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Minimum $1:
Ravaged: Zombie Apocalypse Steam | Windows)
Macguffin's Curse (Steam | DRM-Free | Windows | Mac)
Tower Wars (Steam | Windows | Mac)

Minimum $5:
Hamilton's Great Adventure (Steam | Windows)
Krater: Collector's Edition (Steam | Windows | Mac)
Zombie Driver HD (Steam | Windows)

Bonuses (6 of 6):
Trakktor - Maximum Overkill (MP3)
Fortix (Steam | Windows | Mac)
Disguised - Separation (FLAC | MP3)
Star Wolves 3: Civil War (Steam | Windows)
Roniit - In The Shadows EP (FLAC | MP3)
DJ DidgIn - World of Sound (FLAC | MP3)

The only good games so far are Macguffin's Curse and Zombie Driver HD. Ravaged looks like a multiplayer game. The rest... eh...

A good bundle, if you missed any of those games in the past.

I liked that trailer music, hope it comes with the game.

Sell your MacGuffin cards fast if you're holding on to them folks. Some of the regulars are listed for $4 each minimum. o_o

Good, that should end the stupid high prices.

any one else find it scary that one of the first things they advertise is all games having steam trading cards?

Not scary, but I don't understand it. I got these useless trading cards cluttering up my Steam inventory, and most don't even look nice. There is no reason why they should have any value at all.

Krater is actually pretty good.
However. More repeats in this bundle though.... Yeah it bothers me to be honest. Why do it?

But regardless of reason, they have value. You can sell them and buy something with the money.

I got 4-5 of them (playing Far Cry 3 right now, from UPlay so no trading cards) and I immediately got rid of them quite easily. You can sell them on the marketplace easily (a button in your inventory I think). Steam even shows you a graph with the price evolution of the card. Put it a little below its last price and it will go away in a few minutes. I got ~1.50$ by doing this with 4-5 cards. As it is very little effort selling them, I think it's quite worth it.

Well, I can be a pretty obsessive collector myself (there's a reason why I got nearly 4000 computer games in my archive ;) ). I understand the drive to collect things, or complete a set or series, from decades of experience actually. ;)

But I tend to collect games (which you can play) and RPG materials (which you can use for creating campaigns). Others collect music (which you can listen to), Magic the Gathering cards (which you can play with), books (which you can read), and then there are these Steam trading cards, which you can ... look at?

Of course, not every collectible needs to have a use. Stamps don't really (at least not in the way they are collected). But they weren't created just for the purpose of being collectibles either.

I think what makes me wonder about the Steam cards is that they look so obviously like a low-cost way to tie more users to the service without even providing actual, tangible, additional value. It looks as if Steam just threw a bunch of plastic carrots into a dog cage, and the well-conditioned dogs now fight for them without even realizing that they are plastic.

But anyway, different strokes for different folks. :) I do not _have to_ understand everything, and that other people are collecting harmless trading cards doesn't affect my own experience in any way, so I don't really have anything _against_ it either. I just find it strange. I'll keep that in mind. :) I'll probably wait until I have more of them (100 perhaps?) and then look what I can do with them.

Thanks, I didn't know this. I never took at look at the marketplace since I don't really intend to ever buy something there. But it'll allow me to assess the "value" of the cards, should I ever decide to do something with them. :)

Also, I noticed that I have two "-10% coupons" for Shadow Warrior in my inventory. No idea where those came from. No use for them either since I don't buy games on Steam. If someone wants one, send me a message. You will also need to tell me how to get the coupon to you.

Finally, sorry for kinda hijacking the thread. Soooo, how is "Tower Wars", and what exactly is "MacGuffin's Curse"? :)

It's a collectible where if you're lucky you get rares or booster packs, which you can turn into badges/levels and emoticons/backgrounds of the related game or sell for some extra cash for games, and for any selling of them on the community market, the developer and Steam make an extra buck. Seems like a win win for most people, except perhaps the ones bothered about a message coming up about them a few times when they first play a game until the cards run out.

Krater, Hamilton and MacGuffin are all excellent games, got them in previous bundles though.

Clocked up a good few hours on Krater and it has been REALLY fun