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Xbox Store Countdown to 2017 Sale Thread - includes daily and weekly offers
- Thread starter MauroNL
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It is. Gold only though.
statham
Member
and bought. Thanks dude. This is a double dip for me, have it on PC but I rather play with achievements.
Fleshfeast
Member
Expired deals seem to be back!
All of the deals in the DWG section are showing the sales prices again, including Resident Evil, which I believe some in this thread missed. They all have 10 hours remaining, except Superhot which has 15 hours left.
All of the deals in the DWG section are showing the sales prices again, including Resident Evil, which I believe some in this thread missed. They all have 10 hours remaining, except Superhot which has 15 hours left.
Hmm... Thanks for the heads-up. I wonder what happened to make them disappear temporarily. I have 10 dollars on my Xbox account that I'm dying to use after buying digital copies of Dark Souls 3 and Blue Dragon, but I think I'm just going to hold onto it and hope for the best for next week's sales.
Nice! Thanks for the heads up. While my plan of buying Destiny: The Taken King to finish my move to all digital failed (it says I already own it...), I caved and bought Darksiders 2. While not typically my cup of tea, $7.50 is a hard deal to turn down.
12/29 is the date you are looking for.
Memorabilia
Member
3 of the new Deals w/ Gold are better than any of the fairly lame Winter sale deals so far...Book of Unwritten Tales 2, Unravel, and Dragon Age Inquisition. Destroy All Humans is a pretty good get at that price too since it'll inevitably be BC and they'll double or triple the "sale" price afterwards.
Scottish Sin
Member
Question about Book of Unwritten Tales 2. Do I need to play the first one at all, or is it fine for jumping in?
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Seriously. 3 games. That's it. 3.
Overwatch, Blue Dragon and Bioshock BC and I can't get a single one of them on Sale?
Overwatch, Blue Dragon and Bioshock BC and I can't get a single one of them on Sale?
Poodlestrike
Banned
Technomancer and Blood Bowl 2... worth it at 15 and 12.50, respectively?
Biased. Basically the same as Sony, in many cases slightly worse than steam (just game by game basis for all), and very strong first party sales. Shrug.
Poodlestrike
Banned
There were some great deals in this one. Not sure what you're on about.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I guess I get that. Wider-ranging sales rely on economy of scale, though- maybe if the Scorpio really takes off MS will have the kind of user numbers that'd make them confident in the success of that sort of thing, but then, they wouldn't be desperate enough to do it, lol.
Thanks for the heads up! I wanted to grab the Metro Redux Bundle for $6 earlier today, but was unable to do so.
D'ultimate
Member
The had the complete edition on sale for $25 during the Black Friday sales. I wasn't able to take advantage then but I'm really hoping it goes on sale again soon.
Stay away from technomancer. Pure, unadulterated jank.
Poodlestrike
Banned
More or less janky than Recore? Because I really liked that.
yankeehater
Member
Yeah I hate that. I bought the doom season pass 3 days ago, today I go bro the game and it says that the dlc is on sale, but when I click the link it just gives me an error. I really want to see the sale price to see if it would be worth my time to call me and ask for a refund.
moffattron9000
Member
Well they're doing a bunch of work on FFXV, so you might be better waiting for that that work to be done. If you want a JRPG fix though, get Lost Odyssey. It's free right now.
As for Arkham Knight, just know that it's the weakest of the three Arkham games, so adjust your expectations.
Fortinbras
Member
No I agree with you mate. In Australia it is pretty rough pricing, I was expecting to have to top my account up and sadly have not bought 1 game. The dailies so far have been dismal.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Hoping for cheap Division.
More. A lot more.
Bits N Pieces
Member
I've bought Firewatch, Darksiders and Everspace. Now I wait for DR4.
mr_sockochris
Member
Yeah, the UK prices on quite a few games simply don't compare to the US deals. I've been wanting Arkham Knight for a long time which is pracically peanuts in the US while it's only dropped to about £25 here. Same with the Lego games.
What's the Daily Deal today?
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
It's always been like that, no idea why some regions get better pricing on some games but not others.
Cdkeys has had it for dirt cheap for months, got mine from there and hoping for the season pass cheap in the sale
Senteevs
Member
Some games are cheaper.
I switched to the UK store to buy Just Cause 3 as it was a few bucks cheaper there.
Blue Ninja
Member
I already own DA: I on disc, but I figured the DLC might be worth playing through - and for 9, I might as well.
Bought Wolfenstein: TNO as well. Heard good things, interested to try for myself.
Bought Wolfenstein: TNO as well. Heard good things, interested to try for myself.
mr_sockochris
Member
How easy? Last time I tried buying from other regions it involved setting up extra acounts and buying gift cards which is a bit of a pain.
Th percentage is the same across regions, but for some reason the base price for Arkham knight is $20 vs £54.99
You don't need to do that, just buy a digital card from the Microsoft store and use PayPal
https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Xbox-Digital-Gift-Card/productID.289171900
Use it on your main account and then switch your console region to US to make your purchase
Fortinbras
Member
The problem is that competing gaming networks have better sales in the same regions.
For some reason Sony is offering better deals in Europe than Microsoft. If publishers have complete control over pricing then the question would be: Do publishers hate European Xbox players?
For example:
Batman Arkham Knight Premium Edition:
Cheapest sale price on PSN: 19.99
Cheapest sale price on XBL: 44.99
There are some really big differences and not only Warner is doing this.
Even Microsoft sucks at deals. Examples:
Kinect Sports Rivals
Europe: 23.10
US: 9.90 $
Halo 5 Deluxe
Europe: 49.50
US: 35.00 $
For some reason SRP aren't adjusted in European Xbox stores. Batman AK Premium is still 109.99 on Xbox but 79.99 on PS4.
I've been comparing sales for a while now and I only noticed two pulishers with higher sale prices on PSN. Ubisoft and EA.
The difference isn't hat big compared to the others however.
Other gaming networks also have bigger sales and these happen more often.
Fleshfeast
Member
Who knows why they make the decisions they do. Shadow Warrior has been out for 2 years on consoles. Why has it been on sale 6 times on PS4, but never on sale on XB1?
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Interesting, I had wondered if the different regions were controlled by different arms of the publisher setting discounts and prices independently but if the same game is a better price at the same time on other networks then it must be something else.
Baron_Calamity
Member
Its all about install base. The more potential buyers you have, the lower the price can be and still make the same or more amount of money.
Bits N Pieces
Member
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 - $19.99 > $5.00
And its £6 in the UK store. Fuck this shit!
And its £6 in the UK store. Fuck this shit!