I'm really tempted by this deal....
Regarding Blue Coins...It seems I can't use them to partialy buy a game, and pay the diference with Pay Pal.
Blues Coins are usable only if I have enough of them to buy a game only using Blue Coins, right?

That is correct.

As somebody who remembers Sky Commanders*, I desperately want BSI to be rainbow-vomiting good. Let me just rudely interrupt with a quick public service announcement, voiced by a background GI-Joe. For the kids.

In order for a review to take place, a game has to be available to the public, enough time has to pass for a reviewer to actually play the thing, and add another day for the actual writing. Anything that happens before that is automatically a paid advertisement. Even though the reviewer isn't being given a burlap sack with a "$" on the side, early and discriminatory access is a gift being given to IGN which they would never ever want to screw up (wink wink).

*The toys notably consisted of zip-lines that you would clip across all your furniture. Combine that with a few Legos™ on the floor, and you could take somebody's head off. Now that I think about it, that's probably why the show/toy line got cancelled.

The More You Know 🌈

Unfortunately no. However, you can buy certain amounts of blue coins with Paypal. So if you have $15 worth of blue coins and want a thirty dollar game, you can buy $15 worth of blue coins to make up the difference and then check out that way.

So to answer your question, sort of?

The game IS available to the press for some time now but Irrational/2K has a publishing embargo until Monday, when the game is officailly available.
Despite the fact that IGN reviews are somewhat soft, usually substracting 1 to 2 points from their score and gets you closer to reality.

The more you know, indeed.
Right!
You have to buy more BlueCoins if you don`t have enough.

I did, ya crazy git. ;)
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Lemme guess: The main "feature" is either to scam buyers or some such? If not, then what is it, if I may ask?
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Dohoho........no it's just me being blunt(often to the point of coming off as rude) again.
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True, but without the sales around day 1 I don't think many companies could be as successful/last so long.


I never said he was, just that if he's so cheap then why not go "whole hog" if money is(seemingly) his only concern
? Yeah, it was a bit of a loaded question, I admit. I just wanted to see what his response would be(for a good reason, not a bad one).
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To a point: I only agree with it in various circumstances.....like if a person is too poor(Imo the gov't/etc should set up "lending libraries" for very old/rare games so that people could enjoy them[And so that older game's materials wouldn't be lost to the ravages of time.] if they are of limited means[Just like we have libraries for sharing books and museums for allowing the public to view art, etc.).), or if a one's original storage medium breaks/becomes unusable for some reason other than one selling/trading it away.

The reason why the publisher want to sell more BioShock: Infinite copies :
http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/bioshock_infinite/news/ken_levine_quashes_bioshock_infinites_200_million_budget_rumour.html

It is high because someone have grossly miss-calculated the cost and marketing? And by mis-calculation, I mean not the actual production, but the anonymous person somewhere writing for a newspaper article making the claims...

What you are linking to is apparently wrong, it says so in the article.... it is a rumour which has been denied by Levine....

Then why the publisher pushing these promotions so hard ?

they want to sell the game? to as many people as possible? to make money?

it do not need to be a big bad conspiracy theory...
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On topic:
Big Fish have a spring sale. All games are 50% off.

Use coupon code 'SPRING' for standard games and 'FEVER' for collector's editions.

It expires the 24'th

Football manager 2013: £14.99
Aliens: Colonial Marines: £19.99

http://www.game.co.uk/en/games/pc-downloads/deal-of-the-day/?attributeName1=Catalog_GameSalesCatalog_EN_GB&sortColumn=popular&sortTypeStr=DESC&inStockOnly=false&provenance=Download&attributeValue1=4294963365&cm_sp=dealoftheday-_-cat-_-dotd

Darksiders 2: £7.00

http://uk.gamesplanet.com/buy-download-pc-games/Darksiders-II-2820-13.html

LOL, 200 is rediculous. Peter Jackson made the LOTR Triology for 280.
and they said in the article that BS I had a budget of 100.
(Millions $)
;D
My guess would be that we see some viral marketing effect. Someone had a stupid idea and now everybody has to join or don't get any presales at all.

The Aliens CM and DS3 and SimCity debacle might have something to do with it also.

The whole industry is based around getting me to want something enough to pay full price on week one. And if I really like something it's worth that, I don't feel exploited or taken for a ride. Getting more Skyrim for $20 in Dragonborn was a value to me, not a fleecing.

It all depends.

A Valley Without Wind 1 and 2 Dual Pack: $ 3.74
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/14311/

and sorry if this has been posted already between all the BS I whirlpool:
DotEmu has a 60%off Anuman SALE going on this weekend.
http://www.dotemu.com/en/pc-games/discounted