The [steam] thread - Serving the Newell with open hearts and wallets.

Albino Bunny

Neat, time to be a classy well spoken murderer.

Couscous

I have a feeling that I really should have bought Mark of the Ninja instead of the Fable pack, but I have a hankering for some shitty RPG playing.

Oh well, it will probably be on sale again eventually.

Big Classy

I leave for work and everyone is gambling with cards or something.


Can't wait to join in.

Couscous

Now that I think about it, I really should have bought Risen 2 instead considering that I loved Risen 1.

KoopahTroopah

Couscous wrote: »

I have a feeling that I really should have bought Mark of the Ninja instead of the Fable pack, but I have a hankering for some shitty RPG playing.

Oh well, it will probably be on sale again eventually.

It's on the Amazon sale for $3.75.

Stabbity Style

Steam needs to get those invites pumping.

KoopahTroopah

Couscous wrote: »

Now that I think about it, I really should have bought Risen 2 instead considering that I loved Risen 1.

Also on Amazon sale for $7.49

...we could do this all day @Couscous.

Panda4You

Any information on how big the sets are gonna be? If you can't earn any new cards above a certain limit (5 for tf2 appearantly, as previously stated) how the hell are you gonna complete the sets?

ToyD

If anyone has an extra beta invite, I'd appreciate one.

Stabbity Style

Panda4You wrote: »

Any information on how big the sets are gonna be? If you can't earn any new cards above a certain limit (5 for tf2 appearantly, as previously stated) how the hell are you gonna complete the sets?

Trading? It's a trading card game, after all.

Incindium

Woot I managed to craft a TF2 badge. I sold most of my cards last night and then used the proceeds to buy back cards at lower prices this morning.

Only thing I'm kinda aggravated about it that Beta Access passes are selling for $2.50 and I sold one for pennies yesterday(2 were given to PA people, probably should have just given all 3 away).

Now do I sell the emoticon and background that crafting the badge produced and do the whole thing over again but for Portal 2?

Darkewolfe

I jumped on Amazon having the steam unlock for Rocksmith for $20. Apparently I didn't account for the fact that no one sells the guitar to USB cable for less than $30 anywhere that I can find. Whoops.

Incindium

That's still a $10 discount but not as big a discount as you may have thought since its without the cable.

CuvisTheConqueror

TeeMan wrote: »

Rizzi wrote: »

Richard wrote: »

Icemopper wrote: »

Does anyone know how fast the beta invites are rolling out? It seems like a ton of people have them.

And then there's me.

Go stand in the loser corner. With me.

And me.

Room for one more? I've got a six-pack and a bag of chips

I'll bring tacos.

Idx86

CuvisTheConqueror wrote: »

TeeMan wrote: »

Rizzi wrote: »

Richard wrote: »

Icemopper wrote: »

Does anyone know how fast the beta invites are rolling out? It seems like a ton of people have them.

And then there's me.

Go stand in the loser corner. With me.

And me.

Room for one more? I've got a six-pack and a bag of chips

I'll bring tacos.

And my axe.

DiannaoChong

I just learned about cards 3 minutes ago and now I need a beta invite. Please, think of how much you hate me and want me to lose a personal life.

Panda4You

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Any information on how big the sets are gonna be? If you can't earn any new cards above a certain limit (5 for tf2 appearantly, as previously stated) how the hell are you gonna complete the sets?

Trading? It's a trading card game, after all.

If the sets are bigger than the "card hand limit", no I don't really see how you're gonna trade all of them together.

rikdaly

KoopahTroopah wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

Now that I think about it, I really should have bought Risen 2 instead considering that I loved Risen 1.

Also on Amazon sale for $7.49

...we could do this all day @Couscous.

that is very tempting but I bought Dark Souls instead

Big Classy

Oh shit custom profiles now too. I'm loving this card thing. And I just realised I'm 32 games away from 1000.

KoopahTroopah

rikdaly wrote: »

KoopahTroopah wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

Now that I think about it, I really should have bought Risen 2 instead considering that I loved Risen 1.

Also on Amazon sale for $7.49

...we could do this all day @Couscous.

that is very tempting but I bought Dark Souls instead

I saw that too. That was one of the games I was thinking about doing another giveaway for. Everyone should experience the true pain of trial and error.

Big Classy wrote: »

...And I just realised I'm 32 games away from 1000.

O_O. That's unbelievable.

Sir Carcass

Darkewolfe wrote: »

I jumped on Amazon having the steam unlock for Rocksmith for $20. Apparently I didn't account for the fact that no one sells the guitar to USB cable for less than $30 anywhere that I can find. Whoops.

That's pretty much the only reason I haven't gotten it up to this point. I'm definitely interested in it, but I already have a good (Line6) guitar to USB interface. Why would I want to spend $30 on a cheap proprietary one?

iRevert

Does anyone know if the NFS bundle unlocks on Steam?

I'm interested in it, but not interested enough in it that if it isn't steamable I won't get it
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008TTPRE8?t=slicinc-20&tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=S_VKxL41EeKBnwLjBHCCfw0_2.wY3_aFN_0_0

Also same applies for Gothic 3
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008L0ZH3Q?tag=cheapassgam08-20

anoffday

These cards might help me to finally beat Portal 2. I know. I'm a terrible person.

Bolthorn

Sir Carcass wrote: »

Darkewolfe wrote: »

I jumped on Amazon having the steam unlock for Rocksmith for $20. Apparently I didn't account for the fact that no one sells the guitar to USB cable for less than $30 anywhere that I can find. Whoops.

That's pretty much the only reason I haven't gotten it up to this point. I'm definitely interested in it, but I already have a good (Line6) guitar to USB interface. Why would I want to spend $30 on a cheap proprietary one?

The RealTone Cable is decent. It's nowhere near my Focusrite, but it gets the job done for the game. If you end up getting the game, play through the songs that come with the game and try to hold out on any DLC until the summer sale. I bought quite a few during the winter sale last year. Holding out for some of the songs released since then that Rocksmith DLC will get another sale during the summer. Also pinball tables.

KoopahTroopah

iRevert wrote: »

Does anyone know if the NFS bundle unlocks on Steam?

I'm interested in it, but not interested enough in it that if it isn't steamable I won't get it
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008TTPRE8?t=slicinc-20&tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=S_VKxL41EeKBnwLjBHCCfw0_2.wY3_aFN_0_0

Also same applies for Gothic 3
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008L0ZH3Q?tag=cheapassgam08-20

Looks like both are digital downloads and not Steam codes. You can usually check if the description says "Requires Steam and Login to install" or something like that. Or if the name itself has [Online Game Code] in the title.

iRevert

KoopahTroopah wrote: »

iRevert wrote: »

Does anyone know if the NFS bundle unlocks on Steam?

I'm interested in it, but not interested enough in it that if it isn't steamable I won't get it
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008TTPRE8?t=slicinc-20&tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=S_VKxL41EeKBnwLjBHCCfw0_2.wY3_aFN_0_0

Also same applies for Gothic 3
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008L0ZH3Q?tag=cheapassgam08-20

Looks like both are digital downloads and not Steam codes. You can usually check if the description says "Requires Steam and Login to install" or something like that. Or if the name itself has [Online Game Code] in the title.

and with that a great "fuckith that" was uttered, and all was well once again.

Houn

Panda4You wrote: »

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Any information on how big the sets are gonna be? If you can't earn any new cards above a certain limit (5 for tf2 appearantly, as previously stated) how the hell are you gonna complete the sets?

Trading? It's a trading card game, after all.

If the sets are bigger than the "card hand limit", no I don't really see how you're gonna trade all of them together.

This is basically my Big Question so far. As it currently stands, you are allowed a number of "drops" that is approximately 1/2 of the total cards available for a game; TF2 you can get 5/9, Portal 2 4/8, etc. Drops occur randomly while playing; I only played Portal 2 for maybe two hours yesterday and got my 4 cards.

NOW:
No one knows if your drop allotment resets; lots of people are asking, but I haven't seen any word on it yet. But, we're left with two options. Either drops reset after <X> time, and you can earn more cards for that game at that time, OR, your inital drops are it; that's all you get.

If the system is the former, it's not a huge deal, as you'll keep acquiring and eventually complete sets; or at least have some stock of trade fodder. If it's the latter, well, then you better pick what badge you want to focus on, then play every other game that's not it to farm for your initial cards to use up as trade stock. Or, you know, give your money to the Newell and buy them on the market.

Only time will tell, since so far today, Valve's not.

harvest

Do all or most games have cards or just popular/Valve-owned ones or what?

CorriganX

Houn wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Any information on how big the sets are gonna be? If you can't earn any new cards above a certain limit (5 for tf2 appearantly, as previously stated) how the hell are you gonna complete the sets?

Trading? It's a trading card game, after all.

If the sets are bigger than the "card hand limit", no I don't really see how you're gonna trade all of them together.

This is basically my Big Question so far. As it currently stands, you are allowed a number of "drops" that is approximately 1/2 of the total cards available for a game; TF2 you can get 5/9, Portal 2 4/8, etc. Drops occur randomly while playing; I only played Portal 2 for maybe two hours yesterday and got my 4 cards.

NOW:
No one knows if your drop allotment resets; lots of people are asking, but I haven't seen any word on it yet. But, we're left with two options. Either drops reset after <X> time, and you can earn more cards for that game at that time, OR, your inital drops are it; that's all you get.

If the system is the former, it's not a huge deal, as you'll keep acquiring and eventually complete sets; or at least have some stock of trade fodder. If it's the latter, well, then you better pick what badge you want to focus on, then play every other game that's not it to farm for your initial cards to use up as trade stock. Or, you know, give your money to the Newell and buy them on the market.

Only time will tell, since so far today, Valve's not.

I cant believe valve made a Trading Card game about cards, then expect you to trade ones you don't want for ones you do. It honestly blows my mind how they think trading cards work. Ugh, fuck those guys.

cooljammer00

CorriganX wrote: »

Houn wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Any information on how big the sets are gonna be? If you can't earn any new cards above a certain limit (5 for tf2 appearantly, as previously stated) how the hell are you gonna complete the sets?

Trading? It's a trading card game, after all.

If the sets are bigger than the "card hand limit", no I don't really see how you're gonna trade all of them together.

This is basically my Big Question so far. As it currently stands, you are allowed a number of "drops" that is approximately 1/2 of the total cards available for a game; TF2 you can get 5/9, Portal 2 4/8, etc. Drops occur randomly while playing; I only played Portal 2 for maybe two hours yesterday and got my 4 cards.

NOW:
No one knows if your drop allotment resets; lots of people are asking, but I haven't seen any word on it yet. But, we're left with two options. Either drops reset after <X> time, and you can earn more cards for that game at that time, OR, your inital drops are it; that's all you get.

If the system is the former, it's not a huge deal, as you'll keep acquiring and eventually complete sets; or at least have some stock of trade fodder. If it's the latter, well, then you better pick what badge you want to focus on, then play every other game that's not it to farm for your initial cards to use up as trade stock. Or, you know, give your money to the Newell and buy them on the market.

Only time will tell, since so far today, Valve's not.

I cant believe valve made a Trading Card game about cards, then expect you to trade ones you don't want for ones you do. It honestly blows my mind how they think trading cards work. Ugh, fuck those guys.

But you see, you can BUY the cards you're missing, rendering the entire T part of TCG completely useless.

TychoCelchuuu

Well I mean in actual TCGs you can also buy the cards.

Big Classy

cooljammer00 wrote: »

CorriganX wrote: »

Houn wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Any information on how big the sets are gonna be? If you can't earn any new cards above a certain limit (5 for tf2 appearantly, as previously stated) how the hell are you gonna complete the sets?

Trading? It's a trading card game, after all.

If the sets are bigger than the "card hand limit", no I don't really see how you're gonna trade all of them together.

This is basically my Big Question so far. As it currently stands, you are allowed a number of "drops" that is approximately 1/2 of the total cards available for a game; TF2 you can get 5/9, Portal 2 4/8, etc. Drops occur randomly while playing; I only played Portal 2 for maybe two hours yesterday and got my 4 cards.

NOW:
No one knows if your drop allotment resets; lots of people are asking, but I haven't seen any word on it yet. But, we're left with two options. Either drops reset after <X> time, and you can earn more cards for that game at that time, OR, your inital drops are it; that's all you get.

If the system is the former, it's not a huge deal, as you'll keep acquiring and eventually complete sets; or at least have some stock of trade fodder. If it's the latter, well, then you better pick what badge you want to focus on, then play every other game that's not it to farm for your initial cards to use up as trade stock. Or, you know, give your money to the Newell and buy them on the market.

Only time will tell, since so far today, Valve's not.

I cant believe valve made a Trading Card game about cards, then expect you to trade ones you don't want for ones you do. It honestly blows my mind how they think trading cards work. Ugh, fuck those guys.

But you see, you can BUY the cards you're missing, rendering the entire T part of TCG completely useless.

And if you're broke?

CorriganX

cooljammer00 wrote: »

But you see, you can BUY the cards you're missing, rendering the entire T part of TCG completely useless.

You can sell any physical cards as well. Of course you can also trade with people who want specific cards you have, because they're collecting and not just harvesting. So make friends with people who want to complete their badges, and don't want to spend money.

I'm still willing to trade CSGO, HL2, and Don't Starve cards for Dota ones I don't have.

Couscous

Goddamnit, Windows Live. The fucking thing won't let me delete my password information so I can put in my correct password. Neither the backspace nor the delete button work. Help?

Edit: Nevermind. I have to unclick the button to save your username and password.

Houn

CorriganX wrote: »

Houn wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Panda4You wrote: »

Any information on how big the sets are gonna be? If you can't earn any new cards above a certain limit (5 for tf2 appearantly, as previously stated) how the hell are you gonna complete the sets?

Trading? It's a trading card game, after all.

If the sets are bigger than the "card hand limit", no I don't really see how you're gonna trade all of them together.

This is basically my Big Question so far. As it currently stands, you are allowed a number of "drops" that is approximately 1/2 of the total cards available for a game; TF2 you can get 5/9, Portal 2 4/8, etc. Drops occur randomly while playing; I only played Portal 2 for maybe two hours yesterday and got my 4 cards.

NOW:
No one knows if your drop allotment resets; lots of people are asking, but I haven't seen any word on it yet. But, we're left with two options. Either drops reset after <X> time, and you can earn more cards for that game at that time, OR, your inital drops are it; that's all you get.

If the system is the former, it's not a huge deal, as you'll keep acquiring and eventually complete sets; or at least have some stock of trade fodder. If it's the latter, well, then you better pick what badge you want to focus on, then play every other game that's not it to farm for your initial cards to use up as trade stock. Or, you know, give your money to the Newell and buy them on the market.

Only time will tell, since so far today, Valve's not.

I cant believe valve made a Trading Card game about cards, then expect you to trade ones you don't want for ones you do. It honestly blows my mind how they think trading cards work. Ugh, fuck those guys.

Most trading card games have ways to pick up "boosters". In this paradigm, the only known "boosters" are "buy more games". So, yeah, I can idle in DOTA2 for a couple cards. But, I don't really want to buy CS:GO just to earn 4 more cards to trade towards Portal cards.

That's the question. I'm fine with rarity and trading and all that jazz; I just want to know what methods of acquiring drops there are, as that's going to determine my level of interest. If the drop timers reset after a week, sure, I'll play some more older games. I'm not going to make one-time game purchases for 4 digital cards, though.

Also, dude, don't need to take an attitude. I just want to know what the entry points for card acquisition are.

BlazeFire

BlazeFire wrote: »

So I asked about Civ V: Gold a couple days ago in regards to that Amazon sale. Today I noticed that there is a "Firaxis Complete Pack" which has Civ 4: Complete, Civ 5: Gold, and XCom: Enemy Unknown. That is a better deal for me as I wanted to get XCOM and Civ5: Gold. Civ4 is a decent throw in.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPBZDPE

So I'm being foiled by Amazon due to living in Canada. I assume if I had someone from the USA buy this pack I would still be able to redeem the codes on Steam?

If so, anyone interested in helping me out? If you bought the game and gave me the codes, I could transfer you the money via PayPal (or gift you something on steam that comes out to the same price).

rikdaly

BlazeFire wrote: »

BlazeFire wrote: »

So I asked about Civ V: Gold a couple days ago in regards to that Amazon sale. Today I noticed that there is a "Firaxis Complete Pack" which has Civ 4: Complete, Civ 5: Gold, and XCom: Enemy Unknown. That is a better deal for me as I wanted to get XCOM and Civ5: Gold. Civ4 is a decent throw in.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPBZDPE

So I'm being foiled by Amazon due to living in Canada. I assume if I had someone from the USA buy this pack I would still be able to redeem the codes on Steam?

If so, anyone interested in helping me out? If you bought the game and gave me the codes, I could transfer you the money via PayPal (or gift you something on steam that comes out to the same price).

I managed to get Dark Souls off Amazon and I live in sunny England, according to Amazon I live at pizza hut in Anchorage

SteevL

Couscous wrote: »

Goddamnit, Windows Live. The fucking thing won't let me delete my password information so I can put in my correct password. Neither the backspace nor the delete button work. Help?

Edit: Nevermind. I have to unclick the button to save your username and password.

Oh man, I ran into that issue a year or two ago. What a bizarre problem. Thankfully it's the worst problem I've had with GFWL. Compared to other people's issues, I've had overall good experiences.

BlazeFire

rikdaly wrote: »

BlazeFire wrote: »

BlazeFire wrote: »

So I asked about Civ V: Gold a couple days ago in regards to that Amazon sale. Today I noticed that there is a "Firaxis Complete Pack" which has Civ 4: Complete, Civ 5: Gold, and XCom: Enemy Unknown. That is a better deal for me as I wanted to get XCOM and Civ5: Gold. Civ4 is a decent throw in.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPBZDPE

So I'm being foiled by Amazon due to living in Canada. I assume if I had someone from the USA buy this pack I would still be able to redeem the codes on Steam?

If so, anyone interested in helping me out? If you bought the game and gave me the codes, I could transfer you the money via PayPal (or gift you something on steam that comes out to the same price).

I managed to get Dark Souls off Amazon and I live in sunny England, according to Amazon I live at pizza hut in Anchorage

You just changed your billing address? Did you purchase it with a Visa? I was under the impression that they would verify the billing address against your Visa billing address.

KoopahTroopah

BlazeFire wrote: »

BlazeFire wrote: »

So I asked about Civ V: Gold a couple days ago in regards to that Amazon sale. Today I noticed that there is a "Firaxis Complete Pack" which has Civ 4: Complete, Civ 5: Gold, and XCom: Enemy Unknown. That is a better deal for me as I wanted to get XCOM and Civ5: Gold. Civ4 is a decent throw in.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPBZDPE

So I'm being foiled by Amazon due to living in Canada. I assume if I had someone from the USA buy this pack I would still be able to redeem the codes on Steam?

If so, anyone interested in helping me out? If you bought the game and gave me the codes, I could transfer you the money via PayPal (or gift you something on steam that comes out to the same price).

I don't see why not? I think it would work like that. If anyone wants to confirm, I'd be glad to help you out and you can gift me La Mulana and Receiver if you'd wish.