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Just got an email telling me that Gamersgate refunded the payment, as of right now the game is still in my library and I'm installing it to make sure it stays put.
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No such email here and it still shows in my Gamersgate library.
I can't activate the key on Steam from work but I showed it on GG and copied it down. I'd be a little surprised if they revoked keys. the only time I can think of where they did that was the free copies of Warlock 2 and those were by Paradox, Gamersgate's sister company.
I can't activate the key on Steam from work but I showed it on GG and copied it down. I'd be a little surprised if they revoked keys. the only time I can think of where they did that was the free copies of Warlock 2 and those were by Paradox, Gamersgate's sister company.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
Just got an email telling me that Gamersgate refunded the payment, as of right now the game is still in my library and I'm installing it to make sure it stays put.
Installing it won't really make it stay put unless the game is one if the truly DRM free games in Steam that can run without Steam running.
Technically if GG got the publisher to revoke the keys you'd still lose access to the game.
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And I just got a refund notification from Paypal. At least GG didn't try and stick me with $10 in blue coins.
I'll have to see if they revoked the key. If they did, no loss on my part. If not, free game!
Ironically, Warlock 2 was like that. It's gone from my Steam library but I had it installed and it still runs off the game.exe file.
I'll have to see if they revoked the key. If they did, no loss on my part. If not, free game!
TirithRR wrote:
Installing it won't really make it stay put unless the game is one if the truly DRM free games in Steam that can run without Steam running.
Ironically, Warlock 2 was like that. It's gone from my Steam library but I had it installed and it still runs off the game.exe file.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Id imagine they wouldn't issue refunds unless they were sure they'd get the keys revoked.
Either way it's bad for GG. They seem to make mistakes often, and troubling the Punlisher to take games away from customers can't make the Publisher happy dealing with them.
Either way it's bad for GG. They seem to make mistakes often, and troubling the Punlisher to take games away from customers can't make the Publisher happy dealing with them.
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TirithRR wrote:
Id imagine they wouldn't issue refunds unless they were sure they'd get the keys revoked.
They once had a glitch on one of the Clancy games (Future Ghost: Warrior Princess 2 or whatever nonsense) where they refunded everyone but left the game sitting without a key in your library. then, like two months later, they all got keys
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Left the game running and I've already got three cards. 
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Got home and activated the key fine. We'll see how long the same stays around. I imagine most companies aren't excited to take the brunt of it on Gamersgate's behalf when the legitimate question of "Why did you revoke the game I paid the asking for just because some vendor decided after the fact that they didn't like the asking price?" comes up.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Still have the game activated, still waiting for the refund to be processed.
Also Joph, heads up:
Also Joph, heads up:
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"Recycle Steam Community items like Trading Cards, backgrounds, and emoticons from your Inventory into Gems and use it to bid on games up for auction. The first auction round ends on 15 Dec @ 3:00pm with a new round ending every 45 minutes until the last auction round ends on 18 Dec @ 6:00pm. At the end of each auction round, the top bidder for each title wins.
Pro tip: Need more items to turn into Gems? More than 1,200 games on Steam drop Trading Cards just for playing them. Find out which of your games has drops remaining on your Badges page. Also, don’t forget to craft the Trading Cards into badges, the resulting emoticons and backgrounds have a higher Gem value. If you have nothing in your Inventory to recycle, you can also trade for Gems or purchase them on the Community Market.
The Auction runs 15 Dec @ 3:00pm to 18 Dec @ 6:00pm when the Holiday Sale begins."
Pro tip: Need more items to turn into Gems? More than 1,200 games on Steam drop Trading Cards just for playing them. Find out which of your games has drops remaining on your Badges page. Also, don’t forget to craft the Trading Cards into badges, the resulting emoticons and backgrounds have a higher Gem value. If you have nothing in your Inventory to recycle, you can also trade for Gems or purchase them on the Community Market.
The Auction runs 15 Dec @ 3:00pm to 18 Dec @ 6:00pm when the Holiday Sale begins."
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I'm curious how the bidding will work. Will the Gems be worth more to bidding than the Funbux are?
Edit:
I didn't read far enough... don't know if I'll even bother bidding. Doesn't look all that worth it.
Edit:
So my emoticons and profile backgrounds are 100 Gems. The one card I had not put on the Market yet was worth 13 gems. I'm sure if I REALLY tried I could get something MAYBE worth it out of this. But for now... I don't see it being worth the effort. I see a couple games from my wishlist for low gem values (around 100) but I'm sure that will change once more people start using it and start bidding.
The whole thing just seems like too much work.
Edited, Dec 11th 2014 7:07pm by TirithRR
Edit:
I didn't read far enough... don't know if I'll even bother bidding. Doesn't look all that worth it.
Edit:
So my emoticons and profile backgrounds are 100 Gems. The one card I had not put on the Market yet was worth 13 gems. I'm sure if I REALLY tried I could get something MAYBE worth it out of this. But for now... I don't see it being worth the effort. I see a couple games from my wishlist for low gem values (around 100) but I'm sure that will change once more people start using it and start bidding.
The whole thing just seems like too much work.
Edited, Dec 11th 2014 7:07pm by TirithRR
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I see it driving up the price of cards as surplus ones are bought up to convert into emoticons, backgrounds, etc that are worth 100 pts each. Cards themselves are worth almost nothing in gems.
Anyway, XCOM: Enemy Within is $6 from Newegg with coupon code EMCWHPA23
Anyway, XCOM: Enemy Within is $6 from Newegg with coupon code EMCWHPA23
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
So... Um....
http://steamcommunity.com/id/gcolusso/inventory/#753_6_1276593735
1,070,689 sacks of gems (1000 each). And look at all those Booster packs that were created using them (can buy boosters with gems). Even if that was a user with tons of emotes and stuff, that's still 10,706,890 emotes and backgrounds turned in... I can't imagine that being true. Edit: Turns out not all emotes and backgrounds are worth 100 gems, some are only 10-80. So ya, even more than that.
I'm wondering if there is possibly some sort of exploit out there that has allowed gems to be gathered easily through some method... possibly not legitimate. And with the booster pack system it seems like there is going to be a flood of cards on the market which I imagine will mean a huge drop in values across the board.
Edit:
So unless Steam/Valve fixes something, the Gaben FunBux faucet may be shut down for quite some time...
Edited, Dec 11th 2014 11:47pm by TirithRR
http://steamcommunity.com/id/gcolusso/inventory/#753_6_1276593735
1,070,689 sacks of gems (1000 each). And look at all those Booster packs that were created using them (can buy boosters with gems). Even if that was a user with tons of emotes and stuff, that's still 10,706,890 emotes and backgrounds turned in... I can't imagine that being true. Edit: Turns out not all emotes and backgrounds are worth 100 gems, some are only 10-80. So ya, even more than that.
I'm wondering if there is possibly some sort of exploit out there that has allowed gems to be gathered easily through some method... possibly not legitimate. And with the booster pack system it seems like there is going to be a flood of cards on the market which I imagine will mean a huge drop in values across the board.
Edit:
So unless Steam/Valve fixes something, the Gaben FunBux faucet may be shut down for quite some time...
Edited, Dec 11th 2014 11:47pm by TirithRR
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Yeah, I wasn't paying much attention but it looks like this promotion totally eff'd up the market. Glad most of my cards are already sold and gone. I'm down to like 50 cards on the market and it's not even worth relisting them for 2¢ each.
From what I hear, there were all sorts of glitches and loopholes going on as well that allowed you to get tons of gems. Which, as you said, were turned into boosters and thus crashed the card market.
From what I hear, there were all sorts of glitches and loopholes going on as well that allowed you to get tons of gems. Which, as you said, were turned into boosters and thus crashed the card market.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
The simplest one appears to be:
Buy gem sack (1000 gems) for 3 cents (lowest price possible)
Craft booster packs (some very cheap, 400 gem packs exist)
Sell/craft rewards and buy more gem sacks.
It's like Steam didn't realize they had a market...
Edit:
I had 34 cards up for sale on the Market. And I listed a few at the start of this mini event, incorrectly assuming that the demand for cards would increase as they needed to craft badges to get the gems (before the exploits were exposed). So I listed a few a couple cents higher than the lowest price.
I really doubt I'll be able to sell them now. Was about 3 bucks or so worth of cards to eventually sell.
Edit2:
So they just changed the gems to Not Tradable, Not Marketable. But I think the damage was already done. I wonder if they are going Coal exploit on this and erasing punishing exploiters?
Edited, Dec 12th 2014 12:19am by TirithRR
Buy gem sack (1000 gems) for 3 cents (lowest price possible)
Craft booster packs (some very cheap, 400 gem packs exist)
Sell/craft rewards and buy more gem sacks.
It's like Steam didn't realize they had a market...
Edit:
I had 34 cards up for sale on the Market. And I listed a few at the start of this mini event, incorrectly assuming that the demand for cards would increase as they needed to craft badges to get the gems (before the exploits were exposed). So I listed a few a couple cents higher than the lowest price.
I really doubt I'll be able to sell them now. Was about 3 bucks or so worth of cards to eventually sell.
Edit2:
So they just changed the gems to Not Tradable, Not Marketable. But I think the damage was already done. I wonder if they are going Coal exploit on this and erasing punishing exploiters?
Edited, Dec 12th 2014 12:19am by TirithRR
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Quote:
Sorry, but there have been some issues with Gems and the Steam Holiday Auction has been temporarily closed. The elves are working frantically to get the issues sorted out, and the auction will start again as soon as they're done.
They screwed the pooch on this one.
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Curiously, I sold ten cards overnight. All cheap crap like Pixel Pirates but I was still surprised to see them sell.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
I sold some expensive ones overnight as well.
Two for 12 cents and one for 20. (After fees). I was surprised.
Two for 12 cents and one for 20. (After fees). I was surprised.
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All Batman PC games for $10 through BundleStars.
"I Have No Mouth And Must Scream" only $.60 on Steam. Point and click based on a classic SciFi/Horror short story.
Edited, Dec 12th 2014 2:19pm by Shaowstrike
"I Have No Mouth And Must Scream" only $.60 on Steam. Point and click based on a classic SciFi/Horror short story.
Edited, Dec 12th 2014 2:19pm by Shaowstrike
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— James D. Nicoll
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
my cards have been selling pretty well, didn't realize this was going on but figured there would be some sort of gimmick so I had been listing all my cards a couple cents above the going price all month. Up to just a couple cards below 18 funbux now.
Just got the official "We took yer game" message from Steam. Bastards.
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
So, I got this email from GMG for a pretty decent sale on Shadow of Mordor. 33% off, plus a voucher code for an additional 20% off. The email blatantly states that the voucher can be used on Shadow of Mordor. That adds up to the best price I've seen so far for the game, so I was about to buy it. But, when I tried to use the voucher, it doesn't work. Those guys really need to get their **** together, I'm reaching the point where I'm just not going to bother with them anymore.
Edited, Dec 12th 2014 6:02pm by Turin
Edited, Dec 12th 2014 6:02pm by Turin
Turin wrote:
So, I got this email from GMG for a pretty decent sale on Shadow of Mordor. 33% off, plus a voucher code for an additional 20% off. The email blatantly states that the voucher can be used on Shadow of Mordor. That adds up to the best price I've seen so far for the game, so I was about to buy it. But, when I tried to use the voucher, it doesn't work. Those guys really need to get their **** together, I'm reaching the point where I'm just not going to bother with them anymore.
Voucher works just fine for me. Did you make a mistake?
http://i.imgur.com/7CFOsXK.jpg
Edited, Dec 12th 2014 6:17pm by TirithRR
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I copy and pasted the voucher, so it's like I mistyped it or something. It just didn't work the first time I tried it. I tried it again and it suddenly worked. I have no idea why it wouldn't take it the first time.
Turin wrote:
I copy and pasted the voucher, so it's like I mistyped it or something. It just didn't work the first time I tried it. I tried it again and it suddenly worked. I have no idea why it wouldn't take it the first time.
When you copy pasted, it copied an extra space or line break along with it most likely.
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Quote:
NOTE: On Thursday Dec 11th we had an issue with Gems that meant we needed to reset the Auction and start over. We apologize for the interruption. Any placed bids will need to be placed again.
All Gems created by you have been returned to your Inventory
All Gem purchases from the Community Market have been reimbursed. View your Store Transactions to see the Wallet Credit to your account.
All previous Auction bids have been canceled and the Auction has been reset.
Additionally, anyone who traded away items in exchange for Steam Gems on the first day of bidding will receive a copy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in their Inventory.
All Gems created by you have been returned to your Inventory
All Gem purchases from the Community Market have been reimbursed. View your Store Transactions to see the Wallet Credit to your account.
All previous Auction bids have been canceled and the Auction has been reset.
Additionally, anyone who traded away items in exchange for Steam Gems on the first day of bidding will receive a copy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in their Inventory.
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