# Running digital distribution game sale/special thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [December 18, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734 "2009-12-18T12:40:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1041 "2015-07-14T23:47:18Z")
On Steam, Crusader Kings II is on sale. The base game is $8, or a package with a lot of the DLCs for $40 (everything released more than a year ago, I think). ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1042 "2015-07-17T19:53:17Z")
Cities:Skylines is $19.99 on the Humble Store (33% off) > **[The Humble Store: Great games. Fantastic prices. Support charity.](https://www.humblebundle.com/store)** > > Choose from thousands of games for PC, Mac, Linux, and Android while supporting a charity of your choice. New games added every day! I’ve been waiting for this to drop a bit in price, I’ll snap it up when I get home tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1043 "2015-07-20T17:39:42Z")
Arrrgh, I bought it but “Keys are temporarily exhausted for this product” since yesterday… ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1044 "2015-08-31T23:40:02Z")
40% off the Mad Max game at GreenManGaming right now, until tomorrow afternoon with the code (MADMAX-SAVE40-MADMAX). I loved the movie, and I can’t wait to play this. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1045 "2015-09-01T15:02:20Z")
I saw MM:FR pop up on Steam yesterday as well. Loved the flick, so let us know how the game is, please, **DCnDC**. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1046 "2015-09-01T15:42:34Z")
Will do. Preloaded last night, can’t wait to get home and fire it up. I didn’t even hear about this until just last week, but the trailer looked awesome (as trailers often do), then I saw IGN give it a rather glowing review. GameSpot was less enthusiastic, but I watched a few gameplay videos and it looked pretty good to me. Normally I never pre-order games, but I was really interested in this and the 40% discount caught me in a spending mood yesterday. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1047 "2015-09-01T16:38:08Z")
I started Mad Max last night but haven’t gotten past the very beginning to start reviewing. Plays well though and I think it’ll be fun if you’re into that sort of game – kind of a mashup of Far Cry 4 and Just Cause with a dash of Batman and Fallout. Some of the reviews I’ve read have been sort of funny in how they seem to miss the mark. One was complaining that Mad Max didn’t do a great job of realistically depicting a dystopian wasteland. You know, because the movie featuring a giant speaker truck and flamethrowing guitar gimp and a world where you distribute water by dumping 100,000 gallons of it into the dirt once a week was “realistic”. Or reviews criticizing the lack of a strong story. I think that, for most people, as long as you can blow stuff up real good they’re going to enjoy it. If you’re not playing Mad Max in order to blow stuff up, you picked the wrong game. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1048 "2015-09-02T01:38:53Z")
So I’ve been playing Mad Max for a couple of hours now. It’s not entirely unlike a 3rd person Borderlands/Fallout New Vegas but with a much greater emphasis on vehicular combat rather than shooting. You do have a shotgun, but ammo is pretty rare. Hand-to-hand combat is very simple so far; you right click to parry and counter, and left click strikes. Driving is not perfect, but it’s still good fun. Aiming and firing your weapon slows down time so you can take aim. I haven’t done much free-range exploring, but so far the world seems pretty large, if not that widely varied in appearance. There’s two basic flavors of landscape: rocky and desert, but that’s certainly not unexpected. An over-arching storyline has yet to emerge; the story so far has primarily been about acquiring and upgrading a new vehicle. As **Jophiel** puts it, you can blow stuff up real good, and I’m quite enjoying blowing stuff up real good, so I’m satisfied so far. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1049 "2015-09-02T01:41:28Z")
From what I’ve heard, driving starts pretty floaty but that’s more about your crappy car than the driving mechanics and it gets better as your car gets upgraded. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1050 "2015-09-02T01:51:31Z")
Ah. That makes sense! Now I must take my leave. I have to go see some War Boys about some car parts… ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1051 "2015-09-02T18:15:00Z")
Rarity of ammo becomes a non-issue soon enough. Stronghold upgrades will refill gas/water/health/ammo. Rather, the limitation is on how much you can carry at a time, and using it appropriately to meet the “challenges” that let you level up. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1052 "2015-09-06T03:43:28Z")
Got an Xbox 360? Goat Simulator is free, no idea for how long. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1053 "2015-09-11T15:46:23Z")
Dragon Age: Inquisition on sale via Origin, 60% off. $23.99 digital download, $27.99 digital deluxe edition. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1054 "2015-10-09T13:45:46Z")
Darkest Dungeon is on sale for 40% off on Steam ($11.99). ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1055 "2015-10-09T15:01:40Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Dragon Age: Inquisition on sale via Origin, 60% off. $23.99 digital download, $27.99 digital deluxe edition. I really want this game, but I really despise EA/Origin. So I still wait for it to hit the $10 mark for the deluxe. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1056 "2015-10-09T15:10:47Z")
The deluxe content is trash anyway. At least buy it base for $10 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1057 "2015-10-25T00:02:22Z")
Middle-Earth : Shadow of Mordor GOTY Edition is $16.99 on Steam this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1058 "2015-10-25T00:22:53Z")
[Much better deal](https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-bundle) than that available. $15 with season pass. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1059 "2015-10-25T08:26:49Z")
GMG has a general sale code WINTER-ISCMNG-22PERC for 22% off for the next day and a half I think. Also, you have to log in to see their [VIP](http://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/) page, but they often have sales there that no one else has. They have rocket league for $15 - and I don’t know if you can combine sales with discount codes, but if you can, it gets it down below $12. It’s a fantastic game and I’ll probably make a thread about it when I get unlazy. That code should work for preorders too and stuff so if you’re silly enough to want to pay full price for a game anyway, you might as well do it through GMG. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-digital-distribution-game-sale-special-thread/521734/1060 "2015-10-30T15:22:18Z")
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