Bargain Thread 2012 Edition

Durns · 2012-12-20T06:34:18.000Z

That is my new favorite Gaben gif applauds

Mysterio · 2012-12-20T06:46:45.000Z

New** GMG voucher:

A 30% voucher is available across a great range of PC Download titles* - snap it up quickly as it expires on Thursday 3rd January 2013 at 12GMT.

Simply copy the following voucher code and paste into the ‘Voucher box’ when at Check Out.

GMG30-DPLIM-DN831

PC Download games only, some titles may be excluded. Cannot be used in conjunction with another voucher. Voucher expires 03/01/13 at 12:00 GMT

** At least I think it’s new!

intruder · 2012-12-20T06:50:51.000Z

The code is new and it pushes “Borderlands 2 Season Pass” to 21 EUR for example.
Cheapest I have seen apart from the brief glitch at Steam when it was available for 9.99 EUR until it was fixed (missed that one).

WarrenD · 2012-12-20T08:05:08.000Z

Legume:

A warning about Jade Empire:

I bought it on a Steam sale a couple of years ago. There is apprently no way to get it to run under Vista. I do not know if it will run under Win 7 or 8.

FWIW I bought Jade Empire last year and it ran fine on my Vista64 system.

ScottyA · 2012-12-20T08:39:15.000Z

Do Battlefront games ever go on sale? I’d like to own the newer Battles for Normandy but I’m not paying full price with that shitty DRM scheme in place.

Musashi · 2012-12-20T08:42:22.000Z

The Bird Flu:

Do Battlefront games ever go on sale? I’d like to own the newer Battles for Normandy but I’m not paying full price with that shitty DRM scheme in place.

Shitty DRM scheme? Do tell…

ScottyA · 2012-12-20T08:50:10.000Z

Musashi:

Shitty DRM scheme? Do tell…

I think Battlefront games have a limited number of online activations? Did they get rid of that or something? If so, that combined with payed patches pretty much guarantees I will never buy anything at full price from them.

Scuzz · 2012-12-20T08:52:37.000Z

“paid patches”…your kidding, right?

scharmers · 2012-12-20T08:55:08.000Z

Scuzz:

“paid patches”…your kidding, right?

Nope. The earlier Combat Missions don’t work under Vista-forward. Battlefront patched the games… but asked for $5 for the patches.

Kind of when I stopped worrying about Battlefront games as well, to be honest.

ScottyA · 2012-12-20T09:00:53.000Z

I see they just released a $10 “upgrade” for CM recently. I suppose you could think of it as DLC but it sure looks like a patch to me. Gah. I’d really like to play Battle for Normandy too.

Edit: Sorry for the small derail.

Kildar · 2012-12-20T09:04:00.000Z

scharmers:

Nope. The earlier Combat Missions don’t work under Vista-forward. Battlefront patched the games… but asked for $5 for the patches.

Kind of when I stopped worrying about Battlefront games as well, to be honest.

It probably took a lot of man-hours to recode the games to run in post windows xp environments. I can’t blame them for charging for the use of their time but i would have approached things differently -----> released a gold pack or something with discounts for past owners to upgrade, new maps to go with the patch so at least the old owners won’t feel shafted for paying for patches.

Paul_cze · 2012-12-20T09:20:09.000Z

Ridge Racer Unbounded and Rayman Origins are both 7 dollars on GMG (each).

Yay or nay?

Rock8man · 2012-12-20T09:30:10.000Z

Paul_cze:

Ridge Racer Unbounded and Rayman Origins are both 7 dollars on GMG (each).

Yay or nay?

Rayman Origins is arguably the best 2D platformer ever made. It’s also $10 on Xbox Live today. Whichever one you get be sure to play it with a controller.

Legume · 2012-12-20T09:37:06.000Z

WarrenD:

FWIW I bought Jade Empire last year and it ran fine on my Vista64 system.

Based on your post, I just downloaded it again. It still won’t run (crashes on attempt to open) on my Vista64 machine. This is in spite of the fact that I have completely reinstalled Vista and all updates since the last time I tried it.

Telefrog · 2012-12-20T09:44:45.000Z

About 15 minutes until the big show.

unbongwah · 2012-12-20T09:45:44.000Z

lordkosc:

Must - look - away - from - hypnotic - beard!

WarrenM · 2012-12-20T09:46:05.000Z

SirTomster · 2012-12-20T09:48:54.000Z

GamersGate doing their End of Year sale too.

http://www.gamersgate.com/?aff=ggnews

Daily deals and such.

Today’s deals:

Syndicate $5.09
Mass Effect $4.99
Fallout 3 GOTY $4.99
Crysis 2 Maxmimum Editon $13.58

Plus other deals. Very Steamlike.

BrianRubin · 2012-12-20T09:49:38.000Z

WarrenM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bUo1PgKksgw

THAT is awesome.

jaygittings · 2012-12-20T09:55:38.000Z

T minus 5 and counting.