Steam Black Friday?

[pmv]

Amazon is also having a 'black friday' sale.

I had to google it to find out what the hell it was.

I'm guessing its the first of these? Or is it all about commemorating financial panics? Or Iranian shootings? Or Maldivian crack-downs?

Not clear why Amazon.co.uk is timing its sale in terms of 'thanksgiving' (whatever that is, I should google that also), but its all good!





# Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on the East coast. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

# Black Friday, September 24, 1869, also known as the Fisk/Gould scandal, was a financial panic in the United States caused by two speculators’ efforts to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange. It was one of several scandals that rocked the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1869)

# The Black Friday fires of January 13, 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were considered one of the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world, and certainly the single worst in Australian history as a measure of land affected. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1939)

# Black Friday (ब्लैक फ्राईड&#2375 is a 2004 Indian film by Anurag Kashyap about the 1993 Bombay bombings. Based on Black Friday - The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts, a book by S. Hussain Zaidi, the film attempts to recreate those events and the intense feelings that followed them. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(2004_film)

# Black Friday (Dhivehi: ކަޅު ހުކުރ&#1962, August 13, 2004, was the crackdown by the Maldivian National Security Service (NSS) -- later Maldivian National Defence Force -- on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(Maldives)

# Black Friday is a term used to refer to the air battle waged between German and British aircraft on 9 February 1945. It was the largest aerial clash over Norway during World War II. At the time Germany was in control of Norway. There were over 300,000 German soldiers stationed there.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1945)

# Black Friday is a 1940 American science fiction film starring Boris Karloff. Bela Lugosi, although second-billed, has only a small part in the film and does not appear with Karloff.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1940_film)

# Black Friday, in British labour history, refers to 15 April 1921, when the leaders of transport and rail unions announced a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1921)

# Black Friday is the name given to September 8, 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 AP) and the shooting of protestors by security forces in Zhaleh (or Jaleh) Square in Tehran, Iran. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1978)

 

[pontifex]

how do you change the order of your wish list?

nvm, apparently you can't do it from the site, only within the steam client.


i hate how you can't open pages in another window on the client or that if you do click a game and then go back to the list, it always goes back to the first page even if you're on page 30

 

[darkewaffle]

# Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on the East coast. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

This one. The term is probably technically archaic but it stuck. It refers to businesses finally turning a profit on the year, leaving the red and entering the black which historically happened often on the friday shopping rush following Thanksgiving.

 

[DaveSimmons]

There was an [ Alpha Protocol ] patch released two days ago, plus the DRM has been removed. Although that may be the retail copy.

If it shows up in Steam and it really fixes things that's great news.

 

[nitromullet]

Transformers "If your referring to War For Cybertron" is an excellent game. I just got it a few days ago. Great Generation One theme and nice story.

Do yourself a favor, and pick it up.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

I will pick it up. ...when it goes on sale. It hasn't dropped $.01 in Steam since its release. It needs to go on sale.

I got Alpha Protocol for $15 off ebay and its not worth that even.

Conviction was pretty fun though, except my friend and I can't play MP co-op together. Sucks because that was the main reason we got it. Every time we try to play a game the FPS drops to like 2 for me and I can't play like that. Plays awesome by myself and in SP. I heard it has some kind of thing that lowers the experience based on the lowest PC which doesn't make sense to me.

Yeah, Alpha Protocol went on sale today. Picked it up for $8 and change (I live in WA, so I pay sales tax on Steam), hopefully it's at least worth that.

That sucks about Conviction co-op. I was planning on playing solo, so no worries with that.

 

[Aikouka]

Borderlands is a fun game, but I think it tends to cater to those who enjoy games like Diablo or MMOs (like WoW). If you enjoy playing games with friends, consider trying to get them to join you, as the game does have co-op play.

What's kind of amusing...

Borderlands is on sale for $10 and the 4-pack is still $60. The 6-pack is only $40 (which actually makes it a deal). The DLCs are not on sale and cost $10 each (or $30 for all four).

I already own Sam and Max, Borderlands and CS, so I don't see much else that's worthwhile in there. Deus Ex could be interesting, since I never played the original, but I'll admit that it can be hard to get into "old games" sometimes.

The Indie Energy Pack could be interesting. I already own Quantz out of it, but I've never heard of the other four. That'd only make it $1.25 a game... the cheap ass in me loves that deal .

I might have to get the Shank demo to see if it's worthwhile. It certainly looks like an interesting style, but I think I read that it's fairly short?

EDIT:

Looks like I need to add some games to a wishlist... can't beat the possibility of getting some games for free .

 

[nitromullet]

borderlands....ick

I could definitely see how Borderlands may not be for everyone, but it's not a bad game at all in that it delivers pretty much on what it promises. If you're looking for an FPS dungeon crawler with lots of trash loot and the occasional awesome drop, it will fit the bill nicely.

It's definitely worth $10. I'd go so far as to say it's worth the $40 it would cost you for the game + all the of the DLC right now on Steam.

 

[Aikouka]

I could definitely see how Borderlands may not be for everyone, but it's not a bad game at all in that it delivers pretty on what it promises. If you're looking for an FPS dungeon crawler with lots of trash loot and the occasional awesome drop, it will fit the bill nicely.

It's definitely worth $10. I'd go so far as to say it's worth the $40 it would cost you for the game + all the of the DLC right now on Steam.

According to Steam, I've put 86 hours into the game... I don't think I've ever got that much play time out of a non-MMO game before . But as I mentioned earlier, the game certainly is not for everyone.

EDIT:

Oh and about the whole putting Steam games in a separate directory. That makes me wonder... I could probably store all of my Steam games on my network and play them that way. Well, it'd work well for some of those games that I don't play heavily.

 

[CPA]

Impulse has HOI 3 for 8.99. Maybe I should finally take that plunge. :hmm:

If I could, I would just give you my copy to save you $9.

 

[ibex333]

My wishlist:

1)Borderlands: Claptrap expansion
2)Dragonage: Ultimate Edition
3)Napoleon Total War
4)CoD: Black Ops
5)Modern Warfare 2
6)Witcher 2
7)Fallout 3: GoTY
8)Empire: Total War Gold Edition
9)RUSE



Already Bought:

1)Counterstrike Source - $5

I kept missing sales for this game all year. It's some kind of bad luck. Every time there was a sale I ended up missing it... Not this time!

*BOOM, HEADSHOT!*

 

[Aikouka]

My wishlist:

1)Borderlands: Claptrap expansion
2)Dragonage: Ultimate Edition
3)Napoleon Total War
4)CoD: Black Ops
5)Modern Warfare 2
6)Witcher 2

Ohh, good call on The Witcher. I have...

1) Deathspank
2) Deathspank Thongs of Virtue
3) Call of Duty: Black Ops
4) Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition
5) Fallout: New Vegas

I'm trying to go for the most expensive games (that I'd like to play), but I couldn't think of much (hence Deathspank ). I'll add The Witcher 2 into mine.

EDIT:

I'm actually hoping to catch The Witcher (the first one) on sale again.

 

[BlueWeasel]

How's performance on Borderlands? I've got a high end dual core (E8400 @ 3.9Ghz) with a single, overclocked 4890.

 

[Aikouka]

How's performance on Borderlands? I've got a high end dual core (E8400 @ 3.9Ghz) with a single, overclocked 4890.

You didn't list your resolution, but even without it, I doubt you'll have a problem. The game's based on the Unreal Engine 3, so it's certainly no Crysis .

 

[BlueWeasel]

You didn't list your resolution, but even without it, I doubt you'll have a problem. The game's based on the Unreal Engine 3, so it's certainly no Crysis .

Ah, of course. I'd prefer native 1980x1020 at 60 FPS at medium settings. But have no problems dropping down to 1650x1080.

Thanks.

 

[Ross Ridge]

Damn, doesn't work with XP. May be time to move to Win7.

Strange, junction points work just fine on Windows XP, even if deleting them using Windows Explore isn't "safe". If you're technically inclined you can just move the directories and set up the junction points manually. There's a few utilities that will let you create junction points on Windows XP.

 

[TheUnk]

Sweet. Just picked up Alpha Protocol and Prototype.

 

[manimal]

If anyone gets a free game post!!!

 

[RavenSEAL]

They better put Just Cause 2 on sale, or ima be pist.

 

[manimal]

They better put Just Cause 2 on sale, or ima be pist.

I would bet money it will be half price...

 

[paperfist]

If I could, I would just give you my copy to save you $9.

So it's true what the say II is better then III and III is buggy?

 

[Howard]

I don't think I can afford the harddrive space. Too many sales have eaten into too much of my space. Too bad Steam doesn't allow you to install games on more than one harddrive

You can... unofficially.

 

[Born2bwire]

You can... unofficially.

Wasn't a very simple solution, at least if you have Windows 7, is to just move the Steam folder to your harddrive of choice and then provide a linking folder on the C:?

 

[Throckmorton]

I can't even get to the Steam Store. What's up with that?

 

[Throckmorton]

I don't think I can afford the harddrive space. Too many sales have eaten into too much of my space. Too bad Steam doesn't allow you to install games on more than one harddrive

Well you can copy the Steam folder to another drive with some of the games. You'll just have to keep track of which Steam to run to play which games.

You could also delete those hundreds of games you never play!

 

[Gibsons]

If I could, I would just give you my copy to save you $9.

buggy, not fun, or just not your cuppa tea....?