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www.steampowered.com have a christmas sale on.
The site is getting battered due to the volume of visitors but I have seen
Bioshock for £3.49
The Complete Valve Pack for £39
Everything seems to discounted even if only a little.
For those that dont know Steam is a site for legally downloading PC games.
Colin
ShakeyJake
24-12-2008, 22:14
Do you know how long it lasts? Can't get anything to load on it
Just loaded for me and bioshock is £13.99...
Bioshock is £13.99 it must of changed
I found a topic in the steam forums that other peeps saw it too.
I suspect they launched it early by mistake and pulled it.
So no bargain yet
Bah Humbug
Colin
cantstraferight
25-12-2008, 10:33
I was going to be buy som new games of steam today but i think ill wait now for the sale to start.
thanks
It's now live on my Steam - £3.49 for Bioshock. Looks like (nearly) everything is reduced by 10% or 20% at least. Post if you find any more super deals!
Edit - found these all so far at 50% off:
Team Fortress 2 - £6.99
Red Orchestra - £4.49
Multiwinia - £2.99
I-Fluid - £2.99
Penguins Arena - £4.99
Counter-Strike: Source - £6.99
Civilization IV - £8.49
36Degrees
26-12-2008, 16:56
Complete Valve Pack - £40 - Bargain of the decade tbh, Orange Box and Left 4 Dead and loads of other Valve games no-one bothered playing (like Half Life 1/Counterstrike/Day of Defeat/Team Fortress 1)
Complete iD Pack - £18.99 - Bargain of last decade (no Quake IV though).
Audiosurf - £2.99 - Tetris meets Guitar Hero on whatever song you want
chubbybrown
26-12-2008, 17:02
Cheeky!
I still play DOD and C.S
chuffkubazdro
26-12-2008, 17:28
Bought Bioshock for £3.49, but received nothing. :(
in the Steam Software go to My Games then right click Bioshock and choose install.
Colin
Savagexii
26-12-2008, 18:11
Some great bargains there, especially Bioshock.
Went for Bioshock even though I have it on console already, and also UT3 and Quake Wars, nice spot.
MrSynner
26-12-2008, 18:47
Got Bioshock and the Unreal pack. The Valve pack is seriously tempting too.
Anyone know how much disc space is needed for Bioshock?
Never used steam before.Can you burn the games to disc once you have downloaded or do you have to download them again if you lose them for whatever reason
36Degrees
26-12-2008, 21:20
Never used steam before.Can you burn the games to disc once you have downloaded or do you have to download them again if you lose them for whatever reason You can backup content into a folder, so you can re-import that for whatever reason.
achookang
26-12-2008, 21:21
Never used steam before.Can you burn the games to disc once you have downloaded or do you have to download them again if you lose them for whatever reason
I don't think you can burn them to CD, but you can back them up on a local hard disc. Maybe you can burn the back up files onto a CD to save you re-downloading, but you can't make a CD that is equivalent to a retail CD.
Just bought Bioshock for £3.49 - what a bargain.
36Degrees
26-12-2008, 21:23
Anyone know how much disc space is needed for Bioshock? 7-8gb.
I would recomend that people avoid the game I-Fluid as picked it up for £2.99 earlier only to find that it doesn't work (and lots of posts on the forum from people having exactly the same problem). The developer has stopped responding to people asking for help and Steam are not giving people refunds :mad:
Wow, what a bargain! Thanks for that, I've bagged Bioshock - would be rude not to! :)
Went and bought far too much stuff ...
ID Super Pack (22 game/addons for £18.99=BARG)
Unreal Deal Pack
Bioshock
Beyond Good & Evil
Company of Heroes Gold
Painkiller Gold
Outrun2 Coast to Coast
Civilization IV Complete
I would recomend that people avoid the game I-Fluid as picked it up for £2.99 earlier only to find that it doesn't work (and lots of posts on the forum from people having exactly the same problem). The developer has stopped responding to people asking for help and Steam are not giving people refunds :mad:
Ah. Too late. I wonder if it'll work for me...
How did you pay? I paid through PayPal, and if it doesn't work and Steam won't refund, I'll just start a complaint through them.
How did you pay? I paid through PayPal, and if it doesn't work and Steam won't refund, I'll just start a complaint through them.
I'd be careful doing that, as Steam have been known to disable accounts where credit card chargebacks or PayPal disputes have been raised.
As it happens, I-Fluid works on mine. It isn't any good, but it works...
I'm not surprised people are having trouble - it installs no end of extras to work - DirectX, PhysX, something from Creative and Visual C++ runtime.
If Steam disabled my account, then they'd have to release all my purchases so far from their DRM, which wouldn't exactly be a hardship.
If Steam disabled my account, then they'd have to release all my purchases so far from their DRM, which wouldn't exactly be a hardship.
But since they wouldn't do this, it would be a bit of a problem!
w00tabix
27-12-2008, 14:11
Went for Bioshock. Cheers OP :thumbs:
I rebought Bioshock.
Never got time to play it originally and sold on but now it stays with me forever :D
Trials 2 at £1.49 is an absolute billy bargain
Great game if slightly hard at times
Art Vanderlay
27-12-2008, 17:34
Audiosurf and Bioshock for me :thumbs: - thanks for the heads up
If Steam disabled my account, then they'd have to release all my purchases so far from their DRM, which wouldn't exactly be a hardship.
They would have to do no such thing !
You simply lose all your purchases so far...
Is there no way of installing to a specific location? Just bought Bioshock, clicked on Install and off it goes onto my c:
Never put games on that drive due to space issues etc. Had a look around all the options and there's nothing that gives you a choice (unless the game is only downloading and then you install manually?)
Thanks picked up the Dawn of War pack for £17 :thumbs:
Is there no way of installing to a specific location?
You should be able to install Steam to any drive you want. Not sure if you can change after you've installed. Have you tried copying the folder across to another drive? http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=106251 Is an old thread, but the theory should still work.
Steam is fine on c: drive. It's the game I want installled on another drive - always put games on g: drive.
nice spot OP, bioshock for £3.49 is a great bargain. downloading as we speak......
My Bioshock download has been on 100% for 5-10 minutes now.......
Steam is fine on c: drive. It's the game I want installled on another drive - always put games on g: drive.
Ah I have a similiar setup, but I just installed the steam directory to f:
I think steam alwaus puts the game files in the root of its install directory.
Wendelius
29-12-2008, 11:38
I think steam alwaus puts the game files in the root of its install directory.
It does. So if you want your games elsewhere, you need to move your Steam install. There is a how to in the Steam technical help FAQ's somewhere on their site.
Wendelius
Just backed up the files and reinstalled everything to another drive.
My cable modem has been constantly recieving data for ages now since it was installed. Steam's not even running but sure it's still doing something (good 30-40 minutes solid now)
Just backed up the files and reinstalled everything to another drive.
My cable modem has been constantly recieving data for ages now since it was installed. Steam's not even running but sure it's still doing something (good 30-40 minutes solid now)
I think you can just copy the steam folder anywhere you like, delete the clientregistry.blob file, and then rerun steam. Once you've logged in it'll then remember the new drive location.
jdanielp
29-12-2008, 22:35
The Complete Valve Pack for £39
went for this :thumbs:
Bioshock for £3.49 is an absolute steal. I almost felt guilty paying that much for such an amazing game - almost :) Already own it on the 360 but as I always intended to replay the game, this is as good an excuse as any.
Funny thing is they are charging more for Quake! :doh:
Madness
Bioshock for £3.49 is an absolute steal. I almost felt guilty paying that much for such an amazing game - almost :) Already own it on the 360 but as I always intended to replay the game, this is as good an excuse as any.
Funny thing is they are charging more for Quake! :doh:
Madness
what type of game is bioshock?
what type of game is bioshock?
FPS, but just buy it. At this price I'm tempted to get it just in case I lose my DVD copy.
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