Steam Holiday Sales (1/2: Repeat deals)

[MyNameIsMethodis]

I wish I had good experiences with Steam support 

[D3RANG3D]

I tried what you posted borys and It didn't work for me

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I tried to gift a certain southern gentlemen a gift since he gifted me something and it keeps denying it, until I bought myself something and gifted something to my brothers account sorry bro gabe hates you :'(

[Cormacaroni]

Got myself New Vegas for $25 - nowhere near ready to play it but just in case. Plus GRAW2 for $5, since I enjoyed it on 360.

On the fence about Borderlands now. The 360 version bored me to tears in SP. I know it's a co-op game, but good luck trying to find someone in this time zone of the right level who wants to play when I do.  The PC version looks great though. Probably worth $10.

[Eel O'Brian]

that's okay, i hate that fat bastard right back

[Great Rumbler]

Gabe programmed that fraud detection system himself to personally troll Eel after he saw that fake Red Dead Redemption ending video.

[Raban]

Got myself New Vegas for $25 - nowhere near ready to play it but just in case. Plus GRAW2 for $5, since I enjoyed it on 360.

On the fence about Borderlands now. The 360 version bored me to tears in SP. I know it's a co-op game, but good luck trying to find someone in this time zone of the right level who wants to play when I do.  The PC version looks great though. Probably worth $10.

If you get it, I'll play with you. What's your Steam ID?

[archie4208]

DMC4's price increased to $10.  Capcom

[Cormacaroni]

Got myself New Vegas for $25 - nowhere near ready to play it but just in case. Plus GRAW2 for $5, since I enjoyed it on 360.

On the fence about Borderlands now. The 360 version bored me to tears in SP. I know it's a co-op game, but good luck trying to find someone in this time zone of the right level who wants to play when I do.  The PC version looks great though. Probably worth $10.

If you get it, I'll play with you. What's your Steam ID?

You'll never guess!

Seriously, I never have any time to play online anymore.

[Eel O'Brian]

also, why the hell can't you add packs to your wishlist

i'd like to add some things so that i don't forget them, but i can't

"hey, valve, i would like to give you some money"

"hahaha, no thanks, we're all full up, hahaha, and by the way we only accept money orders now, one money order per item, hahaha"

[Raban]

Got myself New Vegas for $25 - nowhere near ready to play it but just in case. Plus GRAW2 for $5, since I enjoyed it on 360.

On the fence about Borderlands now. The 360 version bored me to tears in SP. I know it's a co-op game, but good luck trying to find someone in this time zone of the right level who wants to play when I do.  The PC version looks great though. Probably worth $10.

If you get it, I'll play with you. What's your Steam ID?

You'll never guess!

Seriously, I never have any time to play online anymore.

well just hit me up anytime you see me online, I have the same problem you do with BL by myself.

[chronovore]

Ah, a wishlist. I should have thought of that. I have barely added anything to my own, forgot it is there. I do the same thing on Amazon; my sister ended up getting me a book I'd long since forgotten I'd ever wanted. 

I have filled mine with all sorts of crap to fit every budget

There you go, sweetie. HIGH SPEED LOVE.

[pilonv1]

Kosma the sexy beast he is secret santa'd me DR2, sim city deluxe, winter voices and BTTF.

Did any of jbore get DR2? I'm only 1hr ahead, we should coop

[Akala]

just bought King Arthur...went back in to gift it to a few people and am now getting an error. FFFFFUUUUUUU

some people will just have to wait till tomorrow. Hopefully!

[Cormacaroni]

Ah, a wishlist. I should have thought of that. I have barely added anything to my own, forgot it is there. I do the same thing on Amazon; my sister ended up getting me a book I'd long since forgotten I'd ever wanted. 

I have filled mine with all sorts of crap to fit every budget

There you go, sweetie. HIGH SPEED LOVE.

Chronovore

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit in the bag! It wasn't even on sale you madman. Here, have some Team Fortress 2

[archie4208]

Splinter Cell games - 50% off
Altitude - $2.50
Red Faction Games - 50% off
Flatout games - 90% off
Shank - $7.50
MW2 - $29.99
Topico 3 Gold - $6
Batman AA - $7.50
X Superbox - $19.99
Dragon Age Ultimate Edition - $24.99
Monkey Island Bundle - $3.75
Civ5 - $37.49

[Great Rumbler]

Tropico 3 Gold for $6 is pretty tempting, but I'm already drowning in unplayed games as it is. 

[Bebpo]

Joe Molotov is the man.  He gave me the best gift ever:  IRON ROSES!!

[ManaByte]

Bought all the Splinter Cells.

[pilonv1]

Joe Molotov is the man.  He gave me the best gift ever:  IRON ROSES!!

Welcome to the club.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Civ5 - $37.49

You've got to be fucking shitting me.  I just bought it a few days ago. :/

Bizarrely enough, the same thing happened when I bought Civ4 off Steam.  It went immediately on sale the very next day.

[Joe Molotov]

Civ5 - $37.49

You've got to be fucking shitting me.  I just bought it a few days ago. :/

Bizarrely enough, the same thing happened when I bought Civ4 off Steam.  It went immediately on sale the very next day.

Could you buy Divinity II, please?

[pilonv1]

Why is the same games on sale all the time? This is annoying.

[chronovore]

Ah, a wishlist. I should have thought of that. I have barely added anything to my own, forgot it is there. I do the same thing on Amazon; my sister ended up getting me a book I'd long since forgotten I'd ever wanted. 

I have filled mine with all sorts of crap to fit every budget

There you go, sweetie. HIGH SPEED LOVE.

Chronovore

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit in the bag! It wasn't even on sale you madman. Here, have some Team Fortress 2

Woot! Fanks!

[Joe Molotov]

Why is the same games on sale all the time? This is annoying.

Almost everything has been on sale at one point, so you're going to get some repeats. Dragon Age: Ultimate is new though, and so is Splinter Cell: Conviction.

[Sho Nuff]

Hmm should I play DA on PC for the ultimate gaming experience?

[Cormacaroni]

Awesome day for me! Been waiting for Dragon Age Ultimate for a while. Now I just need. some kind soul to gift it to me

(if you do, i'll get you something from your wishlist, can also do Paypal but steam is more fun!)

also grabbing SC Conviction, Flatout UC and Flatout 2. interested in the X games also.

[Cormacaroni]

Hmm should I play DA on PC for the ultimate gaming experience?

oh hell yeah - it's a different game IMHO. Esp. in 3D Vision

[pilonv1]

DA ultimate is still $30 here so I'll pass on that. Almost interested in blue toad murder files for $3

[Sho Nuff]

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT Steam keeps rejecting both of my credit cards on gift purchasing DA, even though I just bought fucking Black Ops for my dad 8 hours ago. Is the store fucked up for anyone else?

[Cormacaroni]

You have Eel Disease.

i can't gift anything to Eel - must have tried 10-plus times, with different games. The system must think he is a cc scammer or something, cause of all his gifting.

[Sho Nuff]

FUCKING FUCK

I just managed to buy it for myself but it won't let me gift it.

I'm going to try this from Papa Nuff's account. Hold on

[Sho Nuff]

Didn't work when I tried to gift it directly to a Steam member -- when I put in the email address instead it went through. Fuck yeah

[Cormacaroni]

Didn't work when I tried to gift it directly to a Steam member -- when I put in the email address instead it went through. Fuck yeah

Sho Nuff

DRAGON AGE ULTIMATE GETTZOR

[archie4208]

I tried to gift pilnov Blue Toad Murder Files and Steam rejected my debit card.    I sent them a support ticket so maybe they can figure it out.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Gabe's gift to me this year is financial solvency

[Eel O'Brian]

y'know, i changed my contact email address recently, wonder if that messed anything up

changed it back just now

[Cormacaroni]

Joe Molotov now owns Coconut Queen, X-Tension, X2: The Threat, X: Beyond the Frontier, Blue Toad Murder Files - The Mysteries of Little Riddle, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition DLC CD Key, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - Deluxe CD Key.

[Cormacaroni]

y'know, i changed my contact email address recently, wonder if that messed anything up

changed it back just now

yes, that is sure to reassure them

maybe you could change your p/w a few times, then order some electronics on that card and send them to the Ukraine to really set their minds at ease

[Eel O'Brian]

oh well

[Joe Molotov]

Joe Molotov now owns Coconut Queen, X-Tension, X2: The Threat, X: Beyond the Frontier, Blue Toad Murder Files - The Mysteries of Little Riddle, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition DLC CD Key, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - Deluxe CD Key.

That's the least of my sins this Christmas Steam Sale.

oh well

Hey Eel, did you get that thing I sent you?

[Eel O'Brian]

no, you can try to resend, though

[Joe Molotov]

no, you can try to resend, though

Now it says you already own it, although I don't see it on your games list. Do you own Splinter Cell?

[Eel O'Brian]

no, you can try to resend, though

Now it says you already own it, although I don't see it on your games list. Do you own Splinter Cell?

nope, same thing happened with the first thing i sent borys

i wonder how many times this has happened over the course of this sale so far

[Joe Molotov]

nope

Steam truly does hate you, then.

I'll send it to your email address.

Edit: Okay, wait a second, it doesn't show up as you owning it anymore, so I sent it through Steam again.

[Eel O'Brian]

got it, thank you very much!

apparently sending through email is the only real reliable way right now, gifting directly through steam seems to be broken

[Van Cruncheon]

servers are SLAMZ0RED. i went from 6MB/s to 50ish KB/s :-(

[archie4208]

I was hoping DA would be done downloading by the time I finished BG2.  That probably won't happen now.  :'(

[Joe Molotov]

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I was hoping DA would be done downloading by the time I finished BG2.  That probably won't happen now.  :'(

LOL, I'm getting about the same thing here. It's telling me that DAO:UE should be finished in like 2 days.

[Eel O'Brian]

i'm not even gonna bother trying to download games over a couple of GBs until this is all over

[Eel O'Brian]

already set it to a foreign server, still only getting around 400 kb/s

[Eel O'Brian]

I picked up The Ball and BFBC2 Vietnam off D2D yesterday using the 20% off code Joe posted a couple of days ago, only played a little bit of Vietnam but it's got that BF1943 vibe going with lots of wacky kills/deaths

btw, you can use the key code from steam to register BFBC2 on EA and download the game from there, too - it's the version i play, since i'd been having punkbuster issues with the steam version

[Eel O'Brian]

I think i'm pretty much done with this sale, unless some things from my wish list drop even lower (I don't see it really happening).  I almost bought Flatout and Flatout 2 for $1.75, but I already own Flatout UC, and I asked myself "Do I really NEED two more Flatout games?  Even for the piddly amount of $1.75?"  I think I've just been soured by the whole experience.

[Cormacaroni]

you ain't done with this sale yet buddy!

[Eel O'Brian]

Cormac

Thank you!

[Bebpo]

Prince of Persia: The Forgotton Sands is real good.  The game totally got screwed by bad marketing as a movie game no one cared about.  I'm about 2 hours in and the game feels like the true sequel to Sands of Time.  Gameplay is almost identical: non-stop platforming across walls and jumps and avoiding traps.  All with really nice HD graphics and enjoyable prince dialogue. 

If they put up the game for $5 again at the end of the sale I'll buy people copies because it's that good (assuming you like Sands of Time) and everyone should give it a shot.

[Cormacaroni]

Cormac

Thank you!

just when you think you're out~

[Cormacaroni]

bebpo - great to hear that about Forgotten Sands. I picked it up earlier after Patel had good things to say about it. Ass Creed II looks amazing on my PC so I'm trusting this will also be hot shit. And Sands of Time is one of my all-time faves (i picked that up as well).

It's turning into quite a big day for me - got 10 games and counting. <3 steam

[Bebpo]

I'm on the face about DA Ultimate.  I bought DA original for $25 on steam but never really played it.  Then when Ultimate came out I figured when I do actually play it I might as well get that so I can play it with all the DLC and then play the expansion.  If I hadn't bought the original, $25 would be a steal for the ultimate version, but I don't really want to spend $50 total :X  I would just get the Expansion for $15 but I'm pretty sure all the DLC total up to way more than $10 and after playing ME2 with all the DLC from the start and seeing how much it added to the experience, I never want to play a Bioware rpg again unless I have all the DLC quests/characters installed from the get go.  Might bite.  Dunno.  I keep wanting to start DA since I was so satisfied with ME2 and am interested in another modern Bioware rpg, but I'm in the middle of playing a bunch of stuff and there's more good games coming out every month so I'm not sure when I'll have the time... 

[Cormacaroni]

Personally I would spend the money just to stop worrying about it. My attitude during these sales is: I'm gonna buy everything now that I might conceivably buy later on, when it'll cost more. Especially for all this stuff I'm double-dipping on. I bought Dragon Age on 360, played about 40hrs, then bought it on PC and played about 30hrs. Whatever, it's a great game and I've enjoyed the crap out of it. I've spent way more on that on games I've never played or barely played.

[ManaByte]

at the Rainbow Six bundle:

Individual price: $37.46
Package price: $49.99
Cost to you: $49.99