General Steam Sale Madness

[Gusington]

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate on sale for 9.99...GAH

[Nefaro]

Bleh.. Stupid steam users voted Red faction instead of Jagged Alliance. Not that Red is bad, far from it i liked it a lot. But Jagged is the first game potentionally on sale that i actually wanted. So far i've only bought Toy soldiers for 2.49 euro.
Now i hope that it will return at 75% before the sale is out and it propably will.

LOL!

You can just take a quick look at their Best Seller list at any time - it's about 90% shooters .. and Skyrim.  :P

[Shelldrake]

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate on sale for 9.99...GAH

Sold! :)

EDIT: Damn...it shows $24 now. :(

[Tpek]

Yippie! A whole day without any worthwhile sales (for stuff I don't already own)! :)

[Gusington]

Gotta be quick Shell...I missed out on Deus Ex for 6.79 last Friday because I couldn't get home in time...

[Gusington]

Metro 2033 for 5.00!!! And Age of Empires III Complete for 10.00.

[Shelldrake]

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate on sale for 9.99...GAH

Sold! :)

EDIT: Damn...it shows $24 now. :(

Just picked it up at GameStop/Impulse for $10.14 Cdn!

[Gusington]

^Well done! Gamestop has Sengoku for 5.99 today also, fyi.

[Gusington]

Also...now Steam has Mirror's Edge for 5.00!

And F3AR for 5.00! And Amnesia for 5.00!!

:o

[Fighting Farmer]

Its it just me or have some game purchasers become totally unrealistic when it comes to prices. I normally skim the Steam game forums before purchasing a game just to make sure there is nothing wrong with the program and I can't believe how much bitching and complaining I have seen concerning prices. Age of Empires III was the latest example. Its not my type of game yet I was tempted because it was discounted 75% to a price of $9.99. Reading some of the posts blew my mind with people stating that the price was too high, it should be at most $5.00, the price was high because Microsoft is greedy, etc... I've seen many similar posts on other games and it blows my mind; $9.99 for AOE III is less than a price of a 12 pack of beer.

Some game buyer's have become extremely spoiled and feel entitled to dirt cheap games that they can purchase with their lunch money. I'm old enough to remember when you really had to do your research and think hard before buying a game because it was a large investment (remember paying forty or fifty bucks for a game in the 90's - when minimum wage was around $3.00 an hour).  No buyer's bitch if a game is on sale for more than $5.00.

Believe me I love the low prices but some have become unrealistic. Anyway, this rant of mine is going nowhere - Sorry for the rant. 

PS: I not talking about you Gus. Your happy with the sale prices; I'm talking about the buyer's who always seem to complain that the prices are not low enough.

[Gusington]

I hear you on almost everything you posted. Except...AoE III really wasn't that good. And I loved AoE II, and bought the AoE III special boxed edition...I was so PO'd.

[Nefaro]

Yeah, AOE3 was a POS.

;)

[Toonces]

I very, very badly want to buy The Game of Thrones RPG and Dive to the Titanic if they go on sale.  So, please, if you guys happen to notice those go on sale, make sure you let me know!

[Greybriar]

Yeah, AOE3 was a POS.

;)

+1

[Toonces]

Answering my own thread here, it appears Dive to the Titanic is on sale to the 23rd for $15.  Hmmmm, this is tough.  The forums are littered with posts that the game is sort of garbage, but if you're into Titanic it's worth it.  I'm into Titanic.  For $10 I would definitely jump.  For $15 I'm not so sure.  Not that $5 is that much money, but when you buy Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition for $10, it kind of skews your price objectivity, relatively speaking.

AGoT is still sitting at $37.50 which is way too much.  I need to see something in the range of $15 to buy it.