Friday, December 26th 2008

Steam Holiday Sale On Now
The Steam Holiday sale is on now. Through January 2, 2009, every game on Steam is available at 10% to 75% off the regular price. Select publisher catalogs such as Ubisoft, THQ, and 2K Games are 25% off. Award-winning titles such as Bioshock and Portal are available for 75% off the regular price. For more information, please visit this page.
60 Comments on Steam Holiday Sale On Now
Steam is a pretty sweet program. I don't even buy pc games in stores anymore. Just get them cheaper on steam and don't have to worry at breaking your disc cause you can just download your games whenever you want.
If thats the case, try disabling Tablet PC components in Windows Features. I had that problem after I installed my Wacom grahics tablet, was pulling my hair out cos it would start in DX9 mode but not DX10.
I stumbled on the solution after a google search, was well chuffed to fix it! Love that game, though I still haven't got round to completing it, LOL
I wouldnt reinstall Bioshock if someone gave me an entire enthusiest PC to do it too. Call Of Duty 4 is nolonger modern, Left 4 Dead is okay but not worth more then $20au, the rest fit into my 'shitlist'.
I wonder if America have recieved their bandwith limits yet. Countries like Australia have never had unlimited download limits on speeds exceeding 150kb ( This plan is outdated and rare to find nowdays ) and properly understand how stupid downloading entire decent games really is. When this motion comes to pass, and it will . . . Players such as BrooksyX will have to purchase his/her games inturn helping to prevent piracy.
hmmm dirt cheap though.
150kb a second is rather poor for this day and age. Ofcourse i do have the option of going to ADSL2+ for a more suitable bandwith speed of 24000kb but with a 25Gb limit, ill be shaped back to dialup by day 2. ( What sucks for me is that Optus, TPG and the rest of them refuse to lay their own lines in my area and dont have plans for it ever, leaving Telstra as my only viable ADSL2+ service provider, which ofcourse charge the highest rate in Australia and have shitty limitations. Also, not having overhead powerlines denies me a Cable connection ). TPG use to have the same Business Plan settings for $69 a month, Dodo beat them at one stage by $10. Both were regular packages, and not business. I dont hate Americans ' kysg ', im just jelous of your connections and the fact that almost anybody can ammend your constitution. Do you have a download limit Kysg ? If you dont mind, what is your bandwith speed and how much do you pay per month ?
Im currently paying $69au, for 1500/256 ADSL. I get 60Gb download limit a month. What super sucks here in Australia, is that anybody with the same company as me with ADSL2+ available in their area gets a free upgrade to ADSL2+ from ADSL and they pay less per month. They end up with more download bandwith, better latencies, better speeds and cheaper plans. Im yelling RAPE! So you see, its not the Americans i hate. Its everyone!
Currently on my connection i am on 10MB down and 1.5MB up and have no caps. I am paying about $68 US after the taxes.
[edit] it won't even download - download starting..... (5 mins) then nothing click again same thing. I guess steam is a US only thing - i wonder if i can get a refund.
[update] steam support> The username and password combination you entered did not match any user we have on record.
We could not find an account with that username or email address
Nice.
TBH Valve is just pissing me off lately. It may sound stupid (it's been a year r more since we coincide gaming at the same time), but my bro and me just found today that NOW you can't use the same steam account on two different computers at the same time when you want to play 2 DIFFERENT games even if they are offline games. That's ridiculous!! Before you could play different games, but NOT now. You can still play them on offline mode, but every time we start steam it starts online and the only secure way of ensuring that my brother won't get kicked if he is playing is by disconnecting the LAN cable. Wile E talked about convenience in the other thread... YEAH, the convenience we are just experiencing is PRICELESS.
There was mention of severe upgrades Australia wide during previous elections, but im sure you know how those things all turn out. Is this a TRUE 10Mb connection ? If so . . . You pretty much are on a connection i would kill for. Your right, its $310au a month. Its a great plan, except the price is rather stupid for a regular home use. Just wish they had the same plan for a third of that price. I think my ABN is still valid, hmmm. :( Internode are yet to expand my way. Gave them a call about a year back and they had no plans too. Maybe i should harass them.
I dont even want to add up how much i pay for phone bills that includes mobile calls, international calls, local calls, line rentals, omg it doesnt stop. Just need a proper connection and then i can do it all from that. Bastards got me under the thumb.