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Posted June 24, 2014
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mushy101: The deal for the saints row pack is INSANE. So much content for £15. I brought them all separately though once each one was released or on sale.

Yeah I have SR2 for pc. I was youn-stupid, just stupid. ;(

Brought Forced since it looks to be some great local coop RPGing action.

So for the sale has been okay, mainly buying the heavily discounted games in my wishlist.
There goes my money, got to keep my little niece (14) busy this summer, she really liked Saint Row 3, pimping her "princess" and cars.. She was obsessed with killing hookers, though. :/

Picked Gone Home for me, curious about it.. Crap, next month I'll not buy anything to fit my budget. Ahh..
Post edited June 24, 2014 by koima57
Posted June 24, 2014
And here I was hoping I'd get my wishlist games since my team won the day, haha ^^ Damn you, odds. Anyone want to trade summer sale cards? I got 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10.
Posted June 24, 2014
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Psyringe: Yeah, same here. Enemies that teleport everywhere because the devs couldn't code proper pathfinding ... other players that just kill you on sight, safe zones barely working at all ... lose everything when you get killed, including skills you've learned ... nah, doesn't sound like a very enjoyable game. I guess "Left 4 Dead 2" and "Day Z" scratch that itch better.

But if there's someone here who wants to take up the cudgels for this game, feel free, I'm still interested in opinions. :)
The main problem for me is that the game looks like a carbon copy of Infestation (The War Z), which i already have and is a horrible game. Not sure i want another The War Z with a different skin. There are rumors that the game was made by the same team, even though the name of the studio is different. The trademark for both games also seem to belong to the same person.
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koima57: Added Ankh 2 & 3 to my games.. Cheap price and Egypt, surely exotic for me. Now, to hold on my will to just get Dishonored story DLC's if they go below 50%. :o
Is there any way to legally acquire the first Ankh online?
Post edited June 24, 2014 by Neobr10
Posted June 24, 2014
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Neobr10: Is there any way to legally acquire the first Ankh online?
Usually [url=http://isthereanydeal.com/#/search:ankh;/scroll:#gamelist]IsThereAnyDeal.com[/url] is a pretty good place to check what different versions of a game are out there and which stores carry the game, as well as the lowest price that game has ever gone for (it only lists and tracks digital PC game downloads). I'm not familiar with that series, but I see an entry for "Anhk (Mac)" and "Bundle : Ankh Trilogy" when searching for "Ankh".
Post edited June 24, 2014 by Rakuru
Posted June 24, 2014
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Neobr10: Is there any way to legally acquire the first Ankh online?
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Rakuru: Usually [url=http://isthereanydeal.com/#/search:ankh;/scroll:#gamelist]IsThereAnyDeal.com[/url] is a pretty good place to check what different versions of a game are out there and which stores carry the game, as well as the lowest price that game has ever gone for (it only lists and tracks digital PC game downloads). I'm not familiar with that series, but I see an entry for "Anhk (Mac)" and "Bundle : Ankh Trilogy" when searching for "Ankh".
Hi, thanks for the research and yes, this is the first one of the trilogy, Ankh - Reverse the Curse..

Well.. More of my money going out, I "had to" get it for the trilogy.. :/

http://digital.gamefly.co.uk/#!/download-ankh-reverse-the-curse/5002209?adtrackingid=cmju510

That game is a remake of Ankh - The Tales of Mystery. Following this trilogy, another game was released on Ds, Ankh - Curse of the Scarab King which is actually also a remake of the first game, and lastly a hidden object game titled Ankh - The Lost Treasures.

Ankh: The Tales of Mystery, Artex Software, 1998, RISC OS
Ankh 1: Reverse the Curse, Deck13, 2005, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris, Deck13, 2006, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Ankh 3: Battle of the Gods, Deck13, 2007, Windows
Ankh: Curse of the Scarab King, Deck13, 2008, Nintendo DS
Ankh: The Lost Treasures, Deck13, 2011, Windows
Post edited June 24, 2014 by koima57
Posted June 24, 2014
With regards to the Ankh game series... This is kind of funny, had to share it ...
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1691/

Compare the price of the individual games total to the special bundle price. LOL
Post edited June 24, 2014 by skeletonbow
Posted June 24, 2014
Now is the time to buy SimCity 4, it's in the current Community Vote:

SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition - 2.49€
Posted June 24, 2014
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skeletonbow: With regards to the Ankh game series... This is kind of funny, had to share it ...
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1691/

Compare the price of the individual games total to the special bundle price. LOL
I've seen that a couple of times with Steam bundles this sale... would've been annoying if any of them had been ones that I had wanted. I have no idea why Steam doesn't have some code that automatically sets the price to the sum of all of the individual games if it's less than the bundle price. :/
Posted June 24, 2014
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Rakuru: I've seen that a couple of times with Steam bundles this sale... would've been annoying if any of them had been ones that I had wanted. I have no idea why Steam doesn't have some code that automatically sets the price to the sum of all of the individual games if it's less than the bundle price. :/
Kind of sucks that it is flawed as it is eh? I mean some people will just see something and buy it without due diligence to see if it is the best deal available even on the same retailer let alone the best deal out there. How disappointing that would be after the fact! :) I always look around personally and nowadays I'm increasingly using http://isthereanydeal.com on almost every single purchase consideration I make as well as looking at http://www.epicbundle.com and http://www.dealzon.com and a few others. I also have the "Enhanced Steam" plugin installed in Firefox and Chrome which is pretty awesome for pointing out the best price etc.

I can only imagine such flaws in pricing occur due to human error and service quality control issues. :)
Posted June 24, 2014
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skeletonbow: I can only imagine such flaws in pricing occur due to human error and service quality control issues. :)
I guess they just handle bundles and individual games separately exactly to prevent possible negative price mistakes (like bundle discount on top of individual). It's probably a lot safer to adjust individual prices and not have to worry about what other prices you are changing as a result of that change.

Amazon seems to be doing the same. The Lego bundle is $180, yet the individual games together are $54.92 :)
Post edited June 24, 2014 by Pheace
Posted June 24, 2014
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Impaler26: Now is the time to buy SimCity 4, it's in the current Community Vote:

SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition - 2.49€
Have to buy it, for old Sim city SNES days sake.. This GabeN Summer sale is sucking me dry.. :(
Posted June 24, 2014
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skeletonbow: Kind of sucks that it is flawed as it is eh? I mean some people will just see something and buy it without due diligence to see if it is the best deal available even on the same retailer let alone the best deal out there. How disappointing that would be after the fact! :) I always look around personally and nowadays I'm increasingly using http://isthereanydeal.com on almost every single purchase consideration I make as well as looking at http://www.epicbundle.com and http://www.dealzon.com and a few others. I also have the "Enhanced Steam" plugin installed in Firefox and Chrome which is pretty awesome for pointing out the best price etc.
Yeah, I have been heavily using IsThereAnyDeal this sale season. Haven't heard of EpicBundle or Dealzon, though! I've seen Enhanced Steam mentioned before, but haven't tried it yet. It would probably prevent me from being sloppy with my price history due diligence...

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Pheace: I guess they just handle bundles and individual games separately exactly to prevent possible negative price mistakes (like bundle discount on top of individual). It's probably a lot safer to adjust individual prices and not have to worry about what other prices you are changing as a result of that change.
Well, there's some automation there. For example, one of yesterday's daily deals was Battleblock Theater at 75% off. As soon as the community choice sale hit and Castle Crashers was 90% off, the bundle with Battleblock Theater + Castle Crashers also became 90% off, making the bundle with both games $2.49 -- over a dollar cheaper than only Battleblock Theater. And now that the community choice has changed, the bundle is back to normal. I guess that's the other extreme end of Valve's crazy bundle pricing...
Post edited June 24, 2014 by Rakuru
Posted June 24, 2014
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skeletonbow: I can only imagine such flaws in pricing occur due to human error and service quality control issues. :)
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Pheace: I guess they just handle bundles and individual games separately exactly to prevent possible negative price mistakes (like bundle discount on top of individual). It's probably a lot safer to adjust individual prices and not have to worry about what other prices you are changing as a result of that change.

Amazon seems to be doing the same. The Lego bundle is $180, yet the individual games together are $54.92 :)
LOL, man that's funny. I wonder how many people get suckered on those deals.
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Rakuru: Yeah, I have been heavily using IsThereAnyDeal this sale season. Haven't heard of EpicBundle or Dealzon, though! I've seen Enhanced Steam mentioned before, but haven't tried it yet. It would probably prevent me from being sloppy with my price history due diligence...
There's also another browser plugin (Greasemonkey script) for isthereanydeal.com which can be used to import your game wishlists from GOG.com, and a half dozen or so other game retailers into isthereanydeal.com's game price tracker/notification system. You can customize the price drops needed for triggering an alert per-game. I just installed that plugin yesterday and imported my GOG, Gamersgate wishlists into it to accentuate the Steam support the site has built in. So I am now tracking the price of every game on all my gaming wishlists automatically. It also can be configured to auto-sync with your wishlists periodically. Very nice.

The cool thing is that they track game pricing across about 24-30 or more gaming retailers. That's pretty powerful and much more than any mortal could manage by hand. :)
Post edited June 24, 2014 by skeletonbow
Posted June 24, 2014
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jamyskis: Because Valve and BethSoft were hoping that people would panick-buy the vanilla game so that they can be railroaded into buying the DLC at a later with the vague feeling that the game is "incomplete". It's a fairly common tactic now - sell the base game for a pittance and try and recoup the losses through overpriced DLC.
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johnnygoging: what losses? this is a years-old game that already has had immensely successful sales. and these are digital copies. there are no losses here.

In tomb raider's case it was trying to recoup losses. trying to incentivize purchases of the new tomb raider. I figured there was chance the 80% would disappear once they got their sales back, but I figured since the usual case was for discounts that showed up to show up again, I skipped it because I was running high on spending. I don't even particularly want the new tomb raider game, I don't like what they did with it in a lot of ways. I just want to get all the old ones, 1-6 especially, collected together.

should've instead just got the tomb raider pack then, and spent the 13.50 on legendary now instead of the $21 in getting punished on the DLC or $5 to bethesda for nothing, for paying more for the original purchase anyway. nice. gog's way is better.

haven't played fallout NV. I was gonna grab it, but I won't now. I'll just wait for the pack to get cheaper.
There has been a recent trend in Steam sales where the dlcs haven't been getting discounted as much as they used to nor as much as the base game. Borderlands 2 has done it, Killing Floor has done it, apparently Skyrim, and others are doing it.

Most the arguments are the "margins are too low to recoup fees" or something similar. Which really sucks as an earlier adopter (who they got a sizable chunk of money from), since none of them bundle things or price them in a way that is attractive to someone that already owns a sizable chunk.

I guess it is good encouragement to not show support and wait as long as possible.
Posted June 24, 2014
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tammerwhisk: There has been a recent trend in Steam sales where the dlcs haven't been getting discounted as much as they used to nor as much as the base game. Borderlands 2 has done it, Killing Floor has done it, apparently Skyrim, and others are doing it.

Most the arguments are the "margins are too low to recoup fees" or something similar. Which really sucks as an earlier adopter (who they got a sizable chunk of money from), since none of them bundle things or price them in a way that is attractive to someone that already owns a sizable chunk.

I guess it is good encouragement to not show support and wait as long as possible.
Yeah, it does kind of suck that the early buyer at $60 gets stuck trying to track down DLC while the person who waits a couple years can grab the complete pack often for around $5. I mean, yes, you get to play the game earlier, but still.

And the way Steam organizes base games and complete versions and DLC and franchise packs and so on has been occasionally frustrating to deal with this sale... "I could just grab the GoTY/Elite/Complete/Special Edition version, but I guess I had better count the 20 DLC packs included and make sure that's all that's available. Or I could just grab the franchise pack and get a really good deal on the early games, but that only comes with the standard edition and I would need to grab the Complete DLC Pack also... but, wait, isn't there some DLC that's only in the Special Edition and not available any other way? Sigh." :|
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