So what games have you bought in the objectively superior summer sale so far?

Please

Honestly though, I use all 3 options. Also what's the point of this thread? If you want to recommendations, you should have asked for hidden gems while the sale was going on. Its over now.

I got the Witcher expansions and VtMB.

Honestly, there's not a lot left for me to buy, both my GOG and Steam libraries are full of vidya I want already.

Holla Forums really has fallen pretty far, hasn't it?

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Get it for free or own it.

I've been copying disks since quest for glory 1. I didn't cause world war 3.
I'm going to continue to pirate.
A fool spends money when he doesn't have to.

Mostly older games. I bought some d & d stuff. I also got a newer game called Slain and a couple of old adventure games.

To talk about what you bought

Sure is owning it

Why would you buy video games when you can get all of them for free?

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muh nigga

I sure dont own all these games

I bought: Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake II, Baldur's Gate EE, Baldur's Gate 2 EE, (I feel cucked but I did it for the original ones), Two Worlds.

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Isn't everything he bought abandon-ware at this point?

The money goes somwhere user. Doom's money goes to zenimax and baulder gate's money goes to EA. not to mention its the EE

Just pirate it and send few coins to Troika developers patreon

So it doesn't go to the people who deserve it for making the game basically?

Either way I would have thought that would be what you called abandon-ware.

Abandon ware is really old games that sort of exist in a void. Noone owns them really, or if they are own, they dont care abiut them. They are usually dos games. There is this one abandonware website that just has all of them avalible for download. Doom is not abandonware, neither is baulders gate.

None, i don't even have an Steam account and you should go back to
>>>/reddit/

TWitcher 3.

The free game thing gave me a free Dreamfall. I kind of want to stream it for Holla Forums just so we can all look and see how shitty it really is.

That's a lot of text to try to rationalize being a cancer that only hurts the game industry.

Kill yourself

I don't see how you're trying to weigh that as a negative considering it was my stated goal. I don't want the industry to survive in its current state.

I didn't even redeem that piece of shit.

agreed

The cognitive dissonance must be strong.

Yesterday reddit trash, today slavic trash? Fuck off, and stop shilling digital stores. You can and should pirate every game that isn't released directly from the developer DRM free.

Deranged to the point of being perfectly opposed to reality. Please make sure to associate your thoughts with your real identity on some platform, so when the time comes to draw up the lists, you can be added.

You know, I'm confused. I don't go around lecturing people about why they should buy their games and how piracy is bad and blahblah, so on.

So, why the fuck are there so many piratefags here never pass up the chance to get up on their soapbox and preach like they're the second coming. I'd say it tastes of shilling, but for what purpose? Must be people really are just that painfully stupid.

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Reading comprehension nigger, DO YOU HAVE IT?

You're pretty fucking retarded.

Piratefags are cancer

Because copying something for free instead of paying for it is objectively the best thing ever.
I buy shit all the time but I know it's stupid, but it also doesn't matter i'll do what I want

Average piratefag right here

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Can I buy Half Life on Steam and/or Witcher on GOG?

Nah, it's ok. I'll just find a new hobby instead.

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Hes complaining about the fucking preaching and derailing.
Everyone in this fucking board aside from consolefags pirates and shares games.

That shouldnt stop you from buying the ones you can and like.

Did I not say directly from devs and drm free? You tell me if those games qualify.

Go back

Enjoy your two games

Go be retarded somewhere else.

I pirate every other game that I can't purchase a drm free version directly from devs of. So nah, I enjoy a lot more than two games, tumblr faggot.

but piratefags are right. it's buyfags who get triggered and derail the thread replying to every shitposter trying to justify spending money

It's the time when you can buy games from devs you don't hate and are not absolute trash at the correct price games should've been priced at.

VTMB
Grandia 2
Dead State Reanimated

8th Gen piracy doesnt exist yet, when I say consolefags Im talking about the faggots that only buy the new shit instead of going back.

Well, unless something changed since the early steam days - and it likely did - Half Life 1 did not have any copy protection, and could just be copied around.
All games on GOG are - so far - drm free.
GOG is owned by the same people as Witicher developers, and Steam is owned by HL developers.

Please, no. Put those games on a shelf like any other self-respecting youtube game reviewer.

Nothing wrong with buying games that those two developers sell on their store then. Just not anything from a different developer there.

Dude, just let it go. Faggots gonna fag. They are just SO PROUD of their ability to download a fucking torrent, that nothing anyone can say will shake their belief in their moral and intellectual superiority.

It's not worth arguing with people like that.

Do you play on Linux as well?
Heres more tumblr to trigger you

More than half the replies is shitposting without the replies nignog.

Crimsonland. I also got Spelunky for free I guess.

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fuck it's a real hot summer.

Valve developed 233 DRM free games? Damn.

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I mean, you obviously weren't stupid enough to buy non valve games from valve's store.

R-right?

Go preach somewhere else already

Then maybe you should whine about people buying specific games instead of shitting up the thread with your bad bait.

oy vey well here's your (You)

Not even once. No developer who uses DRM is a good developer.

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so then valve isn't a good developer?

Who are you quoting?

Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

Valve are cancerous shit, after EA, Ubisoft, and Microsoft

yes

So then why did you just support the idea of only signing up for steam to support valve's games and thereby drm practices?
oy fucking vey

Steam has DRM my man, even if it's relatively non-intrusive.

You said Half Life 1 didn't have DRM.

where did i say this?

Only got these. Spent all of 5 bucks on them

You aren't helping your arguments by posting experts in worthless studies you faggot.

Seriously this. When it comes to old games no one cares about, I buy from GoG because most of you faggots don't seed torrents of older obscure games and even then GoG already has a working Dosbox emulator with it. If the game is newer and it's cheap and can work on modern hardware easily, I'll go for Steam, even though it's the shitier service. Finally if I want to try out a game, or if it's DRM is too restrictive (see: any Rockstar game GTA4 and onwards) I pirate.

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Do you even play video games?

Holding the files hostage on a CD with copy protection is also DRM then

None, as it hasn't started yet.

You are a bunch of fucking retards and hypocrites. You complain that there is DRM and then you pirate when there isnt. You treat a games retails price as if it was a suggestion or a tipping jar. What kind of idiotic company would ever make games for you. You just wanna steal and get free shit and complain as if companies charging for tehir product was a personal insult.

No you stupid fuck, you are just stealing. You dont go into a movie theater and then only pay when you like the movie. You didn't like it? Tough shit, you made a bad investment. Now you know not to buy from that publisher,studio or director. But holy this isnt food that you must have, its a videogame.

I don't buy games because all the games I actually enjoy are from dead studios

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>>>/reddit/

Thanks for the heads up

But you can also sell the CD to someone else, and unless there's online registration if the CD works you can always install the game. With Steam you can only (legally) play if you're logged in on your account or in offline mode. If Steam ever goes down or decides to suspend your account you cannot access your library anymore.

Everything is "cancerous" according to you. user just say it , you want free shit and if you have to steal to get it you don't care.

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Anything you need a helmet cause you are gonna hurt yourself if you ever fall of that high horse.

You just need to have internet to activate your game, no different from a CD Key

You're no different from the fucking weeaboos who only play games that come from Nipland.

Diversify your taste you shit taste pleb

Fallacy of composition, my simpleton friend. I know it may be harder to understand population distributions than simple monolithic groups, but at least try if you're going to inflict yourself in discussions of topics beyond you. Professor Hidalgo is a PhD in physics applying graph theory, fuzzy logic and informatics techniques to explore social and economic dynamics.

I'll take this as the beginning and the end of the conversation, for if you were actually capable of holding one worth having, you would have started with a discussion on the mathematics discussed in the video and the related paper, or at least tried to invalidate the predictions.

Are you going to start posting your gender studies experts next, faggot?

Im crying of laughter right user, thanks for making my morning

Very good, children. Because there are invalids making unscientific and easily fallible predictions within a field, it is not actually possible to study the topic rigorously.

I am particularly impressed with the second imbecile, who is describing relevant and valid fields and their applications as "buzzwords", entirely because he is unfamiliar with them.

Again, not a single word about the inherent problem with content superhubs disadvantaging both the consumer and the producer in the long term, and how this relates to the games industry.

you have to be a fucking moron to fall for this shit

I fucking love you user, oh god my sides.
Are you legit underage?

I don't buy games when the people who actually made it don't get any of the money.

wew

So like the experts you keep citing that instead of studying and producing something practical they waste time and money mentally masturbating about "social and economic dynamics"?

And you're a clearly a college dropout who has failed English. Smart people who know how to get a point across don't lard up what they say with five dollar words they learned in high school while not using contractions, you stupid nigger.

There is a really cool summersale on this site called thepiratebay, they are practically giving games away!

Do you really think that buying Deus Ex will profit its creators ?

It is actually very useful for several emerging fields, mostly helped on by recent developments in technology, notably informatics applications. Physicists are integrated into other fields such as biology, chemistry, or as I'd broadly describe this instance, ecology, where a lot of work is being done under "theoretical ecology" in particular, which models and empirically corrects for everything from bacteria reproduction, through animal migration, to human activity.

To accommodate your physical inability to watch a succinct 10 minute video explaining why exactly:

- Technology allows content superhubs, such as steam, to emerge due to essentially non-existent distribution cost.
- Buyers and sellers will be drawn to these hubs due to short term benefits; larger audience and cheaper products.
- This has the systemic effect of disfavoring meritocracy, where compensation is proportional to ability, in favor of topocracy, where your connectivity within a network is the primary cause.
- This incentivizes the role of middle man over production, as we have specifically seen with Valve refocusing from creating games to nearly entirely distribution.
- This incentivizes a focus on quantity rather than quality, as hosting and distribution with dynamic storage/network allocation nulls the cost of offering hundreds of bad titles that flood the others, making it profitable even if only a few sell, as we can see with Steam Greenlight.
- This focuses economic and content power within the industry inexorably to distributors rather than producers or customers, allowing them more leverage than both on the games the market receives. This is also bad because there are also outside forces and processes trying to act on the market, who follow the tactic of setting themselves up as gatekeepers, so a system that favors these is inherently prone to such subversion.

The foundations for this are explored, as stated, in the video linked, and in the paper associated with it. I await the reality denying economics 101 arguments, if you even have those.

You are a caricature of an idiot in denial, who I have spoken to many times before. Would you care to point out some of the "big" and "unusual" words I've used in your next response that dodges the topic and your inability to understand it?

What the fug is going on in this thread?

Cool, how is that multiplayer section?

Spergs who don't play video games shit on people who don't play video games and are more entertained by arguing semantics and shitting on each other rather than talking about video games.

There is also a fair few retarded drones who get triggered any time anyone spends money on something they like. I mean HOW DARE they support a capitalistic society!

Pretty sure ToS prohibits it.
Hey, it's happened to larger companies.
Does it in the States? I thought EULAs could have arbitrary justifications for termination. Besides, if the company is financially unable to provide its services what can be done?
Didn't I already mention online registration? It hasn't always been the norm.

You use elementary words like "disadvantaging" "particularly" "applications"and "invalids" like 8 year old who picks words he thinks are big and complicated in order to sound smart. Hence
Is why I described your sub-community college level of speech.

This guy has pretty much got the right of it. Also I don't know why people are acting like Piracy is some huge moral crime against all of humanity.

how about you just deal with it

Pirates should deal with the fact people buys games for whatever reason they may see worthwhile.

Most pirates are just virtue signalers, they will pirate bad games knowing they are bad and enjoy them because they have shit taste too.

You won't see a buyfag going to share threads and shitposting because you are pirating.
But you can bet the instant you mention anything about buying games, salty pirates will jump in the thread to express their jealousy.

Thank you for your non-contribution to the topic and predictable vague insults. Those words are not big or complicated and fit well. Your only purpose for replying is your crab mentality. Hence, if you decline this final invitation to examine the theory and predictions of anything I have said, this will be the final time your pathology will be entertained.

let's look back at what he said.

What he is saying is

Basically, you're the retard here.

B-But muh non-politics or economics vidya board ;_;

I got morrowind as a gift in case I want to gift/trade it later.

Also upgraded my HuniePop to deluxe edition. Mostly just to get the last 400XP I needed for the 2nd promotional game but also to support it and tell the dev that this is the shit we want not the other cancer he released.

The Witcher 3 expansion pass wasn't on sale which was a huge dissapointment so I didn't get anything else. My friend might buy it for me soon though because he likes to get me shit to stream for him. I didn't want to support the witcher 3 anymore until they add support for linux.

Isn't HuniePop just one of those flash-style games you'd see on Newgrounds years ago?

Considering the amount of VA, music and overall polish… not really.

I enjoyed it a lot while I had no interenet in my new apartment. Even had linux support so it was super comfy playing it between waiting for my dinner to cook and just sorting out the apartment, as well as tabbing around in my virtual desktops.

I didn't expect much going in with the game… I thought it was western waifu trash. And it was… but in the best way. It really did grow on me quite quickly. I started to quite enjoy the higher difficulty dates and the shitty american VAs accents had their own strange charm.

The art is also quite nice and I knew how to uncensor it. Just made a bullshit file called uncensor or something… which I was able to do through command-line quicker. The comfiness was unreal.

I didn't say all modern games are shit, they just don't appeal to me personally so I don't enjoy them very much

Except you sure like to post and use them as if they're big grown-up words. Nigger, you have some absolute shit reading comprehension.
Here, let me fix that for you, Leo Tolstoy
See? That's how to be succinct in writing while getting a point across. You probably wrote that first and then opened up your thesaurus to see what words you can replace multi-syllabic ones because merely writing more shit and not using contractions makes you smart and not at all a dead giveaway that you're a shitty writer and have a shit grasp on English.

This is the last time I'm going to respond to your shitty bait. Have fun dick sucking tenured hacks as a means to justify acting like a nigger who can't afford anything. Bad educators and poorfags make for great company I guess.

He never said piracy doesn't effect sales. In fact he's implying the reverse.

Jealousy about what?

Also got Spelunky, another free game that I will never play. Yay, I guess :/

I'm starting to approach the point where I have pretty much all the games I would want. Most modern games are just boring (of course there are exceptions) and GOG is running out of old games. I originally wanted Bloodlines, but I'm glad I tried the "demo" first, it runs like shit and there is no way I giving Activision 20$ (minus discount) for a buggy mess that had to be band-aided by random people who did the work of Activision/Troika for free. If they sold it for 9.99$ like other old games I could maybe give them the pass, but 20$ for an unfinished game is an insult.

when i have money i buy games
when i don't have money to spare, which is often, or don't think the game will be worth my time, i pirate instead
why should anyone give a shit

Then why even bother with it at all?

There's enough good open source and free games out there that are worth attention.

sometimes i'm wrong

Thoughts?

All of them are good, except maybe Oblivion
I don't know about Styx neither Half a minute.

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I can fill in for Half-Minute. The first game is a great blend of arcade action Warioware type stuff and RPG mechanics, while the second discards some of the first game's extra modes for fleshing out the RPG from the first game into a full game.

Styx is good as a stealth game, but you may feel underwhelmed if you play it right after the thief games. Stalker is good but clear sky is easily the weakest one.

It just depends on whether you want artists to make a living off their work and if you think the bullshit is worth wading through to pay them. A lot of people are just cool wanting video games to just be a hobby and I can respect that.

Speaking of GOG, did they ever fulfill that "Merge your account with your Steam account to get your games from Steam on GOG", or did they back out of it? I signed up for that shit weeks ago..

Steam/10

It came out but it only works with specific games. They're dancing around legal hoops to work with each other.

None, i'm not a ledditor normalfag unlike you OP.
I don't care about what kind of brain gymnastics you fags do to save face, but the truth is the truth, if you spend money on Steam and are hyped over some "summer sale" then you are no better than Black Friday herd good goys.

Is pic related any good? How cool-aid ridden are the devs?

What do you think?

I want to pet that hero

Eh, if I dismissed everything with anthropomorphic animals as furry I wouldn't ever watch an animated feature film ever again. Just because all furries are into anthropomorphic animals doesn't mean all games / movies with anthropomorphic animals in them are furry or catering to furries by default.

Its fun ARPG.

Long-winded flame wars with narcissists are the best.

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I've gotten like 5 or 6 games out of it. You have to be attentive though. The games are only available to merge for a short time and then you gotta wait until different games are available.

Spelunky is good fun. You should play it.

So your argument is that no system is perfect, therefore fuck everyone but yourself?

Piratefags really a cancerous bunch. Don't try to justify your faggotry. Just admit you're a fag and suck dick in public.

And what alternate model would you suggest, mr. genius?
And how to implement it?

I like you, You can fuck my sister.

Steam enablers are no different than pack rats. I honestly do believe steam enablers are pack rats.

Go to the actual steam shilling threads you jackasses.

Eh, I guess so, but I don't really feel like tinkering with Wine at the moment. Had to do it for Redemption and I got lucky that it worked, but there are cases where by the time I get the game running I don't even want to play it anymore.

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Deus Ex (GOTY Edition.)

It's fucking awesome.

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various reasons.
Some made good games and deserve a few bucks (which is why I Bought the Talos Principle)
Some games have an online part that pirated copies can't do
And some just have absolutely no seeders on any non-private torrent site and haven't been posted to the share thread (which is why I bought MGR)
Sales are just the best time to get a game for any of these reasons.

Don't bother paying for oblivion.

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Nothing
my backlog is too big already

Warren Spector is a faggot SJW now so who even cares

literal cancer

I got RTC2 and Shovel Knight how did I do. Also if you buy a game from Steam that doesn't need Steam you're cancer, GOG too unless the game isn't updated and optimized good. Physical master race.

not a single one

Except the video game industry is filled with lies and deceit. Nearly all games that come out doesn't represent it's original concept or design (Most have been downgraded), they are basically tailored in a specific way due to market research just so the game can sell. It doesn't release due to the fact that it might be a good game and that it will sell by word of mouth. Second video game conglomerates at some point will have to deal with the government and in turn whatever it is deemed politically acceptable at the time will eventually also leak into video games. Perfect example is EA.

Well said.