The black friday sales aren’t nearly as big as the Christmas sales, but they generate enough traffic to be worth their own thread.
Looks like they’re keeping the daily sale/flash sale mechanics from last Christmas. 6 (+/-?) games on daily sale, 6 +/- on staggered sales that only last a few hours.
As per usual, even though most everything is discounted, don’t buy anything that’s not a daily or flash sale until the last day. It’s stupid to buy something 50% off today and it ends up being a 75% off daily sale tomorrow.
Daily sales for 11/21
Xcom Enemy Unknown $33.50 33%
Terraria $3.39 66%
Darksiders II $17 66%
The Walking Dead $12.50 50%
Magic The Gathering 2013 $5 50%
Age of Empire 3 Complete $10 75%
Flash sales expiring in 9-15 hours
Limbo $2.50 75%
Star Wars KOTOR 2 $2.50 75%
Payday The Heist $5 75%
Operation Flashpoint franchise 75% - Dragon Rising $3.75, Red River $11.25, $13.75 for both
Amazing Spider Man $25 50%
Intrusion 2 $3.40 66%
Feel free to point out great non-daily sales you see on here, but as I said, give them a chance to become daily/flash sales before you buy them.
Other sales of note include Gamersgate which is doing four dailies per day (note: enter coupon code G2PO for 5% extra off anything) and Amazon which has a huge list of sale stuff. I won’t copy the entire spammy list but here’s some highlights:
[spoiler]11/21:
Dead Island GOTY - $6.79
Walking Dead - $12.49
Medal Of Honor Warfighter - $29.99 - 11/23-11/26
Need for Speed Most Wanted - $19.99 - 11/23 and 11/26
Battlefield 3 Premium Edition - $29.99 - 11/23 and 11/26
Sleeping Dogs - $19.99 11/23-11/26
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition - $14.99 - 11/23
Is IL2 COD included within IL-2 1946? If not, is it worth getting/do you need a mongo graphics card to run it? I see COD in the clearance bin for ~5 bucks at the local half-price books, but no point in getting it if it’s duplicative or if I can’t play it. I’ve a GT 220, and an upgrade isn’t in the cards right now.
No, it was a sequel on a totally new engine released last year. Was reviewed as being half-finished at release, but I figured maybe they’ve made a decent game out of it by now. It wouldn’t run on a GT 220.
Note that those aren’t all great deals (Darkness II has been as low as $5 recently) but you may want to keep some in mind going forward. If they let you stack the 25% voucher on top of the sale prices (no promises, sometimes they do, sometimes not), there could be a good savings in there.
Not sure of US pricing but here in EU Skyrim was 29.99e before this sale and it is supposedly on sale for -33% out of 49.99e now which makes it 33.49e. :rolleyes:
It may or may not get cheaper, but you won’t lose the chance to buy it at 25% if you wait, but you will get annoyed if you buy it today and it gets cheaper.
Yeah, they released a humongous patch about a year after release that made the game what it was supposed to be.
The main fix was performance - the original release ran like ass, even on beefy hardware. I downloaded the new build about a month ago and saw marked improvement on my machine. It’s still an Oleg game, which means occasional weirdness. But the flight model is top-notch, and now it is no longer a performance dog.
I’d hold off and see if it gets a deeper discount on Steam. If it’s not discounted by Sunday, I’d see if the GMG 25% voucher will stack with their 25% off deal for a little extra savings.
Note that Amazon is price matching most of Steam’s sale prices AND offers a $5 coupon each time you buy a game. Coupons maybe be used on “Editors Choice” games in January. Last year they had a really nice selection of stuff you could use the coupons on.
Especially if the game is Steam activated anyway (and Amazon makes a good effort to provide Steam versions), you might be better off buying from Amazon if you’re in the US. You’ll be activating it on Steam anyway and getting the coupon.
You might have to wait a little bit for Amazon to get the price match up so if a deal is fading fast, obviously grab it from who you can while you can.
Yeah, that was my thought as well…but I think I’ll also wait to see if it drops more. This is one of those games that I will probably buy on Steam, play for a couple of hours, then go back to playing X-COM or Total War Shogun II.
Is SW:KOTOR II buggy? I enjoyed what little I could play of the first one. The sequel is certainly cheap enough to take a risk on, but I’ve already wasted money on “bargain” games I barely played or couldn’t get to run at all.
I don’t recall it being buggy, but you can tell by the last third that the company was being rushed to get it out the door, so the plot is less satisfying than the original, IMO.