[Steam] Thread XXXIII: The only winning move is not to play

[Silverraptor]

This would be what you're looking for.

Um, you remembered wrong, family profiles are for sharing games between profiles, not for having multiple profiles in one. He needs his own account, then go to his library, where he should see list of your installed games. Try to play one, when request for authorization shows up log into your account and grant it. Done, now he can play games from both accounts.

So, guess what was supposed to be bi-monthly, but was quad-monthly?

Two farts, you say?

Ah, knew I was misinterpreting something wrong. Ah well.

[Volatar]

Ah, knew I was misinterpreting something wrong. Ah well.

It does suck. Steam profiles are expensive to create these days.

[Rawhide]

GameAgent currently has BioShock Infinite: Season Pass for 75% off, $5 USD, as well as all the BioShock Infinite & BioShock 2 (BioShock 1 is only 50% off though, dunno why). All of these are for a Steam key. The season pass has never been discounted this much, save for a glitch where it was improperly available at that price for a few minutes.

You have to register an account and log in to see the deal though.

[Dispozition]

Ah, knew I was misinterpreting something wrong. Ah well.

He'll still be able to play games and earn his own achievements, it's just a slightly different system. I can't see how it wouldn't work :S

[Trixie]

Gamespy Shutting Down, Affecting A Reported 800 Developers And Publishers

Glu has announced that it will be shutting down all Gamespy services on May 31, 2014. This will affect every game that uses the service for matchmaking and hosting. Gamespy suggests that players should contact the developers and publishers of games using the services to find out what this means for affected titles. Nintendo used Gamespy for the DS and Wii, which explains why those services are scheduled to go offline on May 20.

So, if you have, between others:

Alien vs Predator (Classic)
Alien vs Predator 2
ARMA
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2142
Battlefield Vietnam
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Borderlands
Call of Duty
Call of Duty United Offense
Call of Duty 2
Call of Juarez
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood
Civilization III
Commandos 2
Commandos 3
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Commandos: Behind the Call of Duty
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes Tales of Valor
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Crysis Wars
Far Cry
Halo
Hexen
Hexen 2
Jagged Alliance
Jagged Alliance 2
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Medieval Total War
Medieval Total War 2
Multiwinia
Quake 2
Quake 3
Quake 4
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Postal 2
Shogun Total War
Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune 2
Star Wars Battlefront
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Star Wars Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Academy
Star Wars Republic Commando
SWAT 2
SWAT 3
SWAT 4
Titan Quest
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy's HAWX
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
(Starsiege) Tribes
Tribes 2
Tribes Vengeance
Two Worlds
Two Worlds 2
Unreal Gold
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War
Warhammer 40K: Dark Crusade
Warhammer 40K: Soulstorm
Warhammer 40K: Winter Assault
Unreal Tournament
Unreal 2

Hope you liked their single player modes or want to try workarounds like Hamachi and such (if they exist)

[Welf]

Why did they close Gamespy?
I'm not playing any of these games (or at least haven't been playing in over a year), so luckily I'm not affected.

[Silverraptor]

That makes me sad.

[Volatar]

I'm just surprised it took this long. I remember people predicting the demise of Gamespy like a decade ago.

[Silverraptor]

Viscera Cleanup Detail on Steam looks like a interesting, and hilarious little 1 time joke. If it goes down to under a dollar and I'm really bored, I might get it for lulz. Otherwise, it was just a good little laugh seeing it.

[factotum]

Viscera Cleanup Detail on Steam looks like a interesting, and hilarious little 1 time joke. If it goes down to under a dollar and I'm really bored, I might get it for lulz. Otherwise, it was just a good little laugh seeing it.

There are some variants of it--I got the Shadow Warrior version free with my purchase of Shadow Warrior, so I'll probably give it a try later in the week to see if it's any fun.

[Neftren]

Why did they close Gamespy?
I'm not playing any of these games (or at least haven't been playing in over a year), so luckily I'm not affected.

I think most games have their own matchmaking built in nowadays. I doubt Gamespy was making enough money to continue to be viable.

[Grif]

Why did they close Gamespy?
I'm not playing any of these games (or at least haven't been playing in over a year), so luckily I'm not affected.

Gamespy was already downsizing some time ago. (Sword of the Stars was one of the games affected. I was miffed at that.)

[Tylorious]

I know the general mood of this thread is low right now (what with the death of gamespy and all), but I can't help but tell you guys that Goat Simulator is the most fun I have had in a game in a long while.

[Dumbledore lives]

I know the general mood of this thread is low right now (what with the death of gamespy and all), but I can't help but tell you guys that Goat Simulator is the most fun I have had in a game in a long while.

Now I'm curious, how long did this fun last? Because from what I've heard it is great for a very limited amount of time, and then you are done with it. Something worth spending a buck on, but not much more.

[Volatar]

Now I'm curious, how long did this fun last? Because from what I've heard it is great for a very limited amount of time, and then you are done with it. Something worth spending a buck on, but not much more.

I've watched several lets plays on Youtube and it looks to be... not much more than an hour.

Honestly I would just say watch the Game Grumps episode and you are pretty much done with the game.

[Tylorious]

Now I'm curious, how long did this fun last? Because from what I've heard it is great for a very limited amount of time, and then you are done with it. Something worth spending a buck on, but not much more.

I would say that the fun only lasts so long, but then you unlock things that make it more fun, and the fun may only last around an hour, but it resets every time you play because there are quite a few things to do and places to explore. It's not for everyone, but it is for some.

[Nerocite]

Borderlands is getting a game that take place between 1 and 2. I'm pumped to play as the bad guys for once.

[factotum]

Borderlands is getting a game that take place between 1 and 2. I'm pumped to play as the bad guys for once.

Is it just going to be the same as the other two games, though? They really need to play with the formula to stop it getting stale, and setting the new game in between the other two makes me worry that they might not do that!

[Hiro Protagonest]

They lost me at "[Jack's] kinda like Darth Vader".

[NeoVid]

A Borderlands game in the gap between 1 and 2, when Jack was still able to pass for a good guy? This is likely to be epic.

Is it just going to be the same as the other two games, though? They really need to play with the formula to stop it getting stale, and setting the new game in between the other two makes me worry that they might not do that!

Well, BL1 and 2 were different enough that a lot people who hated the original loved the sequel, and we're getting a full array of new characters with a big part of the game going on in lunar gravity. I'm pretty sure it'll change things up enough.

That said, even if the gameplay was the same except for new characters, the only thing that would stop me from getting it is if they screw it up massively, which I'm not expecting.

[factotum]

Well, BL1 and 2 were different enough that a lot people who hated the original loved the sequel

Really? Everyone I know who plays the game (which I'll admit is not a statistically significant sample) thought 2 was too similar to 1; I myself thought 2 was more like a super-large DLC for 1 than a brand new game.

[Trixie]

So, that's what they meant when they said Borderlands III is not in plans yet

[Grif]

Really? Everyone I know who plays the game (which I'll admit is not a statistically significant sample) thought 2 was too similar to 1; I myself thought 2 was more like a super-large DLC for 1 than a brand new game.

They're different enough that I definitely wouldn't mistake 1 for 2.

In any case, I'm more interested in the choice of characters that were presented:

The Pre-Sequel introduces four new fighters: Athena The Gladiator, Wilheim The Enforcer, Nisha The Lawbringer and Claptrap the Fragtrap. All four have made previous appearances in earlier Borderlands titles and expansions.

So now we get to play Athena AND Wilheim? Colour me interested.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Why does the Steam Family Share not include DLCs? It seems like it includes expansions to games you own if they're sold as separate blocks, but not if they're sold as DLCs.

[memnarch]

Arstechnica did a pretty interesting article about Steam's game sales and playtime.

[Kris Strife]

So now we get to play Athena AND Wilheim? Colour me interested.

More importantly, we get to play as CL4P-TP.

[factotum]

Arstechnica did a pretty interesting article about Steam's game sales and playtime.

The only problem with directly comparing the playtime of a game is that different games naturally have different playtimes. For instance, I completed Shadow Warrior in around 12 hours, according to Steam, and I had no particular desire to play through it again; however, a single playthrough of Skyrim would be a lot longer than that (I'm on about 200 hours for two completions). Does that mean Skyrim is several times better than Shadow Warrior? No, of course it doesn't.

(The uber-example of that would be Portal, of course, where a complete playthrough might be three hours, yet it's an awesome game).

[memnarch]

The only problem with directly comparing the playtime of a game is that different games naturally have different playtimes. For instance, I completed Shadow Warrior in around 12 hours, according to Steam, and I had no particular desire to play through it again; however, a single playthrough of Skyrim would be a lot longer than that (I'm on about 200 hours for two completions). Does that mean Skyrim is several times better than Shadow Warrior? No, of course it doesn't.

(The uber-example of that would be Portal, of course, where a complete playthrough might be three hours, yet it's an awesome game).

No, it simply means that Skyrim has more playtime than Shadow Warrior. The easiest and most likely conclusion is that it's more popular than Shadow Warrior, but there's nothing to back that conclusion up beyond the number of sales and the amount of time played. If you wanted to find the most popular games, you'd probably do something completely different to what Arstechnica did.

[Silverraptor]

So, Xcom enemy unknown says its unsynchronized, even though I'm playing it from the same computer. Would this prevent me from getting any achievements? And if so, how do I fix it?

[NeoVid]

So, the new Dead Island beta is fairly fun. I've got a couple of beta invites if anyone wants to try it.