Discounts devalue the games. Games are meant to be given away for free with nVidia cards, or pricing errors.

Probably this.

Eh? I wonder then if they ever kill Indie Gala group or GOG group.. After all they don't seem "official" and kinda are marketing/advertising ploys

"The lock on the group is not going to be removed because advertising and sales groups are not permitted on steam."

I guess with Amazon and such winning over customers, steam was losing a profit. (DEM AMAZON SALES.)

That's pretty damn sucky.... I found out about quite a few good deals from TG...

It's a damn good thing we have steamgifts, otherwise I wouldn't know where to go for deals... (Well could go to CAG I guess.)

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Agreed.

They are only doing whats best for business.

I don't think "communist" means what you think it means.

becareful, if any steam admins are in here, thanks to steamgifts public link to your steam profile, you haev no anonymity, so the admin can click your steamgifts profile, and go ban your steam account

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there is advertising on the bottom of the page?

yeah i feel bad for gabe. if the fanboys are anything to go by (and they ALWAYS are, because theyre always honest and correct), unlike every other online OR real-world store, gabe has zero control over what his distribution service does, because valve cant control anything that happens on it outside of pricing for its own handful of games. in fact, i bet ea closed the groups. ea or activision, because they have more control over what happens on steam than valve does. I mean, apparently... because thats what the fanboys all say...

Use internet instead of groups, problem solved.

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Yeah but at the same time, it was games that required Steam to play. In the longrum (intentional) anything that promotes sales to Valve shouldn't be looked at as an competition.

So by connection, Google should never link to places like Amazon, yahoo, Bing, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

All of the steam chatrooms are a drop in the amount of resources Steam uses. 1-200 channels/rooms are a drop in the amount of total chatrooms, so "using a companies resources" is hardly a valid excuse.

Attacking users that use your service constantly is never a good idea.

Another reason why Steam would not (rightfully) want these groups to exist, since they help facilitate the rapid exploitation of pricing errors.

Hahaha, good joke tell it again. :)

Best place ever to spam bad trades.

I use this site: http://digitalgamedeals.com/ ... but we really need a new steam group or a facebook page

Reddit/r/gamedeals
cheapassgamer.com
slickdeals.com

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gaming_deals_thread

http://isthereanydeal.com/

Err, so you using steam because of those groups?

Why don't you go try making advertisements on Gamersgate or Amazon (Green Man Gaming doesn't have anywhere to post that I know of off-hand) for competing sites and see what happens.

Or for that matter, why don't you walk into any brick and mortar store and start handing out flyers advertising a competitor's prices or internet prices. See how far that gets you.

No business that I know of condones such behavior, and frankly it seems rude to me, besides being damaging to the business. If a person is attacked, they have the right to defend themselves. Why do you not extend the same protection to a company which in many ways (including in the eyes of courts worldwide) is like a living entity? There are plenty of other places to discuss and share sale information.

I linked that message in another thread on the old forums, and it was locked three replies later due to unfounded speculation, etc. Every other created thread is getting the same treatment, so they're up to something.

yes my friend

Leave the groups then if you find them annoying, don't start crying.