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    Oh Valve...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by shinakuma9, Dec 19, 2011.

  1. shinakuma9

    shinakuma9 Notebook Deity

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    shinakuma9, Dec 19, 2011
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  2. Star Forge

    Star Forge Quaggan's Creed Redux!

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    Valve is going mental with this one. Good luck to the bloke that wins it.
     
    Star Forge, Dec 19, 2011
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  3. alexUW

    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    Ya I know. Soon as the winner is notified, their STEAM/Computer will crash from the awesomeness :)
     
    alexUW, Dec 19, 2011
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  4. killkenny1

    killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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    So... how do I enter. Steam is down so yeah...

    Oh wait... IT'S ALIVE!!! But I guess not for long lol :D.
     
    killkenny1, Dec 19, 2011
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  5. shinakuma9

    shinakuma9 Notebook Deity

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    I wonder how big of a HD you would need if you wanted them all installed. And also not live in Canada.
     
    shinakuma9, Dec 19, 2011
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    What if I already own every game on Steam?

    And come on Valve... "Valve Complete Pack"?

    Doesn't everyone own this already?
     
    HTWingNut, Dec 19, 2011
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  7. shinakuma9

    shinakuma9 Notebook Deity

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    Then more games for you to give away!
     
    shinakuma9, Dec 19, 2011
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  8. HTWingNut

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    They will probably award it to the person with the most games in their account and not allow them to gift the rest to anyone. Major TROLL.
     
    HTWingNut, Dec 19, 2011
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  9. Steven

    Steven God Amongst Mere Mortals

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    I like you ^-^
     
    Steven, Dec 19, 2011
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  10. shinakuma9

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    And then VAC ban their account ^_^
     
    shinakuma9, Dec 19, 2011
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  11. HTWingNut

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    Or just make GabeN the winner!
     
    HTWingNut, Dec 19, 2011
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  12. Star Forge

    Star Forge Quaggan's Creed Redux!

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    Actually Gabe doesn't go by that on Steam...
     
    Star Forge, Dec 19, 2011
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  13. killkenny1

    killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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    I think he's tired of winning by now...
     
    killkenny1, Dec 19, 2011
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  14. HTWingNut

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    What is it?
     
    HTWingNut, Dec 19, 2011
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    Star Forge, Dec 19, 2011
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  17. Rambisco

    Rambisco Notebook Consultant

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    You'd need like, 10 terabytes to get every game on steam. :O That's probably WAY under though. Jesus christ.. watch some random guy who averages .8 hours a week with an IGP get it, then sell his account for like 100 thousand dollars.
     
    Rambisco, Dec 19, 2011
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  18. shinakuma9

    shinakuma9 Notebook Deity

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    Fyi.

    www.steamcommunity.com/id/techanalyst
     
    shinakuma9, Dec 19, 2011
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  19. Rambisco

    Rambisco Notebook Consultant

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    Did he win this thing before or something? Glad I have 6GB of ram to load that page, he hasn't even played 99% of his games. What a spoiled... :mad:

    2x iPhone 4's and a Blackberry torch? Not to mention, like what, 12 alienwares?
     
    Rambisco, Dec 19, 2011
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  20. killkenny1

    killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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    Reminded me this :D:
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  21. DJRX8000

    DJRX8000 Notebook Geek

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    Well this + their current sale has managed to basically shut down the steam store. Every time I try to go to a new page I get an error. Hopefully it'll be better later in the day ( though what I want will be on sale for a while). I can only imagine what download times are going to be like 0.0
     
    DJRX8000, Dec 19, 2011
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  22. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    what's with the coal entry thing?
     
    masterchef341, Dec 19, 2011
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    Kinda like the potatoes with Portal 2. Play games, earn coal. Trade coal in for prizes. Need like 7 coal to win anything though.
     
    HTWingNut, Dec 19, 2011
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  24. rschauby

    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    So, when I win this, does that mean that I get every future release as well?
     
    rschauby, Dec 19, 2011
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    I was thinking the same thing... the largest drive is 3TB right now. But to have even reasonable access and loading times, you'd need to have like two or three of those in Raid 0, and even then you could only pick and choose what games you wanted. >.< Why did you do this to us Valve? WHY!?

    Pretty sure if you win, Chuck Norris would be the one to announce it by showing up at your house. I would implode if that was me.
     
    imglidinhere, Dec 20, 2011
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    The speeds on the 3TB hard drives seem to be about the same as other hard drives... why would you need 3x raid 0 just to be within the realm of reason?
     
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    Well, Steam currently only allows you to install to a single drive. I know there's workarounds, but perhaps the point?
     
    HTWingNut, Dec 20, 2011
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    he was saying you'd need the additional drives to get reasonable loading times, not sufficient storage space, but yeah, I could imagine running out even with 3TB
     
    masterchef341, Dec 20, 2011
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    More than 10 TB, for sure.
     
    FahrenheitGTI, Dec 20, 2011
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  30. Rypac

    Rypac Notebook Evangelist

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    Every game on Steam... that is intense. No matter how hard you tried, there is no way you could play every game on Steam. It would be fun trying though ;)

    Good luck to however wins!
     
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  31. MSIfanboy

    MSIfanboy Notebook Consultant

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    i won Far Cry 2 so far :D
     
    MSIfanboy, Dec 21, 2011
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