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on: June 16, 2012, 09:06:12 AM


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Reply #1 on: June 16, 2012, 10:17:36 AM

Is there a Steam sale on?

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Reply #2 on: June 16, 2012, 11:14:42 AM

Is there a Steam sale on?

Soon.  Annual summertime sale.

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Reply #3 on: June 16, 2012, 04:20:48 PM

That is almost exactly my steam sale process.
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Reply #4 on: June 16, 2012, 06:49:05 PM


It needs some calculation step for "do you have more than 50 games waiting to be played in your library?".

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Reply #5 on: June 17, 2012, 12:21:53 AM

That is almost exactly my steam sale process.

yeah, they got me down to a T.


It needs some calculation step for "do you have more than 50 games waiting to be played in your library?".

No, it actually doesn't. (sadly).


I hate to admit it, but EA guy is correct when he says this:
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Q: One of the things that Steam does is this random deep-discounting of software, and it works well for them. Do you see that as something you want to do?

David DeMartini: We won't be doing that. Obviously they think it's the right thing to do after a certain amount of time. I just think it cheapens your intellectual property. I know both sides of it, I understand it. If you want to sell a whole bunch of units, that is certainly a way to do that, to sell a whole bunch of stuff at a low price. The gamemakers work incredibly hard to make this intellectual property, and we're not trying to be Target. We're trying to be Nordstrom. When I say that, I mean good value - we're trying to give you a fair price point, and occasionally there will be things that are on sale you could look for a discount, just don't look for 75 percent off going-out-of-business sales.

Unfortunately (for EA), the Genie is out of the bottle and a shitton of other publishers are on board. So it just means I don't buy any EA games unless I fuckfuckmusthavethem. And there's not many of those.


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Reply #6 on: June 17, 2012, 02:38:53 AM

So it just means I don't pirate any EA games unless I fuckfuckmusthavethem. And there's not many of those.

FTFY   Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #7 on: June 17, 2012, 02:46:54 AM


Steam has helped reduce the temptation of piracy. So many "should play / finish that some time" games I can't even be arsed to find a torrent.

Heck, I'm immunized from ME3 being origin only because ME2 is still sitting there waiting.

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Reply #8 on: June 17, 2012, 03:21:59 AM

So it just means I don't pirate any EA games unless I fuckfuckmusthavethem. And there's not many of those.

FTFY   Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

Heh, I haven't pirated software for.. damn. A fucking long time now.

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Reply #9 on: June 17, 2012, 03:51:52 AM

Oh same here, except for, you know, those fuckfuckmusthavethem EA titles.  Dead Space and Dead Space 2 spring to mind.

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Reply #10 on: June 17, 2012, 04:14:26 AM

I bought the real ones. I might not like EA, but I don't hate Visceral or DICE or Criterion, etc...

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Reply #11 on: June 17, 2012, 08:49:04 AM

I quit pirating stuff back in 2002. Ever since then I've just made a point to send lengthy letters to publishers if they do something stupid with DRM on their games, including a voided check for the amount I would have spent.

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Reply #12 on: June 17, 2012, 11:21:43 AM

I've just made a point to send lengthy letters to publishers if they do something stupid with DRM on their games, including a voided check for the amount I would have spent.

That's awesome.
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Reply #13 on: June 17, 2012, 02:22:22 PM

I hate to admit it, but EA guy is correct when he says this:
Nah, he's not.  If a game is discounted 75% from release at a point arbitrarily far in the future (say a year or two), that in no way diminishes the title.  It means it gets exposure to people who would have never played or paid anything at all for it, and they may very well find out it was a great game.  Further, they may just buy the next one in the series when they would have ignored it as well.

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Reply #14 on: June 17, 2012, 02:59:32 PM

EA games are osentatious goods!
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Reply #15 on: June 17, 2012, 03:00:13 PM

I think the last game I pirated was Spore. To avoid the DRM crap on the legit version that I had bought.

I used to pirate a ton of games, though - outside of high-profile "classics" I wanted to own. The main reason why I stopped? Steam. (Another was that I stopped going to LAN parties :P)

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Reply #16 on: June 17, 2012, 04:51:19 PM

Unfortunately (for EA), the Genie is out of the bottle and a shitton of other publishers are on board. So it just means I don't buy any EA games unless I fuckfuckmusthavethem. And there's not many of those.

You say that like there's a chance that EA might actually be doing what they say they're doing.  EA games hit Steam sales regularly enough; Spore was 75% off this Wednesday, for example.
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Reply #17 on: June 17, 2012, 05:15:20 PM

Origin stuff is on sale for 40% as we speak, for example.

I agree that they are full of shit, but the funny part is the right hand probably doesn't know that the left hand is cutting it off.

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Reply #18 on: June 17, 2012, 08:40:01 PM

I'm thinking about Nordstrom's return policy and customer service and bloated prices... I guess one out of three is good enough for EA.

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Reply #19 on: June 25, 2012, 07:52:07 PM

Given the last year's sale I think this is coming Thursday?

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Reply #20 on: June 26, 2012, 06:34:27 PM

I hope camp is good this year.

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Reply #21 on: June 28, 2012, 09:17:26 PM

75% off all Warhammer Dawn of War games and DLC this weekend. Yoink...

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Reply #22 on: June 29, 2012, 07:31:27 AM

Yah, looks like they're letting some good deals out of the bag while we're still on the bus. On the fence with DoW2, because I want to buy stuff I'll actually get around to playing this year :)

Grabbed the mid-week LA Noire because the old lady wants to check it out and $7.50 is about where I'm willing to go on that kind of thing.
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Reply #23 on: June 29, 2012, 07:38:57 AM

DOW2 is really such a weird animal of a game. I bought it and the 2 expansions and have barely played it. The squad size is so small and it suffers so much from small map/The Tube syndrome. DOW1 is just a better game. The DLC for DOW2 feels really nickel-and-dimey too.

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Reply #24 on: June 29, 2012, 08:03:43 AM

Heh, I bought DoW2 this morning, played it for 30 mins and thought to myself "Hmm, I preferred DoW1" so I've just bought that too and it's downloading now  awesome, for real

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Reply #25 on: June 29, 2012, 09:34:46 AM

DoW 2 is a good game but it's HeroHammer 40K and it's not an RTS in the tradional sense of the term.
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Reply #26 on: June 29, 2012, 09:43:07 AM

DoW2 multiplayer is actually pretty solid in my opinion, but the single player campaign is fairly boring.  I'd definitely suggest people try out some online 3v3 games.  I haven't played any in quite a whie I have to admit, but before SC2 came out it was pretty much my goto RTS for a while. 
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Reply #27 on: June 29, 2012, 09:48:04 AM

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Reply #28 on: June 29, 2012, 09:50:00 AM

DoW 2 is a good game but it's HeroHammer 40K and it's not an RTS in the tradional sense of the term.

That's why I'm leaning toward it. I'm not a huge fan of RTS and like smaller amounts of units.
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Reply #29 on: June 29, 2012, 11:37:12 AM

I would say it is more of a squad ARPG than an RTS for single player. The multi-player is much more traditional. That said I think DoW1 was still a better game overall.

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Reply #30 on: June 29, 2012, 11:57:49 AM

I hate to admit it, but EA guy is correct when he says this:
Nah, he's not.  If a game is discounted 75% from release at a point arbitrarily far in the future (say a year or two), that in no way diminishes the title.  It means it gets exposure to people who would have never played or paid anything at all for it, and they may very well find out it was a great game.  Further, they may just buy the next one in the series when they would have ignored it as well.

This is basically how I got into Mass Effect and Dragon Age.


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Reply #31 on: June 29, 2012, 12:15:46 PM

space marine for 7 bucks sold me
Excellent game. And horde mode is fun too (and very challenging).
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Reply #32 on: June 29, 2012, 12:26:22 PM

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It's fine since you were quoting such grand wisdom.

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Reply #33 on: June 29, 2012, 02:01:49 PM

http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/122/1225270p1.html

Intardnet words saying Amazon is going to try competing with Steam's summer sale this year.
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Reply #34 on: June 29, 2012, 02:25:26 PM

http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/122/1225270p1.html

Intardnet words saying Amazon is going to try competing with Steam's summer sale this year.

The hilarious part being that all of these look to be steam activated as well.  Good times!
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