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Prospero
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Reply #35 on: June 30, 2011, 01:17:19 PM

Does your head hurt too now?


Thoroughly.

Do achievements. Get free stuff.
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Reply #36 on: June 30, 2011, 01:46:06 PM


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Reply #37 on: June 30, 2011, 01:51:54 PM

Aside from some daily really low priced thing I can't pass up, there actually isn't too much I want right now.  I'm hope Fallout New Vegas goes real low, and I'll probably scoop up the Civ 5 DLC I want.

Hopefully I'm forgetting some stuff.
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Reply #38 on: June 30, 2011, 01:56:01 PM

Does your head hurt too now?


Thoroughly.

Do achievements. Get free stuff.

Yes, but the how and the where and the why? I'm at work and haven't figured out how to min/max it yet with my leet accounting skillz.

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Reply #39 on: June 30, 2011, 02:11:32 PM

Do achievements, get tickets.

Use tickets to buy things for games.  Each ticket earned also enters you into the drawing for getting the top 10 games of your wishlist.

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Reply #40 on: June 30, 2011, 02:12:47 PM

Oh man, Rift is half price. I fear for my future.
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Reply #41 on: June 30, 2011, 02:23:19 PM

Of course, just bought the Claptrap DLC a couple days ago for more than they are selling the whole GoY edition for today.

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Reply #42 on: June 30, 2011, 02:31:11 PM

Oh man, Rift is half price. I fear for my future.

If anyone bought it over the Father's Day thing, they're doing a similar sale now.  $5 but no game time.  I assume you'd be able to start your sub whenever and you'll have effectively locked down that $20 price.

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Reply #43 on: June 30, 2011, 02:49:17 PM

The EU price is merely matched to Steam. I wonder if the game is doing better over here since they feel they don't need to discount it as much?
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Reply #44 on: June 30, 2011, 03:02:25 PM

FFS - Retribution is $29USD when I look at it. Stop gouging Australia and I might start buying into your sales.

I wouldn't blame Steam for that.  Your wacky government seems to be the likely culprit.

It's the local IP owners. Not the government.

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Reply #45 on: June 30, 2011, 03:54:53 PM

ANd some bullshit...
There's not that many bad games on that list, IMO.
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Reply #46 on: June 30, 2011, 04:00:48 PM

I've beaten the PS3 version and now I'm tempted to get the pc goty just to play the DLC.
Zombie Island is the only good DLC, not counting the bank slots you get in Underdome. The travel in Armory is really really painful. I haven't played Claptrap but reviews I've read say it is bad too.


Weird. My friend and I thought that Claptrap was great, Armory hilarious though travel was a bitch. Underdome blows and Zombie Island is worth buying.

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Reply #47 on: June 30, 2011, 04:11:30 PM

I've already spent $11 on the first day...  Ohhhhh, I see.

I'm not going to make my budget.

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Reply #48 on: June 30, 2011, 04:34:19 PM

Weird. My friend and I thought that Claptrap was great, Armory hilarious though travel was a bitch. Underdome blows and Zombie Island is worth buying.
Zombie Isle - fun all around
Underdome - Arenas are too long; dying on the last wave is monitor punching worthy; bank slots are nice
Armory - hilarious with sucky travel
Claptrap - haven't finished but was having fun with it

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Reply #49 on: June 30, 2011, 04:46:45 PM

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6960/
Popcap games complete pack, 83% off.

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Reply #50 on: June 30, 2011, 05:43:02 PM

Does your head hurt too now?


Thoroughly.

Why? seems pretty simple to me.  Play the required games, get the achieve for a prize ticket.  Every day has a different list of achievements you'll have to do.   Each prize on the list costs you 3 tickets, and tickets can only be earned on the day the achieve is on the list.

Too bad I own NONE of the games required to get a ticket.

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Reply #51 on: June 30, 2011, 05:45:57 PM

So they are doing the potato bag thing again where they try to get you to buy a bunch of indie games which I have zero interest in?

Spectromancer: $2.50  - Did anyone every try this?
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Reply #52 on: June 30, 2011, 07:48:53 PM

Does your head hurt too now?


Thoroughly.

Why? seems pretty simple to me.  Play the required games, get the achieve for a prize ticket.  Every day has a different list of achievements you'll have to do.   Each prize on the list costs you 3 tickets, and tickets can only be earned on the day the achieve is on the list.

Too bad I own NONE of the games required to get a ticket.

Yes but then there's a contest involving wishlists or some shit. And entries with a jar.

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Reply #53 on: June 30, 2011, 07:56:58 PM

For each ticket you earn you get an entry into a lottery.  100 tickets will be pulled and those people will win the games on their top 10 wishlist. 

(This is the only part where no purchase is necessary. You get 1 entry just by having a top 10 list. Everything else requires you to have purchased the games for the tickets.. so it's a wonderful loophole around the no purchase req's for such promotions.)

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Reply #54 on: June 30, 2011, 09:00:07 PM

You have until the end of the sale to get the tickets for each day btw. So you don't need to try and get the achievement on that specific day.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4577-WUSK-4280
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Reply #55 on: June 30, 2011, 09:27:29 PM

I am half tempted to get Blood Bowl and play with you guys but suspect it'd be one long humiliation for me...

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Reply #56 on: June 30, 2011, 10:43:43 PM

You have until the end of the sale to get the tickets for each day btw. So you don't need to try and get the achievement on that specific day.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4577-WUSK-4280
Oh that's helpful.
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Reply #57 on: June 30, 2011, 10:45:31 PM

Please people buy blood bowl. Sir T and I need some people to be worse than us. (At least he has an excuse, Chaos or Nurgle or whatever he's playing is a slow team, I have no excuses hah)

I'm 0-5 or 0-6 or something, having an awful season (was 3-3 or something last season) but still no desire to quit. Sure, I get pissed once and a while, but it keeps me coming back because it's an awesome game (with a shit interface, goddamned Cyanide).

If you like TBS, talking smack, football or just randomly beating on f13 people, it's a great game.
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Reply #58 on: June 30, 2011, 11:39:34 PM

Yes, purchase Blood Bowl.  My Ex-Presidents of Doom need more newcomers to explode like blood sausages.  DRILLING AND MANLINESS

This is perfect timing for a Blood Bowl purchase though.  The fourth season of the f13 league is about to hit the postseason, which gives you just enough time to practice and/or build a team in the f13 Feeder League in anticipation for season five so that your chances of getting steamrolled are minimized, but not eliminated.

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Reply #59 on: July 01, 2011, 03:08:27 AM

How do you delete shit from your Steam wishlist again?

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Reply #60 on: July 01, 2011, 03:31:08 AM

How do you delete shit from your Steam wishlist again?

Under the title, next to the date added, it says "Remove" in brackets.

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Reply #61 on: July 01, 2011, 04:41:33 AM

You have until the end of the sale to get the tickets for each day btw. So you don't need to try and get the achievement on that specific day.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4577-WUSK-4280
Oh that's helpful.


Indeed, their contest page made it sound like you had to do them that day.  Still, I'm not buying a bunch of $3 games for a ~1:1 million chance at some free stuff.  Plus it's summer so I wouldn't play them.

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Reply #62 on: July 01, 2011, 10:01:02 AM

DAY 2:

Shogun 2 - $29.99
CoD Black Ops - $37.19
GTA Classics - $7.49
Dungeons - $13.59
Devil May Cry 4 - $9.99
Just Cause 2 - $4.99
Railworks 2 Train Sim - $8.74
Braid - $2.49
Spacechem - $5.09
Hamilton's Great Adventure - $4.99
HoMaM V - $4.99

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Reply #63 on: July 01, 2011, 10:03:36 AM

I guess the real question is if that's the right price point to get Shogun.

I'm certainly getting Just Cause 2 at that price.

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Reply #64 on: July 01, 2011, 10:07:30 AM

Hmm, Just Cause 2 is the only one that jumps out as possibly worth it just to have at that price point, but I don't know how much I'd really ever play it.
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Reply #65 on: July 01, 2011, 10:10:47 AM

I'll finally buy Just Cause 2 at that price, and possibly the DLCs.  Shogun is still too pricey for me to even consider because by the end of the sale I'll have more games than I know what to do with anyhow, and may as well just wait for a lower price later in the year or next year.

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Reply #66 on: July 01, 2011, 10:12:16 AM

Anyone have an opinion on homam V? I've enjoyed the earlier ones, and figure it might be a good thing to have on ice for later this summer once I have a desktop assembled and some time off of work.
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Reply #67 on: July 01, 2011, 10:13:49 AM

And on the second day, my wallet rests (already have JC2).

edit: Ohh wait, I can de-disk KOTOR. HRRRMM.
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Reply #68 on: July 01, 2011, 10:20:02 AM

Anyone have an opinion on homam V? I've enjoyed the earlier ones, and figure it might be a good thing to have on ice for later this summer once I have a desktop assembled and some time off of work.

I got a lot of play out of it, but it was the first one I'd ever played. I have no reference to any nerdragey things that they may/may not have changed from previous editions.

At $5 I'd say it's a must-buy if you don't have it.

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Reply #69 on: July 01, 2011, 10:31:13 AM

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