Steam summer sale has started

MattKeil · 2011-07-16T15:16:35.000Z

Steam currently claims my account does not exist, despite the fact that people on my friends list can still see my profile and Steam does recover my account name if I enter my email. But it does not accept my password and will not let me change the password. Because the account does not exist.

Put in a ticket for support, but of course now I can’t play 90% of my games. Hooray, PC gaming.

TimJames · 2011-07-16T19:07:11.000Z

MattKeil:

Steam currently claims my account does not exist, despite the fact that people on my friends list can still see my profile and Steam does recover my account name if I enter my email. But it does not accept my password and will not let me change the password. Because the account does not exist.

Put in a ticket for support, but of course now I can’t play 90% of my games. Hooray, PC gaming.

Is this where XBLPET Juliet shows up and says you’ve been trying to host hacked lobbies in exchange for Steam gift certificates?

Hope it gets worked out. Scary.

Bandersnatch · 2011-07-16T23:03:58.000Z

MattKeil:

Steam currently claims my account does not exist, despite the fact that people on my friends list can still see my profile and Steam does recover my account name if I enter my email. But it does not accept my password and will not let me change the password. Because the account does not exist.

Put in a ticket for support, but of course now I can’t play 90% of my games. Hooray, PC gaming.

Are you trying to log in through the website or through the Steam application itself? I’ve gotten that before and in fact it seems to be doing it now where it says incorrect login when I try to log in through the website. It will let me log in to the Steam application however and I can buy things from there.

MattKeil · 2011-07-18T00:35:29.000Z

Bandersnatch:

Are you trying to log in through the website or through the Steam application itself? I’ve gotten that before and in fact it seems to be doing it now where it says incorrect login when I try to log in through the website. It will let me log in to the Steam application however and I can buy things from there.

Both. Frankly it’s been so long since I had to log in to Steam I just don’t remember the password, but you have to use the Steam application to change/recover it. And the Steam application says my account does not exist.

lordkosc · 2011-07-18T00:44:42.000Z

Are you sure you have the correct account name ?

Can you find your account using the below format?

http://steamcommunity.com/id/username

MattKeil · 2011-07-18T00:52:18.000Z

Nope. Profile does not exist. People on my friends list can link me to my profile, but simply typing in my username (which is 100% correct) gets me nothing. I honestly have no idea what the fuck.

JD · 2011-07-18T04:02:39.000Z

Matt, I’ve had this happen to me last week, too. Launched Steam, got notified that there was a new client update available. Upon restart I was greeted by the message that Steam had not been authenticated on my PC. Obviously, that was bullshit. When I tried to log in then, I got the “That account was not found” message. And none of the retrieval procedures helped it. Took the support about 1.5 days to fix the issue after I had sent a ticket.

Nikolaj · 2011-07-18T05:00:12.000Z

Since people are talking about Steam issues, I’d be grateful if someone could help me out. During the last three weeks, my internet connection has been down twice (the first time, it lasted 5 days). Both times, I’ve been unable to play any of my steam games, since it refuses to start offline, giving me a message that “this operation can not be performed in offline mode” or somesuch. Am I the only one having this problem, and does anyone know what I can do about it?

The_Mad_Hatter · 2011-09-20T12:53:10.000Z

So 100 days have passed since this sale was on. I spent something like $180 on various games. Steam tracks the time spent playing, so I can actually measure my dollar value so far. I’ve put in the following:

Splinter Cell (original) - 23 hours played
Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition - 59 hours played
Warhammer: Dawn of War II - 10 hours played
Grand Theft Auto IV/Episodes from Liberty City - 67 hours played

Given my erratic schedule and my (waning) interest in WoW, I’d say that 150 hours is not bad. There’s still plenty of juice left to squeeze too, with the Dragon Age: Origins series, the rest of the Dawn of War II games, etc. I spent a lot, but I got pretty good value out of it.

MSUSteve · 2011-09-20T13:00:08.000Z

The only Steam Sale game I spent any significant time with was Risen, which I played for about 40 hours.

James_Johnson · 2011-09-20T13:06:02.000Z

This thread was totally worth resurrecting.

SlainteMhath · 2011-09-20T13:57:47.000Z

The only game from the sale I’ve been playing so far is Eschalon : Book 1. I have over 25 hours into it though, so not a bad value for $3.74. I’ll probably take a break before starting Book 2 and play Drakensang or one of the many strategy games I purchased during the sale.

On the flip side, I put a lot of time in on Hinterland and King Arthur in the time since the Summer Sale, both of which were previous Steam Sale purchases for me.

KaoFloppy · 2011-09-20T14:00:34.000Z

KaoFloppy:

(Click <view post> to see my old sales receipt)

I’ve been playing exclusively games from this sale, since the sale started. (Except for some PS3 games…)

Played SpaceChem, got bogged down on the 6th planet.
Finished Back to the Future. (Yay finally finished a game)
Started Torchlight, played for an hour.
Started Gratuitous Space Battles, played for 1/2 hour.
Started Swords and Soldiers, finished the viking campaign only. (2 hours?)
Playing Borderlands. 19 hours, soldier, lvl 18, haven’t killed Sledge yet.

Very happy with the haul.

OrfBC · 2011-09-20T14:08:09.000Z

KaoFloppy:

I’ve been playing exclusively games from this sale, since the sale started. (Except for some PS3 games…)

Played SpaceChem, got bogged down on the 6th planet.

Finished Back to the Future. (Yay finally finished a game)

Started Torchlight, played for an hour.

Started Gratuitous Space Battles, played for 1/2 hour.

Started Swords and Soldiers, finished the viking campaign only. (2 hours?)

Playing Borderlands. 19 hours, soldier, lvl 18, haven’t killed Sledge yet.

Very happy with the haul.

6th planet or 6th puzzle? If 6th planet…Wow, I bow down to you. I got to the first “boss fight”, was delighted that there was such a thing as boss fights in the game, and stopped there knowing I would never get past it.

TimJames · 2011-09-20T14:17:04.000Z

The Mad Hatter:

So 100 days have passed since this sale was on. I spent something like $180 on various games. Steam tracks the time spent playing, so I can actually measure my dollar value so far. I’ve put in the following:

Splinter Cell (original) - 23 hours played
Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition - 59 hours played
Warhammer: Dawn of War II - 10 hours played
Grand Theft Auto IV/Episodes from Liberty City - 67 hours played

Given my erratic schedule and my (waning) interest in WoW, I’d say that 150 hours is not bad. There’s still plenty of juice left to squeeze too, with the Dragon Age: Origins series, the rest of the Dawn of War II games, etc. I spent a lot, but I got pretty good value out of it.

Now measure it in terms of joy instead of hours.

DoomMunky · 2011-09-20T14:33:02.000Z

Tim James:

Now measure it in terms of joy instead of hours.

This is correct.

OrfBC · 2011-09-20T14:34:48.000Z

EIGHTEEN JOYLONS PER CUBIC PLAY UNIT

ArmandoPenblade · 2011-09-20T14:43:10.000Z

I must have fucked up my conversions somewhere. I came up with 1.21 Gigawatts/hectare. Anyone got an online tool for this?

TimJames · 2011-09-20T14:47:03.000Z

No, because value is subjective!

Inactiviste · 2011-09-20T14:58:17.000Z

That thread has reminded me that I should play Two Worlds II. Which I’ve just started doing. It’s pretty weird so far, but it’s the exact kind of game that makes me love Steam sales.

I wouldn’t have bought it if it wasn’t on sale. And now I’m playing a metrosexual nobody running behind an orcish hotty and trying to escape medieval Palpatine & his gang cosplayers.

The first image of the game (after you’ve created your metrosexual alter-ego) is your sister’s cleavage.