The Steam Thread

**Nybling** · 07-09-2011 05:23 AM

If folks want to post their Steam IDs here, they can.

But in general, I dedicate this thread to all things Steam specifically sales. There's been a pretty good sale the past few days and for the next couple of days. I just got Mass Effect 2 for $7. People might be shocked that I hadn't gotten it earlier, but I played through my roommates copy before, and at $7, I'm definitely not against purchasing my own!

Looking forward to what they post up today and Sunday!

**Nybling** · 08-27-2011 06:39 AM

So this weekend you can get Borderlands for $5 or the GotY edition for $7.50 (includes all the DLC).

**eidos** · 08-27-2011 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by Nybling

So this weekend you can get Borderlands for $5 or the GotY edition for $7.50 (includes all the DLC).

That's good to kn ow. I may just pick that up at that price.

**Nybling** · 08-28-2011 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by eidos

That's good to kn ow. I may just pick that up at that price.

Yea I definitely thing it was a good value at $7.50, lol.

**DeathtoGnomes** · 08-29-2011 12:40 PM

I dont like Steam, I bought a game once and found out I could not play it offline without jumping thru hoops, what made me mad the most was that I couldnt play it online without Steam client loading everytime. Then I read it privacy policy and uninstalled Steam and the game, that was 5 years ago. Nice deals on Steam tho but I dont like someone else controlling my games so much.

**Sylee** · 08-29-2011 01:34 PM

I'm with you, DtG. Steam annoys me because I can't get into the games without going through the Steam service. Just yesterday my internet service went down for about 5 hours...no idea why...and I couldn't play a Steam game (Civ) because I couldn't get online.

A few months ago, I set it up so that Civ 5 could be opened from my desktop, but on the next Steam update they "fixed" that for me and I couldn't open the game that way anymore. Really annoying.

That being said, I still play Civ 5 sometimes through Steam because I have a couple of friends that do and that is the easiest way we can play mutiplayer. But that's really the only game I have on there anymore.

**Nybling** · 08-30-2011 05:45 PM

Well, that's a Civ 5 problem as it uses the Steam Cloud service, and I think even boxed versions have it working with Steam (I could be wrong as I have the Steam version).

I get why some people have issues with Steam, but out of out of the downloading services I find it to be the best.

**Sylee** · 09-01-2011 10:56 AM

Well, I dunno about how all that stuff works, or why, with the cloud service and all that, I just know it was annoying.
However, I will say that Steam is handy and convenient. And, of all the downloading services, it does seem to be the best. And, they seem to have good deals. And, it helps me keep track of my friends.
Steam isn't ALL bad, I guess, I might just be a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my games...