Velvet Assassin for $1.69 on steam. Not that the money isn’t negligible, but is it worth the time sink?
I read nothing but bad reviews for that one.
Great atmosphere but achingly slow, pattern-driven stealth gameplay.
Jab
1967
The Spore Collection including Dark Spore is on sale on Steam today. What was the verdict on Dark Spore? I remember people here saying that it was a flawed gem and to wait for a good enough sale.
I kept repeating, ad naseaum, like to make a point or something, that I wasn’t getting Dark Spore until it was $20. It hit $20, and I got it. It is worth maybe half that. Maybe. So much bland, and who knows how much longer EA is going to support the servers (remember: always online is a GOOD THING).
I wish I could tell you. Dark Spore was completely inoperable for over a month when I purchased the game during an Origin sale last year. The service was new-ish and Dark Spore’s executable didn’t work with Origin so the game wouldn’t connect to any servers. (Online only DRM, blah blah blah.) This went on for weeks because support for the game had basically died even at that time. They actually said this in the official forum.
Spore was a $10 lesson in EA’s support strategy.
I prefer Skylanders to Dark Spore. Similar character drop-in dynamic, and so much better of a game.
edit - and this is coming from someone who loves Spore
Even though I’m broke, I’m getting Spore just to test out the space portion.
I thought Spore was fun. I actually got distracted from it right as I got into the space game and never made it back. For five bucks I might pick it up again just to have it on Steam. This time I’ll have to lay off the design work a little, though. I got way too obsessed with designing my cars and buildings and whatever last time, to the point of getting a little burned out on the game.
Spore for $5 is a decent deal. I agree on that. My kids loved it.
Man, I can’t wait for the Steam Summer Sale. I bet lots of publishers are keeping their powder dry for that one.
I remember when Spore first came out, there was a box copy of Spore at the local Walmart. It was sitting on a store shelf and had a big fist-sized security device wrapped around it with a pulsing green LED light.
It might have been a special edition but I remember the price tag on it was $89.00. I kind of LOL’d when I saw the price and thought it would be kind of funny if some kid grabbed it and made a break with it out the front door and set off the store alarm.
Kind of how I feel. I also expect competing services to have a few hot sale items too.
I’d be interested in knowing, and there may be no way of telling, but is there anything listed on Steam that hasn’t at one time ever been put on sale? This relates a bit to the “cheap games are hurting the industry” thread because my feeling is it’s silly to pay full price for anything on Steam. Sooner or later it will go on sale and I’ve reached the age of patience, so I can wait. I feel the same way about GOG – everything sooner or later is 50% off.
www.steamprices.com tells you the price history, including sales of any game in Steam’s library. Only goes back to Summer '10, but still a pretty decent resource for that kind of info.
On a side note, I see Steam has added Rune to their library - yes, the Nordic TPS from way back - including achievements. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game so old get added with achievements.
I can’t wait to stick it to the industry by giving it some of my money. ;-)
Tim_N
1979
http://www.steamprices.com/au/search?spore
I really can’t understand what I am seeing here. If all of the spore deals were 75% more expensive in the Aus steam store relative to the US one, then I would hate all parties involved but at least understand the pricing from a corporate greed perspective.
The way that it has been done, however, is that some products or combination of products are significantly more expensive (e.g. darkspore), some are only mildly more expensive (e.g. spore complete pack), and even one is the same price as on the US store (leading to the silly result that Spore + Spore: Galactic Adventures is the same price as Spore on its own in the AU steam store).
The only logical explanation is that EA demanded x and y be put at this price for Australians, but didn’t specify the price of certain combinations so Valve tried to be altruistic and set them close or at the US price. If that wasn’t the case, what’s going on with corporations these days, can’t even get greed right (at least, every corporation other than Goldman Sachs).
I bought darkspore for $5. i was mildly interesting in it for a while now but the game was clearly not deserving of much more than the steam price. Hopefully it isn’t as bad as its namesake or i will have wasted my $5.
