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Flash Deals #481 (Ends Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:24:00 UTC)

Jack Keane 2: The Fire Within $4.49 ($29.99) [85% OFF]
Bard's Tale, The $1.99 ($9.99) [80% OFF]

Flash Deals #482 (Ends Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:00:00 UTC)

Blackguards Special Edition $14.99 ($44.99) [66% OFF]
Luftrausers $4.99 ($9.99) [50% OFF]

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Blackwell Epiphany, The $11.24 ($14.99) [25% OFF]
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Flash Deals #484 (Ends Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:12:00 UTC)

Smugglers V $2.99 ($9.99) [70% OFF]
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King's Bounty: Crossworlds GOTY $3.99 ($19.99) [80% OFF]
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Flash Deals #486 (Ends Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:24:00 UTC)

Wizardry 6 + 7 $1.49 ($5.99) [75% OFF]
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Daily Deals #13

Might & Magic RPG Classics 75% OFF
Might and Magic 1-9 + Crusaders of Might and Magic
$8.45 ($33.95)

Action Platformer Selection 85% OFF
Unepic + Guacamelee! Gold Edition + Dust: An Elysian Tail + Valdis Story: Abyssal City
$8.21 ($54.96)

Flash Deals #487 (Ends Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:00:00 UTC)

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Full Spectrum Warrior $1.99 ($9.99) [80% OFF]
Fractured Soul $2.49 ($9.99) [75% OFF]

Flash Deals #489 (Ends Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:12:00 UTC)

Overlord + Raising Hell $2.49 ($9.99) [75% OFF]
Divinity 2: Developer's Cut $3.99 ($19.99) [80% OFF]

Flash Deals #490 (Ends Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:48:00 UTC)

Unmechanical $1.99 ($9.99) [80% OFF]
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I kind of want to just buy Valdis Story, but with the discounts being the way they are, it makes more sense to complete the pack since I already own Unepic on GOG.

Of course, that would mean I get Guacamelee on PC - and that's probably going to make me less likely to buy it on Wii U, even though I'd rather have that version.

Decisions, decisions... *sigh* :)

The Might and Magic series are RPGs where the Hero of Might and Magic games are Turn-Based Strategy games set in the Might and Magic Universe.

Basically, the Might and Magic games are classic RPGs, while Heroes of Might and Magic are turn-based strategy games.

You say that like it's a bad thing! I signed up to GOG for the Might and Magic games! :D

I also got the impression that they were grand strategy games, meaning you are the general in a war, which if that is so, talk about having lots of options! I've played several grand strategy war games, but never with magic involved!

I have a question to throw your way actually. What do you think will be on the last day? Every bundle thrown up available?

I'm pretty sure that's what's going to happen, yes: when they offered all the bundles on the 18th, there weren't any scheduled for the 29th. Unless they were deliberately hiding two bundles, then an all-bundle recap seems like the only possibilty.

We might also learn why JMich was able to find some flash sale images that still haven't been used - although I suspect those deals were simply prepared and then fell apart at the last minute.

Ah, yeah I can see that happening. Do you know what happened last year?

They did an all-bundle repeat then as well.

Of course, we didn't have the flash sales back then, and we've never had this many games given away to all in such a short timeframe (the Insomnia giveaways don't count because they were limited in number, rather than time). So who knows if anything will happen beyond that? :)

Good arguments, but they are all the way down on the bleak and fatalistic side of things with more than a pinch of cynical.
Yes all of those things could happen, but they haven't, and I don't think that they will necessarily happen. It's not a question of when but of if, and ifs are worth as much as a fart in a cow barn.
And while you're distracted with that delicious mental image I steal your shoelaces and tie your wallet.

Also the walmart comparison is unkind. My knowledge of warlmart comes not from first-hand experience, since there are no walmarts here; but from the internet horror stories. Which have undoubtedly been exagerated for comedic-sociopathy purposes but the general image they project is that walmart has about the same ethics as a Latverian based corporation. And their custormer service is par with that, people who buy there do so in a mercenary manner simply because it offers the best price-location and feel less dirty when they step outside (at least that's what I gathered from my internet-based research, much of it gathered from 4chan, which makes it indubitably factual and correct doesn't it?). Valve certainly doesn't have that rep.

There is such a thing as brand-loyalty a naive concept I know, but it exists. And so far as I'm concerned Valve has earned it. Valve has a reputation for being nice, offering good deals and not being abusive. I don't think that the only reason people use Steam is because it's convenient (which it is) but because they feel happy using it. They don't feel swindled, or abused by the company. Valve has cultivated an image opposite to that of other major publishers. They make money to make games, not the other way around, they care about good games and they care about their customers enjoying them. And so far, they have delivered. The many good guy Gaben images and memes out there seem to agree with me.

Could all of that change in one fell swoop due to a bad decision or corporate mismanagemente or stupidity? Yes it could, but you could also die in an embarrasing freak accident in a furpile. A very large part of Valve's success comes from that very same good guy image, from fostering brand loyalty with good deals and good support, a sense of community and respect for their customers. And if they change that, those same customers will flock away faster than you can say half life 2 episode 3.

So yes, I trust Valve. Naive? Quite possibly but they have it. It's not all rainbows and unicorn ponies And AJ's plump plot. But it's not a wretched hive of scum and villainy either.

Thanks.

That means I'll probably like these games more than the Heroes set that l already own on CD. This is just too much temptation!

The all bundle repeat sets a good precedent. But I'm thinking more of a second adrenaline rush thing.

They don't have to be mutually exclusive of course.

The flaw is not in using windows or running games on it.

It is in not supporting (e.g. buy/donating) things that are necessary in the long run (without the existence of freedos, gog wouldn't have been possible!) :
- wine / linux in general (some windows version will drop legacy app support. it is hughly unlikely ms will then release xp for free. then wine will be the only way for people not in possession of an xp/vista/7/8/... to run these games)
- buy multiplatform versions

I'm still against buying linux versions of games. On windows you get xp & 8 (or just 8) and can run any game released for >win3.11. Whereas with linux you would need a ton of different versions. (Technobabble: due to dynamic linking/quicker API change) Obviously gog could just package a working linux version with each game as it does with freedos. But then packaging the windows version with wine is imho easier & more efficient (for the packager, the development of wine however is a complete waste of man-hours if it weren't necessary (e.g. everthing got released with a linux version or its sourcecode)).