Groupees Clash of the World Bundle $1 for 5+ Games (Etherlords, 7.62, Parkan, etc)

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  Ebany on 01/06/2014 - 01:42

  -5

  I just don't trust them.

  Plus - With a ton of games on Steam, GoG, MS, Uplay, and Origin, I just can't bring myself to start any-more accounts. Games should be portable since we pay for a damn licence to play the things!

  That said, nice prices and good find :)

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    mycosys on 01/06/2014 - 04:40

    +3

    You dont trust them???
    Been around a while now - they give out keys just fine. They have done some great build your own bundles among others

    and a buck is not much to risk

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      Ebany on 01/06/2014 - 15:58

      I just have no experience with them, nor (until today) have I ever heard anything good about them. I'm just one of those people who listens largely to "friend referral", not much for experimenting :)

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    johnno07 on 01/06/2014 - 08:31

    Even if Groupees hadn't been around for years (which they have) you wouldn't trust them enough to send them a dollar?

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      Ebany on 01/06/2014 - 11:47

      -4

      Nope. I've never dealt with them, I've never heard of them till now, and these deals are flooding the market like requests for bank account from Africa. I don't trust them, whether it's $1 or $1000.

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        johnno07 on 01/06/2014 - 13:29

        +2

        Grab yer tin foil hats…

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        Ebany on 01/06/2014 - 14:19

        If it helps you tune in.

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  smurfinaus on 01/06/2014 - 07:31

  +1

  these guys have been around for a longtime and specialized more with indie music before getting into games (they still have regular music bundles). Better balanced than the other bundles. Usually fair balance between DRM free downloads, desura and steam (Humble has gone to shit offering mostly steam bull crap, IG and bundleshit are steam only, IR puts up mostly crap games..shiny loot is a try hard )

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    johnno07 on 01/06/2014 - 08:30

    steam bull crap

    Is there a particular reason you dislike Steam so much?

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      Ebany on 01/06/2014 - 11:48

      -2

      Any reason your Steam's groupee?

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        johnno07 on 01/06/2014 - 13:33

        +2

        Because it's an efficient, non-intrusive platform that actually aids my gaming experience by keeping all my games up to date and accessible. Furthermore, their Australian servers are top notch meaning I can download games and aforementioned updates at rate of megabytes per second. I'm an unabashed Steam fanboy, but for good reason, I think.

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        Ebany on 01/06/2014 - 14:16

        -3

        Sorry, I zoned out for a moment …… I was taken back to days when I was forced into church for communal prayer because my age made it impossible to do anything other than following the other sheep.

        Steam is not efficient, it is most certainly intrusive, it may contribute to your gaming experience but most people don't even notice Steam when gaming, it does forcefully keep games up-2-date and screw old saved games. Most people have no (reason or) games which require Steam's Australian servers, unless you play DOTA then this is not even a reason. Origin & MS offer faster D/L speeds than Steam.

        Steam is just the same as any other DRM UI, except it comes with a heavy social element for the young and immature. What Steam really does different is swindle developers out of cash like Coles & Woolies have done to the milk farmers of this country. Their unethical in the way they conduct business and it disgusts me to my core.

        I guess you purchase those Thai prawns and Greek Olive Oil thinking how fine the savings are, then attempt patronise the rest of us because we choose ethical shopping and buy Australian.

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        johnno07 on 01/06/2014 - 15:36

        +2

        because my age made it impossible to do anything other than following the other sheep.

        Thanks for that opening insult. I can already tell this is going to be a constructive post.

        Steam is not efficient

        Why not? I've stated why I think it is.

        it is most certainly intrusive…but most people don't even notice Steam when gaming

        You know that you've contradicted yourself in the same sentence there, right?

        it does forcefully keep games up-2-date

        You can tell Steam whether or not you want to keep games "up-2-date".

        screw old saved games.

        I have never had my old save games screwed, as you so eloquently put. Not for any of my many, many games, not for the nearly 10 years I've been using the platform. Not sure what you're on about here.

        Most people have no (reason or) games which require Steam's Australian servers

        I am talking about actually downloading game files after you have made a purchase - not playing online. This comes in handy now that games can be exceeding 40GB in size.

        Origin & MS offer faster D/L speeds than Steam.

        I regularly get speeds in excess of 3MB/s from Steam's servers. I have not had this experience with Origin or MS. Are you saying that Origin and GFWL are better than Steam? You must know they aren't. Please tell me you know that. GFWL is potentially the some of the most atrocious DRM to ever rear its ugly head.

        a heavy social element for the young and immature

        I use the social elements to invite my mates to play games with me - does that make me young and immature?

        What Steam really does different is swindle developers out of cash like Coles & Woolies have done to the milk farmers of this country. Their unethical in the way they conduct business and it disgusts me to my core.

        shakes head
        Developers don't have to use Steam! They can self-publish if they'd like! They chose to pay Valve 30% in order to tap into Steam's astronomically large user-base of over 75 million people. How is this in any way unethical?

        I guess you purchase those Thai prawns and Greek Olive Oil thinking how fine the savings are, then attempt patronise the rest of us because we choose ethical shopping and buy Australian.

        No.

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        Ebany on 01/06/2014 - 15:54

        -1

        wow, that was a prodigious level of cut'n'paste just to spread the good word but no-one is buying. People either like Steam or not, having fanatics like yourself witch hunt the Atheists for their beliefs is just sad. Every-time I see a bargain where someone states they dislike Steam you must feel it's God's will that you jump right in and say "Why's that?", and then attempt to pick apart their answer like it's some sort of debate.

        Some people like Steam, some don't, it's that simple.

        Edit: btw, I think you missed doing a Neg on a couple of my posts.

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        johnno07 on 01/06/2014 - 16:34

        +2

        Some people like Steam, some don't, it's that simple.

        Well isn't that an open-minded approach to the situation? Shame you decided to insult me half a dozen times for being a person who likes Steam. I wasn't trying to start a heated debate, I just asked smurfinaus why he didn't like Steam. Then you asked me why I did, and I answered you respectfully. Following from that, you proceeded to call me a young, immature, patronising, unethical sheep, and finally a fanatical witch hunter, of all things.

        I'm not offended by this - you can't use the internet as much as we do these days and not have a thick skin - but I would implore that you re-read the original post and try and see how you got pretty unreasonable, pretty quickly. You don't even have to respond to this any further, just let it lie - we'll no doubt cross paths again in the future. Until then, have a good one :)

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        Ebany on 01/06/2014 - 19:01

        -1

        I didn't say it the first time because I thought it was puffery but I'll say it now: Any offence taken was perceived through your own curious delusions, unique to your mindset as, had I been intentionally insulting, I would have simply called you a 7 second retard. Been offended doesn't make the original material offensive.

        And we have crossed paths a while back, you felt I flawed because of my ethical disagreements regarding Steams methods of capitalism. In essence you asked why I disliked Steam, and I answered thinking you generally wanted to know, not because you were an Inquisitor in disguise.

        One day, if your unlucky, you will be burnt badly by a company like Steam and realise there is nothing you can do. No Australian body (eg. ACCC) will help retrieve the thousands of dollars worth of games in the deleted Steam account, and the rest of the community simply wont care as it didn't happen to them. Steam will eventually respond by insinuating the matter could go to court, and $7K later a lawyer will tell you the case simply can't be won unless a person can match Valve's financial backing and has years of their life to waste.

        Even right now your probably thinking "I hope all this and more happened to Ebany, that Steam hating piece of trash"! That's because the euphoric feeling of been part of Steam override and intelligent reasoning you may notice due to it's intrinsic flaws, a common constraint found within people who participate in events like communal prayer (or suicide bombing for the Taliban) - and not to be hyperbolic but Steam has many flaws.

        Without access to games a person has oodles of time for floating around the web looking for similar events, that's where one will meet the many others affected by similar circumstances. I've met (in person) someone who, due to "unforeseen circumstances" lost all the games in her account, Steam would only put back the ones she could locate receipts for. I've meet people who lost their games due to VPN usage or messing with the Steam Client itself. I've even met people who were banned because the Steam client (linking non-Steam game part) apparently recognised and illegal copy of a game on his computer, I've seen an email one of them received just before their account was closed (his game was legal but had Mod's).

        We are similar. I still have a few accounts I'd been building for when my nephews/nieces turned of age, thousands of games in each, I even still enjoy playing Civ V, Bioshock Infinite, or DOTA, but never again will I purchase a game which requires Steam. The main difference is when I loved Steam I did so knowing and accepting they had flaws, I didn't attempt to push my views onto others.

        I won't bother responding any-more, as you observed it's a pointless discussion as we have both seen these point thrown back and forth for years now. However I will answer the question which you felt the need to repeat by cut/paste two of my answers together, it's where you mentioned Steam is a "non-intrusive platform".

        1st I'd recommend you read Steam's 'Privacy Policy Agreement' where it specifically says:

        "By using Valve's online sites, products, and services, users agree that Valve may collect personally identifiable information".
        "Valve may share aggregate and individual information with other parties without restriction."

        There's a heap more, real eye opening stuff and well worth reading along with their EULA. So Steam collects your info and sells it, we know this since it's illegal to sell information on a minor and they specify they won't do that willingly. Maybe you shouldn't read it ……. minor is considered to be under 13.

        "Valve has totally understood this philosophy and are mining meaningful data on their player demographic, an approach which will certainly be copied by many companies soon as they become aware of the benefits."
        (URL Link: http://www.acagamic.com/research/stats/fun-with-steam-statis…)

        And here's one of my absolute favourite, in fact this data mining is done by a public source and all they needed was a Steam account. What most people don't realise is everyone's details are already on display, all someone has to do is work out a couple of minor details.
        (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/introducing-steam-gaug…)

        Also notice in that last link that almost 40% of games purchased on Steam are never used, interesting fact when looking at the above types of game bundles on sale.

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        johnno07 on 01/06/2014 - 20:24

        +1

        Sorry, mate - I didn't remember speaking to you before. It seems like a lot of the disagreement stems from general misunderstanding of each other (not at all helped by this text-based format of conversation). As such, I've removed any negative votes cast.

        Honestly it looks like we both love our videogames but differ on how we like to get our content. I appreciate your last response - Ars Technica's findings are certainly interesting. To me Steam is worth the risk, but to you it's not - and that's understandable. I just hope it means you don't miss out on any great games! All the best :)

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  Forth on 01/06/2014 - 07:50

  +1

  Groupees are pretty good Bundle group, 1C games do have Steam keys in this bundle this time
  after some outcry.

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  johnno07 on 01/06/2014 - 08:34

  FYI: the last two (Hammerforce - Dostup Zakryt and Cats Never Die - Bedtime Stories) are albums.