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There are also tokens that let you steal points from teams.

I don;t own Torchlight, I've played a couple hundred hours of TL2 though so not really worth the effort to sign up for GOG for this.

I found out I could add a bunch of Bing Searches to my bookmarks in a separate folder and just right click "open all in tabs" to get bing searches fast.

3 Days later Bing gave me a Captcha in case I might be a bot farming searches. :)

It used to be a hard 250 cap (add 50 after linking FB)I think, (Xbox and PSN only allow 100 friends) and the amount of people that need more than 250(300) is pretty much internet celeb. This issue effects such a small minority of users.

The market is there to make Steam money yes, but only via providing a service that someone else would have offered on a shady trading site. It was made for trading TF2 Hats and DotA2 Items(Both which are F2P games), they added cards later, and Im going to guess 95% users in this thread have made money from farming cards, from games we got as bundle fodder.

I mean I felt his entire argument was "Steam makes money therefore its evil, but only because I have to many friends". They could have just as easily put up the sales and not given anything away for free, cards would still be sold and traded like they are now. I highly doubt that many people are buying cards just to feed points to their team.

Also if it really ment that much to him to add new friends he could just prune the 36 people on his list that haven't been on Steam in over 190 days. Steam isnt Pokemon for friends you don't need to catch them all.

Edited, Jun 25th 2014 3:55am by BeanX

You guys should vote for the platformers in the community choice thing so I can pick up Mirror's Edge for almost nothing and/or Tomb Raider for 5 bucks.

Everything I vote for doesn't get picked, so sure I'll vote on that for you.

Point the first: It started out as you described, but the cards certainly are a naked cash grab. Not that I'm going to refrain from getting mine, mind you. Paragraph the second: I don't know that it's quite what you're saying, though that is certainly one interpretation. Most of his videos are in reaction to something. I suspect, since I've seen it a bit myself, that many are ascribing pure motives to Steam while decrying other services *cough*Origin*cough* as being vile-hearted money grubbers. I think it's fair to say that if Valve gets away with good press for farming their fanbase for money, they'll find even more ways to do it. I'm okay with that if it doesn't inconvenience me, but I'm not gonna call their motives pure or anything.

Either way, it's sort of charging people for an increased friend list. And the song was a poor choice, but he's kinda bad about looking for the least politically correct thing that he can find sometimes. I would have gone with something like Kill the Beast from Beauty and the Beast or something more about ********** the machine", but either way, I thought it got his point across. He feels that Gaben is cynically making money off of the fanbase and needs to be dealt with. I don't think it's quite that bad, but it's good to be aware of.


Damn. On the other hand, I'm missing both that AND torchlight, so I have to be in the .000001% or something.

Oh. And on a game related note. The Metro deal: Worth it? I'm starting to consider alternatives to my primary choices.

I've never played STALKER. I've always liked FPS games in the past, but I think that the last one I played was Resistance: Fall of Man. I've just heard good things about that one and was wondering if it lived up to the hype and if the current price was good or if it had been consistently beaten at other times.

Medium settings are more than good enough for me. I'm no huge stickler for ZOMG graphix.
That pretty much settles it for me. I need more FPS in my life anyway. As a plus, it gets cards, which is good since I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel and farming McPixel right now.

Edited, Jun 25th 2014 8:29am by Poldaran

Also, I'll post this again just because it's awesome. It's a "trailer" for Last Light that was intended as more of a "setting the mood" piece than a game play trailer. The guy working on it got pulled off midway through to work on a different part of the game then came back after release and finished it himself just 'cause. Best in 1080, natch.

It wanted me to do something I wasn't comfortable doing.

Zam's new log-in screen is delightful.