Pricewatch!

well thanks to those shopping sites I discovered the Humble Store is having their end of summer sale. It just rejected me for too many purchases in too short a time.

FTL is $2.50. DLCQuest is 59c. Oh, and Shadowrun Returns for $2.50, Boston Lockdown for $10 and Grimrock 1 for $2.24. I think its not actually on sale at Gog.

That Humble sale is HUGE! I got Endless Legends there last week. Stick of Truth is 66% off.

Originally Posted by Zloth
That Humble sale is HUGE! I got Endless Legends there last week. Stick of Truth is 66% off.

yep. I suppose I should have postred general sale info, but at the time I wanted to point out that war for the overworld was avilable at IIRC it's lowest recent price, and it seems to be a decentish modern dungeon keeper clone so far. I had been a bit reluctant to buy it after seeing totalbiscuit's WTF is WFTO as it was released. He was pretty downbeat on it after having been relatively "geeked" by alpha versions, so I waited.

Sid Meier's Beyond Earth(base game only) is c. $16 in the encore IIRC which also is about the lowest that it's been. I like the civ games as well, so I decided to grab it now rather than wait for maybe a bit better deal at say Steam's c. black friday sale or the xmas sale. Hopefully get the "expansion" then, although the last year or so of steam sales have been disappointing for me compared to prior years…

Also, yep, I've seen that it's possible to use a VPN, set to Mexico and buy EA games through the mexican site at HUGE discounts. I'd really like to know why they sell them so much lower in the third world. The game didn't cost any less to develop, and if they can sell it more cheaply there, then that's the price I expect at home o.w. I'm quite happy to buy from say nuuvem, etc.

Originally Posted by cutterjohn

Also, yep, I've seen that it's possible to use a VPN, set to Mexico and buy EA games through the mexican site at HUGE discounts. I'd really like to know why they sell them so much lower in the third world. The game didn't cost any less to develop, and if they can sell it more cheaply there, then that's the price I expect at home o.w. I'm quite happy to buy from say nuuvem, etc.

Not just EA origin, but majority of the sites like gog, steam etc are cheaper in the 3rd world. I mean its huge discount. Also never mind the 3rd world, steam UK is about 30% - 40% more expensive the steam US and I don't consider US to be a 3rd world country

Why do they do it? purchasing power and price discrimination. Bit like how the train companies have peak and off peak prices…

Amnesia: The Dark Descent (really scary great game) is free to buy for the next 24 hours. No, not free to play for 24 hours, free to get, so go and get it now! http://store.steampowered.com/app/57300/

Amnesia ninja'd, thanks!!

Planetary Annihilation for $1 while supply lasts at Bundle Stars.

http://www.bundlestars.com/store/pla…-annihilation/

Originally Posted by JDR13
Planetary Annihilation for $1 while supply lasts at Bundle Stars.

http://www.bundlestars.com/store/pla…-annihilation/

Cool - grabbed this! Thought I already owned it, but … oh, wait - GamersGate … oh well, it was $1 …

Oooh, more D&D games have been released on GOG, namely Al-Qadim: the Genie's Curse and D&D Stronghold: Kingdom Simulator.

I loved the Al-Qadim setting back in the day. It was wonderfully different from the oh-so-generic Forgotten Realms, but without the full-blown weirdness of, say, Dark Sun or Planescape, and generally far more thought-out than most RPG settings. I remember having lots of fun with this game, before getting stuck in some cave somewhere. I don't think I've even heard of the other game, though.

They've also got Starship Titanic. I never played the game, but I read the book, which Douglas Adams handed over to Terry Jones so he could focus on the game. It'll be interesting to see how they compare.

Midweek Madness @ Steam: Might & Magic Franchise 75% off.

Does the Heroes of Might and Magic Five require the ubisoft platform to play? If not, I just might plunk down two fitty!

Originally Posted by Carnifex
Does the Heroes of Might and Magic Five require the ubisoft platform to play?

Not for single-player.

The multiplayer uses Ubisoft servers though, and you need a Ubisoft account to play online.

Took the leap and got Heroes of Might and Magic Five.

If you didn't catch it in the other thread

humble weekly includes GameMaker Pro for $6. Its normally $150. Only available for the next 24 hours.

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

$12 will get you the Android export utility which I also picked up.

Also includes about a bunch of games and their SOURCE CODE!

from CAG:

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® for FREE!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/15700/

Steam has been doing this a lot recently, which is great. A great classic game, so pick it up while you can.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is free for 24 hours! Add/install it to your account now, and it's yours forever.

Offer ends September 24th at 10am Pacific

Worked for me

Originally Posted by Lucky Day
If you didn't catch it in the other thread

humble weekly includes GameMaker Pro for $6. Its normally $150. Only available for the next 24 hours.

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

$12 will get you the Android export utility which I also picked up.

Also includes about a bunch of games and their SOURCE CODE!

Yeah, I picked that up. I've dabbled with Gamemaker before, and while some people might complain about it not being a "real" development platform, it is damn easy to slap together a simple prototype with it. As someone who dabbles in game programming for fun rather than to actually create a finished game, that kind of thing is great.

Big Stardock sale on Steam.

Originally Posted by lostforever
Not just EA origin, but majority of the sites like gog, steam etc are cheaper in the 3rd world. I mean its huge discount. Also never mind the 3rd world, steam UK is about 30% - 40% more expensive the steam US and I don't consider US to be a 3rd world country

Why do they do it? purchasing power and price discrimination. Bit like how the train companies have peak and off peak prices…

Not necessarily. Most other region prices include taxes whereas US prices don't. [edited for clarity]

I've seen games where the euro/pound price is technically cheaper because (price - VAT) < converted USD price. I don't recall the particular game(s) offhand, but I do remember the devs mentioning that they let steam/valve set the foreign pricing for them, i.e. was not one of the big studios, but a smaller non-indie dev studio. [EDIT3] Now that I think about it, this is probably an indication that pricing isn't updated very often, as the current examples are vs. the currently very weak euro. [/EDIT3]

wingamestore has an end of summer sale 9/24-28 IIRC. Many of the games are just steam keys and they have e.g. endless legend, endless space for 66% off amongst others(seems similar to what the humble sale had).

[EDIT2]
There's a related macgamestore that apparently has some games not listed on the windows store. The steam key versions will include all available versions according to r/gamedeals which is where I found this…

isthereanydeal is also pretty good and what enhanced steam uses.
[/EDIT2]

My only concern is how legitimate wingamestore although I suspect that it can't be too bad because I did experimentally purchase a couple of steam games off of nuuvem and they haven't been removed from my account.

There is not a direct relation between legitimacy and whether or not your key is getting removed.
Just because nobody ever had problems with any of the keys or because they always got a replacement, it doesn’t make it legitimate.
Like if you buy a stolen or smuggled car. It will still work…well, most of the time. But that doesn’t make the transaction from the initial vendor to you legit.

That said, www.wingamestore.com seems legit.
keyradar.com reports its an authorized reseller. And if you check their page you can also see that they are based in the US. This isn't a proof of being legit of course. But I would be less optimistic if it was China as most of the not-authorized resellers.

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