Yeah, I’m sure the millions of people who own consoles but can’t get fast and uncapped Internet in their area love the prospect of spending $10 less for copies of new games that they can’t download.
That is the fly in the ointment, isn’t it? If we lived in South Korea or Japan, no problem, but here?
This problem will fix itself eventually. No one’s Internet ever got slower as the years roll by.
flyinj
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During Black Friday you could get PSN versions of Battlefield 4 and NFS Rivals for as low as $35.
So yes, I think millions of console owners will be very happy to get almost 50% off of new digital games.
Things are only going to get better as more outlets sell digital games.
As far as bandwidth caps, I’m not really sure. I’ve lived in San Francisco and NYC and haven’t had a bandwidth cap. I know the UK has pretty bad ones, but they are slowly being phased out.
No, but the lobbyists in the US and Canada are doing their best to ensure that you’re paying the same or more for your internet service in perpetuity, when it should be getting cheaper.
Connections may not get slower, but we’re seeing ISPs try to push lower and lower caps, and a large number of people live in areas where connections definitely haven’t gotten faster. The best option where I live (farmland in central Illinois) is a 6Mb/s wireless service from a local ISP; that’s uncapped, fortunately, but it’s miserable for downloading anything particularly large, such as, say, a new PS4 game. Before we moved to this provider a couple years back, we were on a ~2Mb/s satellite connection with a 425MB daily cap. Meanwhile, the only Internet options a friend of mine in a rural part of California has are satellite (slow, horribly capped) or an aircard from his cellular provider (slow, even more horribly capped); if he wants to play PC stuff, he has to download it elsewhere and copy it to his desktop. No one will extend cable or DSL service out to him; his options are “deal with it” or “move.”
Paying for better Internet to be able to take advantage of those downloadable games also tends to be more expensive than buying retail games; my crappy connection is $80 a month, and I’ve got relatives in Iowa (in a city, not a rural area!) whose only non-dialup options are all $100 a month minimum (and slower than my home connection). I also happen to know at least one game developer who’s told me the Internet in his apartment in Los Angeles is worse than the numbers I quoted at him for my old satellite connection, so I don’t buy the idea that living in a major city fixes these problems.
Just saw on Slickdeals that you get 20% off for Gamefly with this code: GFDDEC20
Confirmed: coupon code got me Enemy Within for $15.99. Thanks, all!
It seems that the “Beat the Average” system is disabled in this one in lieu of a $6 minimum.
Pretty sure that’s how the weekly sale usually works…which is why they don’t actually mention anything about an average. The “Beat the average” was put in by Telefrog.
habibi
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Apologies but I’ve not been following - XCOM Enemy Within - isn’t it just a DLC with the second wave option turned on? If I already own XCOM, I don’t need this, right?
No, that’s not correct. Enemy Within is a major expansion. The Second Wave options are another variable, unrelated to Enemy Within.
Enemy Within adds a new cyborg soldier class, a new upgrade system that’s unrelated to soldier class, new enemies, an enemy human faction, new items, new research, and a significant number of new maps.
I don’t own it personally yet since I put it on my Christmas wish list.
Think of it a bit like a Civ expansion. The meld adds a new game dynamic at both the tactical and strategic levels as well as more maps and missions with the covert ops etc.
robc04
4476
Would the XCom expansion be worthwhile to someone who enjoyed their first playthrough of XCOM, but got bored with their second playthrough pretty quickly? From what I’ve heard about it, I don’t think it would be enough to make me want to play through it again, but maybe I’m wrong?
meeper
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IMO, Enemy Within adds enough to make a second play-through interesting - it certainly has for me. Its weakest point is that all the new gadgets show up in the first half of the game and the second half is the same old slog as Enemy Unknown, albeit with more death.
Blah. Gamefly’s PC site breaks in Chrome - going to check out lands you back on the console rental service site with nothing in your cart. I had to load it in IE to make it work. :P
Granath
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Malkav, you may want to reinstall Chrome. I use Gamefly’s site in Chrome on two different PCs in my house with no difficulty.
Reemul
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Not any longer re caps, it really boils down to monthly cost. If you want to pay £10 a month for your 16 meg line you will get capped depending on provider. I pay more and get uncapped at 120meg. There is plenty of choice for everyone.
That really, really isn’t true.
