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Street Fighter IV – game released but encoded
The multi award winning game was just released on Steam today, and right in the moment when the game was released no one could launch it ’cause the files remained encoded after the release for over an hour. Everything seems to be ok now though.
Few people contacted me about it so I decided to put this up here. Maybe next time Capcom or Valve won’t do such mistake.
Price comparison script!
One of our users tor have created a great script, I will just copy paste of what he said on the forums:
I’ve created a simple Greasemonkey script (aka. user script) that can be installed in Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera. When viewing a game in the Steam store the script will modify the page so that prices are displayed in all three currencies. (USD, GBP and EUR) Feel free to try it out.
Example screenshot, the now famous "atrocity":
EDIT: I updated the script to display the price difference in percent as well. This makes comparison much easier. The website now also contains instructions for installing the script in Chrome.
EDIT2: Updated the script to understand prices written with dashes instead of zeroes, e.g. "5,–".
This is just great, thanks tor!
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Note #1: If you are from different Tier you will obviously see other percentages for games.
Note #2: The script uses Tier 2 as default, to modify that you gotta change the ?cc=no to your country in the code.
2k Pack different games!
Hi Girls,
I am watching this site and group now for a while and even if I think that some insults in the announcements are really childish and nothing into setting up news I have something for you.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1765/?cc=de
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1764/?cc=us (fixed URL!)
On the US you get the Civ3 Complete, which you will not get when you buy from Germany.
But you pay the same numbers
53.99€ = 75,63999$
53.99$ = 38,53675945753033547466095645967€
regards,
Exportforce
http://www.bloodpatches.net
Valve Anti-Cheat system does make mistakes?
Update:
It couldn’t be a free weekend account because in that period of time there was no free weekends with VAC enabled games.
It might be a guest pass though. So my bad if it is ;P
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This is a pretty delicate subject. No one really knows how Valve Anti-Cheat system works. Can you get banned for nothing? Most of you will probably say "No! VAC is great".
Well here you go:
Here’s an empty profile (has no games at all) with VAC status ban(s) on record.
Because nobody likes playing with cheaters.Playing games should be fun. In order to ensure the best possible online multiplayer experience, Valve developed a state-of-the-art anti-cheat system that automatically detects and permanently bans any player using cheats or hacks on a VAC secured server…
Or should it say:
Because you haven’t bought much games lately we decided to ban your account so you could rebuy your games and create a new one!
What do you think about VAC?
I know that right now probably a lot of cheaters will come here and say "I didn’t cheat!!! WTF VALVE GIVE MY MONEYZZZ BACKK !!1!" but the profile above proves that VAC does make mistakes.
Everything does, it’s just a program.
PS
Wanna know how many people got banned on Steam? Here you go.
Some fair pricing, eh?
I think I found the "wtf?" of the day. Countries being in Tier 3, you know, those countries that pay the least when it comes to Valve-games – as it is supposed to be, actually pay more for certain games. Four of these games are published by SEGA and three are developed by The Creative Assembly. I think this pricing is rather unfair, I mean, no one is going to buy those games over Steam for those prices when they can go to their local game-store and buy it even cheaper. Also: Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms isn’t included with Medieval II: Total War in Tier 3.
Anyways, I could take this oppurtunity to criticize The Creative Assembly for other totally irrelevant things to this case.
So I will.
The Creative Assembly has done some bad things over the years, not only against their own games, but also against their customers. Head over here http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=475.
Complaints, complaints and complaints.
I mean, certain developers care about their games, The Creative Assembly does not, showing the finger to most of their customers. Also, some other nice spiky rumours: they’ve been censoring their forums for criticism directly aimed at their games and not their bugs. Yeah, cover up, no one is going to notice before they’ve bought the game, at which point it isn’t a problem – because you’ve got their money!
So what can we do against this. First of all: don’t buy their games, then don’t buy their games, last don’t buy their games. If >everyone< followed this then their China-like forum-politics wouldn’t a problem, they would’ve been forced change. So for now, unlucky customers who wander into this trap will face bad, overrated games, CTDs and other fun glitches which prevent enjoyment of their game. I mean, they should look at Tripwire Interactive, yeah, we can blame them for a bugfilled game on the release date but they fixed it!
PS: To me, their 90 metascore for Empire: Total War gives me a little Déjà vu *cough* Kane & Lynch – Gamespot *cough*.
Taken from my price guide, here: http://steamunpowered.eu/forums.php?m=posts&q=120
Medieval II: Total War
Tier 1: 19.99€
Tier 2: 19.99€, 100.0% of Tier 1/EU price
Tier 3: 29.99€, 150.0% of Tier 1/EU price
US: $19.99 or 14.2€, 71.0% of Tier 1/EU price
UK: £19.99 or 23.35€, 116.8% of Tier 1/EU price
Rome: Total War – Alexander
Tier 1: 9.99€
Tier 2: 9.99€, 100.0% of Tier 1/EU price
Tier 3: 14.99€, 150.0% of Tier 1/EU price
US: $9.99 or 7.09€, 70.9% of Tier 1/EU price
UK: £9.99 or 11.67€, 116.8% of Tier 1/EU price
Rome: Total War – Gold
Tier 1: 9.99€
Tier 2: 9.99€, 100.0% of Tier 1/EU price
Tier 3: 14.99€, 150.0% of Tier 1/EU price
US: $9.99 or 7.09€, 70.9% of Tier 1/EU price
UK: £9.99 or 11.67€, 116.8% of Tier 1/EU price
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Tier 1: 29.99€
Tier 2: 29.99€, 100.0% of Tier 1/EU price
Tier 3: 34.99€, 116.6% of Tier 1/EU price
US: $34.99 or 24.85€, 82.8% of Tier 1/EU price
UK: £18.99 or 22.19€, 73.9% of Tier 1/EU price
Space Siege
Tier 1: 19.99€
Tier 2: 19.99€, 100.0% of Tier 1/EU price
Tier 3: 29.99€, 150.0% of Tier 1/EU price
US: $19.99 or 14.2€, 71.0% of Tier 1/EU price
UK: £14.99 or 17.51€, 87.5% of Tier 1/EU price
Heroes Pack fail
In one of today’s weekend deals we have a pretty nice pack of the Might and Magic titles. But something is really bothering most of us so I decided to post this here.
The deal has different content package all over the planet, for example in Slovakia, Poland or Czech Republic the game has 3 games (without Dark Messiah) and in United Kingdom, Portugal and Germany there are 4 games (including Dark Messiah).
So what is the problem? Well I’m not gonna discuss about price differences around the world and the $=€ case, but they want us (I guess the whole Tier 2?) to pay the same amount of money for a package like other countries but one game is missing!
A user on our forums KeckaS pointed this out:
For the Czech republic (same as Slovakia, Poland etc…)
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1753/?cc=cz (Only three games (4,99+4,99+4,99=19,9)For western Europe (Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal…)
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1753/?cc=de (Four games (4,99+4,99+4,99+4,99=19,9)
Why Tier 2 (I’m just assuming that’s the whole tier 2) should pay for 4 games when it gets only 3?
Other than that I think that Zeno Clash is priced kinda fair, so I can surely recommend this one for anyone, although I’m still thinking about buying it ;)
Stay tuned for more info about the game called Trine, we have some interesting stuff coming up.
Screenshot from the Polish store:
Mouths wide shut
A user called gimpymoo created a thread on Steam Forums called Should Valve open a European Office?.
After few hours the thread got shut down…by the Steam Forums Administrator, and apparently for him an office in Australia (that’s where he’s from) is a priority and he decided to close the thread.
In case this gets removed:
Do you think that Valve should open an office in Europe?
I personally think that this office would be invaded with furious customers from all over the Europe in few days…
Valve divides Europe
If you’ve been reading the Steam forums or our forums lately you probably noticed that right now Valve divided Europe into some crazy 3 different zones.
Our friend Rhonin the wizard calls them tiers so lets just keep it that way.
So what’s it all about? It’s pretty simple, right now if you live in: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Sweden or Switzerland you’re paying the most in the Steam Store. You’re in Tier 1.
If you’re from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain or the Vatican City you’re paying a little bit less then the previous Tier. You’re in Tier 2.
And finally if you’re from Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania you’re paying the least for the games on Steam. You’re in Tier 3.
Here’s an example:
Team Fortress 2
Tier 1: 19,99€
Tier 2: 14,99€
Tier 3: 11,99€
Note: This conversion involves Valve games only!
United Kingdom is NOT on the list because UK has pounds as their currency, and apparently for Valve UK is not a part of Europe or the European Union.
What do you guys think about it? Is it better now, is it fair at all? Or is it totally wrong? I personally think that right now it’s even worse than it was before, they divided European Union/Europe like some countries are "worse" than others.
Chronicles of Mystery – The Scorpio Ritual and the weekend deal…
This is some serious mystery alright, this game is $19.99 in the United States and…29.99€ in European Union (nearly $42)! Boycott FTW. I think they don’t even realize how stupid this looks. They want us to pay double? No thanks, and publishers wonder why is piracy so popular. Of course we do not support piracy of any kind.
And ahh the weekend deal, don’t even bother buying this on Steam for "50% cheaper". You can easily get this game out of the box for less than 30€ or get the cdkey directly from one of the Alternative Shops (this game activates on Steam just fine).
Peace out.
Bethesda Game Studios – not so good after all!
All of their prices are $=€ today. Do not buy anything from Bethesda Game Studios!
I wonder what happens to people who bought those games few days ago at equal price in Europe (by equal I mean a proper dollar to euro conversion)? This is kind of amazing how they fucked it up right now!
If you’re one of those people please post here!
And here’s another one, Novalogic just presented most of their games on Steam and their conversion is really bad as well, well at least they have 1 dollar (or 1 euro) differences around the world… so if anything’s $15 in USA it’s basically 14€ in Europe.
Good deals people! Go buyzzzzz!1!!!11 Steam rawkzz.
Boycott? I think so.
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