Steam Price Rises?

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Postby Zephyr » 2010.05.18 (12:06)

Is it just me? Or have alot of the games on Steam gone up in price?

I seem to recall that mass effect 2 was $50 before and now it's $70.
Red Faction Guerilla seems to have also gone up.
Am I crazy or right?

*Edit* When was COD6 $90?
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[13:50:57] <WorldCupE> ZEPH
[13:51:01] <WorldCupE> WHAT
[13:51:11] <WorldCupE> hpw
[13:51:12] <WorldCupE> how
[13:51:12] <Zeph> everyone wears out halfway through the match
[13:51:15] <WorldCupE> ._.
[13:51:17] <WorldCupE> you
[13:51:19] <WorldCupE> aren't
[13:51:20] <WorldCupE> here
[13:51:24] <WorldCupikaze> I think the broadcasters lowered the volume for certain frequencies
[13:51:35] <WorldCupikaze> WOAH
[13:51:38] <WorldCupikaze> STOP IT ZEPH
[13:51:46] <WorldCupE> he's in #n
[13:51:49] <WorldCupE> but not here
[13:51:58] <Zeph> that nz guy wasn't fouled
[13:52:05] <WorldCupikaze> DUBBLE YOO. TEE. EFF.
[13:52:05] <WorldCupikaze> STOPIT
[13:52:29] <WorldCupE> I don't think Zeph can read what we say
[13:52:38] <WorldCupikaze> No
[13:52:41] <WorldCupikaze> But it still happens
[13:52:46] <WorldCupE> xD
[13:52:47] <Zeph> holy shot I'm vibrating to 1950s relaxing jazz
[13:52:58] <WorldCupE> ZEPH
[13:53:01] <WorldCupE> CAN YOYU HEAR ME
[13:53:20] <WorldCupE> donfuy
[13:53:23] <WorldCupE> have you seen this
[13:53:35] <Donfuy> i can't
[13:53:43] <WorldCupE> can't what
[13:53:47] <WorldCupE> Zeph isn't here
[13:53:48] <WorldCupikaze> WHAT's GOING ON
[13:53:51] <WorldCupE> but is speaking
[13:53:51] <WorldCupE> D:
[13:53:58] <Donfuy> can't see what huh?
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[13:54:18] <WorldCupE> precisely
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Postby Tunco » 2010.05.18 (15:06)

They seem to be at their all-time-normal price, I don't know what's wrong with (your) Steam.
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Postby Kablizzy » 2010.05.18 (16:11)

I dunno, I just got Portal for FREE.
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Postby rocket_thumped » 2010.05.18 (17:56)

Smörgåsbord wrote:I dunno, I just got Portal for FREE.
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Postby smartalco » 2010.05.18 (18:23)

You live in Australia. That basically means you get royally boned on all things video game related. (Way delayed releases, higher prices, your system's lack of a rating equivalent to 'mature' making it so games have to be altered to be approved (Valve had to cut down the violence in L4D2 to get it released there))
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Postby t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư » 2010.05.18 (23:50)

Inspired wrote:Steam related question: So I just got an account so that I could get Portal. On realising that the download is an enormous 5GB I figured I'd wait until the end of the month praying that my quota (8GB) was not yet filled. The question is, it now says Portal is on my account, will it go away on May 24th because I didn't download it?
You clicked on some kind of "Buy" button, albeit for $0, right? So long as you confirmed the "purchase", you should be able to postpone downloading it indefinitely. At least, it's worked plenty of times for me when I bought games on sale but put off downloading them for whatever reason.
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Postby Luminaflare » 2010.05.19 (08:50)

Tsukatu wrote:
Inspired wrote:Steam related question: So I just got an account so that I could get Portal. On realising that the download is an enormous 5GB I figured I'd wait until the end of the month praying that my quota (8GB) was not yet filled. The question is, it now says Portal is on my account, will it go away on May 24th because I didn't download it?
You clicked on some kind of "Buy" button, albeit for $0, right? So long as you confirmed the "purchase", you should be able to postpone downloading it indefinitely. At least, it's worked plenty of times for me when I bought games on sale but put off downloading them for whatever reason.
Yeah it isn't a free weekend or something, it's legitimately free forever for anyone who adds it to their account. Also 8GB a month? I downloaded 250GB over the past two weeks or so (Albeit this was exceptional circumstances of installing every one of my steam games).


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