OP News - 07/05/2017 Fortnight Edition
STEAM TRADING CHANGESSteam made the announcement, earlier this week, that changes were being made to its gifting process. Essentially, it boiled down to a few key points. Gifts could no longer be stored in your personal inventory for later use, only sent to a specified friend, either immediately or on a delay. Declined gifts are refunded rather than being returned to your inventory. New cross-country gifting rules ensures the title sent to your friend will work on their account, although gifting from countries which have a large price difference results in gifting being disabled. And the alterations were immediate but not
Steam Winter Sale 2016
Let it sale, let it sale, let it sale!Steam Winter Sale is very close (22nd December) and I hope to catch some great deals! After users were complaining about the bad deals that got worse and worse over time (used to be around 70% average but went down to only 10 maybe for new games if at all), chances are that Valve changes the system back again, though I would not entirely rely on that.Even though the sale is a great chance to get yourself some nice games, the real blowing ones will be released early 2017, so you might as well save
Mispurchases - What do you regret?
Good evening ladies and gentlemen,actually I had something completely different in mind but an hour playing certain games made me realise how many times we stumble over games that cost us a lot of nerves. Please feel free to comment and share your experiences with games that make you so angry you just want to bite through your keyboard.Let us jump in:Golf with your friends Actually a nice game I have to say. Not quite a golf simulator (at all) but nevertheless provides a lot of fun.However, it is an Early Access and I posted about this sickness before and the only
The Sickness of Early Access
The Sickness of SteamBy now pretty much everyone must have stumbled over the one or more games that have been in the state of Early Access.With that being said, I want to make sure that everyone understands my personal point of view with that - in my eyes - a problem Steam has been having for quite a while now.The Early Access state started out small but invaded the entire Steam shop and to be honest it sickens me. It was meant as a specific state developers can publish their games in and customers can help them out by buying the game to fund
Snake's News - Hacking, Gambling and Yellow Balls.
Welcome back, dear reader. I hope you are doing well. Today we have some (un)interesting things, so fasten your seatbelt and prepare to see some shit.MINECRAFT - HACKERS FOUND A WAY TO HIJACK ANY ACCOUNTA group of hackers known as OurMine has announced that they are able to hack into any minecraft account. The only thing they need is an e-mail associated with the account. IDG News Service contacted them to check how valid that is and shortly after their profile name was changed to OurMine. The whole process has been shown on the website, but not explained. All that is