Evening Reading

by Garnett Lee, Jan 10, 2011 5:00pm PST

The BCS Championship finally brings the NCAA football season to a close this evening. I get what they originally intended with spacing out the big game on the schedule, but this year the whole thing stretched out in an awkward way. Heck, we wound up without any good games to watch in the afternoon on New Year's Day, but still watching bowls the following weekend.

Regardless, it should be a good game. Ordinarily, I'd be inclined to take Auburn I think based on the strength of the SEC. Something about playing there makes a team tough. But I like this Oregon team. I think they have a shot at getting off to hot start, and not looking back. So yeah, I guess I'm calling it Ducks in a high scoring affair.

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By: Strid3rtheGreat x Show Full Post

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Anyone else ever buy games on a steam sale that you already own on disk or other service
Just so you can have it on steam, Even tho you'll still likely never play it?

I own several games 3x over for some odd reason.

Jan 10, 2011 5:16pm PST

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Anyone else ever buy games on a steam sale that you already own on disk or other service Just so you can ... : Strid3rtheGreat
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  <- Guilty... Bought the witcher on steam so I didn't have to worry about the CD anymore : Demius
  - I feel sad that I can no longer talk shit since I haven't played sc2 in a month. I enjoyed our rivalry :... : On the Brane
  - This! Lost that fking CD key so many goddamn times. : chadg033
  - Same, two licenses for the Witcher here, too. : aasyranth
  - Haha, I was very close to doing this too, but I missed the sale(s) this year and didn't want to spend $20... : DinK
- i've purchased games on steam just so i can play them on PC instead of my PS3. : dopeman
- They're usually super cheap and harder to install with discs on a newer OS. Absolutely! : ChiefSquattingBear
- I buy games that I already own on steam simply for the ease of patching. I download from steam and I alre... : Prozium
- I got Batman AA even though I had it on PS3... TV gets too much time as a TV around our place. : five_percent
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  not exactly the same, but as a repentant former pirate, I bought a game on steam I had pirated in the day... : MamiyaOtaru
  - This. : pokysharpy
  - I've done this a bunch. : swampangel
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    This describes my entire GOG catalogue. : Thick Axelrod
    - Haha, yeah. : fractured_sanity
  - I've done this for at least three games. I don't pirate anymore, but I'm sorry to say I did in the past. ... : thetangent
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  Yes. Convenience is an amazing factor with any purchase. The sooner companies realize this the more mon... : Wombat Woo
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    Some STEAM games already support server-side game saves. Torchlight does this, I think. : PenicillinX57
    - Would be nice if Steam accounts had some cloud data storage available for non-Steam games nominated by th... : MeestaNob
- more than I care to admit, actually : zerog83
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  I sold my copy of Company Of Heroes and rebought it on Steam because the patching was so horrible. I did ... : Serpico74
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    That was a really good idea. I shudder to remember CoH patching : crummynz
    - Worst patches since BF1942 and BF2 : Serpico74
- Nothing I don't plan to play again, but I admit I have bought some stuff (SimCity, Quake) just to avoid t... : Happy Doodle Muffin
- sure, several : rmjackson
- I'd never buy a game on Steam that I already own on disc, with one exception. That was when I bought Tit... : Mr. Goodwrench
- Of course! The game that I could currently download from the most sources is Braid (HIB2, Steam, Desur... : Johnny Law
- With older games I already own, I'll buy them again if I know they'll be played at some point (Max payne,... : pyide
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  Never happened to me with Steam, happened with GoG maybe 1-2 times.
  
  Jan 10, 2011 5:57pm PST
  
  Never happened to me with Steam, happened with GoG maybe 1-2 times. : The Grolar Bear
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  The Witcher, and I still haven't played either copy. :( : gokwyjibo
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    get on this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : cellx25
    - It's on my to-do list. Every time I finish up a game I plan on then starting Witcher but I keep getting ... : gokwyjibo
- Probably half of my Steam games. With the exception of my Duke3D disc, I have a horrible track record. : steauengeglase
- A few examples come to mind. Company of Heroes to avoid the patching process (which is harder than the g... : MeestaNob
- I thought about buying Batman AA on Steam, only got it on game for windows. But i play that, so not sure ... : Ziz
- several games. : shirif
- once or twice : roushimsx
- 4th copy of BF2 was from steam : watcherxp
- Bioshock, The Witcher, KOTR, DIRT2, Burnout Paradise, Battlefield 2, Freedom Force, GTAIV, Max Payne 1 & ... : hirez
- Yup. Elder Scrolls 3 and 4, the Jedi Knight games : beanman101283
- Many many times. I re-bought Civ4 Complete (never had Colonization) so I can run it on the Mac as well. : Schnapple
- Only one that comes to mind is Titan Quest: IT : bipolar
- A few games mainly because I have long since lost the disc. : OutlawSundown
- Yes, I lost or damaged a few discs and, well, it's just easier to download these days. I have two copies... : Lucien Irenicus
- Yes. : Jiven
- Often, yes. Steam and GOG. Wwhen I move I can get rid of stuff and still have my games. : dognose
- Complete id Software and R* catalog on Steam 7-8 of these on discs. : Lukiopimp
- I've rebought some I owned on Impulse just because I want to get away from Stardock as much as possible. ... : baron calamity
- I've done it to get rid of DVD's and cases that are taking up space...because I lack for space, but I def... : Vorlonesque
- Mirror's Edge. Because I love it to much and I want my kids to play it. When I have kids. : Snipergen
- Can't you just register the serial's for the games you already own on Steam? I'm pretty sure I've done th... : sneak
- no, im not a retard : sreyes22
- Absolutely. A big factor for some games is not having to worry about manually applying patches and just ... : passingstranger

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