I do think that the sales serve another purpose; they allow younger gamers to try out different types of games that they might not have ever tried before. Overtime as a new generation grows up I hope that this aspect will continue.
Right now the sales are reaching the saturation point but future kids might be interested in those games. Of course the other side to this is who inherits their parent’s Steam account? That will be interesting to watch; if you inherit then you do not need a sale for the older stuff.
I suppose the same applies to Amazon and iTune et al.
Screw the kids, I want my PC and all my Steam games piled high around my funeral pyre so that I can take them all with me into the afterlife. Maybe then I’ll finally have time to play my backlog.
Oh my, 1C. A company that makes games that look like I should like them, marred by invariably being worse versions of games I actually like. They’re like a bizzaro version of Paradox for me.
Still every time I see them on sale I consider picking them up.
Haha! I know what you mean. 1C games have to kind of grow on you.
That said, this collection has some of their better stuff in it. Fantasy Wars is the precursor to Elven Legacy, and while it’s an older TBS title, it is still a ton of fun. The King’s Bounty games are fantastic and will appeal to fans of the Heroes of Might and Magic series. Reign : Conflict of Nations is an EU-style game that looks very pretty but suffers from some bad design choices. Still, it is an interesting 4X empire builder set in medieval times, so if you like that sort of thing you may be able to overlook the rough edges. XIII Century is like Medieval Total War without the strategic map gameplay. It’s essentially a series of historical medieval tactical battles. There is certainly dozens of hours of entertainment in the 1C Strategy Collection, even if you only play Fantasy Wars and the KB games.