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Quote from: jester on March 28, 2012, 07:51:33 pm

the 5 bucks or so you would have spent getting the game off free to play.

Heck, you could buy a $4 game during a Steam sale and spend the change on a Sticky Jumper. BAM. Premium account.

On top of this, taking this route nets you the best gun in the game. Do this.

Aqizzar, if there were any way I could empower my wishing you the best of luck so that my wish exploded out of the screen and fist bumped you I would do it. Good luck bro. You deserve it.

Holy crap, first multiplayer win against an army that wasn't some stupid gimmicky army like one made entirely of Yari Cavalry (your charge bonus is useless against ashigaru who know you're coming and if you charge me, I know you're coming) or one consisting entirely of elite units (an all hero units army just means I can pin you down and surround you easier). Admittedly he was playing kinda dumb and needs to be told that forming up two armies opposite each other and exchanging of bow fire like some kind of Gempei era bout doesn't work when your army is so vetted that you're outbowed three to one, but I still won! I think it helped that this was the first guy I'd faced that had the same stars as me, and not like, 20 stars. It's a bastard of a matchmaking system. 

In a significantly less serious dose of sad, I just realized I'm wearing the same shirt and jacket as The Bedroom Philosopher.

I'm considering going to the doctor and finding out whether or not I've caught Hipster but checkups are so 2009.

In the context of everything else, that's creepy as hell.

I'm absolutely dreadful at multiplayer, but Umiman is absolutely right. I steamrolled an army consisting entirely of elite, hero units with an army that was largely ashigaru, because elite, hero units are frigging expensive and I outnumbered him 20 to 1.

Quote from: Niveras on March 24, 2012, 09:21:10 am

Does Australia not get Steam, or are games on Steam still subject to Australia's insane markup?

I'd bet it's the same as the European steam store, everything's just more expensive. I know they just convert everything into euros directly, i.e. a $29.99 game costs €29.99 in the European steam store, which is almost a 33% markup. Australia's worse, though, it seems.

Actually, if they only converted everything into ASD directly (which they do) we'd only be paying a dollar or so more. It's just that Australian games are all subject to a ridiculous markup in prices. New releases can go for $120, and things like Developer Packs and other special deals can reach up to $200+. It's absolutely mad. Steam actually sells things far cheaper than retailers do, but it's still a huge leap more than other countries. Extra Credits did an episode on it and, if I remember correctly, couldn't come up with any good reason for why it happens. It's baffling.

e: I don't get exchange rates, fixed for accuracy