Just did mine today.

Bought the Rockstar Bundle on Green Man Gaming this morning, already owning some of the titles. I then proceeded to activate the keys for the games I didn't own and was left with some spares. Rather than copy/pasting my newly spare keys straight into into the file I keep them in, I decided to check them first.

I often try keys for stuff I already own, looking for the "Product already owned message" just so I can see that the keys sent were for the correct games. Well, I'll not be doing that any more! Already owned Max Payne 3 and you can imagine my surprise when my Max Payne 3 key actually activated.

Turns out I had a Max Payne 3 (ROW) on my account and this new key was for Max Payne 3 (WW). Whilst I knew there were different regions, I didn't know you could actually activate 2 keys of the same game from different regions on the same account. Total waste of a key. Lol, what an idiot.

So what's the dumbest thing everyone else has done? Anyone else been as stupid as me?

10 years ago*

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Bought Bioshock Infinite.

10 years ago
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i bought "The name in the Game" edition of Prison Architect

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Bought GMod and Terraria at full price.

10 years ago
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Buy and activate Saints Row The Third Complete & Metro 2033... and just in one week after i do it, the Humble Deep Silver Bundle has been released.

10 years ago
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Got a job instead of just playing on Steam all day.

10 years ago
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Magical Drop V; a game so bad I'm afraid to even link to it.

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I had $90 in my wallet but no money left in my bank. I decided to put off putting the money in as much as possible. One day, the Huge Seal deal comes up and I decided I NEEDED to buy buy games. I charged up about $135 worth of overdraft fees buying about $20 worth of games. By the time I paid it all back, winter sale was over. :/

And it was all games I never would've played too. =.= Fuck me, right?


Close second? Spending about $70 on crafting badges right before the summer sale and before the mystery cards were dropped.

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I bought the Valve Complete Pack. Pretty much Valve's entire catalog is censored in Germany, even Portal and TF2.

I was pretty pissed off because while you do get a "Low Violence" warning if you buy a censored game, you'll never see it if you buy a pack that includes a censored game.

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Me too!

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Sold 1 case from CS:GO for around 6 cents when it was worthed around 60....

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I spent $500 on trading cards and leveling up. Stupid? yes. regrets? no.

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I've had a pretty tame time on Steam. One time a guy friended me just to get a TF2 item from me; I don't play it and have no idea what it was. It was probably valuable, so in hindsight it was probably stupid that I let him have it. I just figured, I don't care about this object and it'll make this other person happy.

But yeah. As far as "stupid things I regret," my worst is probably buying Bioshock Infinite on release week for $45. It was not worth that money to me at all. But if that's the stupidest thing I've done, then my Steam life hasn't been that bad at all.

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+1 I've done that a lot. Just don't care about this stuff... ;)

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Bought Call Of Duty 2 for free by selling cards.
I took exactly 3 months to gather and sell the cards to sum up $15 when there was an offer on Steam.

The game is nowadays quite empty. :D

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Purchased L4D by mistake...

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I once posted this exact same thread on Steam forums... And it got locked. ._.

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I opened a booster pack instead of selling it on Market. I lost a whole $2 doing that. ;)

10 years ago
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make an avatar picture about my penis

lol, not...

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Created multiple badges for the pos called Arkham Origins.

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Paid full price for Left 4 Dead way back in the day. Ended up barely playing it. It sounded a lot more fun than it actually ended up being.

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sell steam cards, buy steam cards for another game, make badges.

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the absolute worst thing you could do on steam, and I did it:
I bought infestation survivor stories, a.k.a The War Z, during it's 90% off sale.
;-;

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Difficult to say. Was it the time I sold a card on the marketplace for 1/10th of it's market value? Or what about when I made a giveaway for a game but forgot to finish the transaction (it was in my cart) while it was still 80% off? And then there's the time when I accidentally sent two copies of a game to one winner, leaving me a game short for another winner. (No, the guy didn't return the extra copy.)

Live and learn. Die, and learn faster.

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Bought a game at full price.

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Bought too many games. Steam wont be around forever so that day is gonna hurt my gaming lib.

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Closed 10 years ago by UraniumFalconPunch.