I doubt Steam will die, the market is moving towards digital distribution, and Steam is king in that regard.

7/23/2010 11:41:33 AM

^Agree, Steam is the future. I don't think we have to worry about Valve killing it off. At this point its not just some testbed for a lone developer to publish their own games and skip the middlemen. They have become the middlemen (albeit far less greedy and obviously not taking nearly as big a cut as the retail publishers do) and far too much is riding on Valve. Hell they said that the average developer makes $30 off a $50 game sold on Steam, vs. $7.50 for the retail sale, so I would not be surprised if Valve makes more on the small amounts they make of all transactions than they do from selling their own games.

BTW, Gabe has said that they have tested killing all Steam authentication, and it worked just fine, so in some strange event that Steam has to be shutdown, they can send a command to allow all games to just be accessible, if the need arises.

[Edited on July 23, 2010 at 12:55 PM. Reason : ]

7/23/2010 12:38:10 PM

i want sc2 on steam.

7/23/2010 12:54:52 PM

I, too, want in on the steam group. http://steamcommunity.com/id/AndyMac55

7/23/2010 1:47:04 PM

well I was going to make a group but it looks like their is already one

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tww

7/23/2010 2:23:48 PM

Somebody msg Goalielax and tell him to get outta fucking Borderlands and invite some ngrs already!

7/23/2010 4:41:18 PM

^^^^^ That's good to know. I don't doubt that digital distribution is the future, but tech companies, especially software companies, have a knack for appearing and disappearing. I think Steam is best positioned at this point, but you never know who may come out of nowhere to knock them off their pedestal.

7/26/2010 10:27:58 AM

Quote :

"The anti-cheating software embedded in Valve's Steamworks platform recently took on a mind of its own, banning over 12,000 non-cheating Modern Warfare 2 players over the past two weeks. The cause for its insatiable ban lust? Valve president Gabe Newell explained in an email to those affected, "the problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between the disk version of a DLL and a latent memory version." See, we were just thinking that that had something to do with it. Newell begged pardon for the erroneous bans, adding "this was our mistake, and I apologize for any frustration or angst it may have caused you." An apology and a swift reversal of the ban aren't all that these users will receive -- Newell promised a giftable copy of Left 4 Dead 2 to all those affected, as well as one copy for themselves, provided they don't already have it. "

7/27/2010 3:55:31 PM

Thats a pretty sweet deal

7/27/2010 3:56:36 PM

Valve never fails to impress when it comes to being a fan-pleaser, even in a time of turmoil.

7/27/2010 4:01:12 PM

Quote :

"Somebody msg Goalielax and tell him to get outta fucking Borderlands and invite some ngrs already!"

haha - just saw this. i also had no idea i was an admin in the TWW group until just the other day when I invited you guys in. so thanks to whomever did that whenever they did it.

AndyMac, I invited you.

holla atcha boy if you need in people...I'm GoalieLax on steam as well

7/27/2010 4:53:34 PM

11/21/2010 4:25:48 PM

Not a Steam sale but GamesforWindows.com has Age of Empires III for $0.10 today. Great deal.

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/dailydeal/day7/

11/21/2010 4:26:30 PM

^first time I've ever bought/downloaded anything off of gamesforwindows, holy shit, I understand its a 2.75 GB file but this is going slow as fuck....wish they would have just given me a product key and I would have torrented it, maybe I'll get to play on tuesday

11/21/2010 11:59:59 PM

http://store.steampowered.com/

The Orange Box for $7.50 today which includes:
-Half Life 2
-Half Life 2: Episode I
-Half Life 2: Episode II
-Portal
-Team Fortress 2

They also have World of Goo for $2.50 which is a great indie game

They have some multiple license packs on certain games for gifts which are great deals as well.

11/28/2010 6:08:40 PM

^ Shit you are kidding right?

* runs to a computer that has steam on it*

11/28/2010 6:25:48 PM

btw, those sales run through tomorrow at either noon or 1 pm

^you don't have to have steam installed on the computer to make a purchase, you can just login from steampowered.com and it will show up in your account.

11/28/2010 6:50:59 PM

waiting on dungeon defenders to come out this month. Tower defense / rpg mix. looks promising.

11/28/2010 10:30:46 PM

Yeah, so, amazing prices once again Steam. Oh how I love you.

12/21/2010 1:48:41 AM

^Yea just saw this at work. Trying to decide I have Fallout 3, but want the $DLC. I first saw GOTY for $20, but then I saw the Bethesda pack. I have Morrowind and Oblivion and maybe a little of the DLC, but I could just bite the bullet and buy that pack to get New Vegas. Of course then I have to pay for the $DLC seperately, so I may just save my $$ and just get Fallout GOTY.

Also Bad Company 2 for $6.79 is a steal. Esp. with Vietnam just released.

[Edited on December 21, 2010 at 8:48 AM. Reason : ]

12/21/2010 8:47:46 AM

god damn that SQUARE pack is promising...

12/21/2010 9:00:44 AM

I need the Fallout 3 DLC. I have plain Fallout 3. Do you think that the DLC is worth buying the GOTY for $20 to get all of it in one shot?

[Edited on December 21, 2010 at 10:18 AM. Reason : ]

12/21/2010 10:13:08 AM

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6916/

that's pretty tempting.

12/21/2010 11:31:22 AM

http://store.steampowered.com/app/18500/

totally worth $2.

[Edited on December 21, 2010 at 4:55 PM. Reason : d]

12/21/2010 4:55:37 PM

Quote :

"I need the Fallout 3 DLC. I have plain Fallout 3. Do you think that the DLC is worth buying the GOTY for $20 to get all of it in one shot?"

How much do you like Fallout 3?

I'd say it's worth it, Point Lookout is fantastic especially.

12/21/2010 5:13:25 PM

If you don't have the Indie Heavy Hitters pack, it is a MUST BUY.

12/21/2010 6:28:55 PM

Haven't been keeping up with the sale as much as I should.

The Total War bundle is great if you like that kind of game.
Stalker bundle is good also as long as you get them patched.
Jedi Knight bundle is pretty awesome but I have all those games already.

12/31/2010 1:56:43 PM

TTT, B.

6/29/2011 6:51:14 PM

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=92897&t=3041319

You can buy Magicka for $3.50 from green man gaming and activate it on steam. I've found it very fun and addicting. I've already gotten my money's worth 10 times over.

6/29/2011 6:55:54 PM

Has the summer sale started or was this BTTT'd for ^ that?

I can't check steampowered on this network

6/29/2011 7:09:41 PM

I req'd bttt (thnx emce)

Steam sale should be coming up. I racked up last year.

[Edited on June 29, 2011 at 7:34 PM. Reason : s]

6/29/2011 7:34:03 PM

I saw the thread bumped and posted that on a whim

6/29/2011 11:48:29 PM

boom its here. Apparently there is more coming soon. This not the final list.



Game Packs
Name Price
Valve Complete Pack $50
Rockstar Collection $40
Unreal Deal Pack $25
1C Complete Collection $75
MumboJumbo Complete Pack $25
THQ Complete $50
Bethesda Pack $52.49
Sims 3 Pack $80
Need For Speed Pack $55
id Super Pack $30
Paradox Strategy Pack $45
Paradox Fantasy Pack $8
Square Enix Summer Collector Pack $75

JUNE 30th DAILY DEALS image link
Name Price
Oblivion GoTY $6.80
The Witcher 2 $33.50
Borderlands $5
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West $1.50
Medal of Honor $10.19
Operation Flashpoint: Red River $29.24
Dawn of War II: Retribution $15
Blood Bowl Legendary Edition $13.59
BIT.TRIP BEAT $2.50
BIT.TRIP RUNNER $2.50
Test Drive Unlimited 2 $10
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale $5
Back to the Future: The Game $12.50

6/30/2011 2:34:04 PM

I just jumped on Oblivion

6/30/2011 2:59:31 PM

Just got Blood Bowl Legendary Edition

6/30/2011 3:17:56 PM

Think I'll wait and see if they do a package deal for Dawn of War II and all the expansions. The THQ package is tempting though, but I've got until July 10th.

6/30/2011 3:20:06 PM

Hoping for Fallout 3 GOTY on sale.

6/30/2011 3:23:45 PM

I'm hoping they try to undercut EA's Origin store, I need me a copy of Dragon Age II but I'm waiting for it to get under $30

6/30/2011 4:15:54 PM

I got Titan Quest Gold, even though it STILL 13 on sale , but worth it (I played the demo and thought it was pretty good).

6/30/2011 8:36:35 PM

^Pff, I would have given you my hard copy. Too bad I deleted all my characters and items.

I just bought Borderlands GotY.

6/30/2011 10:46:38 PM

lead and gold is great if people actually played

7/1/2011 9:10:06 AM

The Steam servers are getting hammered.

BTW the grabbed Civilization 5 for ~$11.50 gamersgate.co.uk and activated it on Steam.

7/1/2011 1:50:54 PM

I can't even play Just Cause 2 because I have Windows XP, but the game looks so fun that I'm tempted to buy it at $5 so I can play it when I eventually upgrade

7/1/2011 2:53:08 PM

you totally should

7/1/2011 2:55:24 PM

I cant tell if that's sarcasm, have you played the game?

7/1/2011 5:56:08 PM

yes

it is amazing

you had better snag it, no joke

massive open world

all times of mayhem you can get up to

7/1/2011 6:02:18 PM

tried playing that on the 360 but didn't enjoy the way it handled...can't couldnt change the button layouts. Maybe its better on PC.

I want to play Witcher 2, but my current rig definitely won't handle it

7/1/2011 8:04:08 PM

finally got magicka

7/2/2011 3:14:18 PM

Actually haven't bought much so far, a lot of the stuff on sale was on sale in the past. Looking for some of the Paradox Strategy games to go on sale, only have EU3. If not, I might just buy the pack for $45 at the end of the whole thing.

7/2/2011 5:58:00 PM

^^ I got it also

7/3/2011 2:22:41 AM