros a few years back, but it was just a borefest to me. Just run around and see a whole bunch of shit spray across the game screen and it mixes with the enemy shit and at the end of it all there's a chest with some shit in it.
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This coming from a guy who loves to wander around in survival games whose objective is to. . . live? So you're basically playing yourself in the real world? That would presumably make Postal 2 the greatest game of all time because you play a guy who has to wait in line for hours at the post office to mail a package--just like in real life.

I don't know, for my money, as long as it has a reasonably interesting story to tell and the mechanics aren't excessively clicker-y, I'm fine with Diablo-type ARPGs. Path of Exile was one of those games I tried just for the hell of it, and it turned me off because I seemed to be wandering around aimlessly and the much-lauded character-development tree was absurdly unwieldy. I couldn't really get into the original Torchlight because the story seemed underdeveloped, although I did like the pet mechanic.

Oh, and I did your mom in the rear last night or something. . . am I doing this right?

jrodri86 said:
Boy, I must be the biggest time waster of all time then...

Torchlight 2: 182 hours on record.

Titan Quest: 33 hours on record (still need to play the expansion).
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You should go back and play Immortal Throne. I found Titan Quest, probably because of its mythological themes, to be one of the more enjoyable examples of this subgenre.

spoderman said:
At least you're not one of those weirdos
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There spoder goes, making assumptions again. . . .

 
jrodri86 said:
Geez... I really love to play trash, boring, pointless games...
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At least you are truthful with yourself.

Everything has an audience. I mean, there's a whole website dedicated to grandma games and people play those too, doesn't make them any good. Case in point, my top two played games on Steam are:

Clicker Heroes - 317 Hours

Time Clickers - 155 Hours

THAT TOTALLY MEANS THOSE GAMES ARE AWESOME BECAUSE AN IDIOT LIKE MYSELF WASTED ALL THAT TIME ON THEM!

Right, that's how that faulty logic works?

 
warreni said:
This coming from a guy who loves to wander around in survival games whose objective is to. . . live? So you're basically playing yourself in the real world? That would presumably make Postal 2 the greatest game of all time because you play a guy who has to wait in line for hours at the post office to mail a package--just like in real life.

I don't know, for my money, as long as it has a reasonably interesting story to tell and the mechanics aren't excessively clicker-y, I'm fine with Diablo-type ARPGs. Path of Exile was one of those games I tried just for the hell of it, and it turned me off because I seemed to be wandering around aimlessly and the much-lauded character-development tree was absurdly unwieldy. I couldn't really get into the original Torchlight because the story seemed underdeveloped, although I did like the pet mechanic.

Oh, and I did your mom in the rear last night or something. . . am I doing this right?

You should go back and play Immortal Throne. I found Titan Quest, probably because of its mythological themes, to be one of the more enjoyable examples of this subgenre.

There spoder goes, making assumptions again. . . .
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Yeah, survival games tend to be 1st person and at least allow you to immerse yourself in a world. The good ones also have extensive resource gathering and crafting. And maybe if you live in Trump's America, survival games are you playing yourself in the real world, but most of us don't live in a post-apocalyptic world, so there's some fantasy involved. Granted, not the fantasy of seeing the world from a 3rd person view from a helicopter over bland backgrounds with generic enemies that don't really matter what they are and being a wizard that shoots equally generic shit at the enemies so you can get a robe that magically protects you from genital warts. But for the record, if they did that in first person (like say Skyrim) I would prefer it much more over an ARPG. I mean, if I'm going to waste my eye sight, it'll be reading a book or something, not squinting trying to figure out what's going on on-screen and then spending five minutes trying to decipher if my new robe is better than my old robe.

 
Never heard of clicker games but I did some extensive research and I'm really looking forward to playing Sakura Clickers this evening while my wife packs her bags and reactivates all of her online dating profiles. Thanks again, Steam thread.
 
lostnumber said:
I don't fucking play furry games. I only masturbate to gadget from Chip'n Dales Rescue Rangers it doesn't mean I'm a furry deviant.
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That's a bit too specific there lostundies!

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DickBurden said:
Never heard of clicker games but I did some extensive research and I'm really looking forward to playing Sakura Clickers this evening while my wife packs her bags and reactivates all of her online dating profiles. Thanks again, Steam thread.
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Make sure to get some bikini dlc like I do!

 
warreni said:
Path of Exile was one of those games I tried just for the hell of it, and it turned me off because I seemed to be wandering around aimlessly and the much-lauded character-development tree was absurdly unwieldy. I couldn't really get into the original Torchlight because the story seemed underdeveloped, although I did like the pet mechanic.

You should go back and play Immortal Throne. I found Titan Quest, probably because of its mythological themes, to be one of the more enjoyable examples of this subgenre.
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I think my biggest gripe with PoE is that while you get this massive skill tree to create and mold a character the way you want (and certainly no character will ever play like another), all that freedom is butchered when you realize the skills are loot and gem tied. I would regularly found a nice piece of loot and I couldn't use it because it wouldn't match my current set of skills and viceversa. That's the reason why I haven't played that game in a while, it's still fun to play, but that limitation became a pain in the ass for me.

Grim Dawn improves upon that idea, by giving you your classic skills/stats system, keeping the masteries system from Titan Quest and giving you an additional skill tree called Devotion. It's pretty much based on PoE's skill tree but uses a constellation system instead. The icing of the cake is that once you complete a full constellation you get an overkill skill with a high rate of trigger success, therefore not making the system pointless and just a gimmick to improve your stats.

I do have to play Immortal Throne at some point. Graphically Titan Quest hasn't aged well at all, but it was certainly a game beyond its time and introduced ideas that changed the genre for the years to come.

 
lostnumber said:
I don't fucking play furry games. I only masturbate to gadget from Chip'n Dales Rescue Rangers it doesn't mean I'm a furry deviant.
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Added to the CAG's furry list.

Your Furry membership card will be emailed to you in 4 to 5 business day.
Make sure to photoshop a picture of your fursona into the card before printing it out.

 
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