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.
I've never known it happen though, I must say.
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.
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
The current sale is killing me 
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
So far i have boughtThe 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
If you don't already have it, I would recommend running this plugin for your browser
http://www.enhancedsteam.com/
http://www.enhancedsteam.com/
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 ;(
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 ;(
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.
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
. 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 ;(
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
Fixed that though, so add that to the list!
Trooper wrote:
If you don't already have it, I would recommend running this plugin for your browser
http://www.enhancedsteam.com/
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"...
it works fine for me on the default settings! All the games on the sale screen that I already have are highlighted green. 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 :/
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?
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.
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.
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)
Woops!
- Worth: £1383.07
- Games owned: 156
- Games not played: 116 (74%)
- Hours spent: 223.5h
Woops!
Amatuer.
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)
- Worth: £2058.05
- Games owned: 237
- Games not played: 183 (77%)
- Hours spent: 324.9h
- Worth: £788.20
- Games owned: 114
- Games not played: 69 (61%)
- Hours spent: 164.8h
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.
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.
I've got 22 games though, if that helps. Sure it does.
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.
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)
Fucking Zaphod wins everything.
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)
I do not beat Zaphod
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
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.
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.
HARDCORE
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)
- Worth: $313.19
- Games owned: 38
- Games not played: 28 (74%)
- Hours spent: 152.4h
Pod wrote:
[*]Hours spent: 2,005.3h[/list]
I do not beat Zaphod
I do not beat Zaphod
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?
You scrolled past a big old itemised list of costs to get to the bit you copy and pasted.
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)
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)
- Worth: £2137.28
- Games owned: 281
- Games not played: 167 (59%)
- Hours spent: 834.2h
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
I do not beat Zaphod
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
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.
I'll be having some KRZ then.
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)
Oops.
- Worth: £1962.88
- Games owned: 224
- Games not played: 178 (79%)
- Hours spent: 315.1h
Oops.
Add Pixel Pirates, Next Car Game and Kerbal Space Programme to the list!
Quote:
* *Worth:* £403.22
* *Games owned:* 70
* *Games not played:* 31 **(44%)**
* *Hours spent:* 1,481.1h
* *Games owned:* 70
* *Games not played:* 31 **(44%)**
* *Hours spent:* 1,481.1h
Bobbyaro wrote:
Quote:
* *Worth:* £403.22
* *Games owned:* 70
* *Games not played:* 31 **(44%)**
* *Hours spent:* 1,481.1h
* *Games owned:* 70
* *Games not played:* 31 **(44%)**
* *Hours spent:* 1,481.1h
You played one game a lot?
It *might* be football manager related! 
I have 519 hours on FM13, 431 on FM11, 151 hours on civ4.
I have 519 hours on FM13, 431 on FM11, 151 hours on civ4.
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)
Castle Crashers
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Steamworld Dig
Brothers: A tale of two sons
Quick, is Sleeping Dogs worth it? (4€ that is)
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.
It didn't raise itself to the top of my play list though.
I love Sleeping Dogs.
Grim... wrote:
I love Sleeping Dogs.
I wish you'd just let it lie.
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...
Admittedly i've spent about £60 in the sale so far, but that doesn't count...
I have spent £2.99 so far. I think I've reached Peak 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 :-)
I've spent bugger all on PC games in the past year, so this sale seems to have hit the sweet spot for me.
RuySan wrote:
Quick, is Sleeping Dogs worth it? (4€ that is)
It's brilliant, it's totally worth 4 Euro.
I am, as ever, a rank amateur:
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)
My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)
- Worth: £39.93
- Games owned: 7
- Games not played: 4 (57%)
- Hours spent: 39.5h
Dishonored and Civ 5 seem awesome deals, but I think they might kill my computer.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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)
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.
Championship manager 2 made me forget to eat.