# Summer Digital Distribution Sales thread(2015) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 3, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511 "2015-06-03T07:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/1 "2015-06-03T07:57:26Z")
[Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/pc-game-downloads/b?node=2445220011) 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](http://www.cheapshark.com/)’s interface is better than Amazon’s and has lots of different sites. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/2 "2015-06-03T12:16:13Z")
Wow, you’re right. Amazon’s site is horrid. But I’ve always found them crappy for just browsing. I’m on the lookout for a You Need A Budget key. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/3 "2015-06-03T12:28:29Z")
The deal people are talking about from Amazon is [Assassins Creed: Rogue](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T6T93ZY) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/4 "2015-06-03T12:49:21Z")
The Oddworld games are for sale on Steam until June 5. **Abe’s Oddysee Abe’s Exoddus Munch’s Oddysee Stranger’s Wrath New and Tasty** ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/5 "2015-06-03T13:27:50Z")
[GoG](http://www.gog.com/) is also having a sale. Eyeballing their page it looks about half and half oldschool games and newer stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/6 "2015-06-05T17:43:41Z")
Thanks for the thread, SenorBeef. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/7 "2015-06-05T19:47:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/8 "2015-06-05T19:58:18Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/9 "2015-06-05T20:18:25Z")
[50% off Civ: Beyond Earth](https://monstersale.gamesrepublic.com/game/strategy,sid-meiers-civilization-beyond-earth,2663,true,20160.html). I still wouldn’t recommend the game at that price. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/10 "2015-06-06T00:18:48Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > 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](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009XDMQ0W?redirect=true&ref_=gb1h_tit_m-4_9822_478bd166&smid=A3ODHND3J0WMC8). They’re sci-fi RPG/FPS hybrids with an epic storyline and dozens of worlds to explore. Great games, especially for that price. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/11 "2015-06-06T00:27:33Z")
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](http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/zrd/5.htm)). Thanks! ---
**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:** [June 6, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/12 "2015-06-06T01:38:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/13 "2015-06-06T08:01:43Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > [All three Mass Effect games for $9](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009XDMQ0W?redirect=true&ref_=gb1h_tit_m-4_9822_478bd166&smid=A3ODHND3J0WMC8). They’re sci-fi RPG/FPS hybrids with an epic storyline and dozens of worlds to explore. Great games, especially for that price. 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. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2015, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/14 "2015-06-06T11:53:18Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/15 "2015-06-06T15:17:12Z")
The [Humble Bundle](https://www.humblebundle.com/) is a bunch of Nintendo 3DS and WiiU games right now, which isn’t the kind of thing Nintendo does very often. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/16 "2015-06-06T18:18:04Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > 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. I heard that they ret-conned the third ending through DLCs. Know anything about that? Maybe I misremembered… ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/17 "2015-06-06T18:55:44Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > I heard that they ret-conned the third ending through DLCs. Know anything about that? Maybe I misremembered… As far as I know, the only thing they did was add a “Don’t want to collaborate with Space Hitler? Fuck you, you lose!” option. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/18 "2015-06-07T01:45:23Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > I heard that they ret-conned the third ending through DLCs. Know anything about that? Maybe I misremembered… 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/19 "2015-06-07T01:54:12Z")
Indie Game The Movie bundle at Steam. Fez - $1.99 Super Meat Boy - $2.99 Braid - $1.99 ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511/20 "2015-06-09T13:41:47Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-digital-distribution-sales-thread-2015/721511.md?page=2)