You and I must have very different tastes in games! I thought this was the best month in a while, and that’s taking into account that I already had two of them (Iron Harvest and Retrowave).
stusser
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Sure, yes, it only tracks your activity on the browser with the addon installed and enabled.
As I said previously, I have only even heard of Mafia and Iron Harvest, and I don’t $12 want Iron Harvest, I probably won’t ever play it as I don’t really get into RTS as a genre.
In contrast, for some reason RTS games fascinate me even though I’m manifestly TERRIBLE at them. It doesn’t help that I was already in my 30s by the time I discovered them in the 1990s so I didn’t have the teenage lightning reflexes then, and they’ve only gotten worse since then.
The only way I can play an RTS campaign at all is if it lets me pause and give orders, as Company of Heroes does (here’s hoping they still have that in the third game).
Don’t know about edge, but with Chrome on desktop you can setup a separate user profile that uses its own set extensions.
Well, I do have 2 profiles on Chrome, so maybe that would work.
Thanks everyone for the feedback and information.
I don’t know about Honey, but most Chrome extensions put an icon in the top right hand corner which if you right click on you can disable/enable easily. Might be too much micro, but disable the extension and only enable it when you are at a checkout page you think it might have a voucher for.
I don’t mind tracking data in exchange for a free, useful service as long as it isn’t personally identifiable and I can opt out/control the data as I feel necessary such as by using another browser, turning it off, or uninstalling it. I don’t know about you guys, but I instinctively use Google search for coupon codes when I see a spot for one; said data is collected by a company right then.
On the flip side, I don’t necessarily trust that’s all they’re doing (I don’t know the technical side of their app/extension) and it doesn’t necessarily provide me with enough of a benefit to have yet one more company with my data because it’s just not that time consuming to personally check with the places I frequent.
stusser
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There’s no such thing as “anonymous” data unless they use differential privacy to aggregate usage data.
Streak broken after all:
So I got Midnight Protocol and Iron Harvest for $8 and that ain’t bad.
Ended up biting on this bundle, mostly for Mars Horizon, but I’ll give several of these a try:
Thraeg
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Hah, I was seriously considering doing the same thing this month (mainly for Midnight Protocol), but hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Woke up to an offer to come back for just this month for $6. Procrastination pays off!
Daagar
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A little disappointing that playing games with the pause/unpause gives folks discounts, but consistent subscribers just get fleeced :)
Maybe I didn’t get far enough into RG to hear all the music but it seemed too Country-oriented for my tastes. Also I kept hearing the same tracks repeated too often.
For space games I prefer an orchestral soundtrack if possible. The YouTuber known as MetalCanyon (who I think is Polish–I listened to some earlier videos of his and picked up on a Slavic accent) did a Let’s Play of the the original Rebel Galaxy with some stirring orchestral stuff and it really made it something special.
Rebel Galaxy’s soundtrack is mostly blues and blues rock, which is why it’s fantastic.
stusser
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You can set it to play your own music library, just in case it’s 2002 and you still have MP3s laying around.
Yup. I supplemented with yet more blues and blues rock, personally, but one can add and subtract anything they like. Huzzah for owning copies of music.
It was decent, not my first choice of music (especially for a space game), but was there more of it than I would have heard in 20 hours or so–did some more “unlock” later? Because that was the thing that got me, was the too-frequent repetition of the same few tracks. Thankfully RGO had much more (and more varied) music.
Yeah, I have a lot of music on my HDD, but not enough of the kind I’d like for space games, alas. I need to get hold of a good recording of Holst’s The Planets and Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra, that sort of thing. I also adored the Elite Dangerous OST – not too crazy about the game these days, but it definitely wasn’t any fault of the music. Another series I’ve generally liked the music for was the X games by Egosoft.
