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Steam Winter Sales 2012 | Deal quality keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
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Would PayPal actually help if they don't refund me?
wait...Its the same price on the main site as on Steam right now.
Why not buy it from the site and give the developers a bigger cut?
You get a Steam key either way...
Buy it here: http://www.ftlgame.com/
You get the choice of a Steam key or a DRM-free version as well.
Maybe we'll get a sequel on multiple platforms. I'd triple dip on a sequel.
intheinbetween
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imho, best XBLA title, exclusive or not
I think you can get FTL + the soundtrack on Steam cheaper than the dev site + the soundtrack there.
This needs to be posted more. If you want FTL, get it from the devs. Steam isn't discounting enough to afford them a cut of the developer profits.
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More money to the devs, Steam redeemable, you get it DRM-free too. win-win-win.
Considering you get a Steam key I'm sure Steam gets a cut, albeit smaller.
YianGaruga
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But Steam WANTS for people to activate their games through Steam, so people use the client and buy stuff they see on the store. That's the whole point of Steamworks.
Petrie is mad at everybody that got any keys and it's selling it for more than their actual cost.
In this instance, he's mad at anybody selling Bethesda Bundle individual keys for more than 2.50 (11 games divided by 27 dollars).
It's a message board. This is what we do. And it's the fun of these events. We like to bitch about everything.
But don't go with that entitlement bullshit. Cause that works both ways. Stores aren't entitled to our purchases. Just because they got our sales in previous years, doesn't mean they're entitled to them now. And if we wanna bitch about them being barely better than PSN (after destroying them like a Death Star for a couple years), we're entitled to do that too.
Could anyone assist me with that Secret World sale, please? Don't have a credit card, can prepay via paypal.
:edit: Ah, the editors choice sale is only in January? I think TSW was offering additional free content if purchased before the new year.
Visualante2
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Wish I knew about this earlier. Humble takes a cut probably. I prefer to buy direct though.
Grabbed this one, thanks.
So you agree that the devs get a larger cut by purchasing through them directly instead of purchasing through Steam's lackluster discounts?
Awesome! One game I was missing and I have extra keys to donate to Bingo/Gifting.
zerokoolpsx
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Do this people. DRM free version and a steam key for the same price Steam is offering on their store.
I H8 Memes
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I dont remember any major games that were only 2 months old ever being 75% off in any previous sales.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Most people have said it's much better than the demo and most impressions of the game when amazon had it on sale for $10 months ago seemed suggest it's worth it for the price. I got mine earlier today too and hoping it's worth it.
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smart tip for euro folk. it's 4.99Ebux on steam, at the dev link it's 4.99Americadollars.
Cost me 3.90Euro
jediyoshi
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The Bethesda had a higher discount, so there's probably a distinction made in the amount it's flipped for relative to whatever the person bought it for
intheinbetween
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Do you get a Steam code if you buy it from the dev site?
Edit: I should learn to read!
It goes for anyone who chooses to profiteer from those mistake bundles instead of spread the love around GAF, especially at the holidays.
Foliorum Viridum
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I agree it's less exciting and less of an event, but some people in here sound suicidal over the fact that deals are 10-20% less than they used to be.
Getting 50-75% off a game is a great thing, and if you can get better elsewhere then awesome, definitely buy that instead, but every sale it seems more and more people are all doom and gloom about what is, ultimately, fucking cheap games all round.
Depends on your region. In Brazil, buying it on Steam is 1.50 USD cheaper than buying on their website.
Yeah, it's a low amount. Still...
faceless007
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If you're disinclined to purchase more games due to the size of your backlog, why are you bothering to complain about their high prices anyway? "Why won't Steam price games that I won't even play low enough that I'll buy them anyway?" is a pretty strange complaint, and one which speaks more to your lack of impulse control than a failure of publisher's pricing strategies. You're basically explicitly saying you want to make lots of meaningless impulse buys but Steam is making it hard to do so. Er....OK?
Right. And the point is, saying that not getting regular discounts of 75% off (especially on popular titles) is lackluster, especially when discounts that high have been readily available on other sites with Steam codes, is definitely a step up on the entitlement scale.
Most of the indie titles on my wishlist are 50-75% off. But if you explicitly expect all indie titles to drop to 75%, you're embodying a downward shift in consumer expectation that simply wasn't sustainable in the long run anyway.
Humble takes 15%.
it is actually cheaper to buy on developers site than on steam
steam 6.61 usd (EU-price)
ftlgame.com 5 usd
Delusibeta
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The difference between the two is that the key flippers are arseholes who made a profit, hence "profiteering arseholes". Especially if it was the Bethesda bundle or the Borderlands 2 pack, where it was a blatant price error.
Dude, relax.
zerokoolpsx
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Well since no one answered. Might as well give it a shot.
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The Atticus
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Valve/Steam owe nothing to the consumer in terms of setting sales. There are different ways to express your disappointment at the sales. If you are screaming to the heavens about how expensive the games are compared to other vendors; why are you complaining? Buy it elsewhere and be grateful that you have the opportunity to buy it for that price at all. It's not an issue unless it doesn't have Steamworks, and arguably not even then. Claiming that this sale is 'unacceptable' as you have 'high expectations' doesn't justify your behaviour. Yes, you might have had 'high expectations', and rightfully so; but when the sales do not reach those expectations, that doesn't mean that you are owed a lower price. The fact that they hold these sales multiple times a year is crazy. The sense of entitlement displayed by some here is absurd, and I think some perspective is needed.
I H8 Memes
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I think that may have been their intention in the beginning, but you have to wonder if seeing all of these other sites take advantage of the 0%/100% profit of Steamworks keys to undersell Steam might have Valve reconsidering.
YianGaruga
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I'm relaxed. Just stating my opinion on flippers who supposedly got screwed.
I THINK HIB doesn't take a cut larger than the very basic service costs so they can support the bandwith and whatnot. I think I heard Jonathan Blow say something like that last year when he came to Argentina, but I'm not 100% sure.
Well yeah?
I don't understand you.
Visualante2
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Well Valve takes about that anyway for indies... weird.
It makes sense. Andy Schatz is going all out on Humble Payments before the Steam release. He seems to think it's better for him.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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If you want just the game it's fine but if you want the soundtrack it's $3 cheaper to do the steam bundle.
They're support center is not working half the time :/
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