Bargain Thread 2012 Edition

Nesrie · 2012-08-19T12:21:04.000Z

Giaddon:

GamersGate has another great set of deals today, including the Setters 7 for $7.50 and Supreme Commander 2 for $3.75.

Ubisoft’s UPlay deals continue, with the sublime Driver: San Francisco for $1, another offer of Settlers for $7.50, and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier for $38.49.

At a rental price, I can recommend Settlers 7 for multiplayer. It has a nice set-up for cooperative or competitive play.

Nesrie · 2012-08-19T22:17:35.000Z

Not a game persay but walmart has 80 for 100 eGift card for those apple fans that want to get their game on via iTunes.

Link

Giaddon · 2012-08-20T05:01:20.000Z

A new week, a new suite of deals on GamersGate! Highlights!

Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands - $2 (all other modern Prince of Persias $3.38)
Evochron Mercenary - $8.48
Fate of the World: Tipping Point - $4.75
Precursors - $8
Xenus 2: White Gold - $8
The Sims Medieval - $5
Death to Spies: Gold - $8

Also, Impulse/Gamestop is selling The Walking Dead for $15.

And Amazon is selling every damn Serious Sam game ever in one $20 bundle.

Fenris99 · 2012-08-21T10:41:29.000Z

Spacechem is $2.49 on steam today. It will make your brain hurt.

Contrai · 2012-08-21T11:44:20.000Z

Newegg is having a $12 off pre-order games that are priced $49.99 or higher. The advertising email mentions just console games, but I was able to use it on PC games as well. Some notable games are Borderlands 2 and XCOM Enemy Unknown for $37.99 each.

Promo Code: EMCNBHJ256
Quick link to just PC pre-orders

TurinTur · 2012-08-21T11:57:18.000Z

I have a -75% coupon on Steam for Portal 2. If anyone wants it…

amandachen · 2012-08-21T12:19:39.000Z

Carcassonne is 50% off in the gamersgate sale. Cool tile-laying game. Or of course you can download JCloisterZone and play carcassonne for free.
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-CARCASSONNE/carcassonne
http://jcloisterzone.com/

Telefrog · 2012-08-21T13:25:51.000Z

amandachen:

Carcassonne is 50% off in the gamersgate sale. Cool tile-laying game. Or of course you can download JCloisterZone and play carcassonne for free.
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-CARCASSONNE/carcassonne
http://jcloisterzone.com/

Heads up! The official Carcassonne on sale at GG comes with all the expansions, but the trade off is that there is no tutorial at all.

SamF7 · 2012-08-21T13:38:37.000Z

This is the same Carcassonne that I bought ages ago for the PC.
In a word, it is excellent.

The AI is absolutely brutal. This game is STILL one of our go-to games on LAN day. Highly recommended.

SamF7

Nesrie · 2012-08-21T22:26:04.000Z

SamF7:

This is the same Carcassonne that I bought ages ago for the PC.
In a word, it is excellent.

The AI is absolutely brutal. This game is STILL one of our go-to games on LAN day. Highly recommended.

SamF7

Excellent to play online with friends too. Sadly, they’ve not really done anything to bring the other expansions to the digital version of the game.

Mysterio · 2012-08-22T07:55:10.000Z

Mysterio:

As an FYI for those considering purchasing Silent Hunter: Battle of the Atlantic GOLD Edition, know that it won’t appear in your Uplay Games tab. All you’re provided is a download link in your email receipt. Pretty lame that this Ubisoft title isn’t available for download on Ubisoft’s DD service.

EDIT: It looks like European buyers don’t have this issue.

I wanted to update this for the benefit of those who may have the same issue. Here’s the reply I received from Ubisoft TS:

I see that you purchased Silent Hunter 5 through the Ubishop Online Store website instead of purchasing it through the Uplay PC Client. Since it was purchased through the website you will need to download, install and activate the game before it will show up in the Uplay PC Client.

I did that, and now the game shows in Uplay. So please disregard everything I said previously, for I know nada.

Dan_Theman · 2012-08-22T08:05:28.000Z

Interesting. While setting up Uplay, it did a rather lengthy search on my PC (it said “searching”). I somewhat logically assumed that meant it was looking for installed and activated Ubisoft games, of which I have several. No dice. I wonder what it was “searching” for, then …

WarrenM · 2012-08-22T08:20:11.000Z

A reason to exist? Seriously fuck UPlay. Get out of my way and let me play the god damned game.

SlainteMhath · 2012-08-22T08:24:48.000Z

Dan_Theman:

Interesting. While setting up Uplay, it did a rather lengthy search on my PC (it said “searching”). I somewhat logically assumed that meant it was looking for installed and activated Ubisoft games, of which I have several. No dice. I wonder what it was “searching” for, then …

Pirated games. It found one, so congrats, you’re now one of the 97%! ;-)

Dan_Theman · 2012-08-22T08:59:28.000Z

LOL - that must be the case. After all, buying from anyplace but Uplay means it’s pirated, right? Steam is just another name for Pirate Bay ;)

Papageno · 2012-08-22T11:35:28.000Z

Uplay is a weird beast. You’d think Ubisoft would have a record of the games you’ve had to activate through Uplay over the last couple of years, and show them to you somehow. It doesn’t even recognize the games you have currently installed, let alone others that you’ve activated. I currently have Driver SF installed through Steam and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood that I bought from Amazon. When I fire up either of them I get the Uplay front end, but don’t see the other game.

BrianRubin · 2012-08-22T11:37:22.000Z

Guys, Distant Worlds is on sale!!

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3168715

This RARELY happens, so if you’ve been eyeing the game, PLEASE get it now!

Rock8man · 2012-08-22T12:04:35.000Z

Sale doesn’t seem to be in effect yet. Download edition of the full game is still 39.99, not 26.99 like he says it will be in that post. And the expansions are still at 24.99, not 16.99. Maybe the sale starts later today?

BrianRubin · 2012-08-22T12:06:33.000Z

I saw that too, hopefully they’ll flip the switch soon.

JoshL · 2012-08-22T12:37:44.000Z

It [Distant Worlds] shows up as the sale price in the shopping cart, even though the sale price isn’t shown on the product page.