3221

Lightning Deal on Borderlands Pre Sequel $25, multiple platforms - not PC.

3222

Gems are marketable on Steam now. Currently ~70 cents / 1000.

Sold all mine for enough to buy the games I was bidding on during the sale instead of that nonsense.

3223

70 cents / 1000 tracks implies 80-gem items are worth about 5.6 cents. Same ballpark.

EDIT: I decided the best way to take advantage of this was to sell the crap items I had in my inventory. I don’t care about emoticons or backgrounds.

3224

I originally read that as “I don’t care about emotions” and had a terminator I know now why you cry but it is a thing I can never do joke ready to go. Having re-read your post, you shall never hear it.

凸(⊙▂⊙)凸

3225

Sense offender! I must report you to the Grammaton Clerics now.

3226

The top bid for the Steam Holiday Profile is now at just over 1 million gems. At .05/80 gems, that works out to about $629. For a profile that will vanish from the user’s inventory on January 16th.

3227

I really liked that film–up to the point where they obviously ran out of money to shoot a proper ending.

3228

Assassin’s Creed Unity: $29.99 on Amazon.

3229

Is the patch to make it work included, or additional paid DLC?

3230

Any Americanskis able to buy that sucker for me, a poor ol’ Canuckistani? I’ll Paypal you the USD$. The fake billing address trick stopped working recently for Canadians using .com for digital downloads. PM me.

3231

There is no paid DLC for Assassin’s Creed Unity at this point, just the China side-scroller game.

3232

There are still in-game purchases. It is completely optional and IMHO unnecessary, but you can buy things in-game if you want.

The actual singleplayer mission DLC that was going to be part of the Season Pass is now free to everyone.

3233

Dance Central 3 is ~10$ now on Xbox.

New 2$ indie gala.
https://www.indiegala.com/

Two hidden object games by Artifex Mundi that haven’t been bundled before. Most of the good ones on Steam are theirs.

[ul][li]Chess 2[/li][li]Guns n Zombies (wasn’t terrible)[/li][li]Left in the Dark[/li][li]Northmark[/li][li]Reversion chapter 2[/li][*]Time Mysteries 3[/ul]

3234

Amazon discounts via Cheapassgamer. Highlights: Wolfenstein PS4 for $15, Last of Us PS4 $30, Shadow of Mordor XB1 $28.

Best Buy has buy 1, get one 40% off for WiiU, Sunset Overdrive and Forza Horizon XB1 for $35, also has Last of Us PS4 for $30.

3235

Shadows of Mordor XB1 for $28? Sunset Overdrive for $35? Damn, why can’t these be prices for the digital versions? I just hate switching discs, but those are the kind of prices I was waiting for. And also time. I was waiting until I had time to play them. Hits forehead. Can’t forget that part.

3236

Bundle Stars has a Lord of the Rings bundle for $10. Both Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Lego games, as well as some other stuff. It’s mostly a rehash of a bundle they ran a few months ago, but there it is.

3237

The Humble Store holiday sale continues. Some good deals today, including:

[ul]
[li]Saints Row Franchise Pack : SR2, SR3 + SR4 with ALL DLC for both 3 & 4 - $13.74 for the next 8 hours. That is a NICE deal.[/li][li]Total War Rome 2 - $14.98 (cheapest it’s been yet)[/li][li]Grim Dawn - $14.99 (ditto…)[/li][li]ShadowRun DragonFall - $7.49[/li][li]Titan Quest Gold - $2.99 (old school!)[/li][li]Dungeon Siege - $1.74 (older school!)[/li][li]Valiant Hearts : The Great War - $7.49[/li][li]LEGO Marvel Superheroes - $4.99[/li][li]Legend of Grimrock II - $15.59[/li][/ul]

3238

Rock8man, given Microsoft’s track record with digital discounts, you’re not likely to see those prices for digital copies any time soon. If you want a lower price on an Xbox game, your options for a long time have been to suck it up and deal with switching discs, or wait a year (or two) for it to get cheaper digitally.

3239

Well, I’ll give you one example where waiting would have been way better. When Metro 2033 and Last Light reduxes came out, I bought the $50 pack, thinking there wouldn’t be a good deal on the digital editions any time soon. A month or two later they were on sale for half price. D’oh! I haven’t even started them yet.

3240

I still don’t understand the inability to drop digital prices aggressively. I can’t imagine that the publishers make less than a retail copy for selling online, so that’s not the issue. And I can’t really believe that Amazon is doing things like selling for a loss to drive people to come to their website. So I’m left with the conclusion that Amazon periodically goes “Y’know what, we’ve got excess inventory space being taken up, let’s sell at a thin margin until these things are trimmed down.”

Of course, Microsoft could sell at the same thin margin, take the digital money, and have what they wanted originally but people bitched about: A one-time purchase, non-resellable copy. Instead, they keep prices set at MSRP while physical discs undercut them and put more recyclable copies out there. Bizarre… truly bizarre. (This is doubly compounded by Best Buy’s recent silly cheap $40 buy-in for a 2 year 20% off all games membership. So at this point, a new game costs me $48 on disc, or $60 digitally. WTF?)

Hell, if MS just pricematched the big box stores and Amazon/Newegg I’d buy everything digitally. I guess the problem is there’s still no retail chain to sell the consoles if they piss off the box stores.

I’d really kind of like to get Destiny before everyone’s already capped out completely and the lower levels are complete solo fodder, but I don’t want it on disc really because it’s the type of game that I pop in to play a round of then go to something else, so that’s two disc swaps. So I guess I’ll just wait for it to go on sale digitally and decide whether or not I’m still compelled enough to buy it then.