Yeah for real. If I were dying to play a WW2 shooter I’d go for it but I’m in the middle of a big backlog so there’s no real need.
King’s Bounty is tempting but I’m not sure about GamersGate. Not to mention that I am overloaded with strategy games.
You make it sound like that’s a bad thing.
Cubit
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o wow, good deal. a perfect chance to take a look.
GG also has King’s Bounty for $9.99. Dear lord my free time will be gone…
http://gamersgate.com/index.php?page=product&what=view&sku=DD-KB
Thanks for the heads up.
This is my first time ordering from GG. Not a good experience thus far. They don’t take Discover. And they rejected my Visa card, which I just checked worked fine when I ordered something at Amazon, but I finally was able to buy it through my Paypal account. Hopefully the rest of the process will go smoother.
Gamersgate is not based in the US and neither is their credit card processor. Some banks have a problem processing transactions through Paynova.
God damn Lehman Brothers.
OK, this Gamersgate experience is so bad, it’s almost comical at this point. So initially I downloaded some kind of downloader which downloads King’s Bounty. That’s fine. About midway through it encountered an error, so when i came back to my computer, I found I had to manually unpause the download to keep downloading it. Ok, that’s understandable I guess. When it was done, it gave me a licensing agreement which I could say yes or no to. If I said yes, it started installing Kings Bounty on my C: Drive!
WTF? I don’t think I even have enough room on there. So I cancel the installation. It gives me three options. Either I can try to install again, or I can not try again but keep temporary files, or not try again and not keep temporary files. First I try installing again. Again, the licensing agreement and the C: drive install. So I cancel again and say I don’t want to keep temporary files either, not realizing that by temporary files, they mean everything that’s taken several hours to download! Jeez. Part of it is just my unfamiliarity with their system and jargon I guess, but I’m definitely leaning towards never buying from Gamersgate again.
rei
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I bet you’ve used up a few of your limited activation tokens by those failed attempts too if GamersGate works that way.
Totally agree there. I have only put in something around an hour and I can already tell it’s going to be a slog if I play too much. I can really see the fun in those short play bursts though and the price was perfect.
Damn thread is making me poor as hell…
croman
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After playing FC2 for the past couple hours ( Finally!! a game I could jump on during the Ubisoft sale) , I’d say for $15 it’s probably one of the better sales Steam has had in quite a while, regardless of play bursty styles.
Semi-new, decent game, and $15. Can’t ask for more (IMHO).
Never used Gamersgate before, but this is in their Help link:
[I]Where are my downloads stored?
The game is stored in a folder named “GamersGate temporary files” at the storage area you have set in the preferences for the browser. After the download is complete you will be asked if you want to remove the files or not.[/I]
[I]Do you use SecuRom or any other protection on the games?
Yes, some games got some kind of protection. That is on request from developers and publishers. However, the activation limit that may be on this protection is easy reset by an email to support@gamersgate.com. ANY GAME BOUGHT ON GG IS YOURS TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL AS MANY TIMES YOU LIKE![/I]
So tell me: who enjoys jumping through these ridiculous hoops just to play a game? (Sit down and shut up, Mr. Developer, you’re living in an alternate reality.)
Procula
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Can anyone recommend Universe at War? Judging from some reviews the campaign seems pretty mediocre. I have to imagine that the online community for this one is fairly limited as well. I wonder if it’s worth the time? $4.99 for an rts developed by the guys from the old red alert games sounds pretty reasonable though.
Well, just to clarify, I knew the temporary files folder was in my G: drive, where I downloaded the initial file, but when it asked if I wanted to delete the temporary files, I thought it meant the files it might have expanded as part of an installer, not the files it had spent all this time downloading.
Also, the screen with the licensing agreement had a greyed out “Advanced” button that I failed to notice because of the color scheme. That button allowed me to change where it would attempt to install the game. So technically everything was my fault, I guess. I’m still hesitant to recommend it to other people, but thinking about it objectively, these are problems anyone could have the first they used GG, but probably never again. I’m not liable to forget where the advanced button is next time, or that I can only use Paypal, or that by temporary files, they mean all the files they’ve just downloaded. So I won’t run into any of these problems if I ever use GG again, to be fair.
$4.99 isn’t a bad price for it, but your enjoyment at that price will vary based on your ability to handle complete mediocrity.
First, the game’s singleplayer campaign is utterly boring and forgettable. This coming from a guy that loves his singleplayer RTS campaigns. Generic doesn’t even begin to describe the experience.
Second, GFWL is required. Yeah, GFWL isn’t in the sorry and broken state it was when this game came out, but there’s still no good reason to require it.
Finally, multiplayer is an empty and barren wasteland. Even when this game was new, you were lucky to find 2 or 3 other people playing. There is no online community for this game.
$4.99 though, right?
I picked mine up, boxed, for about $5.99 some time ago. Which makes it even more of a bargain than $4.99, because the retail version comes with a card for a free month of Live service. Unless, of course, I can’t stack that card on top of my existing service… I should really give that a try one of these days.
RickH
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You can, I did. Too bad the game itself didn’t really grab me.
Yeah, because nobody bought it. In some cases, it’s deserved. In this case…the BiA series has always been imperfect, but there’s no other tactical shooter (or whatever hybrid subgenre you want to stick it in) quite like it. I wish the game mechanics worked better and I definitely wish we’d stop refighting the same damn WW2 battles, but it’s still worth checking out.
Nobody. But it’s usually the publisher not the developer who insists on these shenanigans.
Just making sure you point your Ire Cannon in the right direction.
