Steam Sale Thread

[Lil Frier]

Metro Last Light Complete Edition is $5. For those who don't want to wait for Redux.

So much hurt in my butt. I bought it during the Holiday Sale (game + DLC) for $18, and I have yet to touch it. What a waste of $13 and change.

Borderlands II is on sale too but I can't decide between GOTY ($10.-) and vanilla ($5.-) version. Is GOTY worth twice the $$ of the plain jane version?

There's supposed to be substantial content in the DLC. I got the GotY on the 360, but was co-oping with my cousin, and he never wanted to play, so we didn't get to the DLC.

I then bought the GotY on PC for $10 during the Summer Sale to play with a friend while he was home from college, and his video card (I think, no verification because he's lazy) crapped out, so we barely played. He's now back at school, meaning I once again have no one to play/finish the game with.

Take this as a not-so-subtle hint that if you need a co-op partner for it, I'll join you, and I would say get the GotY because $5 isn't much for what's should be quite a bit of DLC.

Over the weekend, I finally got Dishonored GOTY (+2 or 3 DLC) for $10......another good one I've been meaning to play.

I've needed to finish that for months. I got it during the Holiday Sale, started playing, then both of my wired controllers started ghosting on the right stick, and it became really annoying. IDK how far from the end I was, but I know I need to go back and beat it.

 

[gorcorps]

IIRC, Steam didn't actually dick him over. KaOTiK dicked over himself. It sounds like he bought a foreign Steam key from an illegitimate gray-market CD key website, and then the publisher tightened down the region restrictions on those copies of the game, rendering his key useless. Then he got butthurt about it and got mad at Steam, which is why he's not bothering with these threads anymore.

I mean... that's what it sounded like when he explained it. He said something along the lines of "buying a Steam key" from a third-party site, but he was hush about the details. I think he's hiding some parts of the story because there's no way something like that would happen with a legally-purchased version of the game.

If he reads this though, he is free to correct me.

He traded for pre-ordered games via Steam's trading system. When he traded for them they were able to be used anywhere, but then the region changed to Russia and he couldn't use them anymore. He didn't know where the copies of the game came from since he used Steam's trading system... it's not like he bought them from a 3rd party site. He got them through Steam itself and at the time they were marked as region free and it changed in his inventory before game was released. Steam said they can't do anything about region locks so they can't change what he has, only try to trade for a different version.

Very odd situation, but I don't see how you could call that "dicking yourself over" if it said region free when you traded for it.

 

[Dankk]

He traded for pre-ordered games via Steam's trading system. When he traded for them they were able to be used anywhere, but then the region changed to Russia and he couldn't use them anymore. He didn't know where the copies of the game came from since he used Steam's trading system... it's not like he bought them from a 3rd party site. He got them through Steam itself and at the time they were marked as region free and it changed in his inventory before game was released. Steam said they can't do anything about region locks so they can't change what he has, only try to trade for a different version.

Very odd situation, but I don't see how you could call that "dicking yourself over" if it said region free when you traded for it.

I see. That legitimizes his resentment a little bit, but not much IMO.

Last time I checked, nowhere does Steam tell you if a game is region-free or not. When you acquire a Steam game from a foreign trader outside of your region, you're running an inherent risk that the game is region-locked and might not work where you live. Period.

If you don't even know where that copy of the game originated from, then it's even riskier. People should know this.

Admittedly, I have done business with a Russian trader before to acquire a cheap copy of a Steam game, but that was only after I had thoroughly checked with the Steam community to make sure that it was region free, and I wouldn't get screwed over. I had to ask lots of people to make sure it would activate properly, because, like I said, Steam doesn't officially provide that information.

That's why I can't really fault Steam for locking down Russian games to Russia, even after people have already bought it. Nowhere are they advertising "THIS GAME IS REGION FREE!" and then turning around and changing it. Maybe for some reason the game wasn't region-locked yet when it was supposed to be, and it took them a while to get around to it.

Also - and this is a little more pedantic, but - region locking games is almost always a publisher decision, not Valve's decision.

Ultimately I think KaOTiK is still the one who messed up. Not Steam.

 

[Dannar26]

More towards that end, when you're sitting on 100+ games and one complex transaction robs you of a $5 game...

... Eh I wouldn't be so butthurt.

 

[Red Storm]

More towards that end, when you're sitting on 100+ games and one complex transaction robs you of a $5 game...

... Eh I wouldn't be so butthurt.

Hey man, $5 is like eight or nine games on Steam.

 

[Patre]

Hey man, $5 is like eight or nine games on Steam.

:biggrin: Quite true (at least you get a lot of games on any given special).

I think that's a big factor for me in using Steam as I've got a list of games (50+) that are just the best of the best and all from a sale.

I've only been on it since the summer of 2013 and haven't had any issues whatsoever (no crashes etc...) with Steam and this with all the cheap (very good) games, makes Steam a formidable software. :thumbsup:

 

[monkeydelmagico]

There's supposed to be substantial content in the DLC. I got the GotY on the 360, but was co-oping with my cousin, and he never wanted to play, so we didn't get to the DLC.

I then bought the GotY on PC for $10 during the Summer Sale to play with a friend while he was home from college, and his video card (I think, no verification because he's lazy) crapped out, so we barely played. He's now back at school, meaning I once again have no one to play/finish the game with.

Take this as a not-so-subtle hint that if you need a co-op partner for it, I'll join you, and I would say get the GotY because $5 isn't much for what's should be quite a bit of DLC.



I've needed to finish that for months. I got it during the Holiday Sale, started playing, then both of my wired controllers started ghosting on the right stick, and it became really annoying. IDK how far from the end I was, but I know I need to go back and beat it.

Thanks for the input and invite! I asked my GF to grab the GOTY version for me for Xmas. Unfortunately, I won't be playing for a few months.....

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Hey man, $5 is like eight or nine games on Steam.

Or 5 humble bundles with a gazillion games in each.....

MOAR GAMES for tiny $$$