[STEAM] Fortress #2 - The Steam Thread

[baxbound]

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Neow46: wedhjvrhavdafiwg,bjeh
Neow46: holy shit
Neow46: i just noticed something in the portal testing initiative trailer
Neow46: Neow46: ok
Neow46: about 2/3rds into the video
Neow46: where all those dudes on the computers
Neow46: keep an eye on their screens
Neow46: one of them in the lower right is watching MTP
Neow46 is now Away.
Neow46 is now Busy.
Neow46 is now Busy.
baxdab: wait what
baxdab: :?
Neow46: you check it?
baxdab: I just got back
Neow46: same
baxdab: link me?
Neow46: was mowing lawn
Neow46: hold on
Neow46: http://store.steampowered.com//app/620
Neow46: 1st video
Neow46: its like what the shit
Neow46: its like
Neow46: right after the octopus in a room
Neow46 is now Online.
baxdab: oh
baxdab: Meet the Pyro MTP
Neow46: notice though
baxdab: like
baxdab: oh
baxdab: OH
Neow46: yes
baxdab: OHHHH
baxdab: WHOA
baxdab: MINDFUCK
Neow46: this was released awhile ago too
Neow46: "WAHT THE SHIT VALVE
baxdab: This was released a long ass time ago
baxdab: What the everloving shit
Neow46: ITS BEEN HIDING IN PLAIN FUCKING SIIIIIGHT
baxdab: :OOOOOOOOOOOO
baxdab: MY MIND IS LITTERALY BLOWN
Neow46: now post this somewhere
Neow46: show everyone the truth

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[Jacquerel]

I'm pretty sure people noticed that when the thing came out
It is nice that Valve does these hiding things

[AnotherHomestuckUsername]

I had an appointment and missed the Deus Ex: Human Resources deal. :c

(also terraria is really good and you should maybe buy it)

[weirdguy]

aw, why did everybody vote for trine 2, that deal was already up before

also, while terraria is neat, i'm just going to wait for starbound...

[BRPXQZME]

Probably some of these votes are determined by who already owns what game—and people who have no stake in it at all are encouraged to vote, even, what with those stinking badges. But an interesting thing I noticed about the amount off (which is the only number listed on vote choices)... specifically, the first vote between 60% off Witcher 2, 66% off Arkham City, and 75% off Saints Row 3. If you halved each of those percentages, that would be very close to how the vote went down. Assuming U.S. pricing, all of those games would be in roughly the same price range if they won that pick, but only one of these things started at $50....

I don’t know the percentages for this one, but Trine 2 also started off at a higher base price than Limbo or Magicka. I imagine that given a pick and no particular preference, a lot of voters are just picking the one that looks like the best deal? Greater good, iffy head math, and all that.

[Bobster]

Oh man these flash sales are devious, and apparently Steam is going to push them through notifications with the mobile app too. The savings... I can never escape them...

[Didero]

Uninstall the app

Also, I didn't see this mentioned here, but they seem to have added badges to your profile page. You can earn a few by voting for the community deals, and then there's a few for the usual things like recommending a game ad linking your Facebook account *shudder*.
Just look at your profile, and click one of the badges in the column on the right to see which ones you've earned already.

I wonder what they'll be used for (if for anything at all).

[Bobster]

Nah, I don't really mind them, just being dramatic. My wallet is pretty fat right now so let the sales come at me (bro). Plus I absolutely looooove mobile Steam chat so I don't think I'd ever uninstall it.

Oh also apparently there's an option to turn the push notifications off and Steam asked me before turning them on :V

[Wesley Foxx]

I would love to watch all these sales and things, but we got a new router, and it is completely shit, so I can barely watch Youtube, let alone have the resource hog that is Steam running in the background.

[BRPXQZME]

In theory, you could set alarms and check back every eight hours. Though that takes a certain level of obsession.

[weirdguy]

wow, max payne 3 already on the chopping block

well, that studio was already being absorbed by another rockstar studio, so i guess it doesn't matter at this point

[Wesley Foxx]

Popcap collection sale

Tempting. Buuuut still too much, really. They're fun games, but not $5 a game fun. Maybe $5 for two of them.

[weirdguy]

You know you can just buy those individually, right?

[Wesley Foxx]

Hence the second part of my post. They're still $5 a pop(cap) each. And they don't even have my favorite one :< It was like Bookworm, but used the hexagonal grid, and you had to form words next to tiles to unlock them, until eventually you used all of them at least once. I might still get Rocketmania, though.

[BRPXQZME]

These publisher/franchise collections can be a great deal if you have the money for them and they’re on sale and you’re really into what games are in them. But in the case of this collection for instance, the break-even point is wanting five (plus a very small fraction) games in it (that you don’t already have), because they’re priced $10 most of the time and are probably not going down from that.

[Wesley Foxx]

I got the Quakecon pack back when that was a thing because of the combination of TF2 hats, Commander Keen, Fallout, Oblivion and Wolfenstein, the first and last of those being games I grew up with. And the only item in the entire pack I already owned was Fallout 3.

[Kuraimano]

aw, why did everybody vote for trine 2, that deal was already up before

also, while terraria is neat, i'm just going to wait for starbound...

I personally voted for Trine 2 because... uh, I wanted Trine 2. Sorry 'bout that, missed the other deal.

I second the fact that you should all wait for Starbound, after the initial excitement for Terraria I have come to the conclusion that it's not exactly a good game. Still, it's a cool game for a fair price (and now even... more fair?) so yeah whatever, but I don't recommend it as something better's about to come out (was it end of this summer?)

[Miraculous]

>Buy Binding of Isaac for boyfriend on first day of sale.
>Game gets even larger discount on the second day of sale.

[Jacquerel]

I'd have been more annoyed about that too if the price difference wasn't like £1.00 instead of £1.50
When it's that cheap I don't really mind

[BRPXQZME]

I was not at all invested in this vote, but... (trololololo)

[ArmsAreLoud]

I still need to READ Metro 2033. Last I heard the game was a bug filled mess.

[baxbound]

I was just about to post that. I voted for Metro 2033 too. I don't necessarily care too much about it since I wasn't planning on buying it, but still.

What the fuck.

[Kuraimano]

>Buy Binding of Isaac for boyfriend on first day of sale.
>Game gets even larger discount on the second day of sale.

Same here for L4D2... except I don't have a boyfriend :V

Also everyone: Someone commented on my screenshot to get the summer sale achievement, and I replied in that very same comment section of that screenshot of mine, and got the achievement too.

Spread the word, they are bugged, TALK TO YOURSELF, BE CRAZY, WIN STUFF (actually no we don't know if you win stuff yet but still)

[Soulerisn]

>Buy Binding of Isaac for boyfriend on first day of sale.
>Game gets even larger discount on the second day of sale.

That happens to me when I try to buy an app for myself on the AppStore. Except in the AppStore the game will be like $9, but 4 days later it's free..

Thankfully I read the steam forums and found out the steam sale might be coming the 12th (which it did) so I didn't buy anything. Not that I was planning to anyway.

[Wesley Foxx]

Lets check out the deals.
>Civ V collection on sale for $25
Oh cool, its cheaper than when I got it. Wait.
>Civ V COLLECTION on sale. Civ V itself is on sale for $7.50
:U
I would suggest you get it. Its very worth eight bucks.