Nah, come on! Everyone knows that all Europeans are rich.

Ohh, wait...

Ubishop deals are for north america. It would be ridiculous if games developed in montreal, canada would be available to us only via digital distribution.

A boxed director's cut copy is available at my local shop for $9.97. I'd gladly pay that over a digital only copy + ubi downloader. That and no paying for bogus download insurance since I'd have it on disc.

from today's e-mail

So the UK isn't in Europe anymore? We get GBP here so that doesn't add up. I'd tell them that and see what they have to say.

UK is the the 8th continent according to the geography book of the digital download services / publishers

The UK has never been in Europe to begin with. It's just some isolated Island somewhere over France...

:P

Most likely use their downloader and online activation. Why not buy direct from the developers for the same price today unless you have a cache of blue coins. Completely drm-free direct from the devs.

http://www.theballthegame.com/

Wow. I installed it last week but I'll be damned, I can't remember if there is activation. I also deleted the temp files so there's no way for me to check again without redownloading everything. I have a serial number included with my purchase, although I don't recall there being activation. Hopefully someone can verify this for me.

That's the way we see it too.
Buy it from the developers instead. DRM-free and more money for them. Normally I'd support Gamersgate, but not when the DRM is actually worse there.
Sometimes being your own continent has its disadvantages. Just ask Australia*.

*Depending on which continental model you believe is the most worthy.

Well, why not. Thanks.

Give credit to Navagon for initially reporting this sale a few pages back on this thread.

Since indie devs authorize these ridiculous sales on d2d, gamersgate and steam, you would think they would similarly put the game on sale on their site during the same time period more often.

I don't ever recall a referendum to fully join the EU in terms of currency, and in doing so, giving up the pound. If there ever were such a referendum, I'd vote a big fat no. And I don't even live there anymore!

Actually, I've only encountered one game where as soon as the setup.exe ran, that the GG downloader converted it back to a launch file. Most happily wait until the actual setup is done. The workaround for the above type it to write a script that pounds that directory a couple of times a second to snatch (copy) the .exe into another directory.

The GG downloaders also work fine in Wine (for those of the Linux persuasion), but be warned: I've noticed that EA games use a .hidden file, which tells Gnome (and maybe KDE) to not display some of the files in the folder. Pretty sneaky, really.

About the FEAR bundle and Steam/MP: