4 free games (PC Digital download)

So happy to find this deal by accident. Thanks OP!

Quote from Asryn : I used to love steam until my account got suspended (temporarily luckily). When you realize your entire library of games can get taken away from you at their discretion, it really loses its appeal.

Quote from Asryn : I disputed a transaction through paypal when they overbilled me and never replied to my support tickets.

I posted about my trepidation going with steam a couple of years ago after reading the somewhat draconian terms - I was worried about what would happen if I tried to use some independent content for certain games if STEAM decided they didn't "approve" of that developer/content, etc. They pretty much had cart blanche. I did NOT anticipate (silly me) them trying this in a commercial dispute, as that's often how you get the attention of regulators or lawmakers. Thanks for the info - out of curiosity did you have to cave to their strong-arming tactics, or did they actually correct the billing error. When they did, by any wild, outside chance did you get an apology? I can always be an optimist.

Looking forward to play Ninja Blade and Superstars V8 Next Challenge. I'm glad I can use my Logitech driving wheel that been collecting dust for the last year.

wonder if these games will have a $.50 trade in value after the give-a-ways are over like the other freebies on GMG.

Quote from Mr. Harley : I posted about my trepidation going with steam a couple of years ago after reading the somewhat draconian terms - I was worried about what would happen if I tried to use some independent content for certain games if STEAM decided they didn't "approve" of that developer/content, etc. They pretty much had cart blanche. I did NOT anticipate (silly me) them trying this in a commercial dispute, as that's often how you get the attention of regulators or lawmakers. Thanks for the info - out of curiosity did you have to cave to their strong-arming tactics, or did they actually correct the billing error. When they did, by any wild, outside chance did you get an apology? I can always be an optimist.

I filed the dispute against steam with paypal since it was over a week and no reply from them about their billing error on their internal support ticket system. So, once I filed the dispute with them, they replied pretty much instantly to me and told me to drop the dispute with paypal or I will be banned. They never took the time to look over my case or to see that they screwed up, they simply wanted to get the paypal dispute removed immediately and didnt care about my issues.

So I had no choice but to follow along with them and close the dispute, forever losing my ability to dispute the transaction in the future.. After another week, the billing issue was finally fixed but they never apologized for anything they did.

Quote from Insomniac34 : If you use AdBlock, try temporarily disabling it. Had the same issue and it worked for me.

I disabled adblock... and it still doesn't work. Cleared everything too I'm on Chrome

Works on Firefox!!

Quote from BoldIntrepid : Tried to join playfire and it says We are now connecting the wires... and the page just freezes

I just waited for a LONG time and they eventually gave up and let me skip the step

Quote from Asryn : I filed the dispute against steam with paypal since it was over a week and no reply from them about their billing error on their internal support ticket system. So, once I filed the dispute with them, they replied pretty much instantly to me and told me to drop the dispute with paypal or I will be banned. They never took the time to look over my case or to see that they screwed up, they simply wanted to get the paypal dispute removed immediately and didnt care about my issues. So I had no choice but to follow along with them and close the dispute, forever losing my ability to dispute the transaction in the future.. After another week, the billing issue was finally fixed but they never apologized for anything they did.

Thanks for the response - can't rep you again until I spread some around. I don't know what state you are in (i.e. is the State Attorney General/Consumer Protection Agency interested in consumers, or simply making large businesses happy) but you might want to consider putting together all your info and forwarding it to them. Sort of a "thank you" present to STEAM - if anybody even goes to the trouble to send a simple query to STEAM basically asking WTF is this about, it will cost STEAM more time and effort than if they had simply properly created a system for billing disputes to begin with.

Quote from Mr. Harley : Thanks for the response - can't rep you again until I spread some around. I don't know what state you are in (i.e. is the State Attorney General/Consumer Protection Agency interested in consumers, or simply making large businesses happy) but you might want to consider putting together all your info and forwarding it to them. Sort of a "thank you" present to STEAM - if anybody even goes to the trouble to send a simple query to STEAM basically asking WTF is this about, it will cost STEAM more time and effort than if they had simply properly created a system for billing disputes to begin with.

The whole thing could have been avoided if Steam had a customer service phone number to call. Steam gets a lot of praise from people about the sales and how they do DRM right, but if you ever run into a problem with the service, you soon realize its major faults and how you can lose your entire library of games at their whim.

Quote from Asryn : The whole thing could have been avoided if Steam had a customer service phone number to call. Steam gets a lot of praise from people about the sales and how they do DRM right, but if you ever run into a problem with the service, you soon realize its major faults and how you can lose your entire library of games at their whim.

Why I recommended turning your info over to the State Attorney General. I have ABSOLUTELY no problem with STEAM holding your digital rights to a game in arrears while a charge is in dispute concerning that specific purchase. In fact, that's exactly what I would have done during my days of running businesses (I've done it more than once).

However, holding every other prior transaction hostage simply because you dispute a charge is questionable, to say the least. I might normally recommend you also bring that up with your credit card company, many of them do not like anything that causes consumers to question the advisability to going "cashless." However, you used Paypal which has a notorious reputation. It's why I've refused to get "verified" by Paypal - the lack of legal protections for whatever account you "link." In fact I don't even have a debit card, also due to the legal protections, or lack thereof.

File the complaint. You also might try the FTC, but I used them during a VOIP shutdown several years ago, and at the time (Bush admin) they were toothless. Due to regulatory capture, I have serious doubts it's improved much. A strong State Attorney General is often the last fallback for consumer abuse these days, and as I said - in many states they are already de facto a branch of the business lobby. In fact the US Chamber of Comerce, a very pro-business lobbying group has made it their business to make sure like-minded people become judges, Attorney's General, and to make sure "model legislation" (their terminology, not mine) get's passed that heavliy limits consumer rights.

Thanks op!

do u need to give them real id in playfire?

Playfire wasn't detecting my gaming profiles right from the two sites I tried - but it eventually timed out and let me register anyway, so it worked out.

Thanks for the heads up, OP!

(Also, as an aside on the subject of Steam, I'm of the opinion that the service itself is solid but the customer service is garbage and has entirely too much ability to take your games away. I prefer GoG whenever possible because at least you can back up your downloads from there and play them without begging permission later.)

Are they going to run out of the free games quickly each day or do they have enough to give away for everyone so we don't have to hurry? Unfortunately I will be imprisoned at work where I can't access game sites until I get home 2 hours after the sale starts tonight.