Valve Launches Steam Daily Wishlist Games Giveaway
Starting today, Valve is offering ten free games to ten Steam account holders every day until the holidays are over. All gamers needs are at least ten games in their Wishlist.
'Tis the season to be jolly, and what better way to get all jollied up than to receive ten free games from Valve. Thursday the company announced that its Daily Wishlist Giveaway is officially underway on Steam, and will continue on into the holiday season.
To enter, PC gamers must have a Steam account and a Wishlist with at least ten games. Valve customers will also need to visit the game page of the featured daily deal every day, starting with Terraria at 75-percent off. Valve promises to grant ten people with the top ten games on their Wishlist for free each day.
For those who typically don't load up the Wishlist with hopeful purchases, this is a good chance to score a number of newly-released titles like Serious Sam 3, Saints Row: The Third, Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Assassin's Creed Revelations, RAGE, Modern Warfare 3, LOTR: War in the North, Trine 2 and Sonic Generations.
The official Giveaway rules are here.

1. There is a free program called Steam Mover, it actually just executes some Windows commands that copy your selected games to your SSD or any other drive, and let Steam think they are still in the same place. Works just fine.
2. You got the story wrong. It was actually Valve that removed Crysis 2 from the store, and the same reason why BF3 isn't on Steam.
3. Also, "Valve doesn't want to share their profits." - what are you talking about ? It's a private company. So, it's ok for EA to not share with Valve the money from the DLC sales, but it's not ok for Valve to keep it's profits ? Steam is a wonderful platform for publishers that have their games on Steam. Why do you think they have hundreds of games available and 49 game publishers as partners ? Doesn't added sales increase the wealth of it's partners ?
4. Steam supports Apple - so what ? How on earth is that a fail ? Does it affect you ? I never owned a Mac nor do I share Apple's philosophy, but it's always good to know Steam supports open standards. This may seems a contradiction, but in order to support the Mac Valve had to update their Source engine to render in OpenGL, given that Mac OS X obviously does not support DirectX.
How on earth is Steam average ? Do you have any other example of a service that does all the things Steam does, with all the great deals and available catalogue ?
Steam may not be perfect, but there isn't a single system yet that is better.
They are mad, and not in the "angry" way, in the "crazy" way
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PC gaming FTW!!!
Call of Duty Black Ops
Deus EX: HR
Dead Island
Anno 2070
Fable 3
Saints Row the Third
Serious Sam 3
Assassins Creed Revelations
Rage
Fear 3
Hope i win one of these days.... hear that STEAM
So, whats everybody got in their top 10 list?
1. The witcher 2
2. Silent Hunter 5
3. Cities XL 2012
4. Assasins Creed Revelations
5. Tropico 4
6. L.A. Noire: The complete edition
7. Fractal
8. Anno 2070
9. RAGE
10. Waves
Sure the list isn't exactly filled with all of those brand new awesome games out there, but that's because I already have those new awesome games.
This is just a list of games I find interesting.
A dodgy attempt to kick-start their own online store by making one of the most hotly anticipated titles an EA exclusive
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I won't work of course and EA will fold an allow it as a Steam title when then want the extra revenue
Steam is ... Average at best.
1. There is a free program called Steam Mover, it actually just executes some Windows commands that copy your selected games to your SSD or any other drive, and let Steam think they are still in the same place. Works just fine.
2. You got the story wrong. It was actually Valve that removed Crysis 2 from the store, and the same reason why BF3 isn't on Steam.
3. Also, "Valve doesn't want to share their profits." - what are you talking about ? It's a private company. So, it's ok for EA to not share with Valve the money from the DLC sales, but it's not ok for Valve to keep it's profits ? Steam is a wonderful platform for publishers that have their games on Steam. Why do you think they have hundreds of games available and 49 game publishers as partners ? Doesn't added sales increase the wealth of it's partners ?
4. Steam supports Apple - so what ? How on earth is that a fail ? Does it affect you ? I never owned a Mac nor do I share Apple's philosophy, but it's always good to know Steam supports open standards. This may seems a contradiction, but in order to support the Mac Valve had to update their Source engine to render in OpenGL, given that Mac OS X obviously does not support DirectX.
How on earth is Steam average ? Do you have any other example of a service that does all the things Steam does, with all the great deals and available catalogue ?
Steam may not be perfect, but there isn't a single system yet that is better.
Check out http://www.stefanjones.ca/steam/
It's a steam tool that moves games back and forth to the requested location (be it a different drive or folder) by changing drive references through command prompts. It works with NTFS only. I've used it for BF3 and Skyrim, they work and run great.
BC2* not BF3...
Or just use the mklink command yourself.
Or just provide a tool so you don't have to explain the command to someone who's not so technically inclined. Also; much faster.
Long live Steam, love you guys.
Yeah and get nagged for money by someone's hooptie crapware that just overlays a GUI over the existing OS commands.