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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

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lakers714 said:
Thanks, will do, it is crazy how 2 stores close to me sold out of Far Cry 4 codes only Assassins Creed are left
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ACU has a horrible rep b/c of how it had so many technical & performances issues upon release; very stiff PC requirements; and is said to be more like an AC step backwards gameplay-wise (ACU looks more like AC2, BH, and Rev territory) w/out even bringing much new to the table.

 
BobbyTastic said:
Cities in Motion 1 has 13 DLCs, and Cities in Motion 2 has 12 (Cities in Motion 2 doesn't have a complete edition yet either). It's nothing compared to Magicka or Crusader Kings 2, but I'd say that's still a decent amount.
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Fair enough. Goes back to gaming habits for me though. I don't usually buy DLC that's just map packs or things like that so six DLC of different city maps doesn't really affect me one way or the other. For reference, I never cared about any of the Civ V DLC that didn't have a new civilization attached -- map packs are pointless to me.

CiM2 seems to have more boats and buses but, again, that sort of thing is in the hands of C:Skylines modders now. Short version is that I don't see any way to get nickel and dimed here unless you bring it upon yourself. Too much functionality available for free via the Workshop.

Cheaplikeafox OS X said:
Then you should be fine. They pulled it and are holding it for you. Just make sure you go tomorrow if you can.
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Mine said they were holding it until close of business on the 17th. So it doesn't sound like it's TOO much of a rush but I'll make it tomorrow if possible. Checking now, FC4 is sold out by me as well but my orders say they were completed and are being held for me.

 
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City sims are a weakness of mine. I hate you all for talking about Cities Skylines.

I keep telling myself: Paradox, Paradox, Paradox. But then my evil side says: Tiny cities! Tiny cities! Tiny cities!

Even now I am watching the trailer a second time. GMG is open in another tab... :whee:

 
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Syntax Error said:
Mine said they were holding it until close of business on the 17th. So it doesn't sound like it's TOO much of a rush but I'll make it tomorrow if possible. Checking now, FC4 is sold out by me as well but my orders say they were completed and are being held for me.
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Yeah, you guys should be fine but I never trust employees. They always pull all sorts of shenanigans. I did a store pick up at Gamestop once on a Wednesday, went by the next day to pick it up and even though my order said it would be held until the end of the day on Thursday, they had already cancelled it and placed it on hold for someone else.

Had to drive 30 minutes out of the way to find another copy because the idiot manager refused to fulfill my order.

 
BTW, all my commercial buildings are becoming abandoned because they don't have an educated workforce. I just opened my 1st high school, but it's pretty bad. 

 
MakMan333 said:
BTW, all my commercial buildings are becoming abandoned because they don't have an educated workforce. I just opened my 1st high school, but it's pretty bad.
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Just wait. Later on, it's a pain in the ass to start new industry because your college educated people don't want to pick fruit or fill ice cube trays.

 
Yup.  The Cities XL developer, Focus Interactive, recently released Cities XXL which was pretty much savaged by players as being little different from XL with most of the same issues and problems intact.  It's also ten bucks more than Skylines.

 
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Hey guys, SimCity ain't that bad.

*camera slowly pulls backs, reveals me rocking back and forth in a padded room*

ain't that bad...

ain't that bad...

ain't that bad...

 
I don't believe I've seen this posted, nor should it be a surprise to anyone anywhere:

Valve is Not Psyched They Have an 'F' in Customer Service (Kotaku article referencing Better Business Bureau grade)

Here's a snippet:

"The more important thing is that we don't feel like our customer service support is where it needs to be right now," he said. "We think customers are right. When they say our support's bad, our initial reaction isn't to say, 'No, it's actually good. Look at all of this.' It's to say that, no, they're probably right, because they usually are when it comes to this kind of thing. We hear those complaints, and that's gonna be a big focus for us throughout the year. We have a lot of work to do there. We have to do better."

When an issue's got roots this deep, though, how do you even begin to untangle it? Valve, Johnson explained, is looking at a complete overhaul.

"We need to do a variety of things," he said. "We need to build customer support directly into Steam. We need to understand what's the most efficient way to solve customer problems. Right now we're in a state where we're doing a bunch of technical work on thinking through how does a support issue get raised, who has to see it, how do refunds get issued within Steam—we've done a poor job on all of that up to this date. We think it's something we really need to focus on."
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hal said:
I don't believe I've seen this posted, nor should it be a surprise to anyone anywhere:

Valve is Not Psyched They Have an 'F' in Customer Service (Kotaku article referencing Better Business Bureau grade)

Here's a snippet:
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People shouldn't put much stock into this. The BBB is a fraudulent organization which charges money for positive ratings. If you fail to pay your dues, you get a low rating.

http://business.time.com/2013/03/19/why-the-better-business-bureau-should-give-itself-a-bad-grade/

 
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What's the lowest Starcraft 2 HOTS has been? Can get it under $15 on g2a (I know, I know, but I've never had issues with keys off there) but would wait if it's been cheaper before elsewhere.
 
MrshllJcb said:
What's the lowest Starcraft 2 HOTS has been? Can get it under $15 on g2a (I know, I know, but I've never had issues with keys off there) but would wait if it's been cheaper before elsewhere.
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StarCraft 2: HoTS been $10 on Battle.Net before for a digital download directly from Blizzard; and at Amazon + Best Buy for Retail copies before.

Same goes for WOL, as well.

 
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MrshllJcb said:
Excellent. Thanks for the info
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It's bound to happen again. So, yeah - keep your eyes open.

I'm sure if any Blizz games get cheap again, I'll throw it up in the Steam+ Thread.

I've done it quite a bit, every time somebody has Blizz on sale that cheap.

I think BB had a lot of Blizz stuff on sale around a few weeks back to a month ago or so, BTW.

I bought HoTS retail box on Nov. 27th, 2014 for $10, according to my Amazon order for it.

 
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indef said:
+1 to Cities: Skylines.

I was furious when the 3000 peons living in my meticulously arranged grid of 6-lane one-way streets only managed to use a fraction of the available pavement. Then I realized I was being a dumbass and started over.

5 failed cities later, including one really fuck ing awesome flood, I now have a burgeoning metropolis filled with highly educated Ice Cube makers.
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Do you really need more than one?

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indef said:
+1 to Cities: Skylines.

I was furious when the 3000 peons living in my meticulously arranged grid of 6-lane one-way streets only managed to use a fraction of the available pavement. Then I realized I was being a dumbass and started over.

5 failed cities later, including one really fuck ing awesome flood, I now have a burgeoning metropolis filled with highly educated Ice Cube makers.
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BigSpoonyBard said:
Do you really need more than one?

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So, I guess It Was A Good Day...

 
ianharwood said:
People shouldn't put much stock into this. The BBB is a fraudulent organization which charges money for positive ratings. If you fail to pay your dues, you get a low rating.

http://business.time.com/2013/03/19/why-the-better-business-bureau-should-give-itself-a-bad-grade/
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Be that as it may, I don't think that any sane person believes Steam deserves anything better than an F- for its customer service. It is legendarily bad.

The interesting part of the article, I thought, was not necessarily the BBB grade, but rather the response by Valve that they were 'thinking about' how to make it better.

 
hal said:
Be that as it may, I don't think that any sane person believes Steam deserves anything better than an F- for its customer service. It is legendarily bad.

The interesting part of the article, I thought, was not necessarily the BBB grade, but rather the response by Valve that they were 'thinking about' how to make it better.
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Wait - you mean Valve didn't respond in Valve Time for once? ;)

 
Syntax Error said:
You have to make a connection o the highway so people can start moving into your town.
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How'm I supposed to make an organized city if right from the get go it's boning me? People were all coming IN to my city, but no one was leaving because apparently the one way roads (2 lane), even when right next to each other, don't "connect" for houses to use them.

 
IkedaTeramusa said:
I wonder if there's a tutorial for Cities because telling me to put streets down and some districts... and nothing happened.
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I made that same mistake too. I kept waiting for it to tell me what to do next and ended up having to restart since I was out of money and hadn't unlocked loans yet. Second try is going much better though, I was up to a little over 20k population with tons of money but then all of a sudden there was a mass exodus and my population dropped to under 18k with 0 residential demand and tons of industrial demand It was weird because happiness was through the roof and up until then there had always been lots of residential demand and low to medium industrial demand. I had to zone tons and tons of office and finally got people to start moving back.

If you're still having trouble I'd recommend watching a let's play or two. northernlion, quill18, and SkyestormeGaming, all have some Cities: Skylines let's plays on their channels.

 
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jimbodan said:
I had to zone tons and tons of office and finally got people to start moving back.
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It's dumb but offices count as industrial even though they are colored blue in the zoning map, making them look like commercial.

Anyway, I just made a few trial towns starting out that I wouldn't even bother saving just to get the hang of the basics. The game is pretty lacking in tutorial aside from the pop-up info tips. It feels like they just assume everyone knows the basics of city sims by now.

 
I don't get it...

Granted.. it's been a while.  I spaced all my residential away from industrial and with at LEAST a commercial district in the middle.  I had twice the residential zoned than I did industrial.  All my industrial needs workers... but no one moves into the residential.  I have schools, medical, power, water to them.  

And the 3 bottom bars tell me nothing is wanted...

Maybe buying this was a waste.  I'm not getting it.

 
IkedaTeramusa said:
I don't get it...

Granted.. it's been a while. I spaced all my residential away from industrial and with at LEAST a commercial district in the middle. I had twice the residential zoned than I did industrial. All my industrial needs workers... but no one moves into the residential. I have schools, medical, power, water to them.

And the 3 bottom bars tell me nothing is wanted...

Maybe buying this was a waste. I'm not getting it.
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Foxhack the key from your account and send it to me. I'll get it.

 
IkedaTeramusa said:
I don't get it...

Granted.. it's been a while. I spaced all my residential away from industrial and with at LEAST a commercial district in the middle. I had twice the residential zoned than I did industrial. All my industrial needs workers... but no one moves into the residential. I have schools, medical, power, water to them.

And the 3 bottom bars tell me nothing is wanted...

Maybe buying this was a waste. I'm not getting it.
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Are you connected to the highway? I haven't seen anything like your issue (but I'm just one guy) so I know it works, but there must be some hopefully simple thing you need to get it going. You shouldn't need city services beyond electric and water when you start. Do you have power lines running to your residential areas? They won't build ON the power lines but they need power adjacent to them to get started.

 
IkedaTeramusa said:
I don't get it...

Granted.. it's been a while. I spaced all my residential away from industrial and with at LEAST a commercial district in the middle. I had twice the residential zoned than I did industrial. All my industrial needs workers... but no one moves into the residential. I have schools, medical, power, water to them.

And the 3 bottom bars tell me nothing is wanted...

Maybe buying this was a waste. I'm not getting it.
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Are your streets connected to the highway properly? i.e. are there warning symbols at the street/highway intersection? One pitfall that seems to get alot of people is the one-way roads/highways. You have to draw them in the direction of traffic flow. So if you draw from the wrong end you end with a section of road no one can travel on

Also are you paused?

 
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Wow this game sounds more and more like something I would never, ever, want to play.  

I never did see the appeal of these micromanagement simulators in the first place.. but damn.

So.. I'm finally playing The Wolf Among Us and enjoying it a lot.  I know this may sound weird to those of you that remember me complaining about all the cut-scenes in Metal Gear Revengeance a couple weeks back - but I think the difference is that tWAU isn't a twitchy action game interrupted constantly with cut-scenes (more the opposite, actually). That, and the fact that the cut-scenes in tWAU are well written and voice-acted and that the story is actually interesting to me.

 
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- Glenn - said:
Wow this game sounds more and more like something I would never, ever, want to play.

I never did see the appeal of these micromanagement simulators in the first place.. but damn.
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Actually, one of the usual complaints is that it's not in depth enough. I'm not looking for that level of depth but Ikeda's issue seems like it should be easily fixed. Here's a real quick illustrative town I made in a few seconds and had people moving in.

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You wouldn't actually want to start your city that way but you see the basics to get people moving in.

 
Syntax Error said:
Actually, one of the usual complaints is that it's not in depth enough. I'm not looking for that level of depth but Ikeda's issue seems like it should be easily fixed. Here's a real quick illustrative town I made in a few seconds and had people moving in.

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You wouldn't actually want to start your city that way but you see the basics to get people moving in.
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I hope that sewage plant is downstream from the water plant. :puke:

 
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- Glenn - said:
Wow this game sounds more and more like something I would never, ever, want to play.

I never did see the appeal of these micromanagement simulators in the first place.. but damn.

So.. I'm finally playing The Wolf Among Us and enjoying it a lot. I know this may sound weird to those of you that remember me complaining about all the cut-scenes in Metal Gear Revengeance a couple weeks back - but I think the difference is that tWAU isn't a twitchy action game interrupted constantly with cut-scenes (more the opposite, actually). That, and the fact that the cut-scenes in tWAU are well written and voice-acted and that the story is actually interesting to me.
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The difference is that the whole point of TWAU is the story, and it's very interesting, well written, etc. Something like Revengeance when you get interrupted by constant cut scenes you want it to stfu so you can get back to gameplay. Personally I prefer games that are gameplay centered to delve out their story primarily in environmental context with minimal cut scenes. With some games, this approach actually makes the story more interesting (Dark Souls is an extreme example given how minimal the story presentation is in the game, but it adds to the interest, I think). Even in games with really good stories, if cut scenes drag on too long I tend to lose interest. If the story is the primary focus it's a totally different situation though. With something like TWAU I'm really invested in cut scenes.

That being said, I really liked TWAU. Personally I enjoyed it a lot more than TWD.

 
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