3641

X360 Simpsons for $8 and X360 Crackdown for $14 = sold!

3642

Awesome! I was waiting for a sale. I’ll buy it when I get home.

3643

Picked it up. Figured $5 was a steal, and got it with their Unreal 3 Black Edition sale. Not bad for $17.

I hate Steam.

— Alan

3644

Valve should really find a way to just make Steam my OS already. I don’t really need anything else.

3645

I love the convenience factor of Steam but there is much about the implementation that I hate. Some of it I hate a lot.

Example: Just tried to buy World of Goo. For some reason the order won’t go through, I keep getting an error:

“There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance.”

Ok, that sucks… I guess I’ll contact support. So I go to their support page and it tells me to get Steam support I need to create a Steam Support Account… in addition to the Steam account I already have. Holy fuck, that’s dumb! Dumb, dumb, dumb!

3646

Yeah, the Steam support system is ridiculous. I had a problem with buying some merch from their store, and it took a very long time to get sorted out.

3647

Damn you all

Another game purchased. I think I have bought 4 in the past month due to specials mentioned here.

Including now Goo.

And not sure when I will actually play them.

Damn you all. Oh and Damn me for being such a weak member of humanity.

3648

Firaxis is working on a patch, but no sign of release. There is a modpatch though that fixes many of the things that the official patch will address.

Haven’t used it, but it might be worth a look.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=10965

3649

Littlebigplanet - £12.95 save (71%)

http://www.shopto.net/PS3/GAMES/PS3LI00-LittleBigPlanet.html

3650

So I went looking at the Best Buys near me today. Both of them had Crysis, but not Crysis Warhead. So instead of checking other Best Buys, I came home and checked online. Apparently none of the Best Buys within 100 miles of here have Crysis Warhead. Grrrrr. Oh well, I guess I should go back and at least get Crysis.

3651

I bought UT3 on Steam but the server’s are too busy to let me download it it. All day.

3652

Took me a day and a half (including the Steam update released late yesterday) but finally nabbed it all.

— Alan

3653

Heh, I stopped by 2 BB’s yesterday and today and both had multiple copies of Warhead but not Crysis! Balls.

At least the coupon is good for another week. Maybe they’ll get some more in a few days.

3654

Actually interested in Warhead and RA3, but still too pissed at the DRM to buy them for $10 each. If RA3 at least was able to be tied to Steam via the key (Since the Steam version doesn’t have limited activations) I’d go for it, but damn.

3655

I did go to BB to get RA3. Crappy DRM and all. But they were out. So others saved me from the DRM.

Guess I will wait until Steam has it for $10ish.

3656

Ye gods. Apparently Red Alert 3 had the limited activations patched out of the retail version. Guess I’ll probably pick that up then. Looks like Warhead is still crusty though.

3657

That is foolish. The game is a lot of fun, and probably by the time it’s $10 the only people online will be aces, or the multiplayer will be dead.

3658

Don’t trust the online stock checker. Word from BB employees is that the checker is programmed to report zero stock once the in-store stock reaches three or so. Even if that’s not true, many are reporting in-store stock even when online shows none.

EDIT: Check behind other titles on the shelf, as well, as some people have been hiding these titles behind other titles.

3659

I did that at the 3 Best Buys I went to. Checked the shelves again and again, and then asked someone to verify for me that they didn’t have any. All 3 places, the same result.

By the way, so far Crysis is just amazing on High settings. This is nothing like the demo I tried when I still had my old video card, where rocks were popping into existence a few feet in front of me. This game looks amazing.

3660

While on the topic of Best Buy, I wonder if anyone else has run into this, or if it’s a local thing.

New release games never seem to get stocked on the shelves lately. Went in Friday night on the way home from work to pick up MLB: The Show 09 (PS3) and / or Empire:Total War (PC). Neither was on the shelves, and I looked all around their respective sections and on endcaps, etc. in case they were elsewhere. No dice. Both games showed up “in stock” on the website. Couldn’t find a salesdroid in the section.

Last year, when Pro Evo Soccer 09 came out for PS3, I saw the same thing. The newest BB didn’t have it, despite it showing in stock on the website. Checked with my usual one the next day, not on the shelf. Lo and behold, I did see it in the new glass case they had in the PS3 section, and managed to get it after an extended period of finding a salesdroid, then him finding the one that had a key to the case.

And yeah, I looked for E:TW and The Show in the glass cases this time. Sigh. One of the positives for BB was that they tended to put the games on the shelf when they had it. Go in, pick up, go to register,go home, play.

EB / Gamestop requires going into one of their stores in the first place, a minus, and after waiting on the teenagers ahead of you to trade in 12 games you get to have the clerk find your game disc that they so thoughtfully removed from the package. And of course not much luck in finding anything for the PC at one these days.

CompUSA often times had a new game out on the floor, but often in a display or endcap nowhere near the game section. Almost, but not quite, as good as BB. Slower checkout was the main minus here if you didn’t have to hunt for the game. Of course no longer an option.

Circuit City, which I only used when they had something on sale, was a nightmare. Titles were haphazardly placed on the shelves in the PC section, meaning the game might be there but good luck finding it. Sometimes new releases were at the register, sometimes somewhere else, and nobody you talked to had a fucking clue where. Then of course it took forever and a day to check out IF the game could be located. I wasn’t the least bit surprised they went under.

Target, oddly enough, is often the most painless experience these days. Console stuff is locked up, but it’s generally easy to find someone to open the case, and you can easily see what they have. PC stuff is out on the shelf and easy to find. The only negative is they don’t have the selection that others have, so if it’s not a AAA title they might not have it at all.