Borderlands pre-order on steam

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » October 15th, 2009, 20:35

Well I think I'm pre-ordering this too, since lee, his brother and his mate want it and if we get a four-pack dealy we all get it cheaper.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » October 15th, 2009, 20:42

deject wrote:
Yeah if anyone wants, I can do the gifting if you send me the money over PayPal, you'll be paying merkin prices!

I think I'll do that, what is the US and UK price?

Post by **deject** » October 15th, 2009, 21:18

Right now the price is USD 44.99, and USD 134.99 for a 4 pack.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » October 15th, 2009, 21:24

deject wrote:Right now the price is USD 44.99, and USD 134.99 for a 4 pack.

Hmmm... that four pack is quite tempting, if we could rally 4 people we'd all be off rather cheap.
Any volunteers?

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » October 15th, 2009, 21:55

Mr. Johnson wrote:
Hmmm... that four pack is quite tempting, if we could rally 4 people we'd all be off rather cheap.
Any volunteers?

Possibly depending on when you do it.

Works out at £20 and a bit each.

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » October 15th, 2009, 22:14

Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:
Possibly depending on when you do it.

Works out at £20 and a bit each.

Would work out cheaper over in uk prices, £80.67, £20.24for 3 people and £20.23 for 1 person.

If I can sell some more bits on ebay I'm up for it, and Shot2Bits proberly wants in.

Johnson, you want in?

Anyone else?

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » October 15th, 2009, 22:29

How's steam work? It's just a DL thru their thingy?

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » October 15th, 2009, 23:08

MORDETH LESTOK wrote:How's steam work? It's just a DL thru their thingy?

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » October 15th, 2009, 23:35

Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:
Would work out cheaper over in uk prices, £80.67, £20.24for 3 people and £20.23 for 1 person.

If I can sell some more bits on ebay I'm up for it, and Shot2Bits proberly wants in.

Johnson, you want in?

Anyone else?

Sure, I'm up for that.

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 16th, 2009, 0:41

MORDETH LESTOK wrote:How's steam work? It's just a DL thru their thingy?

Instead of being useless like buzz, I'll answer.

You are quite correct. You sign up, sign in and buy gaem. It then lets you download/pre-load/stare longingly at the release date dependent upon game. If you delete it off your hdd it stays on your steam profile for re-download. They auto-update and such if you ask them too as well.

Now has friends lists and achievements and groops and such, all consoley like. But generally unobtrusive and easy to use.

Everything has a shortcut so you can launch steam then launch everything from there, useful if you like minimal icons.

It offers a wide variety of publishers were once it was just valve and a couple of indie types floating round the edge. They have deals (THQ games this week) offer multibuy savings etc and it's got its own anti-cheat stuff that's actually quite capable.

Post by **deject** » October 16th, 2009, 1:52

MORDETH LESTOK wrote:How's steam work? It's just a DL thru their thingy?

Have you not used Steam before? I would have thought the vast majority of PC gamers would have Steam installed...

As Pete said, you run the Steam app, it downloads your games and keeps them up to date (generally) for you. You can download on to any computer Steam is installed on, just log in to your account. Steam has friends lists and groups so you can chat/join games of/rape people you know.

It has a XBOX HUEG LOL catalog of games, I have 99 games and that's really not a whole lot, far less than a quarter of the catalog I suspect.

It's the bees' knees.

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » October 16th, 2009, 3:20

deject wrote:
Have you not used Steam before? I would have thought the vast majority of PC gamers would have Steam installed...

As Pete said, you run the Steam app, it downloads your games and keeps them up to date (generally) for you. You can download on to any computer Steam is installed on, just log in to your account. Steam has friends lists and groups so you can chat/join games of/rape people you know.

It has a XBOX HUEG LOL catalog of games, I have 99 games and that's really not a whole lot, far less than a quarter of the catalog I suspect.

It's the bees' knees.

You do maths very bad... if you had 225 1/4 games on steam that would be closer to a quarter of the catalogue totalling 901games that steam have

bomberesque · Post by **bomberesque** » October 16th, 2009, 5:20

serrrrweet

when I log into my UKiVPN account and then fire up steam, I get UK prices all of a sudden

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 16th, 2009, 5:22

Then your card gets stopped because the transaction is taking place in the wrong country?

Post by **deject** » October 16th, 2009, 5:31

Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:
You do maths very bad... if you had 225 1/4 games on steam that would be closer to a quarter of the catalogue totalling 901games that steam have

And you fail at reading.

deject wrote:far less than a quarter of the catalog I suspect.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 16th, 2009, 6:00

deject wrote:And you fail at reading.

And this is a surprise from someone who said "You do maths very bad"?

bomberesque · Post by **bomberesque** » October 16th, 2009, 6:32

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Then your card gets stopped because the transaction is taking place in the wrong country?

good point. That was a royal pain in the arse when they stopped it last year for "signs of fraudulent activity". I tried to tell them that thos thai bars were all on the level

. can't remember; can you use paypal on steam?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 16th, 2009, 6:33

you can, which is probably a better bet.

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » October 16th, 2009, 7:09

Steam is very dangerous, it's way to easy to buy games, which is why I have 10% of the catalog. It's funny how I still have times where I have nothing to play.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 16th, 2009, 7:12

Akiakaiu wrote:Steam is very dangerous, it's way to easy to buy games, which is why I have 10% of the catalog. It's funny how I still have times where I have nothing to play.

99 games now, and I still run out of stuff to play.