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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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Asmith906 said:
going from a 480 to a 1070 isn't as big of a jump as I thought it would be.
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6970 to 1070 was great!

I'm sure that 480 ran hotter and used more power. I almost never hear the fan wind up on my 1070. Even when playing GTA V or something like that my 1070 never heats up enough for me to hear the fan.

 
AdmiralGialHackbar said:
6970 to 1070 was great!

I'm sure that 480 ran hotter and used more power. I almost never hear the fan wind up on my 1070. Even when playing GTA V or something like that my 1070 never heats up enough for me to hear the fan.
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That's weird, I can definitely hear mine on demanding games. Civ 6 is fine, I can easily play a full screen video on one monitor while running the game on the other at ultra settings in 1440p, but stuff like Overwatch, Battlefield 1 or Titanfall 2 will all generate some decent noise--not original 360 bad, but still pretty loud. I have three fans on my card, though, so maybe that's the reason. Not that I really care, I guess, since I use headphones while playing MP games...

 
Asmith906 said:
going from a 480 to a 1070 isn't as big of a jump as I thought it would be.
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AdmiralGialHackbar said:
6970 to 1070 was great!

I'm sure that 480 ran hotter and used more power. I almost never hear the fan wind up on my 1070. Even when playing GTA V or something like that my 1070 never heats up enough for me to hear the fan.
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What he said. Moving from a 480 to 1070 isn't going to be a huge performance boost (except on some random games), but the improvements are in the heat and power department. Maybe noise, though I doubt the 480 is probably pushed hard enough to make a ton of noise. If you have a big case with a big PSU, the differences may not even be noticeable.

 
Pickle14 said:
Hmmm, The Witcher 3 is on Tremor for 14k coins, been saving for a while (19k) so I might bite on this. Not sure if I'd ever play it, though. Decisions, decisions...

EDIT: Bought it, figured I'd play it at some point.
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What I did in Dec, still haven't played it. Was going to try to finish Fallout 4 first, but ended up playing Diablo and FM for the last month or so.

 
Foxhack said:
Project Cars is the day of the deal on Steam. The GOTY pack (a bundle) is also in on the deal:

http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/349/

Is it cheaper to activate Project Cars and do the upgrade via Steam, or to buy the third tier of the Namco bundle?
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If you activated project cars then the game of the year edition Bundle price will be $10.65 U.S. Dollars. Even if you bundled in at cheapest price it would still be cheaper to do the $15 tier, that is of course if the glitch with the dlc from the bundle has been fixed.

 
volt1up said:
Did I miss something in the cesspool, what's with the trade rule violations?
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Might have something to do with the argument over roguelvlup and his pricing policy for a dollar tier item from Humble Bundle. A large amount of people posting more than once every three days to try and make a point. All of the people in trading timeout posted more than once that day.

 
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lostnumber said:
Might have something to do with the argument over roguelvlup and his pricing policy for a dollar tier item from Humble Bundle. A large amount of people posting more than once every three days to try and make a point. All of the people in trading timeout posted more than once that day.
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Thanks, I prob posted more than once selling the humble monthly stuff.

Tomasety said:
R.I.P volt1up
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volt1up liked this.

 
lostnumber said:
If you activated project cars then the game of the year edition Bundle price will be $10.65 U.S. Dollars. Even if you bundled in at cheapest price it would still be cheaper to do the $15 tier, that is of course if the glitch with the dlc from the bundle has been fixed.
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... Wait, what glitch are you talking about?

 
Asmith906 said:
going from a 480 to a 1070 isn't as big of a jump as I thought it would be.
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You went from a 4GB RX 480 to 8GB GeForce GTX 1070, right?

Wait - what the heck settings do you even run games at? Only 1080p?

On VRAM alone, you should have plenty of future in your vid-card. I'd rather have the 8GB over 4GB.

If I was going for a new card, 4GB really is only going to get you so far at 1440p or above - I'd rather have the 6GB 1060, 8GB 1070, or 8GB 1080.

Even at 1080p, w/ my 4GB 960, I was throwing everything to the ceiling + pushing VRAM usage up to 4GB at Ultra with 1080p on games like Batman AK & Far Cry 4.

At 1440p, some games - eh, I have to be cautious on that 970's 3.5GB buffer, since now I'm normally aiming at 1440p.

More and more newer games are having stiffer recommended settings and whatnot, also.

Dishonored 2, Doom 2016, SoM, and Fallout 4 w/ the new texture pack come to mind - they all have higher settings for cards over 4GB!!

EDIT:

Looks like BF4 + BsI w/ the 480 are getting pounced by the 1070:

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-RX-480-vs-GeForce-GTX-1070

Also looks like 8GB GTX 1070 is pouncing even 8GB version of the RX 480 in many instances at higher res's + settings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QesyBfKjTmM

 
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Syntax Error said:
Tonight we're playing Bloody Good Time which was a crowd favorite for a while six months ago. Feel free to drop in and shoot people, poison them, slash them with swords or, if you're an asshole like Fox, throw dynamite on them while they're sleeping on a porn star's bed.
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I could have sworn I had Bloody Good Time, but it doesn't seem like I do.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8IVI0sZ6F8

Looks like my SSD isn't dead after all and was getting false positives when troubleshooting. Think after another day of testing and Windows reinstalling it was quite stupidly a USB hub causing the issue. Guess it had been in a 3.0 port since it was built but got plugged in to a 3.1 port after adding an internal drive. So for some reason that was causing instant BSOD and unrecoverable Windows corruption. Still not convinced that should be normal behavior but back up and running I hope.

You can all go back to being unconcerned.

 
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archbishopthedoge said:
Not with only 2 owning it
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That just means we all show up and wind up playing Bloody Good Time again -- Win!

Last night, we played Bloody Good Time and had, I think, eight people. One of which was Bah who bitched the whole time about how terrible the game was and then quit so he could dedicate himself to bitching full time in Discord about how terrible it was. Bah's a slave to his art and his art is complaint. Fox gave up sniping to sit in a closet and camp people with wind-up rat bombs. Spoder jumped around like he was playing Call of Duty. I peaked early, coming in the top of the board the first game and retiring for the evening at the bottom of the last. Everyone said "WTF?! How come you're not dead, I totally hit you this is bullshit" at least three times.

Tonight we're abandoning first (or third) person action for Flying Tigers: Shadows over China. It's a flying game where you defend China from Japan so, seventy years later, your grandchildren can prepare to defend Japan from China in the East China sea. The game is $16 but it was in a Bundlestars Killer bundle so you may own it. If you do, come save China with us because otherwise you'll never ever play it.

In non-Bro related news, every microwave's "Defrost" setting was designed by a madman. I've never once come across one that was intuitive and didn't use some arcane system of blindly guessing at how your frozen breakfast burrito correlates to the time it takes to defrost a third pound of frozen chicken.

In other non-Bro, but nominally CAG-related, news, Paypal is raising its currency conversion rates from 2.5% to 3% so expect to get dinged for a few extra pennies when you order from GMG or GameRocket or whatever overseas haunt you buy stuff from.

 
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Problem with reviews is that all the neg reviews don't actually explain why it was a waste.  I hit recent and read through.  Now I understand its a kids game but some of these reviews... I just wanna pull out my red pen and go to town.  

So 5 bucks for a kid who loves Minecraft?  Yay or Nay?

 
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IkedaTeramusa said:
Problem with reviews is that all the neg reviews don't actually explain why it was a waste. I hit recent and read through. Now I understand its a kids game but some of these reviews... I just wanna pull out my red pen and go to town.

So 5 bucks for a kid who loves Minecraft? Yay or Nay?
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Tomasety said:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/itISaflu/recommended/332310/

I say its a YAY for you. Nay for me tho
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When I first bought it my main issues were the controls. It just wasn't anywhere near as intuitive as Minecraft. MC you can basically start and get into the action. LW I never really figured everything out and it was frustrating. But for $5 I'm willing to give it another go.

 
Syntax Error said:
Tonight we're abandoning first (or third) person action for Flying Tigers: Shadows over China. It's a flying game where you defend China from Japan so, seventy years later, your grandchildren can prepare to defend Japan from China in the East China sea. The game is $16 but it was in a Bundlestars Killer bundle so you may own it. If you do, come save China with us because otherwise you'll never ever play it.
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That actually looks really good. Once again depending on my siegebros, if they arent around Ill try to hop in for this one

 
Just activated Project Cars and the price of the GOTY package stays the same?

Showing now, grabbing it with steam wallet!

 
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Looks like Make Love not War is going on again this year. You are able to register but I'm on my phone and don't want to deal with it right now. Seems like they had decent freebies last year.
 
Master Miguel said:
Looks like Make Love not War is going on again this year. You are able to register but I'm on my phone and don't want to deal with it right now. Seems like they had decent freebies last year.
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I remember this from last year, kind of. Great way to get free games and DLC. Are the rules still the same or are they only awarding the winning faction?

Looks like last year's prizes were:

Golden Axe™

Hell Yeah! Pimp My Rabbit Pack

Hell Yeah! Virtual Rabbit Missions

Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit

Jet Set Radio,

Streets of Rage 2

Binary Domain

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Gunstar Heroes

Renegade Ops

Viking: Battle for Asgard

 
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Why is no one posting pizza deals for National Pizza Day?!?!?

This place sucks now.

Stupid Dominos isn't having any deals...  They must hate the USA.

 
Baltore said:
I can't remember if that's what they did last year or not. I think they made it where prizes were available to everyone somehow? If they only do winning faction, that's kind of lame.
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They gave away game bundles to everyone, and the winning faction got a special piece of DLC for their game.

 
Im just hoping they throw the dow2 necron dlc back up for free.  I dont remember how I missed that on steam but I did, and hasnt been free since

 
Yeah there some fuss last year over DoW2 winning and the reward was a dlc that had been free before when the total war dlc was something that had never been free. Or something like that. Regardless only one dlc is given away at the end.
 
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