Is there anywhere I can look at a list of all games steam is offering for free?
I could have sworn their store had a category for this, but apparently no longer.
There is a popular and seemingly up-to-date list of free Steam games on the Steam Forums.
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Is there anywhere I can look at a list of all games steam is offering for free?
I could have sworn their store had a category for this, but apparently no longer.
There is a popular and seemingly up-to-date list of free Steam games on the Steam Forums.
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Minecract Pocket Edition has just been released and since I've already bought the game for PC I was hoping I could get the pocket edition for free. Does it do any account verification to check if you've already paid, perhaps?
No you cannot. The game is only available from the Android Market, and you must purchase it from there.
It is a separate product, so it is exempt from the Alpha/Beta All/until release future editions free promise.
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What hats and miscellaneous wearables (like sunglasses and badges) in TF2 are available for free, without crafting, buying, un-crating, random drops, trading, or buying a game on Steam?
Aside from these, what hats and wearables were available for free at one point, but are no longer?
The following wearables are currently available without having to buy anything on Steam or in the Mann Co. Store:
Also, anybody who contributes a model for an item that gets added to TF2 gets a special "Self-Made" version of that item with the "Community Sparkle" effect.
There are also some Halloween hats that can technically be gotten year-round on servers that are forced by convars into Halloween Mode. See the "Halloween" section below.
These hats required no purchases on Steam or the Mann Co. Store, but are no longer available:
There are also some items that can only be obtained during Halloween Events (of which there have been 2 so far, 2009's Haunted Hallowe'en Special and 2010's Scream Fortress):
There are two other hats that involve Halloween event behaviors that can be forced by a server operator by setting the convar tf_forced_holiday 2:
There's also the Bounty Hat / Treasure Hat / Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect, from the Great Steam Treasure Hunt in Winter 2010, and the Summer Shades from the Steam Summer Camp Sale in 2011. These technically didn't require purchases, but they required owning games on Steam and obtaining certain achievements: any three were required for the Summer Shades, including some from free-to-play games, but the Treasure Hunt hats required 5, 15, and all 28 achievements (respectively) in games that ranged from "cheap on sale" to "somewhere around a hundred dollars" (hence the "Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect").
In the same vein was the Resurrection Associate Pin, awarded for playing all 13 indie games involved in the Potato Fools' Day ARG leading up to the launch of Portal 2 (the Potato Sack pack). Again, didn't technically require a purchase, but effectively did.
One criterion you didn't exclude that Valve has given special wearables for is recognition of special community members. Some of these are still available (the Wiki Cap and Lo-Fi Longwave listed above). The ones that aren't:
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When the PlayStation Network came back online, we could download 2 full games for free.
I downloaded Infamous, then decided to wait to download the second one.
Do you know if I can still download the second game? Where in the menu of PlayStation store can I find it?
Did I have a limited time to download these games?
For information, I remember that one of these game was Little Big Planet.
The Playstation Welcome Back promotion has unfortunately expired. It ended on July 5th, 2011. It was temporarily extended, as its previous end date was July 1st. However, the offer is definitely over now.
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While looking up EVE Online on Steam there is feature bullet that reads:
Play for FREE – You can buy game time with in-game money you earn while playing.
Does anyone have experience playing under this gaming model? If I play the game casually (a couple hours a week) will I be able to earn enough money in-game to pay for my addiction game time?
Yes, it can definitely be done.
You can buy a 30-day PLEX for 300M ISK.
You can make 300M ISK in a couple hours if you know what you're doing.
The only difficulty is in that "know what you're doing" part.
Instead of actively playing (which can easily take more than a couple hours a week) you need to utilize all the methods of generating income while offline. Research Agents, Planetary Infrastructure, and The Market are the three biggies.
You'll need a while to set all that up, but the Steam "21-day free intro to EVE" (assuming that's still running) should be enough. And you'll have to play a bit more than a couple hours a week to get it up and running, too.
Warning: Some mission grinding to increase faction standing will likely be required.
On the whole though, I'd say that if your "addiction" only means a couple hours a week, then you haven't got any addiction to speak of. 8 )
This does bring up the valid question of how to use those three methods to generate 300M/month.
How to make ISK while offline
Note that market ability is the key skill here, all other methods are merely ways of cheaply generating things that you can then sell on the market for a nice profit. Market ability only takes a couple hours to train on your character, but your personal skills at it will develop for years and years.
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