Bargain Thread 2012 Edition

Giaddon · 2012-11-12T21:32:17.000Z

malkav11:

If people, like me, were holding out for the PC release of Assassin’s Creed III, you might want to consider getting it from Gamersgate, especially if you secured the (apparently permanent) 15% discount from IGN. They’re offering 30% store credit cashback on either the standard or deluxe editions. If you have the IGN discount, that’s another 15% worth of store credit, and finally you get the standard 5% credit cashback on all purchases, for a total of 35-50% off depending. At the extreme, this is $25 store credit back on the standard edition or $40 on the Deluxe edition (which includes the season pass, bonus singleplayer missions, and some other stuff). I personally managed to parlay the cashback on the Deluxe Edition (with a smidgen of extra credit I had lying around) into a preorder of the standard edition of Far Cry 3. (The IGN discount knocked it down to $42.50).

Thanks for this! I got the deluxe edition as well. Even without the IGN discount, that’s $28 in store credit, effectively making the price $52 – worth it for the season pass, I think (hope). It’ll be nice to be on top of the multiplayer DLC, anyway.

Brad_Grenz · 2012-11-13T01:25:34.000Z

Supposedly sometime today Amazon will have Darksiders II on sale for $17. Unlocks on Steam and there is also a discounted DLC season pass planned. I was hoping that would be reflected at the normal time between 12am and 1am PST, but it’s not showing for me yet. It’s a good deal on a very recent game, though, so worth keeping an eye out for.

intruder · 2012-11-13T01:51:38.000Z

Murbella:

Are you sure it was from steam? I thought international law prohibited them from giving out coupons for anything except Half-Life 2…

The codes are from Frozenbyte themselves for their own titles + Alan Wake
(maybe they did the PC port I don’t recall) so I guess they are entitled to offer coupons for them.

Giaddon · 2012-11-13T03:44:11.000Z

Brad Grenz:

Supposedly sometime today Amazon will have Darksiders II on sale for $17. Unlocks on Steam and there is also a discounted DLC season pass planned. I was hoping that would be reflected at the normal time between 12am and 1am PST, but it’s not showing for me yet. It’s a good deal on a very recent game, though, so worth keeping an eye out for.

It’s at that price on GamersGate now.

Darksiders 2, $17

WarrenM · 2012-11-13T05:00:04.000Z

Yay, Darksiders 2! Now I just need a week off so I can find time to play it…

Balasarius · 2012-11-13T05:38:22.000Z

GamersGate doesn’t want my money. I try to buy DarkSiders 2, it goes through PayPal, I confirm it, then I’m bounced to the GamersGate home page. I get a confirmation email from GamersGate with a “purchase order”, but no other confirmation from either GamersGate or PayPal that I actually bought anything.

I submitted a ticket on their site.

WarrenM · 2012-11-13T05:56:43.000Z

Amazon has it up FWIW. $17!

Balasarius · 2012-11-13T06:01:30.000Z

Hah, thanks!

Mike_Hussey · 2012-11-13T06:28:45.000Z

Gamestop have Warlock: Master of the Arcane (and the rest of the franchise) at 75% off.

http://www.impulsedriven.com/products/ESD-IMP-W2984?affid=dailydeal

I’m surprised by this, the game was only released recently and received a pretty positive response, at least on this forum. Did it suffer from poor sales or something?

Giaddon · 2012-11-13T06:35:12.000Z

I don’t know about its sales numbers, but this isn’t the first time it’s been 75% off.

Telefrog · 2012-11-13T07:09:36.000Z

I doubt that initial sales were poor but I imagine that unlike more popular games, the sales outside of the launch and discount offers have been low. I never see anyone on my Steam friends list playing it even though many bought it.

Mike_Hussey · 2012-11-13T07:25:41.000Z

Oh well, as it was so cheap I bought it and all the DLCs for £5-40 in British money. It activates through Steam in case that’s an issue for anyone.

cobraskulls · 2012-11-13T07:31:37.000Z

Green Man Gaming are giving away Earth 2160.

ineffablebob · 2012-11-13T08:41:47.000Z

cobraskulls:

Green Man Gaming are giving away Earth 2160.

And it looks like they had technical issues. Imagine that, problems with the GMG web site! Seems to be working now, though, at least for me.

Mark_Asher · 2012-11-13T08:47:25.000Z

ineffablebob:

And it looks like they had technical issues. Imagine that, problems with the GMG web site! Seems to be working now, though, at least for me.

I grabbed it but didn’t bother to download it yet. Their server was a tad slow validating my purchase but it wasn’t a problem.

smj123 · 2012-11-13T10:20:28.000Z

Giaddon:

I don’t know about its sales numbers, but this isn’t the first time it’s been 75% off.

I may have missed it, but I don’t recall previously seeing all of the add-ons also on sale for 75% off in addition to the main game. Though it would be nice if they packaged it all into one collection to make it a bit easier. I wonder if there are plans for any more add-ons or if that’s it.

Edit: Just noticed there are plans to release another DLC on 11/16, here is the pre-order link on GG with the features: http://www.gamersgate.com/DLC-WLMAA/warlock-master-of-the-arcane-armageddon

Andon · 2012-11-13T11:32:23.000Z

$7.45 for Warlock and all DLC’s at Gamestop after I put it all in the cart together.

Mike_Hussey · 2012-11-13T14:22:22.000Z

smj123:

Edit: Just noticed there are plans to release another DLC on 11/16, here is the pre-order link on GG with the features: http://www.gamersgate.com/DLC-WLMAA/warlock-master-of-the-arcane-armageddon

There’s also a new patch due out on the 15th, according to the Paradox forums.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?646240-Patch-Notes-1.4-(should-go-live-on-15th-of-Nov.)

Giaddon · 2012-11-13T14:32:59.000Z

new game music bundle is up

http://www.gamemusicbundle.com/

worth it for the Dear Esther soundtrack alone; I find it very affecting.

lokiju · 2012-11-13T14:37:04.000Z

Andon:

$7.45 for Warlock and all DLC’s at Gamestop after I put it all in the cart together.

That’s money very well spent! One of my favorite games this year…though I do have a major affinity for turn-based strats.