Amazon started their sale. Steam is rumored to start their sale on the 11th. Other sites will probably start their sales sometime soon. Figured I’d create a thread for discussion of all the various sales.
Amazon’s site has always been amazingly bad for a site that sells the most shit on the planet and probably has spent tens of millions of dollars on figuring out how to best sell shit to people. I always have a hard time browsing what they’ve got. But they often have pretty good deals when you manage to find them. Cheapshark’s interface is better than Amazon’s and has lots of different sites.
The deal people are talking about from Amazon is Assassins Creed: Rogue for $12.50 (or $15 Deluxe). That’s 75% off vs the 35% off Steam currently has it during their “Assassins Creed Midweek Deals”. The game itself was overshadowed by the mess of AC: Unity which released at the same time but Rogue was much better received. It’s built for last gen consoles on the AC4 engine (and reuses a lot of AC4 assets) so doesn’t require quite a beefy a computer. Sale is through 2am Central.
Aye, as always, thanks for starting this thread, SenorBeef. And thanks to everyone else for participating! This has become something I look forward to twice a year, and y’all help make these sales even cooler than they are on their own.
I agree–I love these threads. My favorite thing in them is specific recommendations: if you see a game that’s awesome and on a great sale, please mention it!
All three Mass Effect games for $9. They’re sci-fi RPG/FPS hybrids with an epic storyline and dozens of worlds to explore. Great games, especially for that price.
Well, looky there! The third game in the series has been on my “Must buy” list for years now, waiting for it to become cheap enough. By itself, it’s twenty bucks; but with the bundle, it’s only nine. I can’t help but wonder whether if they’ll make me play all three games if I go for the cheaper price (cite).
If you’re in Illinois, be aware that Steam is now charging you sales tax. No idea why since you’re only supposed to be taxed if they have a physical presence in the state (like Amazon now does) unless it’s related to them selling controllers and overpriced Linux boxes.
The first game is pretty good. The overall plot of the second game is offensively stupid, but the missions you do in between are good. The ending of the third game is such a fundamentally shitty idea that it retroactively ruins the entire franchise.
Yup, it’s the Steam boxes. From my web-wanderings (i.e. forgot to grab the name of the paper’s website):
The Legislature this year passed a new law that required collection if the online retailer had a link on an Illinois merchant’s website or offered coupons and promotions in Illinois.
If you click on the Alienware Steam boxes on Steam’s, site, you’re fed through Gamestop’s website. Gamestop has stores in IL, thus the tax.
I bleached my brain of the third game, having enjoyed the first two so much, but my faded memory of the DLC option was a pretty bad ending versus the horribly bad endings pre-DLC.
GOG is rerunning their big sales of the past week. Now would be a good time to look through the rather large list of options for anyone who’s interested.
If you’re going to buy a classic game, I would suggest going with GOG over Steam. GOG usually puts in some effort to tweak older games to work painlessly on modern systems, while the Steam versions are usually unmodified from their originals.