Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Oh shit, just saw billy hatcher is on the list. Definitely getting that, not sure if I want anything else.
Amazon DD Sales Thread
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Buying this right here. As sad as it is that these are what EA Sports decided to leave us PC gamers with as regards the NHL and Madden series, it's a very good deal nonetheless.
Still, I wish someone would make a good new hockey game for PC. I'd even be willing to forgive EA if only they'd port one of their current generation NHLs.
I love the sales Tony but sadly I'm strapped for cash right this minute (until sept) and most of these deals and packs contain games I already own. I would love some of the games in pack deals to have individual sales on them of some degree.
I would have bit on DKS so goddamn hard, if it wasn't on sale on steam the other day. You took too long! Also the game of thrones games are pretty much at the edge of my interest. 10$ for genesis? Hnnggg but poor
Please do some deep dirt cheapo deals on any of these?
Stronghold 3
Settlers 7 Gold
Anno 2070
Disciples 3 (both ones)
Risen 2
Confrontation
HOMM 6
King Arthur 2
dark souls
Dungeons
Skyrim
Legends of Pegasus
I would have bit on DKS so goddamn hard, if it wasn't on sale on steam the other day. You took too long! Also the game of thrones games are pretty much at the edge of my interest. 10$ for genesis? Hnnggg but poor
Please do some deep dirt cheapo deals on any of these?
Stronghold 3
Settlers 7 Gold
Anno 2070
Disciples 3 (both ones)
Risen 2
Confrontation
HOMM 6
King Arthur 2
dark souls
Dungeons
Skyrim
Legends of Pegasus
AngmarsKing701
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Another vote for Skyrim. My son desperately wants this on PC but I've told him not to blow $60 on it (since that's all he has).
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Grabbed Saints Row the Third for me and a friend. o:
I would buy these if they were SteamWorks:
Prince of Persia Adventure pack
Dead Space Dual Pack
Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition
Mass Effect 3
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
It's too bad. I've picked up a lot of the Amazon SteamWorks deals that I wanted during the summer sale and this one. Amazon could make a killing if they offered SteamWorks versions of all their games. It is mostly likely Valve's fault for not offering serial keys for many titles.
Prince of Persia Adventure pack
Dead Space Dual Pack
Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition
Mass Effect 3
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
It's too bad. I've picked up a lot of the Amazon SteamWorks deals that I wanted during the summer sale and this one. Amazon could make a killing if they offered SteamWorks versions of all their games. It is mostly likely Valve's fault for not offering serial keys for many titles.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Publishers just have to request keys from Valve.
Valve's fault? Absolutely not. Each individual publisher is responsible for making the decision as to whether or not distribute Steam keys for any of their non-Steamworks titles. (You're actually using the term Steamworks wrong: all games that are Steamworks can only be used through Steam; i.e., wherever you buy them, you'll always get a Steam key.)
You'll be hard-pressed to find EA or Ubisoft willingly distributing Steam keys of their games to third-party resellers simply because of the fact that Origin and Uplay are direct competitors to Steam.
I wasn't aware that the publisher have to request the keys. It is easy to look at sites like GreenManGames that sell Steam and other games and see which sell the most (not including those games that cost $1,99 and have a trade-in value of $0.50 or $1.00). I'm not sure why a publisher would not want their game on Steam, unless they are Origin or Ubisoft. But, saying that, I find Uplay pretty horrible and don't plan on buying Ubisoft games unless console version (Xbox 360) or from Steam. Also, I didn't know SteamWorks meant only Steam-based. I thought it was just an alternative form for saying the key activates on Steam.
What I don't understand is, why do new games from Ubisoft still release on Steam when they are trying to push Uplay? I thought they used Tages as an alternative DRM to Steam (i.e. the Ubisoft games from Impulse and GamersGate). I don't know what the state of Origin is, but I know I wouldn't begin investing in games on a system developed by EA. My only beef with Valve and Steam is that the customer support is absolutely terrible. Ever since I have had a pretty bad experience with Valve support, I have been giving my support to Amazon/GMG/GG/Impulse. One of the greatest things about Amazon is that they have a great representative in Tony that is willing to meet customers head-on. He sold Digital Downloads through Amazon, to me, that's for sure.
Because Steam has the market. So they make the games available on Steam, while making customers installing and using Uplay to access the game; then they start promoting things from inside Uplay itself.
It's basically Valve's strategy, which is making you install and use Steam to play Steamworks games no matter where you buy them from (retail or other DD stores). Then of course, the first thing you see when you open the Steam client by default is the storefront and announcement of new games/daily deals/weekly sales.
To be fair, not very many people have claimed otherwise here. Even though I personally prefer to use Steam whenever possible, Origin is just fine as a service. Also, Valve could learn a thing or two from EA's customer support.
For example, after I bought the EA Sports classics pack with NHL 09 and Madden 08 from Amazon a few days ago, my NHL 09 key wouldn't register correctly on Origin even though it did recognize it. I contacted EA's live support chat, and within 15 minutes the guy had not only successfully activated my NHL key, he also added Madden 08 onto my account even though the key for a game that old can't normally be activated on Origin. That's what I call good customer service.
I could say the same about Steam. No live support at all, and their answers to support tickets come with a delay of many hours if not days, and eventually the answer tends to be a copypasted message which may or may not have anything to do with the problem you were describing in the first place.
With EA, it seems to depend on how good a support person you happen to catch on shift, but if you're lucky, it's just great.
Liferebooted
Banned
I bought a steam game from Amazon and it ended up not working on my system. Amazon emailed me saying that they'll refund me, will steam actually remove the game too?
YianGaruga
Banned
That's not true. If you got an illegitimate key it can be deactivated.
Yeah, I haven't had great Steam support experiences, but EA seems to get things wrong on many levels. You have to have the origin client installed to get support. I cancelled a preorder over a month before TOR came out and they still billed me for it. I contacted them and gave them all the confirmation numbers and they said they'd take care of it and never did and I wound up having to do a chargeback on my credit card.
also they remove games from the service sometimes as well (try finding Out Run).
yeah, they removed Ghostbusters The Video Game from the store this year (for reasons i'm not sure why) ...but you can still redownload the game if u bought it. thankfully.
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Using the 6.4 oz weight of the console versions, you only need to sell 5512 copies to achieve a metric ton. That was an easy bet, Tony.
You know youre a gamer when
Our Marketing Manager made a bet with 2K games that Amazon would sell a metric ton of Borderlands 2 at launch. Turns out he was right. The guys from 2K flew him out to New York and paid for him to get this awesome Claptrap tattoo from Luke Wessman at Wooster St. Social Club (the guys who do NY Ink). From Tony himself -This game is absolutely amazing and I cant think of any better way to celebrate it than carrying Claptrap around on my back.
Using the 6.4 oz weight of the console versions, you only need to sell 5512 copies to achieve a metric ton. That was an easy bet, Tony.
Only counting the weight of the disc itself, then. Or am I being overly analytical and metric ton is being used metaphorically?
So you're the guy who wrote that comment? It's kinda weird to see GAFfers over there on FB (?)
To expand on this, Valve removing a key tied to your account will only happen in one of two situations:
1) You bought a key from somebody else and they, at some point, decide to be a dick, contacting Valve about it already being in use and succeed in having said key revoked (they'll have the requisite evidence of proof of purchase, after all), or
2) A publisher requests that keys intended for specific regions (e.g. Eastern European keys) be removed from the accounts of those who are clearly not in said regions, but this hasn't happened since Modern Warfare 2 (and even then not all such accounts were affected), with the approach nowadays being to exclude English and/or region-lock DLC (e.g. DLC bought outside of RU won't work with an RU copy)
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
If you go by CD weight, it's around 60k.
I think Tony wanted the tattoo, and he got it for free. Clever deal.
A couple of deals (no Steamworks though, just Amazon downloads):
Whispered World $2.98
Gray Matter $8
Whispered World $2.98
Gray Matter $8
jakershaker
Member
Did the 1C deal ever appear btw?
(Guessing this thread is the Amazon thread to use now that the last sale is over)
(Guessing this thread is the Amazon thread to use now that the last sale is over)
jakershaker
Member
Couldn't they just make smaller bundles? Genre based or something. They have had big packs before.
The most recent update on the matter, directly, is this (September 7th):
The above was followed by this related update a handful of days later, which itself seemingly went ignored as nobody replied with suggestions (perhaps they were PM'd instead?) (September 12th):
Yeah this thread is for general Amazon PCDD sales. I'll make new threads for any major sales.
IcyRhythms
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Sleeping Dogs for $29.99. Activates on Steam the way I understand it. hmm
legacyzero
Banned
Square-Enix likes to do pretty aggressive discounts for its games. And that's one of the reason why I love Square-Enix.
legacyzero
Banned
It's so weird they do that, I would buy the game for $5.
XOMTOR
Member
They used to sell it alone, hopefully they'll do so again. I bought my copy for $4.99 back in the spring. Great game.
YianGaruga
Banned
So, did Tony abandon us?
There's a new discount code for Amazon DD:
25% off anything older than 30 days: OCTOFUN1
Makes Sleeping Dogs $22.50 for example.
Also upcoming sales (not 100% confirmed, picked it up on reddit):
There's a new discount code for Amazon DD:
25% off anything older than 30 days: OCTOFUN1
Makes Sleeping Dogs $22.50 for example.
Also upcoming sales (not 100% confirmed, picked it up on reddit):
Pretty good deal. I really liked Bulletstorm and The Saboteur.
Refreshment.01
Member
Any of these games redeem on Steam?
Nabs
Member
This deal may be thread worthy.
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