Steam Deals and Digital Sales

Steam went well below $54 if you have Russian traders to buy from

Ah, why pay at all in that case then? The difference between pirating the game and buying it from some shady keyseller is that one costs you nothing and the other gives money to assholes. CDPR gets screwed pretty much the same either way.

It's always funny when people do that with Ubisoft games though. Ubi regularly waits until a few days before their game's release to ban all the eastern euro keys outside of that territory, and then there's a whole bunch of people crying because the key the have is worthless and the companies they dealt with don't give refunds.

It's not a key seller. Russian Steam people buy the game as a gift off of Steam, in Russian bucks, and then sell it usually damn near their cost (or at cost if they're your friends). Different from key selling in that CDPR still gets their Steam cut, just less because of exchange rates. It's basically like buying the game on sale before it's on sale, they get the same cut they would if it was for sale for $35 on US Steam.

Still WAY better than pirating or key selling, at least CDPR get money this way, and if people are going through the trouble of making Russian friends or using tf2outpost or whatever, they probably weren't going to pay $60 in the first place. 70% of $35 is a lot more than 70% of $0

Edit: Yea Ubisoft definitely troll people a lot with the keys. That's another reason the cross-country-Steam-gifting method is popular. It's not really retroactively changeable (once you add the gift to your account, it doesn't matter what region the gift came from, you have the version for your region in your account), but it's easy to prevent in the first place by have flags set for the different regions. Considering CDPR know about this whole Russian trading system fairly thoroughly, they either decided it's more profitable to allow it, or they just don't care yet.

Lotta deals up on gamersgate... saw this on Slick Deals, but EU4 was one of the ones I'll pick up...

Eurpoa Universalis IV (PC) - $8.00, Dig Deluxe - $15.30, Lots of Games (Walking Dead More) Up to 80% Off @ Gamersgate.com - Slickdeals.net

For EU4, I know there are a lot of DLC, but is the digi deluxe version worth it? Looks to give some stuff, but doesn't look like all that great.

Considering CDPR is Polish, they know very well that goes on, but I assume they prefer any sales they can get, because they release without an DRM, which means anybody from Russia who wants it can just pirate it otherwise.

Good sales on steam atm. Picked up metro last light. Loved the first one and hopefully my pc wont explode trying to run the sequel.

Picked up Civ 5 Complete Edition for $17. Not bad.

Thanks for the heads up. Finally got the BNW expansion.

Yeah thanks, picked it up too. Have not played Civ5 since like a month or two after it released. Time to see how much more playable the expansions have made it, if only as a distraction until Civ Beyond Earth releases.

Civ5 is a great game to play while watching the Simpsons marathon on FXX

Calling Resident Jew Spronk!

Gamestop doing 50% extra trade in value on all trade in's from 08/25-08/31? Doesn't matter what you are trading in for? Might be time to find my old xbox 360 and games, and work it towards a Ps4!!

Edit: NeoGaf post I found the info in, but have to physical coupon, but apparently Gamestop is handing them out like candy. Even so far as turning people away looking to trade in games and telling them to come back the next week?

GameStop: 50% extra on all trade ins from 8/25-8/31 - NeoGAF

Five Nights at Freddy's is a fantastic deal for $5, and I don't even usually like horror games.

Mountain Man_sl said:

Picked up Civ 5 Complete Edition for $17. Not bad.

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Damn sorry I missed this.

I already had Civ 5 and the expansions, but I was able to pick up all the new DLC Leaders for about $5.00. Some of them look really fun.

if you've bought a few humble bundles before log into your account at
Humble Jumbo Bundle 2 (pay what you want and help charity)

(login at top right)

then click on My Library under email and Claim Past Purchases

its a new feature that lists any steam keys you may have not redeemed, it found 4 games from past bundles I bought I forgot to redeem. yay!

zombie drive HD is $2 (or $3 with all DLCs) 80% off
Save 80% on Zombie Driver HD on Steam

fun game, dev re-released game on xbox one and included all the updates in the PC version for free

TWD s2 worth my time?

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TWD s2 worth my time?

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If you enjoyed the first season, yes.

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couple amazon pc sales, i'd wait on batman personally since Origins GOTY is due out soon (this bundle is origins + season pass) and batman goes on humble bundle sales all the time
Amazon.com: Batman Mega Bundle [Online Game Code]: Video Games

Amazon.com: Titanfall [Online Game Code]: Video Games

couple other sales too but nothing that great

also August Heat bundle (lsl reloaded) is on happy hour, if you bought it early on you get a 4x multiplier on gifts. so paying $11.59 will give you 8x gift copies, as long as you click on buy as gift
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