Bargain Thread 2011 Edition

Giaddon · 2011-09-15T06:23:04.000Z

Worth noting that much (all?) of the Paradox catalog is 50% off during the promotion.

Making The East India Company Collection $7.50, for example.

SlainteMhath · 2011-09-15T08:23:46.000Z

Dan_Theman:

FWIW, a while back I saw the EIC collection for $8 over at Half Price Books (if you have any in your neck of the woods).

I do have them near me, and I’ve seen a lot of the Paradox catlog there recently for cheap. I’m always tempted…

Giaddon:

Worth noting that much (all?) of the Paradox catalog is 50% off during the promotion.

Making The East India Company Collection $7.50, for example.

My backlog thanks you. ;-) I’m going to wait to see if it gets further discounted during the 5 day sale, and probably pick it up on the last day if not.

MSUSteve · 2011-09-15T08:44:20.000Z

IntKeys.com has Dead Island for $24.99. I’ve used this site in the past with good results.

Mazuo · 2011-09-15T09:21:36.000Z

Price point is appealing, but that site looks like a big scam selling keys from boxes that fell off a truck. Hope I’m wrong about that.

Otagan · 2011-09-15T09:24:08.000Z

That site is sketchy as all hell. I wouldn’t let any account of mine (Steam, credit card or otherwise) touch it with a ten foot pole.

MSUSteve · 2011-09-15T09:29:22.000Z

I used PayPal when I bought a game from them and got my key without incident. In my case the key was from a Russian retail box and worked fine when activating via Steam. No problems in the month since. Every time I post an IntKeys deal people (understandably) have reservations. I don’t care if you take advantage of it or not. I would never post a deal from a site I wouldn’t use myself.

Telefrog · 2011-09-15T09:29:45.000Z

Mazuo:

Price point is appealing, but that site looks like a big scam selling keys from boxes that fell off a truck. Hope I’m wrong about that.

I’ve used them before.

They are selling keys from Russian retail copies which are typically much cheaper to purchase. Most keys are nonspecific to a region. You punch in the key to Steam and your download will be in whatever version is valid for your location.

Note that I said most. There are other keys that will result in errors if you just punch them in without being in Russia. Intkeys will note on the product page that you need to give them your login info so they can punch in the number for you, then give you back control of your Steam account which is probably not a great idea. I would avoid those products.

There was one notable exception to these Russian keys. CoD:Blops keys were revoked from Steam accounts that used these outlets and were not in the correct region. I’m not sure if gamers got refunds or what happened on that.

WarrenM · 2011-09-15T09:56:01.000Z

Looks tempting but my backlog is so large I’ll just wait for the winter Steam sale or something in the future. No need to get sketchy for something I have no time to play anyway…

Creole_Ned · 2011-09-15T10:25:44.000Z

Steam Daily Deal for September 15th is Bit.Trip Beat for $2.50 (75% off).

Fenris99 · 2011-09-15T10:43:09.000Z

Pride of Nations is 75% off at Steam, $4.99

Can anyone advise?

Otagan · 2011-09-15T10:45:34.000Z

Fenris99:

Pride of Nations is 75% off at Steam, $4.99

Can anyone advise?

Do you like AGEOD games (Rise of Prussia, Birth of America, etc.)?
Do you like the Victorian era?
Do you want to play an AGEOD game in the Victorian era?
Do you have a gigantic pile of time and the willingness to teach yourself an immensely complicated game?
Do you mind that you will have to wait for 2-3 minutes (at best) between turns for the game to process and turn control back over to you?

If you answered “yes” to every single question above, then it’s probably worth your time to check out. Otherwise, you might want to hold off.

Fenris99 · 2011-09-15T10:47:16.000Z

Otagan:

Do you have a gigantic pile of time and the willingness to teach yourself an immensely complicated game?

Honestly, no. By the time I get home from work my brain is pretty fried.

Otagan · 2011-09-15T10:53:21.000Z

Fenris99:

Honestly, no. By the time I get home from work my brain is pretty fried.

Take a look at this. Does this look like something you would be willing to learn, or to at least experiment with until you have a decent grasp of it?

I’m not trying to be facetious here. This game has a substantial learning curve, but that is not to be interpreted as a comment on the game’s inherent quality. I haven’t put enough time in with it to be a reasonable judge of that.

Fenris99 · 2011-09-15T10:59:17.000Z

Otagan:

Take a look at this. Does this look like something you would be willing to learn, or to at least experiment with until you have a decent grasp of it?

I find the concept interesting, but the attention to detail may be just Too Much.

Thank you for the replies to my query.

James_Johnson · 2011-09-15T11:11:37.000Z

Fenris99:

Pride of Nations is 75% off at Steam, $4.99

Can anyone advise?

Don’t do it.

SlainteMhath · 2011-09-15T11:12:44.000Z

I love the concept and the look/feel of Pride of Nations, but one read through the thread on QT3 convinced me I’d never be able to successfully play the game. Hell, the Europa Universalis games are too steep a learning curve for my limited free time as it is, and Pride of Nations looks like it’s EUx2.

Rachel_Brown · 2011-09-15T11:52:21.000Z

Jag:

For gaming (even casual), Razer makes the best mouse I’ve ever used. I personally like the Deathadder. I highly recommend it.

Wake me up when these so called professionals make a trackball. Until then Logitech reigns supreme.

Scrax · 2011-09-15T12:42:18.000Z

MSUSteve:

IntKeys.com has Dead Island for $24.99. I’ve used this site in the past with good results.

Please report if anyone has good results from this.

Jake_Plane · 2011-09-15T12:52:47.000Z

MSUSteve:

IntKeys.com has Dead Island for $24.99. I’ve used this site in the past with good results.

MSUSteve, also curious about this site. Never heard of it before. Steam friendly, yes?

scharmers · 2011-09-15T12:54:11.000Z

Jake Plane:

MSUSteve, also curious about this site. Never heard of it before. Steam friendly, yes?

Grey market, innit? Doesn’t Steam occasionally pull off the dick move of banning non-regional games? I believe there was a discussion about this somewhere here.