biosc1
3201
I’ve never had trouble connecting…just fired it up now through Steam. Launches uPlay, but fires up fine.
As noted in the item description, this will only be Final Fantasy X HD, as the Vita version of Final Fantasy X-2 HD is digital-only.
Also, the collection was $20 new for Black Friday, and a good bit before that (when I picked it up new at GameStop), so this wouldn’t be an especially good deal even if it did include both games.
RickH
3204
I’m not so sure, renters can only get the cart, but GameFly has always included the original download codes with every other used game. The original packaging, including d/l codes is usually untouched.
Oh, it does say on the page itself that it includes the X-2 HD code. Still, we’re talking about $2 in savings over a new copy from, say, Amazon. The free shipping with no price threshold or membership requirement is a plus, though.
Did anyone check out tomorrows deal on the Microsoft store?
Makes me wish I had an x box.
corkeh
3207
Gamestop is having a sale on their used stuff, buy 2 get 1 under $20 free. Picked up Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen, Ico/SOTC collection, and Skate 2 for myself.
Their used 360 Kinects are $15 each (without the power supply) in case you wanted to do some hacking with it. I think it even counts as a pre-owned thing for the discount too.
I think I’m in the same boat as charlatan.
I wouldn’t even know how to sell my little cards if I wanted to… (I’ve imagined that it was some sort of MMORPG-esque auction house, but maybe there’s just a simple ‘sell’ button on my inventory page somewhere?)
Maybe I’ll actually try to figure it out during the Christmas sale this year, but I’ve gathered that there’s also some ‘crafting’ component involved and that’s probably beyond my ken.
[edit for sales:
I haven’t seen anyone post the Humble Weekly Bundle yet, which includes a bunch of IceBerg published games.
The BTA price includes Stardrive for the cheapest I’ve ever seen it (currently $3.56) plus a spacey TBS game named ‘Horizon’ (which I’ve never heard of).
Yep. Click on a card, and click ‘sell’. You then need to enter an amount to sell it for, it shows you the average price and a sales graph.
GOG.com has a number of specials. Notable (to me) was a City Builder Bundle that includes Caesar 3, Pharaoa+Cleopatra, Zeus+Poseidon (Acropolis) and Children of the Nile Complete for $7.16. Individual games are $1.99.
You’re missing out on DOLLARS of sales! The twenty-thirty cards that are rotting in your inventory could be one, maybe two Humble Bundles you could have gotten for free. :)
Am I the only one who thinks Valve is trying to get people to drop all their cards because they’re going to do something similar to what they did this past Summer Sale, where cards were used to score points for your team, yadda yadda yadda.
And this way, if people get rid of all their cards, they’re going to have to go buy/trade for more of them so they can compete in whatever the Winter Sale’s gimmick is going to be.
Groupees has a new Build a Greenlight bundle:
[ul][li]Abyss Uncharted[/li][li]Aero Quest[/li][li]Copy Kitty[/li][li]Ethereon[/li][li]HeShe[/li][li]Missing Translation[/li][li]ROGUS[/li][li]Super Rocket Shootout[/li][li]Tenshu General[/li][li]Terra Incognita[/ul][/li]
I haven’t heard of these, any worth picking up?
Not just you. The sale card badge is already craftable, with no extra rewards, so they might be using something else this time around.
An economics friend is convinced they’ll be releasing new Series 2 card sets and giving metarewards for crafting those. Only items from a select few games are worth lots of gems. All the ones that aren’t F2P/retired are almost guaranteed to be promoted during the sale. Gemming will eat up most of their old community stuff, making the remaining “valuable” collectibles.
I hope whatever they’re doing won’t involve the marketplace as much as the last one.
Thraeg
3214
So… trading cards seem to be worth an average of 20 gems … and every game I’m remotely interested in has a current bid of 15,000 or more. Somehow I don’t think I’m going to wind up with anything from this.
malkav11
3215
The auction is entirely pointless. You’d have to buy stuff in the market to be able to compete at all, and I would be surprised if you got particularly good deals if you did. About the only thing I can see doing in relation to it is gemming some of the badge rewards (backgrounds and emoticons and such), which are typically worth more like 40-100 gems, and turning them into boosters. But even there it seems like I’d have to scotch most of the ones I have to get one or two boosters and I’m not really that interested in a few extra cards. I wish you could gem completely useless inventory crap like coupons for games you already have, or Dead Island Epidemic beta invites, or items for F2P games I’m never going to play. But no.
I’m assuming someone found another exploit, because Gems are still worth about $0.01 in terms of trading card value, and bids for current games are 60,000 - 70,000 gems, which translates to $600 - $700. Unless you have a way of making gems out of nothing, you’re once again better off just selling your stuff and buying the games for cash.
Yeah, um, the high bid on Beyond Earth is 72,100 gems, which according to math is something like $710. So that should tell you everything you need to know.
Otagan
3218
That math is really, really off. If you liquidated emoticons ($.05 for 80 gems) you can get to 72K for $45. It would be considerably less if the liquidated items were purchased for less.
The $0.01 per gem value assumes you’re crafting trading cards into badges and then converting the results into gems. It didn’t occur to me to look at the market to see what you could purchase and convert into gems. Yeah, if you’re paying $0.05 for 80 gems, it’s $0.000625 / gem, and 72k gems is $45. Still more than I’d want to bid for Beyond Earth, since there have been better sale prices than that.
In general, I’d say that unless you have a crapton of emoticons and backgrounds you want to scrap, you’re still better off just waiting for a sale.
Squee
3220
Keep in mind the actual auction hasn’t started yet (Starts on the 15th) and then runs every 45 minutes. This is just people going nuts bidding in the first copies of everything (Which everything has 100 copies) because they don’t know what they’re doing I guess.
It is a really stupid event though, no doubt.
