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And on Steam this week there's…. dink. Last week was really weak, too. The quiet before the storm?

Originally Posted by Zloth
And on Steam this week there's…. dink. Last week was really weak, too. The quiet before the storm?

There are actually over 200 games on sale right now, although the vast majority of them are junk titles. I saw a few decent deals though.

Hard Reset: Extended Edition is 85% off. If you like pure shooters once in a while, this is a very underrated game. Think Serious Sam in a cyberpunk setting.

The Shadowgate remake is 75% off.

Lords of Xulima is 40% off.

Consortium is 80% off.

Hard West is 20% off and gets released tomorrow.

There is a deal on the 3 Ishar games (plus Crystals Of Arborea) on GOG this weekend. Is only 99p for all 4 games. I remember playing 1 & 2 on my Amiga many many years ago and greatly enjoying them.

While ishar was fun and I have some great memories about it, I also remember it, especially the first game, being a mess regarding polish and bugs.

And game design wise I also hated that you were required to fire group members to invite temporary companions.

Well, $1.49 (thats what I get displayed) is almost nothing. But unlike other "old" RPGs this game is something I know I would not bother with.

The Steam sale should be starting in, oh, 16 hours or so. However, all those flash sales are going away. What you see on day 1 is what you'll see on Dec 1. Valve says it's so the customers can better use the sales tools but many folks think it has something to do with the new refund policy.

http://www.pcgamer.com/steams-autumn…d-flash-sales/

Cool deals at Retroism, hosted through Humble Bundle? i grabbed Eradicator, a game that I had some fun with about 20 years ago …

http://retroism.com/deals/

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - £1.75
https://www.gameagent.com/games/star…e-old-republic

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords - £1.75
https://www.gameagent.com/games/star…the-sith-lords

both steam keys and should work on Mac too due to steam play.

Originally Posted by lostforever
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - £1.75
https://www.gameagent.com/games/star…e-old-republic

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords - £1.75
https://www.gameagent.com/games/star…the-sith-lords

both steam keys and should work on Mac too due to steam play.

They definitely do … as do the others in the Star Wars pack they're selling and also a bunch of other games on the sale. Here is the whole Mac side of the sale …

https://www.gameagent.com/best-mac-d…3a1b2-49055581

Originally Posted by Zloth
The Steam sale should be starting in, oh, 16 hours or so. However, all those flash sales are going away. What you see on day 1 is what you'll see on Dec 1. Valve says it's so the customers can better use the sales tools but many folks think it has something to do with the new refund policy.

http://www.pcgamer.com/steams-autumn…d-flash-sales/

Or publishers didn't approve of large price cut like the flash/daily sales required and I suspect this is the real reason. Since last summer, Steam and a few others didn't discount certain games as much as they did in their previous sales.

Well, it's not like steam "wants" to offer games as cheap as possible and asks the publishers if they are allowed to do so.
Steam asks the publishers which prices they want to have at the steam sale and afaik they also give suggestions.

I also see the reason in the new steam refund policies, which also means that there are less angry customers as steam says. I am pretty sure working in Steam CSM support during sales wasn't the happiest job you can do, dealing with all the customers whining about having bought a game, which was just reduced even more.

Personally I liked these flash sales and I never whined about missing the best price. But I can understand this decision.

GOG is having a "Only on GOG" sales.

Witcher 3 is 50% off. All other Witcher games are also discounted.

D&D Classic (BG/IWD and cie ) bundle is 80% off (note: these are not the EE versions).
D&D Gold Box bundle is 50% off

Just bought the Eye of the Beholder trilogy which as part of the big bundle is 30% off at least: https://www.gog.com/game/forgotten_r…collection_one

Originally Posted by Kordanor
Just bought the Eye of the Beholder trilogy which as part of the big bundle is 30% off at least: https://www.gog.com/game/forgotten_r…collection_one

I own the Eye of the Beholder trilogy from when they were discounted at release. Now I am wondering if I should grab anything else …

Originally Posted by Zloth
The Steam sale should be starting in, oh, 16 hours or so. However, all those flash sales are going away. What you see on day 1 is what you'll see on Dec 1. Valve says it's so the customers can better use the sales tools but many folks think it has something to do with the new refund policy.

http://www.pcgamer.com/steams-autumn…d-flash-sales/

Going to be a pretty boring sale then. I would agree that the model they once used where they had new flash sales every 8 hours was a bit too much but flash sales every 12 hours (including one item to vote on) was kind of the sweet spot for me.

@azarhal: If you follow the link to PC Gamer you can see that they quoted from an e-mail that apparently Valve sent out to the publishers, asking them to only provide them with one price. The way it is worded sounds to me like Valve are the originator of the idea (also because they specifically mention their sales tools as a cause for the change).

Regarding deep discounts, I'd say your "last summer" observation is too conservative. Many people seem to have felt that Steam sales have been kind of meh for the last couple of years at least, i.e. meh compared to the deep discounts and very nice deals we got on semi-new games in the early years of the sales.
Therefore, I'm inclined to believe that refunds might indeed be the more likely primary cause of the change but potentially higher average sales prices are certainly a very welcome secondary objective for the publishers, no doubt about that.

I've lost faith in GoG DOSBox ports of old games. JA2 UI would become unresponsive and Redguard framerates were abysmal. Also, the support team couldn't resolve my issues. So, they have a 30 day moneyback guarantee. Fine, but if I don't play the game in a while that doesn't work. So no backlog additions from GoG DOSBox ports. I will only buy them when I play them.

That's weird. JA2 UI isn't actually a DOS game and JA2 works fine on current PCs. You must not switch tasks though because that actually makes it crash.

Regarding support…yeah. Tried to get a statement regarding let's play permissions 2 weeks ago. No answer yet.

Ah, switching tasks is something I do frequently. It wouldn't crash, just the UI would stop working (not being able to select things, IIRC). Now if someone told me about the dangers of task switching in their support office, I may not be so negative. Couldn't find it in their forums either. :/

I see. Remember that for other games of the Windows 95 / 98 era. As this isn't the only game having problems with it.