# Game sale on Amazon **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 6, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975 "2012-04-06T02:37:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/1 "2012-04-06T02:37:09Z")
Seeing as there’s a lot of interest on the Steam game sales, I thought I’d let you all know that Amazon just announced a big sale on a lot of their downloadable games. [Here’s a link.](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_362559882_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000789381&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0C31SFFSJAN9SK7W1SDN&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1359687202&pf_rd_i=979455011) There’s a few of interest: LA Noir $4.99 Kingdoms of Amalur $39.99 Crusador Kings II (which just got a [good review in the NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/arts/video-games/crusader-kings-ii-by-paradox-interactive.html?pagewanted=2&sq=crusader%20kings%20&st=cse&scp=1)) $17.99 Dragon Age Pack $9.99 I’m sure there’s more. Those are just the ones that stuck out at me. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/2 "2012-04-06T02:39:07Z")
And of course, this is in the wrong forum. I just reported myself. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/3 "2012-04-06T05:14:49Z")
Thanks! Just started downloading LA Noire. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/4 "2012-04-06T14:57:08Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > Dragon Age Pack $9.99 Wow. I played DA:O on the X-box. Looks like I might be picking up a copy for the laptop, too. Can anyone recommend some god Mods? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/5 "2012-04-06T16:09:44Z")
Here’s [PC Gamer’s list](http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/11/18/18-essential-dragon-age-mods/) of “18 Essential mods”. I haven’t tried any of them aside from “Skip the Fade”. I’d say players should do the Fade once but there’s no reason to ever have to experience it a second time. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/6 "2012-04-06T17:28:19Z")
Anyone have any 'put on Crysis 2? I was all ready to download it around Christmas time (even printed out the manual on the work color computer), but the sale ended before i got to it. I really like Crysis 1, if that matters. How about ‘Achtung Panzer Kharkov 1943’? Never even heard of it til right now. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/7 "2012-04-06T17:53:36Z")
What’s a Steam game? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/8 "2012-04-06T18:50:14Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > What’s a Steam game? Assuming I’m not being whooshed, Steam is a service that allows you to download games to your computer so there’s no need to go to a store and buy anything physically. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/9 "2012-04-06T18:52:27Z")
“Steam game” = Game that activates on [Steam](http://store.steampowered.com/). Meaning that you have it in your Steam download library. Steam is an online game retailer that also acts as a type of DRM. It’s owned by the same company that owns Valve (creator of Portal, Left 4 Dead and other titles). Some people are against the idea of it. A lot of people like Steam a lot. I’m fairly neutral on it; I have nothing against Steam but wouldn’t refuse to buy a game because it doesn’t activate there. Edit: The phrase in the OP, “steam game sales” refers to Steam’s annual large multi-day sales around the beginning of July and again around Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-sale-on-amazon/617975/10 "2012-04-06T18:53:27Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Assuming I’m not being whooshed, Steam is a service that allows you to download games to your computer so there’s no need to go to a store and buy anything physically. Not being whooshed, I had no idea. Thanks! (And Jophiel, too)