The Bargain Thread

aphoristic_gamer · 2009-09-08T17:00:45.000Z

Direct2Drive 5th anniversary sale, tons of 4.99$ games for the next 5 weeks.

http://www.direct2drive.com/d2dturns5

I’m getting Far Cry, Chaos Theory and Call of Juarez.

Cubit · 2009-09-08T17:05:33.000Z

aphoristic gamer:

Direct2Drive 5th anniversary sale, tons of 4.99$ games for the next 5 weeks.

http://www.direct2drive.com/d2dturns5

I’m getting Far Cry, Chaos Theory and Call of Juarez.

This is gonna be a good 5 weeks. :)

deccan · 2009-09-08T18:00:37.000Z

aphoristic gamer:

Direct2Drive 5th anniversary sale, tons of 4.99$ games for the next 5 weeks.

http://www.direct2drive.com/d2dturns5

I’m getting Far Cry, Chaos Theory and Call of Juarez.

This title is available for purchase in United States, Canada, and Mexico only.

Arrgghhh!

aphoristic_gamer · 2009-09-08T19:08:17.000Z

Well these aren’t included in the sale per se, but the original Dawn of War, and all the Empire Earth games are discounted to 4,99$ too.

Mysterio · 2009-09-08T19:21:23.000Z

aphoristic gamer:

Direct2Drive 5th anniversary sale, tons of 4.99$ games for the next 5 weeks.

http://www.direct2drive.com/d2dturns5

Vanilla Civ IV for $4.95? That’s a killer deal.

aphoristic_gamer · 2009-09-08T19:23:08.000Z

It would be a killer deal if you haven’t already gotten the 2K pack on Steam.

nixon66 · 2009-09-08T19:46:22.000Z

I worry for my pocket book when it’s the RPG and Indie weeks.

Omniscia · 2009-09-08T20:26:43.000Z

Damn it, Civilization IV is 98% complete… Soon, my laptop will be one of the most dangerous time-sinks known to man.

Lorini · 2009-09-08T20:36:48.000Z

Damnit I forgot but someone told me how to to make Railroads! work under Vista. Can anyone help?

Omniscia · 2009-09-08T20:39:28.000Z

Lorini:

Damnit I forgot but someone told me how to to make Railroads! work under Vista. Can anyone help?

Kool Moe Dee covered that earlier in this thread. Hopefully it works, 'cos I’m going to need it as soon as my GoGamer order arrives.

sinfony · 2009-09-08T20:39:31.000Z

Any guidance on D2D? I’ve never used it. What kind of DRM/activation/re-downloading policies do they use?

aphoristic_gamer · 2009-09-08T20:41:06.000Z

Omniscia:

Damn it, Civilization IV is 98% complete… Soon, my laptop will be one of the most dangerous time-sinks known to man.

I understand the feeling, I dare not install that game on mine.

I’ve been crazily hooked on Might & Magic VI for these last few days. In fact I don’t remember ever being that taken and addicted into a game world before. No I don’t want to go to sleep yet, I want to complete that dungeon/kill those monsters in the horizon/buy expert training for that skill before…

malkav11 · 2009-09-08T21:07:08.000Z

Dammit. I don’t want to use D2D for a number of reasons. Fortunately for me there’s nothing on that first week list I want (have a lot of it already), but as the weeks progress I may have issues sticking to that.

Cubit · 2009-09-08T21:27:52.000Z

sinfony:

Any guidance on D2D? I’ve never used it. What kind of DRM/activation/re-downloading policies do they use?

It depends on the game. D2D is client free and doesn’t use any base drm. A lot of their games are DRM free, but some are protected if the publisher wants them to be. You usually just enter in your game code and the game unlocks via server. You can even skip their stupid download manager and just download the big setup zip. You can re-download as much as you want.

Rock8man · 2009-09-08T22:06:11.000Z

Even though Dave Long probably didn’t do this intentionally, I love how this thread serves two very distinct and powerful purposes:

Find deals for those of us in North America.
Torture anyone not living NA who happens to visit this thread.

YouWho · 2009-09-09T06:19:33.000Z

Omniscia:

Damn it

Lorini:

Damnit

malkav11:

Dammit.

So much anger on this thread…

Rock8man · 2009-09-09T06:45:42.000Z

If you have a Microcenter near where you live, Beatles: Rock Band is $40 there today for all 3 consoles, software only version.

Abiding_Dude · 2009-09-09T06:47:09.000Z

Rock8man:

Even though Dave Long probably didn’t do this intentionally, I love how this thread serves two very distinct and powerful purposes:

Find deals for those of us in North America.

Torture anyone not living NA who happens to visit this thread.

America…Fuck Yeah!

MSUSteve · 2009-09-09T06:48:01.000Z

Rock8man:

If you have a Microcenter near where you live, Beatles: Rock Band is $40 there today for all 3 consoles, software only version.

Great deal if you can get it. Too bad all of them have most likely been bought up by employees looking to hawk them on eBay or whatever. I’ve never been able to take advantage of these Microcenter deals.

Eric_P · 2009-09-09T06:51:02.000Z

for the mac users here, today you can get Civ 4, Quake Wars or CoD2 for $12.99 and $5 shipping

http://sellout.woot.com/