Potato?
http://www.steamgifts.com/bundle-games
Edit: If it's just a Desura key, then no. But if it turns into a Steam key, then yes.
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Well then, only 20 people or so managed to see throught the farce, but the rest didn't. Either that, or they found my puzzle hard
Hint :
What you see is not what you think you will get. The truth is often veiled and the only way to get to it is to self reflect on the courses of action you have available to you.
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Bump
Am I allowed to just wait for the solution? Will there be one?
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Yay, I got stuck on your stoof!
I'm definitely interested to see where I went wrong.
Probably Karma for my puzzle train a few weeks ago
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LOL! I didn't think to use that URL on pastebin
facepalm
I got the decoding, and had my 8 char and tried only ITH and further decoding... lol, was right in front of my face. I deserve that. Same thing I did to people on my puzzle train. Hahahaha. Nice one
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yeah its marked as a bundled game as long as it has been in any bundle, not just humblebundle ones.
was just ranting about it in another topic :P i dont really think how steam gifts for games that havent been sold on >95% should be marked as bundled games because im yet to see a bundle made of steam gifts :x
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umm yeah it can :P heck, even when making a giveaway you can chose between a gift or a key :) it should be too lazy to add a couple of lines of code either, but oh well :x
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yeah thats true :P havent thought of that part, but im sure that could be solved too... maybe? :x
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Several bundles have included keys that when redeemed give you extra gift copies. Gun Monkeys, Murder Miners, Space Farmers, Ibb & Obb just to name a few off the top of my head.
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The calculation is always done against the current price. If the price is bugged, then the calculation is wrong and will remain wrong until the error is corrected.
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I think you replied to the wrong comment...
And yeah the list is retroactively maintained by one guy alone, so the prices are updated way later than they should be. I already took a hit with Arkham Knight GAs not giving me CV, so it had to be something else. As Jasmine pointed out, it's Eidos Anthology + Castle Crashers+ Stronghold Complete that were added recently into the bundle, and that caused the 260$ CV drop.
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I misinterpreted your comment. (And mostly didn't really follow the Arkham Knight situation)
Carry on. :P
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Hi there!
Same happened to me twice and the answer I got after I asked is that maybe some gifted games decrease their price in Steam or become part of a bundle, and for that cause our SG level was fixed.
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Thanks a bunch ; as others have already pointed, as long as the price of a game doesnt go below 95% of US price at ANY region, game is not classified as bundled. That's the most general definition I can get. Hope you also got the interesting stoof while here.
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Eidos Anthology, Excalibur Sim, Stronghold Complete Pack and Castle Crashers have been added to the bundle list, maybe something else too. Eidos Anthology was $208 CV, as bundle it would be $31, so about $177 lost. Excalibur Sim was $20 and now is $3, so that's $34. Stronghold Complete was $50, now is $7.5. That's other $42.5. Castle Crashers was $15 and is now $2.25. We are now at a total of about $266 less CV. I'm too lazy to check for more.
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Sometimes, if it's been very cheap in some regions and there have been lots of giveaways, it's still added to the bundle list.
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Can't Stop Laughing Bundle and Amazon has had Castle Crashers on sale around last Christmas for $1.49. Steam has sold the bundle for $2.49.
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But wouldn't that sit at 90% discount and not 95%? Sorry I'm not sure w/ US prices since my store has been localized and the conversion isn't exact.
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THANK YOU! I wasn't sure which one I had dropped value.
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Given the actual value dropped my first thought is towards the The Daedalic Armageddon Bundle's being retroactively bundled... though that did happen a few weeks ago.
7.1 to 6.48 though would be around the $260 - $290 mark?
The full bundle is... $160? And it drops to $24 dollars as bundled pricing. So -$272?
Maybe about that sort of range.
How much was Arkham Knight? Well, already mentioned that, and you seemed to be aware of that already dropping your CV anyway... Hmm...
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When it comes to bundled games- If a giveaway was before the game was marked as bundled, you get to keep the full CV, while those who have made giveaways after the bundled date get the 15% bundle-CV. So, a non bundled game given away just after the same game came out in a bundle - counts as 15% as soon as the database has been updated.
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How to Survive - Storm Warning Edition got it's bundle date moved to earlier. It happened to me also for the same reason. Just keep giving away games, trust me that will help get you back a level. ;)
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There's a reason you missed: games given away for free (as some kind of promotion, on Facebook, woobox, IndieGala, ...) also end up on the bundle list. Most of the time those games have been bundled before anyway, so it does not have an impact on the list.
Depending on the mass of keys given away the game might even get removed from the giveaway list, so SG does not get flooded. (This is usually a temporary thing, but for example in the case of The Ship or Metro 2033, I think the games had been removed over 12 months, before they have been added back).
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http://www.steamgifts.com/bundle-games/search?q=metro
http://www.steamgifts.com/bundle-games/search?page=2&q=ship
though you are right, they can no longer be given away. still, I'm pretty sure they had a short comeback. oh well, maybe I'm just tired and mixing stuff up ;)
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This paste has been removed.... grumble grumble
I just wanna know where the secret GAs are! :P
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the paste was already removed when I checked 3 minutes after thread was created. I thought: I'll check later, OP will have fixed it by then. I also thought: maybe the removal was intentional and this is one of those devious puzzles I don't get. :D
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian was added for some unknown reason to the bundle list even if it was never at 95% or more discount or at any known bundle.i dropped a level too because of that,that's why i checked what was it.
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^ This
Got an answer from support,every game that drops in a low price region below the 95% of a normal priced one will get bundled until the admin comes up with a way to implement regional CV.
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thats why i said about row gifts below that and not locked ones
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Don't know why this topic isn't as popular as the other CV-related posts.
I think this one is the best, especially with all the pasta provided.
I think you need a more aggressive title, like "THE WHOLE BUNDLING SYSTEM IS RIGGED!" that'll get everyone looking.
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Hint added in reserved post
So I've been meaning to ask regarding the criteria for a game classified as bundled on this site.
The reasons I'm aware of are as follows :
My question is based around the second point.
BTW I just found out that I dropped couple of hours ago from Lvl 7.1 to Lvl 6.48. Happened just today too. I was about to drop my 64-bit, i3, 1GB RAM, graphic cardless laptop in shock (Would have been bad, cuz my entire final year project depends on it. That's right, on a machine like that....) So can someone actually help me out by telling me what happened?
P.S. Found nothing interesting yet? Guess you wasted some time here. If not, feel free to hang back and enjoy your stay! (First try at this kind of stoof so....)
SOLUTION
Now then, seeing as though 20-30 people alone managed to get in, I'll say that this was an easy puzzle, but it just about managed to throw most of you guys off, so it was a successful puzzle.
Let's start with the simple part. Anyone who has read the Zelgh guide of puzzle solving magical greatness, would know that I had left a hidden link in the OP.
The pastebin link is relatively easy to find. Its the stuff after that most people were stuck with. The link obviously doesn't work (I mean, cmon, its me, remember?) So there was some decoding involved.
I made sure the hint was casual, but any puzzle veteran would see through it. The numerical value is what matters here. 64. The URL was encrypted in Base64. In short, you have to decode the code from Base64 to its original form. Which gives you
http://pastebin.com/paF3EjxX
Head over there, and you will see links to all of the invite only GAs I made. Problem solved!
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