jsnell
4833
Doesn’t it always go through Origin, even when bought from Steam?
(I had a ton of fun when we got together a group of eight a couple of times, both with the team death match and the moba. But the single player was pretty forgettable, didn’t care to play it past what was needed to unlock the MP.)
The occasional origin/epic code is even more annoying these days when i just want to push it to my steam deck directly through steam.
Bluddy
4835
Since Squadrons was an Amazon Prime giveaway, and Phoenix Point is IMO a soon-to-be Epic Games giveaway, this month is an insta-pause for me.
Hah hah, that’s a good point, maybe in the next weeks it will be in their weekly giveaway.
RickH
4837
Indeed. Makes we wonder how far in advance these lineups are set. And how annoyed HB must be to see their headliner AA game show up as a giveaway a month before they try to use it as a draw for customers.
Daagar
4838
The trick is to need multiple copies of the games offered (one for you, one for your kids). Then this works out real slick - at least for the co-op/multiplayer stuff!
I admire you as a youtube warrior!
This is so true. I get so much mileage out of leveraging my dupes to gift-guilt my regular co-op crew to try new games with me.
Thanks to everyone who pointed out that Squadrons was a free giveaway recently. I was about to pull the trigger as $8 for Squadrons and Phoenix Point sounded good, then read the comments here, checked my Origin account, and lo and behold, I already own Squadrons (and should have realized this as I’ve been playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition from my Origin account for the past month, but never really looked at my library as I launch from the mod manager).
So…welcome to pausetown for another month. Phoenix Point looks interesting, but I’m willing to bet it will be $8 or less (or bundled with other good stuff) by the end of summer anyway.
Props to Humble for putting together a great bundle again this month though. It’s not their fault someone else stole their thunder by giving away one of the two marquee games a month before the bundle went live.
Your thoughts mirror mine. Nothing else but the two headliners are anything I’m going to devote time to.
Yeah, I was thinking about grabbing it but I realized that I’m unlikely to play it right away and I do expect to see it offered for cheap sooner or later. Might as well wait. It wouldn’t surprise me to see it as an Epic giveaway.
Bluddy
4845
This is going to be a consistent issue. Every game that wants to start its path towards bundletown will go to the highest bidder first, and that’s going to be Amazon and Epic.
This is my ashamed face. Solely for Phoenix Point Year One Edition I let them talk me into buying this month’s bundle for $7.99
Unless I change my mind before Tuesday, that is.
Why are you ashamed about buying a pretty great game for $8?
Well, I kind of started it on Game Pass on the console and wasn’t really feeling it like I did with the OG XCOM (which I played in 2001 or so when it was included on a magazine’s demo disc–remember [both of] those?) and with the two Firaxis games. But I didn’t get very far so maybe it gets better (and apparently does for a lot of people), so it’s worth the risk.
You could have paid $14.99 on Steam, so you chose wisely. :)
Ah crap, I got charged today. I forgot to pause, or at least pretend to pause in order to get a discount. I hope it’s a good bundle, I didn’t really pay close attention this month when it was revealed.
On the bright side, I only owned one of the games in the bundle already (and had access to three on Game Pass).
On the other hand, none of these games were something I would have put on my wishlist.
Silent
4852
I almost picked up the bundle for Gamedec, but I figure it will be given away by Epic or Amazon at some point and nothing else in the bundle jumped out at me so I paused.
