Well i have had luck when it comes to getting games. With CC i was browsing the forums when i saw a post by thelastbanana titled need mac user or something like that. I have a mac so i clicked. turns out they needed 2 bucks for something to do with the mac build which was just released. i think it ws for the download link. So they were offering a free license key for paying. bam two buck later and im playing CC. i also managed to nab lugaru for free for their christmas giveaway last year. Then got me some world of goo for 5 bucks on their anniversary special. I feel spoiled. So anyone else have a similar story?

I work hard to get my $70 dollar games.

On the contrary, I never get to buy games, as I always want them when they are most expensive (Out of season, not Christmas, etc.) and when the holidays come, i forget that i wanted them.

I got the Orange Box for 50 AUD recently, which is a pretty good deal.
Though it's pretty old, so I guess it doesn't count as much.

Orange Box is a pretty good deal.

Left 4 Dead 2, pre-order, 45.99.
Almost all my friends bought it, but not me

♥♥♥♥ it must suck to be australian
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/469/

Yeah, video games are stupid to buy here. But it could always be worse.
Hmm...
Erm...
Well...
Crap.
I can't think of a way it could be worse without mentioning developing countries and stuff.
EDIT: The exchange rate could be back at 1AUD = 0.75USD, which would probably be worse.

why didn't you just buy it off steam anyway

Australia has relatively crap internet too.
And I have a crap internet plan relative to the baseline in Australia.
So yeah.
Upgrading soon though, and I have to download the game files anyway, because if there's installations on the disks I can't get them to work.
Oh yeah and I'm only 15 too, so the people paying were my parents - they think that the internet is a gargantuan vortex of evil waiting to steal their money.

orange box installed just fine from the disks for me why would they bother putting disks in in the first place if it didn't you're ♥♥♥♥ something up
why have I been abstaining from proper punctuation and capitalization (except for "I"s and commas, strangely enough) lately

Huh.
My first disk just gives me the thing to install steam.
My second disk doesn't have autorun or any executables.
What am I missing?

atrocious grammar but http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/sh ... d=26487792

Huh.
Might try that when I'm not capped at 2kb/s.
At the moment COD4 is like $30, which is cool if you're playing MW2 for the single player plot, because apparently MW2's plot is heavily linked to MW1. But I doubt that many people would respond affirmatively to that if statement, so that's not terribly significant. Alternatively, if you're too cheap to get MW2 and still want to play a multiplayer FPS, you could get COD4 I suppose...

Today only: Mirror's edge is only $5 on Steam. GET IT SO HARD