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    Holy bejeebus! Steam THQ Complete Pack £26.49!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Manic Penguins, Nov 27, 2009.

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    Manic Penguins, Nov 27, 2009
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    Baka (・ω・)

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    Friend of mine gifted it to me <3 It was definitely a purchase worth the price

    Especially since it includes Dawn of War and Company of Heroes >:]
     
    Baka, Nov 27, 2009
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  3. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    i'm not buying. it's an amazing deal, but there is just no time to play them all :p
     
    tianxia, Nov 27, 2009
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  4. Manic Penguins

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    What I want to know is can I gift some of the games? Because I already have CoH & DoW and played Frontlines on mah XBox 360.
     
    Manic Penguins, Nov 27, 2009
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    crash NBR Assassin

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    I'm not sure if you're able to select specific games for gifting or not. When you go to checkout, you have the option of "purchasing the game for somebody else". Maybe you'll be able to choose which ones specifically you want to gift instead of all or nothing?
     
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  6. Manic Penguins

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    I just wanted to buy it, then sell them all off after the deal ends.

    EDIT: I found out it doesn't work like that, you have to gift the entire package.
     
    Manic Penguins, Nov 28, 2009
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    Senor Mortgage Notebook Evangelist

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    I might consider it at the end of the weekend after steam has run through its deals. Lots of good game but nothing that really excites me so I'll wait to see if a few better games are available.
     
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    crash NBR Assassin

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    You're not allowed to sell games you buy on Steam, that's why they call them "gifts".

    Are you sure? When I bought The Orange Box, I already had HL2 and Steam automatically made one copy of HL2 available for me to gift.
     
    crash, Nov 28, 2009
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    me12345 Notebook Evangelist

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    Can someone confirm or deny this? I'm very curious, myself. I already have some of the games in the THQ pack (about half of them) and I'm wondering if I buy the pack, will I be able to gift individual games?
     
    me12345, Nov 29, 2009
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  10. Necromas

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    But the Orange Box was all Valve games, it's probably up to THQ if they want to allow people to split up and gift the packaged games separately.
     
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    Why? It's Steam that sells you the game, so it's Steam system that determines whether or not you can gift a game.
     
    crash, Nov 29, 2009
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    You are allowed to split up the games and to answer crash, the extra copies of the games only apply to Orange Box games only.
     
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    ^ I see that kind of sucks. I wanted to get THQ just for all the red faction games and was hoping I'd be able to gift the rest to someone else, as I already have everything in the back, besides red faction.
     
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  14. mobius1aic

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    Just for the Company of Heroes, STALKER and Warhammer 40k games + expansions, it's worth like 5 times the sale price!
     
    mobius1aic, Nov 30, 2009
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    Oh Wow Titan Quest + IT is in there :) Nice.
     
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    Just picked this up for CoH, wicked deal!
     
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    I bit the bullet and brought it. Twiddles thumbs waiting (300KB/s).
     
    Manic Penguins, Nov 30, 2009
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