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If You Love Games, Check Out Steam Crate - General News
SBFord
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If You Love Games, Check Out Steam Crate - General News
A new service has cropped up that may be of interest to readers in the form of Steam Crate -- basically Loot Crate for Steam Games. For the price of a monthly subscription, ten random Steam games will be added to buyers' collections. Each crate is guaranteed to be worth £30 (~ $45 USD) and some £100+ (~ $147 USD).
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That made me laugh in a loud, unladylike way.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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however, there are people who just love "games". All shapes and sizes and this would probably be for them.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
But if you like the gamble aspect... sure give it a stab.
This have been a good conversation
Not sure it will transfer to virtual goods..
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If Steamcrate is charging $20 for 10 games, they really need to show what's in the crate a month ahead of time.
If I wanted pixel games all the time.. I'd of made a time machine to go back to the nightmare 80's.
Where gaming wasn't that great.. (We who lived it know....lookin at you McKids).
We've had tons of happy customers, that have got alot of decent games, Some have posted on our facebook, that they had games such as Mortal Kombat X, Fallout 4, Resident Evil, Farcry Primal etc. We try to make things as fair and random as possible, all games we purchase or aquire are put into a giant list and randomly mixed up several times before being split into groups of 10, Ready to send out.
Of course its not going to be for everyone - But if you're up for discovering new games whilst having a chance of getting Triple A titles all for a fraction of the retail cost, then give it a whirl for a month. Another great idea a few people have been doing, is using the games for content on their youtube channels and whatnot.
If you have any questions, Ill be happy to answer!
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Hey guys,
I’m here to share my experience with SteamCrate, so I’m posting this in every relevant thread to spread the word.
It was my first (and last) subscription and here’s how it went:
Let’s start from the beginning. I made two steam crate orders and then I got an email from them saying that my credit card is a fraud and telling me to send them a picture of my ID and credit card. Awesome, right? At first I thought it was a scam, contacted them, apparently it wasn’t. So I had to send the photos to them in an email (non-secure connection). By the way, their email also said ,,we will need this information within 24 hours, or your account may be terminated” and you know what’s the funny part? They sent it to me at night and I had to work the whole day. Stress-free beginning of a new subscription, right?
But that’s not the end. The FAQ says ,,we will send your order on the 16th of every month. As long as you’ve subscribed before Midnight on the 15th of the month, then you’ll get it the same month.” When you order a crate, it automatically becomes a subscription so if you want to cancel it, you have to contact support. Or, in other words, write an email because they don’t have a contact page with an online form. That’s what I did, and I also explained what the FAQ said and that I wish to cancel my future subscriptions and not the current one-month orders. And at that time the whole SteamCrate company seemed to me as if there were a couple of dudes sitting in front of the PC screen wearing just their underwear. Really. That’s basically how I pictured them because of how they spoke to me. Unprofessional communication.
But wait, there’s more! The 18th of the month came and I still didn’t receive the games. Had to write them an email (again). The support (the same guy) answers really fast, less than a day, so consider it a plus. I got the keys sent to me, all written in HTML in one simple email as an answer. The guy only said ,,It should have been sent already. Anyway, here's a copy of your games”, that’s all. No polite forms, no goodbye, nothing professional. Just a dude in his underwear, let’s add a coffee stain now.
Oh, and the games are simple. Absolutely no blockbusters. Those were mostly indie games with positive or mixed reviews; the best ones had around 200 reviews on steam (just a couple of games), one game had just 1 review, the majority had less than 50 reviews, all of them cost just a couple of dollars each. I’d buy such games for someone who knows and likes only tetris. A waste of time and money. The whole crate showcase on their webpage is an absolute bullshit. Oh, and the games that you get are sorted in an alphabetical order as if they took a whole alphabet of games and chopped them up into bundles. My first order had games starting with B,C,D, the second order M,N,O,P.
I also found a reddit post where a user noticed the same pattern of an alphabetical algorithm, here’s the link https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDealsMeta/comments/4ymjyd/steamcrate_is_not_too_great/
This was a very stressful subscription that was forcing me to communicate a lot with the support. I wouldn’t wish that to anyone. So, naturally, I’m never subscribing to them again.
Hope I’ve helped.
There are plenty of games you can buy at $1.99.
I will wait until I see some reviews from subscribers confirming it is worth it.
What if I already have the games in my collection?
Yeah that sounds more like it.
I don't think we gonna see many Dark Souls 3 in those boxes, if ever.
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