Community MetaSteam | January 2020 - Toss A Coin To Your Gaben

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lashman

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Hey, at least you got a booster.

I don't remember what it feels like to get one. :grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes:

Heck, I bought a significant amount of gems a while back, and crafted 4 or 5 boosters daily for 3 weeks, and I didn't get a single foil card, so yeah, Valve doesn't like me one bit.
Gaben has a personal vendetta against you :p
 
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Mor

Me llamo Willy y no hice la mili, pero vendo Chili
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Like a clock, you see, it's funny how you can pretty much predict when Bandai Namco pages will go up, here it's always at 00:00-00:10, not a single one missed this time spot haha
 

QFNS

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Oh hey. Warcraft 3 Reforged releases tomorrow. That's a pretty good game (original WC3 anyhow).
 
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RionaaM

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lol at Microsoft increasing Ori 2's price in some LatAm countries. If it wasn't expensive enough around here before they now increased it to make sure that it is.
Welp, fuck 'em. It went from "potentially buy near release" to "maybe some time before the heat death of the universe, if I'm still around". Or 75% off, whichever comes first. It's not as if the previous price was good either. It was not, it sucked. But now it sucks even harder. Seriously, fuck 'em.
Yeah I'm in, why not? The first FF was great. The second... well, it exists and is playable, that's the nicest thing I can think of it.
 
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EdwardTivrusky

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Aww Noooooooooo! I totally kept forgetting to login to check the Lunar Seal and didn't buy anything or get any envelopes or tokens from Discovery Queue and now i'm hoping that some of the Rat emoticons will be tradable soon so i can pick some up. :cryblob:🐀

Still at least i kept to my "Play More, Buy Less" attempt by playing Xenoblade Chronicles X, lol. I'll never make a dent in my Library!
 

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The Kingdom of Beer and Porn
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stadia keeps giving https://www.pcgamesn.com/stadia/february-2020-games-google?taid=5e3029660f91f60001a24cc3
There are five games within the Stadia Pro collection as of the end of January: Destiny 2: The Collection, Farming Simulator 19, Samurai Shodown, Thumper, and Rise of the Tomb Raider. It’s reported that from February two new games will be added to the platform, Gylt and Metro Exodus. The former launching as a timed exclusive on the streaming platform.


However, two games already included in the collection will be leaving to make way for the two new titles. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Samurai Shodown will be leaving on January 31 at 09:00 PT (17:00 GMT), so existing users should claim them immediately to avoid missing out.


and FO76 aswell Fallout 76 Players Who Had Their Inventories Hacked Say Bethesda Returned Their Stuff By Cloning Their Characters
“A clone of your character (with a modified name) will be restored on January 22, 2020,” Bethesda said. “Once restored, this character will have the entire inventory of items, gear and scrap (100% of your stuff) that it possessed on December 20, 2019.”

“Additionally, Bethesda Customer Support will be offering a ‘Secure Trade’ service to assist you in merging your characters(s) inventories and safely trading items between you characters should you require assistance.
 

yuraya

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5-10+ million new accounts every month for 5 straight years is fucking nuts. And that is just Steam.

No wonder Microsoft and now Sony want some of that PC goodness.
 

TioChuck

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I was reading this earlier and thinking, Do Valve still consider active accounts as one that made a purchase in the previous 30 days? if so, the potential for all the 107mil active accounts to had spended atleast U$2 are fisable, and with that Steam would had made, in the last month, almost the same as EGS did the whole last year in player spending, considering that Epic probably burned more money then what they made, that's wild, What Epic will do when the Fortnite money is not enough to bankroll EGS anymore.
 

yuraya

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I was reading this earlier and thinking, Do Valve still consider active accounts as one that made a purchase in the previous 30 days? if so, the potential for all the 107mil active accounts to had spended atleast U$2 are fisable, and with that Steam would had made, in the last month, almost the same as EGS did the whole last year in player spending, considering that Epic probably burned more money then what they made, that's wild, What Epic will do when the Fortnite money is not enough to bankroll EGS anymore.
The money Sweeney blew away on the games last year will always go down as a big waste of money. He could of spend all of it into creating dev teams that make new 1st party Epic games themselves. They could have been the next blizzard with Unreal and Fortnite as your driving force.

Instead he so badly wanted for EGS to be the next steam but didn't want to put in all of the hard work that Valve put in over the years to properly build it. Its so embarrassing. You got a multibillionaire on twitter ranting about how they don't have enough engineers to make a shopping cart for their store wtf.
 

bobnowhere

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Accounts for nefarious means are always a problem, I can think of one person I know that has over 1k epic accounts used to claim the free games. Not sure of the endgame but whatever. He also has a botfarm to farm those 3 cent cards when steam used to allow cards to drop for games given away for free.
 
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Wok

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over 1k epic accounts used to claim the free games
Over a thousand EGS accounts? You mean that you know Tim Sweeney? :cpc_lol:

So he earns 6€ for redeeming 70 games for someone else. Imagine connecting each week for a year to redeem games on several accounts? That is too much of a hassle and too little profit for the time spent. In my opinion, it is not worth anyone's time unless the process is fully automated for many accounts.

a botfarm to farm those 3 cent cards when steam used to allow cards to drop for games given away for free.
This is actually smart. I wish I had built such an army years ago to farm cards during seasonal sales. One could farm 50 cards (at least 1.50€) per bot during the last Winter sales. ArchiSteamFarm helps automating most of the process. Say you have 40 bots, that is a AAA game per seasonal sale.

The only annoyance is that you have to progressively build your army, because you need to unrestrict each account, and that costs upfront money.
 
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madjoki

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that's 5k$ if you can sell each for $5-ish.

So he earns 6€ for redeeming 70 games for someone else. Imagine connecting each week for a year to redeem games on several accounts? That is too much of a hassle and too little profit for the time spent. In my opinion, it is not worth anyone's time unless the process is fully automated for many accounts.
Automating it probably is <1h of work.
 
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Wok

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By the way, madjoki, do you know if I can unrestrict a limited account by gifting a 5€ Steam digital card to my main account? As far as I understand, it should work. I am thinking of building a small army in prevision of the summer sales.

The only issue would be a potential and temporary market restriction, with a warning like this one:

 
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