Have spent a fair amount thanks to this post. Got Borderlands, B:BC2 Vietnam, Garry's Mod, Fallout New Vegas and DLC for them.

Was put out by the total lack of foresight Valve had in releasing TF2 for free and the strain it would have on their server load during sale season. My downloads for Borderlands was feckin ridiculously slow.

Looks like we're up to speed now though. The broadband genie is being kind to me again. Thanks for the links!

You may still be out of luck but you can often change your download region to get better speeds. Settings>Downloads+Cloud>Download Region if you don't know about it.

You can see server load here:
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

Edited by deleted (Tue 05-Jul-11 01:19:58)

Tried that mate. Tried everything! Changed it to Singapore, US-NYC etc. Swings and roundabouts. No worries now though, it seems to be back to normal.

Another day where i dont intend on buying anything hurrah, if i did though i might pick up nation red in a 4pack, but otherwise nothing for me, 29 tickets

Are you sure you don't want CoD4 for only $9.99? Oh wait sorry, we're in rip off Britain, that will be £9.99

I bought AI War. Playing it on my netbook (Amd)!

Thanks for the link btw. Didn't realise it had what it had in it at the time. Cool. Maybe should've tried UK Manchester instead, Steam is going slow again today and I'm still downloading Bully: Scholarship Edition and Fallout: New Vegas from yesterday.

Nothing tempted me today.

hehe, good ole activision

Couldnt stand AI War, found its UI horrid to use.

I did preempt the achievements/tickets in 3 other games, wonderful end of the world (complete the game in a sitting), RUSH (find and complete the solar flare level aka click the sun and go), spiral knights (get a firecracker bomb, i.e buy it off the marketplace which will probably be inflated tomorrow, buy the recipe and make it yourself or buy it from a vendor)

Edited by deleted (Wed 06-Jul-11 04:02:37)

I quite like AI war, but as you say the interface is very messy, good thing it was only a couple of quid. Sort of like Supreme commander in space with an immobile commander.


Yeah I'm grinding the achievements, but I am not installing trash like spiral knights for an achievement.

Spiral knights aint bad, its a time killer with friends, log on, do a dungeon run, get some materials/stuff, use up your energy allowance, log off.

Disappointed with todays that bittrip runner wasnt discounted again (on the 30th it was 1.74, today/yesterday it was 3.49), funny to see valve/steams own ticket went AWOL today. I assume wonderful end of the world and/or 123 kick it are on the ticket list today.

BTW Atom zombie smasher is a pretty neat kinda game, kinda strategical, good laugh and of its humour is quite nice, blendo/dejobaan/introversion/two tribes/etc can't really go wrong with them, some really nice work, effort and support, in all their games.

Edited by deleted (Thu 07-Jul-11 08:03:24)

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/06/direct2drive-offer...

Seems like direct2drive are getting in on it too, can't say i'd be picking up anything from them though, too many bad words from friends about them and my own experience wasnt that great either, that and IGN are trying to off load D2D in favour of their newer own PC store... I'm cautious, could be the first digital sales site to disappear assuming gamestop dont run impulse into the ground fast.