Steam Daily Deal: 75% off Colin McRae DIRT 2
Steam Mid Week Madness: 75% off Left 4 Dead 2

Question: If an American were to buy LFD2 and gift it to an Australian, would the copy the Aussie gets still be the uncensored version? Or would it be changed to the 'Low Violence Version' when added to their Library?

Usually, at least in Germany, the low violence versions are different Steam IDs, therefore the gifted games remain their old uncensored ID and are uncensored. I got a couple of games censored in Germany gifted with no problem.

Excellent, thanks. Guess it's time to put together another Classifieds post.

Btw, I got the UK L4D2 version gifted. So, yeah, it will work ;-). Should have mentioned that in the original post.

A classifieds by 1c_softclub_ .

Left 4 Dead and the X Series are both on midweek deals too.

What about debit cards?

Amazon digital :

7/28 Max Payne 3 Steam version - $29.99

Amazon is running the same deals again and again.


.. now where have I heard that before ...

people said that before steam started its sale. Both services have been rather poor with diversifying their sales.

I don't have debt, but I have a credit card for online purchases (Visa Debit actually). So you dislike Amazon, possibly Visa and MasterCard but are okay with Paypal, the kings of dicking over customers as they feel like it... wow.
That's hardly the only high profile accounts they've frozen, but yep, inconsistently applied moral outrage. The fact is even a juggernaut like Amazon can be shut down if they fuck with the wrong people, Lik Sang did just that, still around today? Nope. Amazon simply did what everyone else was doing at the time, not touching Wikileaks with a 10 foot pole. I don't expect them to host TPB mirrors on their EC2 cloud servers either, but I don't think that makes them "for" or "against" anything.

A US company obeying US laws and not hosting government secrets which could be construed as treasonous? How dare they!

Christ man... even if you are pro-wikileaks you can still recognize amazon would be stupid to do otherwise.

Have 6 of them tied to 6 different bank accounts with 6 different banks (in this day and age with how much you can't trust banks, it's best to have your money spread around I say :), but I may only 1 one about once a year?

Honestly, in Bangkok, there are 5 ATMs on every street corner so it's easy to get cash and, unlike America where banks rip you off with fees if you use an ATM that doesn't belong to your bank, here in Thailand if you use another bank's ATM the fees are 3 baht (about 9 cents! :).

I definitely have my complaints about Thailand :), but Thai banks aren't one of them. They're AWESOME.

In Thailand, you can pay all your bills at an ATM machine (electricity, phone, cable, satellite, internet etc) and, if I buy something like airline tickets, I send an email to my travel agent, she sends me quotes, I compare them with prices I see online, choose the cheapest one and she reserves the flight for me for 24 hours. Then I walk half a block to the ATM and I pay her by transferring cash from my bank account to hers.. (Most people in Thailand pay things like flights with direct transfers from their bank account to the travel agency's). Whole thing takes about 30 minutes and I have my flight. No fees, no credit card interest etc.

I've been in Thailand for 10 years and never needed a credit card. I use PayPal for online stuff but, as most things are cheaper in Thailand than what I can buy online, other than games I rarely buy anything else.

Being debt-free, though, life is easy. Plus, as a friend of mine once drummed into my head, when you are debt-free you have FAR more choices. I can pick up and move to Spain next month, take a week's vacation in Malaysia, or go to China tomorrow if I want to. I have money to do all of these things and more. Which was an impossibility when I used to be in debt. Just paying the bills was a freakin' headace :)
Dude, learn to read.

As I said, I hate PayPal, but when 60 percent of my income is paid by clients who will ONLY pay thru PP, I unfortunately have no choice.

You pick your battles. Sorry if my refusal to use Amazon pisses you off. But, frankly, I really don't give a shit.
Wow, you're really brainwashed by the US government aren't you? "Could be construed as treasonous? ROFTL.

Right. When was the act of publishing the truth about the internationally illegal acts a government has carried out 'treasonous'? Oh yeah. When the US government doesn't want the rest of the world to know what murdering scumbags they are. (The video of the US military murdering journalists in Iraq would never have come out without WikiLeaks. A massive embarrassment to the US, as it should have been).

If you calmed down a second you might realize I was not arguing for or against wikileaks. My point was a US company cannot ignore requests from the government pertaining to hosting classified material for the public to consume.

Perfectly calm thanks. (Why do so many people think when you think strongly about something you're not 'calm', or does that go along with the 'hysterical woman theory' many men use when women have a strong opinion about something?)

And actually, they could have..

They could have chosen to have the US government go to court over it, as it was WikiLeaks legal right to have their servers hosted there. But they chose not to, and shut them down instead. While that decision may not have irreparably damaged Amazon, it definitely stopped tens of thousands of their former customers, like me, from shopping there. And, when we closed our accounts, we all told them why.

BTW, other companies in other countries did refuse to kowtow to American government pressure, which is why WikiLeaks is now hosted in Europe with a company that refuses to bow to their government's pressure to "do what the American govt. wants".