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Author:  Grim... [ Sun Jun 22, 2014 7:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Games will be spread across CDNs though, with certain games on certain servers, and if the one you're game is on its getting hammered, you might get a slow download.

I've never known it happen though, I must say.
Author:  Pod [ Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:20 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Grim... wrote:
Games will be spread across CDNs though, with certain games on certain servers, and if the one you're game is on its getting hammered, you might get a slow download.

I've never known it happen though, I must say.


It definitely used to happen all the time with Company of Heroes. I suspect that's because when the COH devs changed a single file Steam would redownload the entire 3GB game :/ And there was something messed up with the expansions, so all 3 would download. I imagine whichever content server supported that publisher doing COH just got hammered every time they put out a patch.

ps: Dimrill broke my steam. He sent an offline trade request and before I could see it cancelled it (presumably he traded with someone else). But now Steam keeps telling me there's a trade available, and I can't make it go away :(
Author:  Trooper [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:16 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
The current sale is killing me :D So far i have bought

The Stanley Parable
Skyrim : Legendary edition
Prison Architect
Gone Home
Dark Souls : Prepare to Die edition
Saints Row IV
Spec Ops : The Line

For a sum total of around £35
Author:  Trooper [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 9:09 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
If you don't already have it, I would recommend running this plugin for your browser
http://www.enhancedsteam.com/
Author:  Pod [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:35 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Why haven't you bought Kerbal Space Program? What's wrong with you?!

I have enhanced steam -- I installed it the day before the sale. Once the sale started I stopped noticing it's effects, at least on the front page ;(
Author:  Satsuma [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:36 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
I've only purchased Gunpoint so far. I see that the next choice vote includes Kentucky Route Zero for 50% off though so fingers crossed that comes up.
Author:  Bamba [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:37 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Saturnalian wrote:
I've only purchased Gunpoint so far. I see that the next choice vote includes Kentucky Route Zero for 50% off though so fingers crossed that comes up.


All of :this: .
Author:  Trooper [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:43 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Pod wrote:
Why haven't you bought Kerbal Space Program? What's wrong with you?!

I have enhanced steam -- I installed it the day before the sale. Once the sale started I stopped noticing it's effects, at least on the front page ;(


Because it wasn't on sale when I posted :D
Fixed that though, so add that to the list!
Author:  Pod [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:45 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Trooper wrote:
If you don't already have it, I would recommend running this plugin for your browser
http://www.enhancedsteam.com/


I nearly bought LEGO Marvel Super Heroes again and it didn't warn me :( I already have it in my inventory. Even changing the options to "highlight Items stored as gift" it doesn't warn me.... It tags Batman as being in my inventory though, but that's via a tiny brown tag on the thumbnail, not on the item's page.

Actually -- it seems to thimk "item on wishlist" is a more important thing to alert you about than "already in inventory"...
Author:  Trooper [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:47 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
:shrug: it works fine for me on the default settings! All the games on the sale screen that I already have are highlighted green.
Author:  Pod [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:48 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Trooper wrote:
:shrug: it works fine for me on the default settings! All the games on the sale screen that I already have are highlighted green.


Yeah it does that -- it doesn't properly highlight them brown if they're in my inventory :/
Author:  Bamba [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:53 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Pod wrote:
Actually -- it seems to thimk "item on wishlist" is a more important thing to alert you about than "already in inventory"...


Well, yeah; shouldn't you already know if you've bought something before or not?
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Bamba wrote:
Pod wrote:
Actually -- it seems to thimk "item on wishlist" is a more important thing to alert you about than "already in inventory"...


Well, yeah; shouldn't you already know if you've bought something before or not?

Ha! I've got around 200 games on Steam, and I doubt I've played 100 of them. So no.

Which probably means I shouldn't be buying anything else, anyway.
Author:  Bamba [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 13:06 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Grim... wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Pod wrote:
Actually -- it seems to thimk "item on wishlist" is a more important thing to alert you about than "already in inventory"...


Well, yeah; shouldn't you already know if you've bought something before or not?

Ha! I've got around 200 games on Steam, and I doubt I've played 100 of them. So no.


Not having played something doesn't mean you can't know whether you own it or not though; although I take your point about large Steam libraries making that harder. That said, if you use the Wishlist 'correctly' (i.e. add stuff on it you want and take shit off it once you've bought it) surely that takes care of it? Certainly it makes something being on your wishlist a more important piece of info than whether you already own a game, which is mostly the point I was making in response to Pod.
Author:  Trooper [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 15:22 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

  • Worth: £1383.07
  • Games owned: 156
  • Games not played: 116 (74%)
  • Hours spent: 223.5h

Woops! :D
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 15:36 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Amatuer.

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

  • Worth: £2058.05
  • Games owned: 237
  • Games not played: 183 (77%)
  • Hours spent: 324.9h
Author:  Bamba [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 15:38 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
  • Worth: £788.20
  • Games owned: 114
  • Games not played: 69 (61%)
  • Hours spent: 164.8h
Author:  Bamba [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 15:40 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
My stats mostly stem from bundles; the majority of my Steam collection was 'bought' with no intention of ever playing any of them. I think I've got about ten games or so on there that I actually want to play and haven't yet and I'm steadily moving through them so it's not much of an actual backlog.
Author:  Satsuma [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 15:52 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Typically for me, it's not recognising my steamID or a customID or whateverthefuck , so I can't play this.

I've got 22 games though, if that helps. Sure it does.
Author:  zaphod79 [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 16:06 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Saturnalian wrote:
Typically for me, it's not recognising my steamID or a customID or whateverthefuck , so I can't play this.

I've got 22 games though, if that helps. Sure it does.


It times out a lot

go to here http://steamdb.info/calculator/ and stick in your steamID - if you cant get it then go to here : http://steamidfinder.com/ stick in your steam ID and it'll give you one of the other methods of viewing it (typically a long number string) which you could try instead.

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)


  • Worth: $7443.67
  • Games owned: 645
  • Games not played: 586 (91%)
  • Hours spent: 118.4h

As with Bamba I have a number of bundles - I also have a number of games where I've already played it on another system but buy the steam version cheap so that when the other system is gone I can go back and still play it (I've re-bought a lot of my favorite 360 games on Steam)
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 16:07 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Fucking Zaphod wins everything.
Author:  Pod [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 16:13 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
When I buy things of of Steam I don't "buy them for myself", which would cause them to be added to my steam library. Instead I simply turn them into giftables which sit in my inventory. Only then if I want to actually play them do I activate them. This way when I buy a load of shit from a sale and later realise I don't want them I trade the games away and try and get something I do want.

And my wishlist is full of random crap I added purely so that steam would stop asking me about it.

I just unticked the "highlight for wishlist" option and now it's at least highlighting things on the front page that are already in my inventory.

That calculator isn't working for my profile right now (:(), but using that is for noobs. NO TRUE REAL HARDCORE ULTRA GAMER wouldn't not track their spending #gid=0" class="postlink">via a spreadsheet. (Thuogh I haven't updated it in a while... and LEGO Marvel isn't even on there!)

EDIT: AHA IT WORKS NOW
http://steamdb.info/calculator/?player= ... urrency=us

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)


  • Worth: $4819.26
  • Games owned: 433
  • Games not played: 223 (52%)
  • Hours spent: 2,005.3h


I do not beat Zaphod :(
Author:  Bamba [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 16:18 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Pod wrote:
When I buy things of of Steam I don't "buy them for myself", which would cause them to be added to my steam library. Instead I simply turn them into giftables which sit in my inventory. Only then if I want to actually play them do I activate them. This way when I buy a load of shit from a sale and later realise I don't want them I trade the games away and try and get something I do want.

And my wishlist is full of random crap I added purely so that steam would stop asking me about it.


I don't think you can reasonably expect the service to deal with this situation. Well, you can, but you'll be disappointed; and rightly so.
Author:  DavPaz [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 16:43 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
HARDCORE

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

  • Worth: $313.19
  • Games owned: 38
  • Games not played: 28 (74%)
  • Hours spent: 152.4h
Author:  TheCookie197 [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 16:50 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Pod wrote:
[*]Hours spent: 2,005.3h[/list]
I do not beat Zaphod :(


8) I think you might just beat everyone there.

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

  • Worth: £1348.30
  • Games owned: 140
  • Games not played: 74 (53%)
  • Hours spent: 481.0h

Really quite suprised I've the amount I've not played is only 53%, I expected it to be a lot more.
And how can my Steam account be worth £1348.30? Is that including the normal steam price for things I got in bundles?
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 16:57 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
You scrolled past a big old itemised list of costs to get to the bit you copy and pasted.
Author:  Zio [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 17:26 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Thank fuck we have Zaphod and Pod here. There's a reason why I stay the fuck away from my PC when there's a Steam sale on:

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

  • Worth: £2137.28
  • Games owned: 281
  • Games not played: 167 (59%)
  • Hours spent: 834.2h
Author:  Pod [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 17:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Bamba wrote:

I don't think you can reasonably expect the service to deal with this situation. Well, you can, but you'll be disappointed; and rightly so.


It has options to do exactly this! It's just the programmers of it thought that something in your wishlist trumps something in your inventory, even though one of them represents "what I have" and one "what I want".

Cookie197 wrote:
Pod wrote:
[*]Hours spent: 2,005.3h[/list]
I do not beat Zaphod :(


8) I think you might just beat everyone there.

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

  • Worth: £1348.30
  • Games owned: 140
  • Games not played: 74 (53%)
  • Hours spent: 481.0h

Really quite suprised I've the amount I've not played is only 53%, I expected it to be a lot more.
And how can my Steam account be worth £1348.30? Is that including the normal steam price for things I got in bundles?


Looking at the "completed" thread I'm sure other people must easily rank up waaaaaaaay more gaming hours than I do, they simply don't do it via Steam :P Plus, I've had that account for a long time.... on the other hand, I've easily put bazillions of hours in games not on Steam (e.g. KSP).

Like Grim said, look at the list! But it's basically market price, not what you paid for.
Author:  Satsuma [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 18:14 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
I'll be having some KRZ then.
Author:  myp [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 17:26 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

  • Worth: £1962.88
  • Games owned: 224
  • Games not played: 178 (79%)
  • Hours spent: 315.1h

Oops.
Author:  Trooper [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 19:28 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Add Pixel Pirates, Next Car Game and Kerbal Space Programme to the list!
Author:  Bobbyaro [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 19:48 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Quote:
* *Worth:* £403.22
* *Games owned:* 70
* *Games not played:* 31 **(44%)**
* *Hours spent:* 1,481.1h
Author:  Pod [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 19:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Bobbyaro wrote:
Quote:
* *Worth:* £403.22
* *Games owned:* 70
* *Games not played:* 31 **(44%)**
* *Hours spent:* 1,481.1h


You played one game a lot?
Author:  Bobbyaro [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 21:04 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
It *might* be football manager related! :)
I have 519 hours on FM13, 431 on FM11, 151 hours on civ4.
Author:  RuySan [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:54 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Damage so far in this sale:

Castle Crashers
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Steamworld Dig
Brothers: A tale of two sons

Quick, is Sleeping Dogs worth it? (4€ that is)
Author:  Trooper [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:56 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
I played Sleeping Dogs for about an hour and it seemed ok in a generic open world kinda way.
It didn't raise itself to the top of my play list though.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:01 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
I love Sleeping Dogs.
Author:  myp [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:06 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Grim... wrote:
I love Sleeping Dogs.

I wish you'd just let it lie.
Author:  Trooper [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:14 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
I've made about a fiver in trading card sales this week.
Admittedly i've spent about £60 in the sale so far, but that doesn't count...
Author:  myp [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:20 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
I have spent £2.99 so far. I think I've reached Peak Steam.
Author:  zaphod79 [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Trooper wrote:
I've made about a fiver in trading card sales this week.


I've got around 60p for the 'free' cards you get while voting :-)
Author:  Trooper [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
I've spent bugger all on PC games in the past year, so this sale seems to have hit the sweet spot for me.
Author:  Cras [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:35 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
RuySan wrote:
Quick, is Sleeping Dogs worth it? (4€ that is)


It's brilliant, it's totally worth 4 Euro.
Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
I am, as ever, a rank amateur:

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

  • Worth: £39.93
  • Games owned: 7
  • Games not played: 4 (57%)
  • Hours spent: 39.5h
Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 12:05 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Dishonored and Civ 5 seem awesome deals, but I think they might kill my computer.
Author:  Satsuma [ Fri Jun 27, 2014 22:02 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Thought I might as well get System Shock 2 to see what the fuss is about since it's a quid. Also purchased Tower of Guns, cause it looks facking insane, for a fiver.
Author:  Hearthly [ Sat Jun 28, 2014 9:36 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
Nothing for me out of the current sale, I usually log in at least to see what the daily deals are but I can't even be bothered with that.

I think you get to the point (like I have) where there are so many games in your Steam list that have never even been installed, let alone played, that buying anything else just seems stupid. Even if I can buy a million brilliant games for 99p, if I never play any of them, I've still wasted 99p and my list of unplayed games gets longer.

Plus I've racked up 60+ hours on the Wii U this month (mostly across just two games!), and then there's Hearthstone too of course. Steam and Origin aren't really getting much use at the moment.
Author:  Morte [ Sat Jun 28, 2014 18:33 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
So far I've indulged in:

Hotline Miami (yes I know, I'm the last man in Christendom to buy it)
Medieval Total War / Kingdoms
BG2 Enhanced (it's just gone on sale...huzzah)
Author:  RuySan [ Sat Jun 28, 2014 19:01 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
I'm thinking about buying football manager but I'm afraid of what it can do to my life.

Championship manager 2 made me forget to eat.
Author:  Curiosity [ Sun Jun 29, 2014 15:04 ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam
RuySan wrote:
I'm thinking about buying football manager but I'm afraid of what it can do to my life.

Championship manager 2 made me forget to eat.


I need to lose weight. This sounds like an acceptable dieting system.
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