Bargain Thread 2013

[KaoFloppy]

Just waiting for someone to chime in about the Dragon Commander game, then we’ll all save a bunch this weekend by buying nothing!
(But hey, One Finger Death Punch is only $2 (-0%). Just not on Steam.)

[Thraeg]

With all the money you save by passing on the Steam sales, this week’sHumble Saleseems like a pretty good one:

Cities XL Platinum
Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition
Divinity II: Developer’s Cut
R.A.W. Realms of Ancient War
Game of Thrones
Confrontation

Pay $6 or more to unlock two more games!
Wargame: European Escalation
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

[MrPerson]

With all the money you save by passing on the Steam sales, this week’sHumble Saleseems like a pretty good one:

Are any of those good? I recognize a couple as having pretty bad reviews.

[malkav11]

Divinity II is great. Blood Bowl is very good (but that’s an outdated edition in a franchise that does full reups like a sports game instead of expansions or DLC). Wargame is supposedly very good (but superseded by AirLand Battle). Game of Thrones is reputedly a good story with mediocre game execution.

[Profanicus]

Do yourself a favor and pass on StarDrive. It’s mostly a wreck with neat ideas that were never developed and is now being abandoned to code roughly the same game in a new engine. Good luck figuring out that decision. That after months of tiny little patches that went off on all sorts of tangents without fixing core gameplay problems and technical issues.

Yes, very disappointing. I was hoping it would get fixed but I am certainly in no hurry to buy a new version to (possibly) see those fixes.

[BrianRubin]

Do yourself a favor and pass on StarDrive. It’s mostly a wreck with neat ideas that were never developed and is now being abandoned to code roughly the same game in a new engine. Good luck figuring out that decision. That after months of tiny little patches that went off on all sorts of tangents without fixing core gameplay problems and technical issues.

+1. It’s a shame it’ll never truly be fixed.

[Becoming]

Word of warning:

Almost all Capcom PC games are Games for Windows Live, which means none of them will work in February unless Capcom patches GFWL out. Which seems extremely unlikely to happen given Capcom’s support record.

From what I’ve gathered, the Ultra update/expansion will switch SSFIV to Steam only. So it seems like a safe bet, but when dealing with Capcom communication is, as typical, fairly lacking anything concrete.

[biosc1]

Word of warning:

Almost all Capcom PC games are Games for Windows Live, which means none of them will work in February unless Capcom patches GFWL out. Which seems extremely unlikely to happen given Capcom’s support record.

Hey now, maybe some of us need some motivation to actually play the games we buy ;)

[Giaddon]

Also, there’s no reason to think GFWL goes down in Feb. The only date I’ve seen is July 1, though Microsoft hasn’t confirmed that.

[Brad_Grenz]

Amazon’s new deals of the week include Street Fighter X Tekken for $7.49, or a complete version with DLC for $14.99. They also have the Tomb Raider reboot for $9.99. These unlock on Steam.

[Telefrog]

Word of warning:

Almost all Capcom PC games are Games for Windows Live, which means none of them will work in February unless Capcom patches GFWL out. Which seems extremely unlikely to happen given Capcom’s support record.

Except for SSFIVA. They plan to update the game when they release the “Ulitmate” DLC for $15.

If you don’t buy SSFIVA now and upgrade later, Ultimate SSFIVA will be $40.

[corkeh]

The Golden Joystick Awards thing seems to be working now.

[charmtrap]

The Golden Joystick Awards thing seems to be working now.

Well…sort of. I get the feeling this is on the same server as Obamacare exchanges.

[Granath]

Steam deal of the day is StarDrive $10.19 (-66%). A space 4X game that doesn’t have the words Galactic or Master in its name?

This game must really be lousy. They’re currently removing every negative post against the game in the Steam forums and banning anyone who doesn’t give it positive remarks.

[BrianRubin]

This game must really be lousy. They’re currently removing every negative post against the game in the Steam forums and banning anyone who doesn’t give it positive remarks.

Gah, really? Fucking pathetic.

[TimJames]

This game must really be lousy. They’re currently removing every negative post against the game in the Steam forums and banning anyone who doesn’t give it positive remarks.

I had to see for myself. I saw three locked threads in the community forums. One suggested everyone play a competitor’s game, one was someone returning from a ban after accusing the developer of running a scam, and one suggested it was a “fraud” to charge $10 for the game in its current state.

I wouldn’t blame them in any other industry, but these are kids and videogames and the Internet. You have to let people get it out of their systems. Besides, the diehards will stick up for the game eventually.

[Mark_Asher]

Divinity II is great. Blood Bowl is very good (but that’s an outdated edition in a franchise that does full reups like a sports game instead of expansions or DLC). Wargame is supposedly very good (but superseded by AirLand Battle). Game of Thrones is reputedly a good story with mediocre game execution.

Of course the way to look at this is you can get Divinity II, Blood Bowl Legendary Edition, and Game of Thrones for $1. It’s hard to pass on that if those games sound even a little interesting. I’ve always been interested in Blood Bowl so that alone was enough to get me to pull the trigger.

[Granath]

I had to see for myself. I saw three locked threads in the community forums. One suggested everyone play a competitor’s game, one was someone returning from a ban after accusing the developer of running a scam, and one suggested it was a “fraud” to charge $10 for the game in its current state.

I wouldn’t blame them in any other industry, but these are kids and videogames and the Internet. You have to let people get it out of their systems. Besides, the diehards will stick up for the game eventually.

Threads aren’t being locked, they’re being deleted. I was keeping tabs on the thread last night while watching the Louisville game and it had to be more than 20 threads were outright deleted in just a couple of hours. Since I don’t own the game, I don’t have a big stake in this. But deleting any negative comment in order to make the forums look good while the game is on Steam sale (and we know that sales like result in large increases in units moved) strikes me as a distasteful money grab.

[Giaddon]

Dead Space sale at Greenman Gaming. $5 each for the first two, $15 for the third.

[rezaf]

Threads aren’t being locked, they’re being deleted. I was keeping tabs on the thread last night while watching the Louisville game and it had to be more than 20 threads were outright deleted in just a couple of hours. Since I don’t own the game, I don’t have a big stake in this. But deleting any negative comment in order to make the forums look good while the game is on Steam sale (and we know that sales like result in large increases in units moved) strikes me as a distasteful money grab.

This kind of policed feedback is always a bad thing, but personally, I thought SD wasn’t so bad, the best of all the recent mediocre 4x titles.
However, in some areas the game is clearly a bit unpolished and even unfinished - the worst offense the game commits is being good enough to see it’s potential if a number of changes were made.
Unfortunately, the developer has been twiddling his thumbs for the most part since the game was released - there were some patches with minor stuff improved, but the areas where improvements are needed the most lie dormant.
Worth a tenner in my book. I paid $25’ish and am ok with it - though not delighted. I’d feel better having paid $50 but a real MoO-successor on hand.

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