Well, that sucks, but the price is mentioned on 3 seperate pages before you place the order. Anytime they have a game as part of a package, they’ll list the packages that the game comes with in case any of those turn out to be a better deal for you. It also lists about 50 or 60 games and a “package info” button right next to add to cart. It’s kind of hard to miss really… three times especially.
Unfortunately, I’ve ordered so many games from them that by the time I’ve decided to order, I click through the buttons after “add to cart” pretty quickly. If I’ve seen the price on the main page, and I’ve seen the price on the splash page, I figured I’d be paying that price. I’ve never ordered nor paid attention to their package deals before.
Obviously I should read more carefully; that’s my take-away lesson from this. But this is the first time it’s tripped me up.
For $2 I went ahead and gave it a shot.
Looks like a beautiful game but it’s way to choppy to even play on my laptop - too bad, it sounded like fun to play with other dopers.
Well, I bit the bullet and bought Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition, despite already having the “Deluxe Digital” edition. There was only $10 difference between the Ultimate Edition and the price of Awakening and I figured the post-release DLC was probably worth it. I wish that I could give away the duplicated content, though.
They’re starting to repeat themselves.
Hmm, WTF? They usually do the best sellers on the last day. I have no explanation for this one.
I works out for me though. I was wanting to pick up Bad Company 2 but I ran out of time. But here it is again, even cheaper.
Well it does say “new deals start again tomorrow” so they didn’t run out. I guess they needed a filler day since they started early this year.
Makes sense, now that people have their Christmas money, they’re more likely to buy something they may have missed before. Maybe they’ll do another redux next week.
If I were to only get one or two of the Borderlands expansions, which one(s) would be most recommended?
I’ve heard Knoxx is the best by far.
I’d get Borderlands, but I’m not sure if I can run it and $10 is a bit much for a game that I’m not sure I’ll like.
Super Meat Boy is so much fun! A little frustrating at times but, so far I haven’t ran into any level that seemed impossible.
I picked up the Serious Sam HD Double Pack for $7.50. Good old-fashioned fun where all you have to do is shoot everything that moves. It’s part of the regular sale and not at daily deal, but at 75% off, I can’t image the price going any lower.
Is Wings of Prey any good? I’d like to exercise my joystick without having to fiddle with a full-blown simulation.
There’s a free demo - give it a try yourself for free.
I runs way to choppy on my laptop (integrated graphics) to even play it but on a good system it looks like a lot of fun.
I see this on sale for only 50% off, making it $14.99. Are the deals only good for one day?
The ones we’re listing are only the daily deals. So Batman has been 50% off since the sale started but, for that one day only, it was 75% off. If you’re thinking about buying it, the 50% off price is still worth it but you should wait for the last day, just in case they bring it back in the Second Chance Deal. If they don’t end up having a second Second Chance Deal, just buy it that day for the 50% off price. It’s not like they’re going to sell out or anything.
I ended up downloading the demo. It looks and runs great. But I checked the Steam forum before making the final decision and it seems the game has some silly DRM system, over and above what Steam already has. Oh well.
Counterstrike players are all poor.
So all these games are on sale and everyone is off playing new games… except the 100k+ counterstrike (combined) players who are spending all day playing cs. So either they’re too poor to afford new games, or playing CS for the 8000th time is more important than playing new games.
But… a few months ago I played cs with trope (original CS - the one that was made like 11 years ago). This is a game that could be run on a pocket calculator at this point. At one point I turned on my flashlight, and he said “oh, turn your flashlight off - it makes people angry because it lags their computers”. Yes, people have computers that struggle to play counterstrike. The computer I built in 1997 had no problem with this.
Games like CS are timeless, man. Some people don’t need fancy graphics or unlockables or achievements. They’re perfectly happy with possibly the greatest game ever made 'cause it’s all about the gameplay.
… as long as you don’t turn on flashlights.