3961

eh, who knows. gog announced their ubisoft deal after valve started this week of sales.

3962

Could Ubisoft be playing both places to see how their sales compare?

3963

I think Ubisoft wants GOG and Steam to fight for its love. To the death.

3964

I doubt there’s any need to compete. Just rake in the dollars where ever they can.

3965

Best Buy has never price-matched out of stock prices, for obvious reasons. (#1: They don’t have to, because they can’t actually lose sales to their competitor. #2: It provides an obvious exploit, where competitors could advertise way below cost prices, no rainchecks, with very few in-store, and let Best Buy suck up the losses.)

3966

True, and I’ve never actually price matched anything at any store. When there’s a sale, I usually just go to the store which has the sale. However, as others have pointed out in this thread, even though Best Buy has never price-matched out of stock prices, often times they don’t actually take the time to give the other store a call to make sure that the item is in stock. Instead, they just give you the discount.

3967

I totally understand this and the manager could’ve completely cutoff any argument I had by calling up Microcenter to check if they had the game in stock. But he didn’t. Instead he made up provisions that aren’t actually contained in the policy. That’s what mildly ticked me off. He attempted to explain to me why a store would do a deal of the day like that, as if (1) I’m a complete idiot and (2) I care at all what the idea behind offering the price is.

But yeah, I wasn’t really too upset as I realized I didn’t have a leg to stand on with regard to Microcenter being out of stock on the game. If I was legitimately pissed off at anyone it was Microcenter, whose employee told me that all copies had been sold the night before the deal actually went live, signifying to me at least, that they were all snapped up by employees.

Edit: To Rock8: I don’t do a ton of price matching, but if I can, I usually prefer to take a Target deal (for example) to Best Buy so that I can get Reward Zone points for the purchase.

3968

I seem to recall reading that there are some shenanigans surrounding the Steam version of IL-2 - that it’s some old, unsupported version or something of that nature. Anybody know what the deal is with that?

3969

The version of IL-2 on Steam is 4.07. The latest official patch is 4.08, and there is also an official 4.09beta patch that has been out for a year.

But, you can download the patches and they install just fine into the Steam IL-2 folder.

3970

It was mentioned in the combat sim thread that the Steam version is missing the joystick setup program too, but manually patching it might restore it. Edit: Ah, here’s the post, with the link to the setup program if you need it.

3971

Very interesting. I’ve been waffling about buying IL-2 for quite some time (since that huge Steam holiday sale); the only thing holding me back is that I don’t have a joystick and reading that combat sims thread is making me want to hold off until I can go in for a proper stick and a TrackIR and all that business. But getting a bunch of other games in the bargain…hmm.

3972

Gamesgate is selling Kings Bounty for $9.99 and Universe at War for $4.99 this weekend. Seems like everyone is having a sale this weekend.

3973

An early April Fools? Surprise! It was actually $99.99 for that Steam Pack!

3974

So many games I have from Steam that I haven’t even installed yet and I still keep buying.

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3975

i have like 80 games. what about you?

3976
3977

Close 75.

3978

I have 123.

3979

Bleh. With all the Steam sales and discounted packs, I’m getting close to 100 games.

3980

And down goes Steam…