Game Specials/Discounts

[Izulde]

GOG.com is having a sale on Activision RPGs this weekend - if you haven't played some of the best CRPGs ever made like Arcanum and Betrayal at Krondor, it's a good chance to pick them up at less than 5 bucks each.

Thank you so much for this. I loved Arcanum when I was younger and it's great to get a Windows 7 compatible version for so cheap.

[Mota]

What did you guys think of the UFO: Afterlight series? It's $6.00 on Gamersgate this weekend for the 3 games. You almost can't go wrong for that cheap.

[JPhillips]

What did you guys think of the UFO: Afterlight series? It's $6.00 on Gamersgate this weekend for the 3 games. You almost can't go wrong for that cheap.

I had fun, but they get awfully repetitive. I spent a lot more than 6$.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Hearts of Iron 2: Complete 4.49

D'loading now.

There really isn't a computer in my household that isn't woefully under the video card needs for the majority of games (and Lord knows the gaming budget is pinched, to say nothing of zero chance of a new computer any time soon) so this was a great answer to my son's repeated requests to find something new & more challenging.

Have a nice summer vacation kid, given the learning curve I've experienced with HOI 1 you ought to be figuring out how to move units from one place to the next by about the time school starts back in the fall

Am I evil? Yes I am. :D

[DaddyTorgo]

Just saw a few on Steam...

Hearts of Iron 2: Complete 4.49
Hearts of Iron 3 5.99

Which better - 2 or 3?

[EagleFan]

Which better - 2 or 3?

Fo me 2, but that is because 3 doesn't run well on my laptop (one of these days I'll upgrade).

[Johninja]

Which better - 2 or 3?

HOI 2 is better IMO 3 is still fairly buggy

Thought i should mention that Arsenal of Democracy is better than HOI2 though. Same game but friendlier UI and some nice tweaks.

[tyketime]

In anticipation of the Witcher 2, I fired up the original over the weekend. I really like how the game takes no stand on whether choices you make in the game are "good" vs "evil". They're just choices. But your choices have consequences & I'm enjoying how that plays out through the story.

A funny sidenote - in Chapter 1, I picked up a bunch of quests outside Vizima. One of them I had not yet turned in when I got to what ended up being the last quest in the Chapter. As I am confronting an angry mob (I'm trying to stay somewhat vague for those who haven't played it yet), I ended up killing the NPC I was supposed to take the items to. It happened quickly, but as the death blow occurred, a message at the bottom of the screen indicated that the Quest was no longer valid since he would no longer be needing the items (something like that...).

Looking forward to Witcher 2. I read over the weekend that there will be 16 different endings based on your choices and actions along the way.

[Atocep]

In anticipation of the Witcher 2, I fired up the original over the weekend. I really like how the game takes no stand on whether choices you make in the game are "good" vs "evil". They're just choices. But your choices have consequences & I'm enjoying how that plays out through the story.


The storyline and the dialogue trees are the most impressive parts of the game. As much as it pains me to say it, Bioware should take notes.

[moriarty]

I secretly enjoyed bedding random chicks in Witcher and getting naked baseball cards marking my conquests. Good times.

[RainMaker]

Can someone give me a comparision of Witcher to another game? I don't really get what it's about or how it's played but seems interesting.

[Atocep]

Can someone give me a comparision of Witcher to another game? I don't really get what it's about or how it's played but seems interesting.

The storyline is dark and mature. The closest comparison I could give is Planescape: Torment. Combat is kind of repetitive and probably the weakest part of the game. That part of the game is getting an overhaul in Witcher 2.

Story-wise it's similar to some of the older Bioware/Black Isle games (Torment, Baldur's Gate 2, ect) and gameplay is probably most similar to Bioware's first Neverwinter Nights game (kind of actiony-button mashy).

Personally, I think Witcher was vastly superior to Dragon Age 2 and at worst on par with the first Dragon Age game. The dialogue options aren't obviously good, neutral, evil and the changes your actions make on the story and the world are more subtle.

Definitely one of the best RPGs I've played.

[Coffee Warlord]

Speaking of Hearts of Iron 3, Amazon has it for download for < 5 bucks. They don't have the expansion for sale there, but you can get it at gamersgate (though it's 20 bucks).

[PilotMan]

Gamersgate (http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-ENTWGOTYE/empire-and-napoleon-total-war-game-of-the-year-edition-bundle) has Empire and Napoleon Total War for 16.98 in a bundle.

[EagleFan]

Steam has a lot of deals going on...

33% off all Ubisoft games
King Arthur Collection $14.99
HOARD $4.99
Sam and Max Complete Pack $17.00
Ubisoft WWII Collection $33.49 (9 games)

[DaddyTorgo]

Nice - thanks EF

[twothree]

For anyone that still plays Guild Wars, 50% off additional character slots (sale price = $4.99) until Thursday, June 9th.

[FrogMan]

midweek madness over on Steam is 50% off everything COD:Modern Warfare including the DLCs. I don't play either of the games but my son plays COD:MW2, a lot, and he had been bugging me to make room on our hard drive so he could order the map packs. Did the cleanup yesterday and he'll have both map packs for $15 :)

FM

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Assassin's Creed II Deluxe Edition available on PSN for $10.

Playstation Network: Assassin's Creed II Deluxe Edition (PS3) $10 - PSN Deals, Coupons and Promos (http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/52929/psn-playstation-network-assassins-creed-ii-deluxe-edition-ps3)

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

There's some awfully good package deals going on right now it seems like. MS has their deal where you can buy a PC and get a 360 for free. There's a lot of deals for the PS3 where you get store credit with purchase. Saw this one today where a PS3 is $300 and you get a $100 gift card. Getting a game system with BR player along with $100 to spend on games/movies for $300 is a heck of a deal.

http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/53261/best-buy-stores-160gb-playstation-3-console-100-best-buy-gift-card-via-instore-printable-coupon

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Five new 'free to play' MMO's are on Steam now......

Global Agenda
Spiral Knights
Champions Online
Forsaken Arms
Alliance of Valiant Arms

[Thomkal]

didn't know it was on steam, but played around a bit with spiral knights this week. Not usually one to go for a more console platformer type game, but this one has caught my attention for now at least.

Spiral Knights (http://www.mmobomb.com/link/spiral-knights)

[Izulde]

For those who don't have it yet, Impulse has EU III Complete for 80% off, or $2.99. Edit: Complete in this case meaning Napoleon's Ambition and In Nomine

http://impulsedriven.com/products/ESD-IMP-W189

[mckerney]

Along with F2P games being added to Steam, GamersGate is going to offer free, ad supported games soon.

GamersGate Explain FreeGames | Rock, Paper, Shotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/14/gamesgate-explain-freegames/)

RPS: What games will be available via the FreeGames service?

Bergquist: We’re aiming at 200 on release, high and low from all categories. We have more than 3000 games in our catalogue and our aim is to make as many of them available as possible down the line. Unfortunately we can’t disclose any specific games or publishers at the moment. Stay tuned for more info though.

RPS: Do you have to view an advert each time you play? Are there any other adverts displayed during playing the game?

Bergquist: No advertising when you play, only before. We’re gamers too, and who would like to watch ads when playing? That would really mess up the experience.

RPS: Are there any other limitations on play? Could I install the ad-support FreeGame on lots of different PCs, for example?

Bergquist: Yes, you can install it on different PCs, it’s locked to your online account though. The way it works is that you can fill up to five “game slots” with games you wish to play for a month and then just play it. After a month you pick the same games or change. The more active you are on Gamersgate, the more loyal you are and the more people you recruit the more slots you get, and the more you can customize your slots, e.g a twenty-day (instead of thirty-day) slots, etc.

[mckerney]

New Vegas on sale for $12.50 on D2D (Steamworks game). (http://www.direct2drive.com/9815/product/Buy-Fallout-New-Vegas-Digital-Collector%27s-Edition-Download)

15% off coupon for D2D. (http://direct2drive.tellapal.com/offers/615051861/interstitial/ttL5W)

[EagleFan]

Steam Deals...

Indie Variety Pack $9.99
Hacker Evolution Duality $19.96
FEAR Collection $9.99
Indie Action Pack $9.99

[mckerney]

Left 4 Dead 2 Daily Deal for $6.80 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/550/)

[Antmeister]

Impulse is having some deals as well. 50% off select titles:
http://www.impulsedriven.com/impulsebuys

Heroes V Bundle
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Evochron Mercenary
Defense Grid Gold
Sword of the Stars Complete Edition
Imperium Romanum: Gold Edition

And two others that the ad does not show is:
Galactic Civilizations: Ultimate Bundle
Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Bundle

[mckerney]

Impulse is having some deals as well. 50% off select titles:
http://www.impulsedriven.com/impulsebuys

Heroes V Bundle
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Evochron Mercenary
Defense Grid Gold
Sword of the Stars Complete Edition
Imperium Romanum: Gold Edition

And two others that the ad does not show is:
Galactic Civilizations: Ultimate Bundle
Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Bundle

I think I mentioned it in another threat recently, but if you like tower defense games Defense Grid is the absolute best.

[EagleFan]

I think I mentioned it in another threat recently, but if you like tower defense games Defense Grid is the absolute best.

+1

[Draft Dodger]

I think I mentioned it in another threat recently, but if you like tower defense games Defense Grid is the absolute best.

I think I've mentioned it in this thread a couple of times as well. great game for $5

[PilotMan]

I have mentioned the awesomeness of Defense Grid as well.

Gamersgate has EUIII (http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-EU3C/europa-universalis-iii-chronicles) with all expansions in one bundle for $7.49.

[SackAttack]

Impulse is having some deals as well. 50% off select titles:
http://www.impulsedriven.com/impulsebuys

Heroes V Bundle
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Evochron Mercenary
Defense Grid Gold
Sword of the Stars Complete Edition
Imperium Romanum: Gold Edition

And two others that the ad does not show is:
Galactic Civilizations: Ultimate Bundle
Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Bundle

I enjoyed GalCiv 2. I've been wanting to snag the ultimate edition to get the other expansion pack for a while, but never got around to it.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Team Fortress 2 just released as Free to Play on Steam. Servers are getting HAMMERED right now.

[Scoobz0202]

I wondered why I was having trouble with Steam a little bit earlier

[mckerney]

Valve had said they would have gone Free to Play with TF2 a while ago except that cost was the only thing deterring hackers. Hopefully they have something in place to counter people just signing up for new accounts when banned.

[mckerney]

Also hoping they don't do Dota 2 as free to play, or at least if they do it's not buying heroes like LoL. The limited heroes killed my interest in LoL.

[Radii]

Also hoping they don't do Dota 2 as free to play, or at least if they do it's not buying heroes like LoL. The limited heroes killed my interest in LoL.

Too many of the new champions LoL releases are 6300 IP, but just to make sure... you are aware you can buy champions without spending any money, right? Try all the free ones every week and buy all of the 450/1350/3150 IP champs that you like and by the time level 30 you'll have a solid stable of bought champions + the free rotation each week.

There's also a "collecters pack" you can buy for a one time cost if you want to spend some money that will give you 20 champions and that's a good enough start to build from there. Or, alternatively, you can buy double IP for a week or two and play a ton and earn enough IP to buy a bunch of the non-6300 champs.

I assume you know all this, but this really isn't a game where you have to spend money to succeed at all.

[Radii]

dola more on LoL since its my current addiction, you want to know how every champion works but until/unless you get into ridiculous competitive play having a small stable of champs you really play well is probably best anyway. I'm not great, but when I play I'm usually trying my hardest all the time (ranked elo hovers between 1300-1400), and while I own all but about 10 champs by now, the stable of champs I'm confident enough to play in a ranked match is small, I have 5 that I believe I play *really* well for my level, and then another 5 I can play solidly enough to take into ranked. That's really all you need, if you pick champs that fill different roles.

[mckerney]

Too many of the new champions LoL releases are 6300 IP, but just to make sure... you are aware you can buy champions without spending any money, right? Try all the free ones every week and buy all of the 450/1350/3150 IP champs that you like and by the time level 30 you'll have a solid stable of bought champions + the free rotation each week.

There's also a "collecters pack" you can buy for a one time cost if you want to spend some money that will give you 20 champions and that's a good enough start to build from there. Or, alternatively, you can buy double IP for a week or two and play a ton and earn enough IP to buy a bunch of the non-6300 champs.

I assume you know all this, but this really isn't a game where you have to spend money to succeed at all.

I know you can unlock heroes without buying them and win without spending money. But after playing DoTA and HoN (each with 80 heroes) starting out in LoL games where there's 7 or 8 different heroes between the 10 people playing, and seeing the same heroes over and over was absolutely brutal. There were other things I didn't like about LoL too, but if Dota 2 limited your and your opponents heroes the same way LoL does I would be incredibly disappointed.

[Radii]

I know you can unlock heroes without buying them and win without spending money. But after playing DoTA and HoN (each with 80 heroes) starting out in LoL games where there's 7 or 8 different heroes between the 10 people playing, and seeing the same heroes over and over was absolutely brutal. There were other things I didn't like about LoL too, but if Dota 2 limited your and your opponents heroes the same way LoL does I would be incredibly disappointed.

gotcha. At this point I'm happy w/ LoL, it was the first one I played so as long as I remain happy w/ the game no point in learning a new game, new maps, new heros, etcetc hah, but what you're saying makes total sense.

[mckerney]

gotcha. At this point I'm happy w/ LoL, it was the first one I played so as long as I remain happy w/ the game no point in learning a new game, new maps, new heros, etcetc hah, but what you're saying makes total sense.

Thankfully for me all the heroes in HoN were mostly the same as DoTA with different names and artwork, and Dota 2 will probably have a lot of the same heroes too, plus I haven't seen much variation in maps in the genre. For the most part I liked the gameplay in LoL (didn't like seeing denies go away though), but couldn't go from playing All Random games with 80 heroes to playing with the same ones over and over.

I also hope Dota 2 keeps Techies, really miss them in HoN. Landmines and suicide was a lot of fun.

[SackAttack]

MLB 11: The Show is apparently $39.99 at GameStop if there are any folks who have been looking to get it but holding out for price reasons.

[frnk55]

Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale

I see this is 15 bucks. Just came out today on Steam. Looks kinda cool for a slash n' attack game.
Anyone take the plunge?

[SirFozzie]

Abort! Avoid! Crap Game ahead!

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/dungeons-dragons-daggerdale
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dungeons-dragons-daggerdale

[frnk55]

Abort! Avoid! Crap Game ahead!

Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale for Xbox 360 Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/dungeons-dragons-daggerdale)
Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale for PC Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dungeons-dragons-daggerdale)
Thx Fozzie for the tip. Guess I'll say my money. :)

[SirFozzie]

It's sad, cuz I'm a D&D fan, but yeah, good call :D

[Antmeister]

2k Games having a sale (up to 75% off) right now:
http://www.direct2drive.com/promos/weekend/?utm_source=2KWeekendSale&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=2KSale


This includes NBA 2K11, Bioshock2, Mafia 2, etc.

[Antmeister]

Oh and it looks like Telltale game is having 75% off almost everything (except Back To the Future and Puzzle Agent 2).
Telltale Games - Store (http://www.telltalegames.com/store/)

[mckerney]

Team Fortress 2 just released as Free to Play on Steam. Servers are getting HAMMERED right now.

http://i.imgur.com/thKr8.png

[JPhillips]

Terraria is an amazing success story.

[mckerney]

Terraria is an amazing success story.

Agreed. I bought it on launch day after not having even heard about it before what I read that day. I think it's been in the top 10 most played games on Steam since then and it's an absolute phenomenal game.

[EagleFan]

Steam deals

Homefront $24.99
Divinity 2 $19.99
Europa Universalis 3 Chronicles $7.50
Europa Universalis 3 Complete $3.75
Star Ruler $5.00

[mckerney]

Oh and it looks like Telltale game is having 75% off almost everything (except Back To the Future and Puzzle Agent 2).
Telltale Games - Store (http://www.telltalegames.com/store/)

Gah! Thanks for reminding me Puzzle Agent 2 is coming out this month.

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[chesapeake]

Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale

I see this is 15 bucks. Just came out today on Steam. Looks kinda cool for a slash n' attack game.
Anyone take the plunge?

My friends bought the Xbox version hoping it would be a fun, multiplayer hack-n-slash. I gave it a shot to play with them. What a buggy piece of crap. The game's host generally gets to play through a whole fight; the rest of us get dumped to a loading screen a couple of times. Every fight. This does not seem to be a unique experience.

I haven't tried the solo game. I sure hope that is better than MP.

The game is best described as Gauntlet without food.

[thesloppy]

I was hoping that D&D game might be at least passable. Looks like Dungeon Siege 3 is going to be the decent co-op hack-n-slash of the day....but it's not $15. 'Trenched', which was just released on XBLA is good clean fun, for that $15.

[mckerney]

Steam
Europa Universalis III Chronicles (Complete, Heir to the Thone and Divine Wind) - $7.50 until 30 June 10 AM Pacific Time (http://store.steampowered.com/app/25800/)

Direct2Drive
Mass Effect 2 - $4.95 (http://www.direct2drive.com/9010/product/Buy-Mass-Effect-2-Download)

GamersGate
EU III Chronicle again for $7.50 (http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-EU3C/europa-universalis-iii-chronicles)
Stronghold Collection - $4.99 (http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-STRCOL/stronghold-collection)

Good Old Games
Incredible Machine Mega Pack - $3.99 (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_incredible_machine_mega_pack)
All Interplay games are 50% off until July 4th (http://www.gog.com/en/promo/interplay)

[rjolley]

Are GamersGate, Direct2Drive, Impulse, etc stable game purchasing systems like Steam? There are some games I'm looking at buying, but have only purchased from Steam so far.

[dubb93]

Are GamersGate, Direct2Drive, Impulse, etc stable game purchasing systems like Steam? There are some games I'm looking at buying, but have only purchased from Steam so far.

I have never used any of them except impulse. I was able to use it without any issues whatsoever.

[dubb93]

DOLA:

The one I'm having issues with is EA's origin. It doesn't want to sync my boxed EA games I have bought.

[Surtt]

Are GamersGate, Direct2Drive, Impulse, etc stable game purchasing systems like Steam? There are some games I'm looking at buying, but have only purchased from Steam so far.

I've bought some games form GamersGate without any problems.

[mckerney]

Are GamersGate, Direct2Drive, Impulse, etc stable game purchasing systems like Steam? There are some games I'm looking at buying, but have only purchased from Steam so far.

I've used them all and never had any problems, though I typically still prefer to buy games on Steam. None of them are as large as Steam, but I think they're doing well enough that you don't need to worry about any of them closing up shop anytime soon.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Mixed info from their forum (some yes, some no, some maybe), so I'll throw it out here -- EU3 on Win7: will it run or not? (an inquiring 13 y/o wants to know)

If so, is it a specific version of Win7 that's the key or blind luck or ???

Thanks in advance

[Lonnie]

I've played EU3 on Win7 Ultimate. I don't remember having to do anything special to make it work.

[Groundhog]

Mass Effect 2 for that price is criminal. One of the best games I've played.

[JPhillips]

I've also been fine with EU3 on Win7.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Just to update, it seems to have worked fine. The tutorials are bugged & won't run but partially (same thing happened with HOI2 for me) but otherwise the game itself appeared to be running okay through about an hour in. Ended up going with the Complete version, didn't seem like there was enough to justify doubling the price with the other two add-ons (I know, it's $3.75 more but psychologically it was still double to me).

[PraetorianX]

Just to update, it seems to have worked fine. The tutorials are bugged & won't run but partially (same thing happened with HOI2 for me) but otherwise the game itself appeared to be running okay through about an hour in. Ended up going with the Complete version, didn't seem like there was enough to justify doubling the price with the other two add-ons (I know, it's $3.75 more but psychologically it was still double to me).

Eh...DW and HttT are both excellent expansions, imho. Well worth an extra $3.75. But that may just be me.

[gstelmack]

HUGE Steam sale going on right now. Looks like they took the Potato Sack thing and appeased all the whiny developers by bringing them all in on a Summer Camp promo. Complete challenges, earn tickets, spend tickets on game prizes.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Eh...DW and HttT are both excellent expansions, imho. Well worth an extra $3.75. But that may just be me.

Well you have to keep in mind here that this was basically summer timekiller material for my 13 y/o. He's a history buff & these things play into that interest very well but as he put it "the changes to the royalty system would be good but I doubt I'd ever get around to playing as China or Japan so the 4th one really isn't worth it".

Far be it from me to discourage that kind of decision making in a kid, y'know ;)

[Honolulu_Blue]

HUGE Steam sale going on right now. Looks like they took the Potato Sack thing and appeased all the whiny developers by bringing them all in on a Summer Camp promo. Complete challenges, earn tickets, spend tickets on game prizes.

So it begins…

I still believe that I have played all of 1 of the 15+ games I bought during the last sales. And I didn’t even play that game very long.

Still, I might not be willing to resist. For example, I am intrigued by “Dawn of War II: Retribution”, despite the fact that I have owned “Dawn of War II” for two and a half years and have never played it.

[jeff061]

Oblivion for $6.80 if anyone still hasn't played. Nothing else really striking my fancy for today.

Bought an Indie Action pack a few days ago for 5 bucks or so. I've already put a few hours into that and haven't played the majority of the included games.

[mckerney]

Of today's sales I really like Recattear, a game where you run a JRPG item shop. I though the Bit.Trip games were pretty run, but not something that I'd recommend to everyone. They're old school style rhythm games.

The Back to the Future series is okay, far from Telltale's finest work though. Each episode I'd played takes about 2 hours to complete. If you're interested in it waiting until there's a better sale on it may not be a bad idea.

[Groundhog]

Oblivion for $6.80 if anyone still hasn't played. Nothing else really striking my fancy for today.

Bought an Indie Action pack a few days ago for 5 bucks or so. I've already put a few hours into that and haven't played the majority of the included games.

Strangely enough I bought this on Steam a long time ago, along with Morrowind, but only really started playing it a few nights ago. I had it on 360 back when it was first released, but my console died before I ever finished it. I forgot how solid a game it is.

[mckerney]

A bunch of games are updating on Steam for content in the Summer Camp promo. Needless to say their servers are getting killed.

[EagleFan]

Steam is slamming at the moment. Here's some highlights...

Square Enix Summer Collector Pack - $74.99 (50 games; including Batman: Arkham Asylum GoTY; Battlestations (Pacific and Midway); Deus Ex GoTY; Deus Ex: Invisible War; Hitman 2 Silent Assassin; Hitman: Blood Money; Hitman: Codenam 47; Just Cause; Just Cause 2 (and a bunch of DLC); Supreme Commander 2; and a bunch more; seems like they count DLC towards that 50 number though but still seems like a good deal)

Painkiller (Complete Pack) - $14.99

Strategy First Pack - $49.99 (43 items)

The Witcher 2 - $33.49

Portal 2 - $33.49

Frozen Synapse - $16.74

Valve Complete Pack - $49.99 (24 items)

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion GoTY Deluxe - $8.50

Borderlands GoTY - $7.50

Civ 5 - $33.49

Portal Bundle - $36.83

[mckerney]

Steam is slamming at the moment. Here's some highlights...

Square Enix Summer Collector Pack - $74.99 (50 games; including Batman: Arkham Asylum GoTY; Battlestations (Pacific and Midway); Deus Ex GoTY; Deus Ex: Invisible War; Hitman 2 Silent Assassin; Hitman: Blood Money; Hitman: Codenam 47; Just Cause; Just Cause 2 (and a bunch of DLC); Supreme Commander 2; and a bunch more; seems like they count DLC towards that 50 number though but still seems like a good deal)

Painkiller (Complete Pack) - $14.99

Strategy First Pack - $49.99 (43 items)

The Witcher 2 - $33.49

Portal 2 - $33.49

Frozen Synapse - $16.74

Valve Complete Pack - $49.99 (24 items)

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion GoTY Deluxe - $8.50

Borderlands GoTY - $7.50

Civ 5 - $33.49

Portal Bundle - $36.83

It's usually best to just buy individual games on the daily deal until the last day, unless there's something you really want to play. Civ 5 or Portal 2 could end up going on a daily deal for about $25. Though if you're considering Portal and don't have many other Valve games, the Valve complete pack is something to consider between Left 4 Dead 1+2 and Half Life 1+2.

[Scoobz0202]

Anybody ever play the F12010 game? Kind of curious to how that is..

[whomario]

Anybody ever play the F12010 game? Kind of curious to how that is..

played it on the PS3 and i thought it was a ton of fun, but don´t expect too much in the way of realism.
At least pre patch (and i´m not sure if a patch really adressed this, resold it before it hit because it took ages) there were a couple of mind blowing bugs.
For example were lap times calculated and not reflecting what happened on the track. This could mean that you overtook another driver yet he ended up posting the better lap time, which obviously is just a real messy thing.
It´s like a guy missing a shot in a basketball game but the game claiming he hit it because he usually shoots a high percentage.

the races itself were very fun though.

[Peregrine]

EA is having a July 4th multi-platform sale. Good prices on a lot of games via their Origin download platform, as well as iOS stuff, and more.


EA’s Biggest Sale Ever On July 4th - EA News (http://www.ea.com/news/eas-biggest-sale-ever-on-july-4th)

[mckerney]

Of the Steam daily deals today I highly recommend SpaceChem at $5.09 to anyone who likes difficult puzzle games. Just Cause 2 at $5 is a really good deal. It's less of a GTA game in terms of story, the main story is pretty bad, but the open world element blow stuff up element is fantastic, and the vehicles/parachuting stunts are fun too.

Also, a video of Hamilton's Great Adventure for anyone who's curious about it.

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[Scoobz0202]

Little let down by the deals today. Nothing really popped off the page. Black Ops for 40 bucks is a deal of the day? Really?

[mckerney]

Little let down by the deals today. Nothing really popped off the page. Black Ops for 40 bucks is a deal of the day? Really?

Maybe you didn't notice that Railworks is $1057.50 off today. :p

[Scoobz0202]

GamersGate has Civ V for $11 on their UK site. Its $17 through the US site. I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter which one you buy..

Sid Meier's Civilization® V - Buy and download on GamersGate (http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-CIV5/sid-meiers-civilization-v)

Sid Meier's Civilization® V - Buy and download on GamersGate (http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-CIV5/sid-meiers-civilization-v)

Edited to add that this does register on steam for those that like to have all their shit in one spot.

[the_meanstrosity]

Today's Steam Deals include:
FM2011 for $9.99
Resident Evil 5 for $14.99
Battlefield Bad Company 2 for $5
Super Meatboy for $7.49
BioShock 2 for $4.99
Hoard for $2.99
Half Life franchise sale
Aliens Vs Predator $4.99
Magicka for $3.39
Darksiders for $4.99
Fable 3 for $24.99

[EagleFan]

Steam Today's Deals...

Call of Duty: MW 2 - $19.99
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - $19.99
Transformers: War for Cybertron - $7.49
Defense Grid: The Awakening - $2.49 (if you like tower defense games I cannot recommend this game high enough; absolutely fantastic!!!)
Men of War: Assault Squad - $8.74
Arma 2 - $19.99
Kane & Lynch: Dog Days - $4.99
Tropico 3 - $3.74
Two Worlds 2 - $17.00
Sniper: Ghost Warrior - $4.99
Torchlight - $2.99
Dragon Age 2 - $35.99

[mckerney]

Steam Today's Deals...

Call of Duty: MW 2 - $19.99
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - $19.99
Transformers: War for Cybertron - $7.49
Defense Grid: The Awakening - $2.49 (if you like tower defense games I cannot recommend this game high enough; absolutely fantastic!!!)
Men of War: Assault Squad - $8.74
Arma 2 - $19.99
Kane & Lynch: Dog Days - $4.99
Tropico 3 - $3.74
Two Worlds 2 - $17.00
Sniper: Ghost Warrior - $4.99
Torchlight - $2.99
Dragon Age 2 - $35.99

I second the defense grid recommendation. Also, you can get the DLC map packs for free during the summer sale for three tickets. You can get the tickets from previous days and there are several you can get without owning any games.

[DaddyTorgo]

I wanted to like Sniper - Ghost Warrior, but it's a horrible mess of a game unfortunately. Played the demo and cringed through it.

[JPhillips]

Torchlight for 3 bucks is a steal.

Anybody have experience with Two Worlds 2?

[EagleFan]

Torchlight for 3 bucks is a steal.

Anybody have experience with Two Worlds 2?

Tried it on the 360 and didn't like it. With that said, I have talked to people that really liked it. I am not a huge RPG guy though so that may have something to do with it.

[dubb93]

I love RPGs but I couldn't get into Two Worlds 2 either.

[mckerney]

Steam Today's Deals...

Call of Duty: MW 2 - $19.99
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - $19.99
Transformers: War for Cybertron - $7.49
Defense Grid: The Awakening - $2.49 (if you like tower defense games I cannot recommend this game high enough; absolutely fantastic!!!)
Men of War: Assault Squad - $8.74
Arma 2 - $19.99
Kane & Lynch: Dog Days - $4.99
Tropico 3 - $3.74
Two Worlds 2 - $17.00
Sniper: Ghost Warrior - $4.99
Torchlight - $2.99
Dragon Age 2 - $35.99

The Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition is also on sale for $10.20. It's a much better game than Dragon Age II if you haven't played either.

[RainMaker]

Some great deal but Steam sucks for me. Trying to login in on a new computer and it says it's sending me an access code via e-mail that never arrives. Fuck them.

[DaddyTorgo]

Some great deal but Steam sucks for me. Trying to login in on a new computer and it says it's sending me an access code via e-mail that never arrives. Fuck them.

Spam filter?

[Groundhog]

Damn you Steam. Picked up a few cheap individual titles as well as the THQ pack, mainly because I've always wanted to try WH40K Dawn of War 2, but the Metro game and a couple of the others look interesting too. Not that I have time to play most of the games I already owned BEFORE these sales... :(

[tyketime]

Some great deal but Steam sucks for me. Trying to login in on a new computer and it says it's sending me an access code via e-mail that never arrives. Fuck them.

I just loaded Steam today on my new laptop and I got the same access code message. Fortunately, I also got the email. Any chance you've changed email addresses since you created your account? Can you confirm DT's idea about spam filter?

[whomario]

couldn´t help myself and bought Tropico 3 (loved the first iteration way back), Fate of the World, The Longest Journey and Beyond Good & Evil for under 15 bucks all together :)
Never heard of the latter 2 but the descriptions/game premises and the reviews sounded very good. Anybody else bought/played those before ?

[mckerney]

I just loaded Steam today on my new laptop and I got the same access code message. Fortunately, I also got the email. Any chance you've changed email addresses since you created your account? Can you confirm DT's idea about spam filter?

It's a problem on Steam's end, there's been a few times this weekend where I didn't get the Steam Guard email when trying to log on from work. I just had to try to log in a few couple more times until one of them got through. It's probably due to servers being overloaded during sale.

[Dutch]

Spam filter?

Oh wait, disregard. Yeah it's either a different e-mail or your e-mail is filtering it out. I'd imagine both would be fairly easy to determine.

[cartman]

couldn´t help myself and bought Tropico 3 (loved the first iteration way back), Fate of the World, The Longest Journey and Beyond Good & Evil for under 15 bucks all together :)
Never heard of the latter 2 but the descriptions/game premises and the reviews sounded very good. Anybody else bought/played those before ?

I also picked up Tropico 3. I had bought it on Saturday, when it was 40% off. But it looks like they didn't charge me until today, when it was 75% off.

[EagleFan]

Steam's dailies today...

TRINE - $1.99
RUSE - $10.19
Frozen Synapse - $12.49 (Great fun)
Serious Sam HD: Gold Edition - $7.99
Doom 3 - $6.24
Bully: Scholarship Edition - $3.74
Singularity - $7.49
Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword - $3.74
Homefront - $24.99
Fallout: New Vegas - $14.99


and more...

[mckerney]

Steam's dailies today...

TRINE - $1.99
RUSE - $10.19
Frozen Synapse - $12.49 (Great fun)
Serious Sam HD: Gold Edition - $7.99
Doom 3 - $6.24
Bully: Scholarship Edition - $3.74
Singularity - $7.49
Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword - $3.74
Homefront - $24.99
Fallout: New Vegas - $14.99


and more...

New Vegas DLC is on sale for $3 each also.

[PilotMan]

Ooh and Frozen Synapse at that price still includes 2 copies of the game.

[Big Fo]

re: Fallout: NV

I wonder if the DLC is any good. I might install some mods and give the second game another playthrough soon, I'd like to try the DLC too unless it's so bad that it's not worth $6.

[Scoobz0202]

Alpha Protocol for five bucks. I've heard a lot of great things about it. Any experience here?

[Big Fo]

It doesn't control that smoothly but it's still pretty fun. The RPG aspects of the game (writing, making choices, upgrading skills and weapons, etc.) are better than the action/third-person shooting aspects. Definitely worth $5 imo.

[JonInMiddleGA]

re: Fallout: NV

I wonder if the DLC is any good. I might install some mods and give the second game another playthrough soon, I'd like to try the DLC too unless it's so bad that it's not worth $6.

DLC is a mixed bag, some good & some not very good (unless you really like spending 5 hours avoiding booby traps).

FWIW, I believe there's some discussion at least briefly in the New Vegas thread (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=79576&highlight=f%3Anv)

edit to add: Or maybe there isn't much talk about the DLC after all (but I'd swear I commented on both of them somewhere on here). In lieu of that, I thought Dead Money was an interesting idea but among the most tedious DLC's I'd ever played. The occasional cool moment was offset by the design being almost entirely "pick your way through the booby traps". Honest Hearts was fairly short & awfully easy but getting to interact with one of the legends of the NV game world (The Burning Man) made up for those weaknesses reasonably well IMO, although unless you're immersed in the universe pretty well I might question how appealing it would be. Definitely hoping the last two DLC's are significantly better than the first two.

[Comey]

Big EA sale on iPod/iPhone/iPad games. Many of them for 99 cents.

[MrBug708]

I didnt even know Mount and Blade came out with another add-on

[Groundhog]

Mount and Blade needs a full-blown sequel. So much potential, but I'd love to see the combat expanded on.

[BigDPW]

Can't believe no one has posted the current daily deals on Steam:

Civ V - 24.99
That is the highlight for me... I finally have purchased Civ V. Waiting for the download to finish.

I wasn't blow away by any of the others but my tastes are a bit different than some of you guys.

Here is a brief list:
STALKER - 4.99
COD:MW4 - 9.99
Monday Night Combat - 3.74
Wings of Prey - 4.50
Deus Ex - 2.49
Secret of Monkey Island: SE - 4.99
King Arthur - 3.00
NFS Unleashed - 29.99
Beat Hazard - 2.49
AI WAR: Fleet Command - 2.99
Guild Wars Trilogy - 14.99

[DaddyTorgo]

Really? That's a hella deal for Civ 5.

Hmm...will hafta go check those out.

[Scoobz0202]

Too bad you guys didn't see my post the other day. Could have had CIV V for 12 bucks or so

[DaddyTorgo]

I'm not sold on Civ 5 yet...going to demo AI War...I remember hearing good things about it.

[jeff061]

Bought Civ 5 around release, played it a couple times but it still hasn't grabbed me. Not even enough to get halfway through a single game. Never had that issue with a Civ game before.

That said, I'm convinced my attention span has gotten shorter with age.

[the_meanstrosity]

I think I'll grab the rest of the Stalker series since I've enjoyed Shadow of Chernobyl.

[PilotMan]

Beat Hazard is like Asteroid on steroids with your own music. I highly recommend it.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Burnout Paradise is available with all DLC for $8 on PSN. Tons of good gameplay at that price if you've never played it before.

http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/54635/psn-playstation-network-burnout-paradise-w-dlc-addon-content-ps3

[Ksyrup]

Bought Civ 5 around release, played it a couple times but it still hasn't grabbed me. Not even enough to get halfway through a single game. Never had that issue with a Civ game before.

That said, I'm convinced my attention span has gotten shorter with age.

Same here. Except I'm not sure it's my attention span as much as being able to set aside a 3-5 block of hours to really get into a game. I have the same problem with playing text sims, too - in order to really immerse myself, I need several uninterrupted hours of gameplay, and that's just not possible anymore unless I'm going to stay up until 2am every morning.

[spleen1015]

Same here. Except I'm not sure it's my attention span as much as being able to set aside a 3-5 block of hours to really get into a game. I have the same problem with playing text sims, too - in order to really immerse myself, I need several uninterrupted hours of gameplay, and that's just not possible anymore unless I'm going to stay up until 2am every morning.

I started noticing the same thing for myself with Civ IV. Every time I sat down to play, I had to start a new game. I could never get so immersed that I continued a game in another sitting.

[mckerney]

I highly recommend you get Atom Zombie Smasher ($2.99) and Jamestown ($4.99) from today's Steam Daily Deals. Jamestown is a retro style bullet hell game set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars and Atom Zombie Smasher is a top down strategy game where you need to rescue survivors and scientists from cities while also capturing enough territories to get more victory points than the zombie team.

Killing Floor and Left 4 Dead 2 are both great deals at $4.99 each if you like shooting Zombies.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Jamestown is a retro style bullet hell game set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars......

I was just saying the other day how I'd like to see the '17th century British Colonial Mars' genre get the respect it deserves.

[mckerney]

I was just saying the other day how I'd like to see the '17th century British Colonial Mars' genre get the respect it deserves.

There's also a farce story mode you can unlock.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Really like Defense Grid. Picked it up the other day. Just thought I'd add my vote of confidence in case they do something similar to previous sales and open them all up for a second chance on the final day of the sale.

[mckerney]

Really like Defense Grid. Picked it up the other day. Just thought I'd add my vote of confidence in case they do something similar to previous sales and open them all up for a second chance on the final day of the sale.

Even if they don't, it's still a great deal for $5. Plus you can still get the Resurgence map packs for free. You can easily get the necessary three tickets by playing a demo, posting a screen shot online, and posting a recommendation for a game. Plus there is a ticket you can get from Defense Grid by beating the Out of Bullets challenges.

[Tasan]

Atom Zombie Smasher is 3 bucks, and worth it. I had a ton of fun playing it.

[Dutch]

What a great deal! $79 for all of this? Of course, the word "overwhelmed" comes to mind.

Buy 2K Complete Pack
http://store.steampowered.com/app/65950/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/65950/)

Includes 47 items:
Sid Meier's Civilization® IV,
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete,
Sid Meier's Pirates!,
Shattered Union,
CivCity: Rome,
Civilization IV®: Warlords,
Sid Meier's Railroads!,
Railroad Tycoon 3,
Railroad Tycoon II Platinum,
X-COM: Terror From the Deep,
X-COM: Apocalypse, BioShock™,
X-COM: Interceptor,
X-COM: UFO Defense,
X-COM: Enforcer,
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword,
MLB® Front Office Manager,
BioShock® 2,
Freedom Force,
Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich,
Sid Meier's Civilization® V,
Axel & Pixel,
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization,
Civilization V: Cradle of Civilization - Mediterranean,
Civilization V: Cradle of Civilization - Asia,
Civilization V: Cradle of Civilization - Americas,
Civilization V: Cradle of Civilization - Mesopotamia,
Civilization V: Explorer’s Map Pack,
Double Civilization and Scenario Pack: Spain and Inca,
Sid Meier’s Civilization® V: Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar II),
NBA 2K10,
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom,
The Stronghold Collection,
Mafia,
MLB 2K10,
Mafia II,
Mafia II DLC: Jimmy's Vendetta,
Mafia II DLC: Joe's Adventure, Duke Nukem Forever,
NBA 2K11, Mafia II DLC: Greaser Pack,
Mafia II DLC: Renegade Pack,
Mafia II DLC: Vegas Pack,
Mafia II DLC: War Hero Pack,
Civilization and Scenario Pack: Polynesia,
Civilization and Scenario Pack: Denmark - The Vikings,
Borderlands: Game of the Year

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Great deal, but I'm guessing a lot of people on this board are like me and already have over 1/2 of those 2K games.

[Schmidty]

So is it worth getting the Gothic Universe pack for $5.74 on Steam? It includes all three Gothics, which I have never played. I read that Gothic 3 was subpar though. I know it's only 5 bucks, but it's like this everyday, and spending 3-5 bucks a few times a week adds up.

[frnk55]

So is it worth getting the Gothic Universe pack for $5.74 on Steam? It includes all three Gothics, which I have never played. I read that Gothic 3 was subpar though. I know it's only 5 bucks, but it's like this everyday, and spending 3-5 bucks a few times a week adds up.
I passed on the pack and only bought Gothic 2 because people praise this game up and down. And what the hell it's only $2.49. But hey if you're a rp gamer it's cheap entertainment. I'd say go for it Schmidty :)

[Drake]

Okay, so here's the thing with Gothic 3...

First off, you've got to understand that I loved Gothic 2. I mean, I've probably played it a dozen times, and I rarely ever play a game that many times.

Gothic 3 was a hot mess on release, and remained that way after Pirhana Bytes jumped ship on it because JoWood rushed it out the door. The community patches do a great deal to address some of the issues, but I didn't like the stuff introduced with the 1.7 branch. Completely with them through 1.6, but the combat style changes from 1.7 just felt like it was too much to me. YMMV on that.

There are parts of Gothic 3 that still feel broken to me. Quests that are overly confusing and decision points that don't suggest strongly enough that you're committing yourself in one direction or another when they happen. (If you know Gothic, that's really the point of the whole series. When you get a faction quest, there's usually multiple ways to solve it that have different ramifications depending upon which faction you've aligned with.) Then you've got the whole fact that if you progress too far into the main story, it breaks your interactions in the other two kingdoms you visit so those quests become almost impossible to fully explore.

In some ways, I love Gothic 3 as much as Gothic 2. It is one of the finest examples of open world gaming I've ever seen. The world is huge, and combat never stops being a nail-biting experience. You can do whatever you want whenever you feel like it, and chunks of the storyline (both main and side quests) are really compelling. (Of course, this assumes you can get past some of the clunky translations and bad voice acting -- which, if you're a Gothic fan, becomes part of the charm.)

I'd suggest Gothic 3 at that price just for the experience of the world itself. You're highly likely to get frustrated and lose interest long before the end of this game if you're a thorough RPGer who has to go everywhere, see everything, and do every quest. You can literally lose a month in this game and still feel like you've rushed through it.

This is also one of those games that I'd strongly (strongly!) suggest that you don't tackle without a walkthrough to guide you. It'll help you miss some of the showstopper quest quirks (like the fact that you should not, under any circumstances, liberate more than 2 Mytanian cities until you're ready for the endgame. Do all of the quests in those cities, but DO NOT liberate them until the end...and if you're like me, by the time you get to that phase, you've pretty much stopped caring.)

If it's possible to love the hell out of a game and hate its guts simultaneously, that's what Gothic 3 does to me. I want it to be what it should have been, because it's brilliant, beautiful, interesting and nuanced.

[Drake]

For the record, I will buy any game Pirhana Bytes releases. I'll buy it as soon as it's released and without reading a single review. I adore them that much. Their game design just really, really appeals to me. To wit, I thought Risen was the best game I played last year. I may be the only person on the planet who feels that way.

So take my thoughts above with a grain of salt.

[Draft Dodger]

bought Atom Zombie Smasher and I'm glad I did

[Antmeister]

For the record, I will buy any game Pirhana Bytes releases. I'll buy it as soon as it's released and without reading a single review. I adore them that much. Their game design just really, really appeals to me. To wit, I thought Risen was the best game I played last year. I may be the only person on the planet who feels that way.

So take my thoughts above with a grain of salt.

+1 x some randomly high number.

[mckerney]

bought Atom Zombie Smasher and I'm glad I did

I love Blendo Games and what Steam and other download services have done for them and other indie game developers in having the opportunity for equal access to store front display with larger publishers. That an the ability of smaller developers to release a game and easily provide free or paid updates to players that comes with Steam.

[jeff061]

So Sanctum is on sale for 3.75 at Steam. Anyone have the goods on that game?

[frnk55]

Oh boy, now I see Risen is on sale for $10.19. To many games to play not enough time!
I got the urge to buy Quake 2. It was one of my fav's years ago. I wonder how it performs in win 7?
Steam servers are getting hammered now. Sucks, can't do anything.

[JPhillips]

Terraria at 2.49 on Steam is the steal of the century.

[Lonnie]

If you are doing the Steam summer camp thing post a screen shot. One of today's achievements is to comment on a friends screenshot, but none of my friends have a screenshot on their profile.

If you need the achievement add me, DarkJoker, and comment on my Frozen Synapse screen shot for a free ticket.

[PineTar]

Scroll down to the Deal of the Week.

The RPS Bargain Bucket: Save Yourself | Rock, Paper, Shotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/09/the-rps-bargain-bucket-pc-game-bargains-12/)

Arma II, Men of War, Tower Bloxx Deluxe – Free
Arma II (apply coupon “THESU-NFREE-ARMA2″).
Men of War (apply coupon “THESU-NFREE-MOFW1″).
Tower Bloxx Deluxe (apply coupon “THESU-NFREE-BLOXX”).

[frnk55]

Terraria at 2.49 on Steam is the steal of the century.
Is this game easy to plan with the mouse? I don't have a game pad.

[spleen1015]

Is this game easy to plan with the mouse? I don't have a game pad.

You play with the keyboard, WASD. I got used to it pretty quickly.

[mckerney]

Terraria at 2.49 on Steam is the steal of the century.

Completely agree. It's a great value at the regular price, $2.49 is an amazing deal on it.

For anyone not familiar with Terraria it's a Minecraft style game with an environment you can destory/build where you mine for materials and craft items, though it's a 2D side scroller rather than 3D first person game. It goes way beyond being a Minecraft clone though, it has a lot more game elements with NPCs that will move into your buildings, dungeons and sky islands to explore and boss battles. There's also much more item variety in what you can craft, find or buy than there is in Minecraft. For anyone who likes sandbox games I think it's a must buy at this price.

Is this game easy to plan with the mouse? I don't have a game pad.

I wouldn't play it without a mouse, mining and using a grappling hook or ranged weapon are a lot easier when done by clicking on the block or enemy you want to target. I never considered using a game pad.

[frnk55]

Thx for the replies guys. I'll be getting this game but my back log is getting large. :)

[Thomkal]

Well I finally broke down and got Terraria. I'm generally not a fan of the Minecraft/open world type games, but at that price and all the good commentary about it, I figure it was worth a shot.

I'm currently watching I think a 20+ part series done by a couple of the dev team where they go through a lot of the basics and also die quite a lot :) If anybody has some suggestions/tips on what to do in the early game, let me know.

[JPhillips]

Terraria wiki has a lot of useful info.

For a while you can just dig around. You want to find gold/silver/iron/copper. You'll eventually get to a point where you need to fight the first two bosses, but you can dig for hours first.

[mckerney]

Terraria wiki has a lot of useful info.

For a while you can just dig around. You want to find gold/silver/iron/copper. You'll eventually get to a point where you need to fight the first two bosses, but you can dig for hours first.

Yeah, start out by making some bulidings that NPCs can move into and mining to find ore while looking for chests with other goodies underground. I recommend trying to get the materials to build a grappling hook (http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/Grappling_Hook).

[PilotMan]

If you are doing the Steam summer camp thing post a screen shot. One of today's achievements is to comment on a friends screenshot, but none of my friends have a screenshot on their profile.

If you need the achievement add me, DarkJoker, and comment on my Frozen Synapse screen shot for a free ticket.

I posted one of mine so you can pick up the ticket.

[Antmeister]

Terraria at 2.49 on Steam is the steal of the century.


Ack....well that sucks. It is no longer $2.49. It is back to its normally discounted price since the sale started ($5). Wonder why they switched it.

[Buccaneer]

For the record, I have played and finished Gothic 3 more times than Gothic 1 and 2 combined. It's that good (esp. with the Community Patches).

[SackAttack]

Ack....well that sucks. It is no longer $2.49. It is back to its normally discounted price since the sale started ($5). Wonder why they switched it.

May have sold out the number of licenses they had allocated for that price?

[FrogMan]

Ack....well that sucks. It is no longer $2.49. It is back to its normally discounted price since the sale started ($5). Wonder why they switched it.

May have sold out the number of licenses they had allocated for that price?

a couple threads on Steam are saying it was apparently a mistake for it to be price at 75% off.

My son's been big on Minecraft, I might be tempted to get this one for me and him.

FM

[FrogMan]

but then again, what Sackattack said is also quite possible :)

FM

[mckerney]

a couple threads on Steam are saying it was apparently a mistake for it to be price at 75% off.

My son's been big on Minecraft, I might be tempted to get this one for me and him.

FM

Whatever the reason it's disappointing it went up, but I still a great deal for $5.

[Mustang]

Anyone familiar with many of the games in the 'SFI Summer 2011 Complete Pack'? There were a few I was eying up.. just looking for something different.

[FrogMan]

Whatever the reason it's disappointing it went up, but I still a great deal for $5.

Even if I got about no clue what I'm doing, I think I'll end up getting way more than my little $5 I spent to get it ;)

My son ended up buying himself a copy of it too and he's already built a house of some sort. I was almost ashamed to ask him some pointer but he's been playing Minecraft for quite a while and he says it's about the same...

FM

[PilotMan]

Anyone familiar with many of the games in the 'SFI Summer 2011 Complete Pack'? There were a few I was eying up.. just looking for something different.

I've got a couple of those, but to be honest I really don't play them. The pack has a nice blend to it. There are some 4X games, Strategy, sim, sports and the like.

Jagged Alliance is good in there, and I just picked up Birth of America today to try out. Fleet Commander is supposed to be good but I haven't played it. I have Darkstar 1 and Port Royal 2 too, but they haven't seen much time with me either. I know I have at least looked at Sacred Gold and Disciples 2 so something there looked interesting. 50 bucks for the bunch seems like overkill though.

[Wolfpack]

I've got a couple of those, but to be honest I really don't play them. The pack has a nice blend to it. There are some 4X games, Strategy, sim, sports and the like.

Jagged Alliance is good in there, and I just picked up Birth of America today to try out. Fleet Commander is supposed to be good but I haven't played it. I have Darkstar 1 and Port Royal 2 too, but they haven't seen much time with me either. I know I have at least looked at Sacred Gold and Disciples 2 so something there looked interesting. 50 bucks for the bunch seems like overkill though.

I picked up Port Royale 2 because it was so ridiculously cheap, but couldn't pull the trigger on Birth of America because the meager Steam forum activity all seemed to be complaints that it wasn't working very well for whatever reason.

Having said that, this sale was a blessing and a curse. I finally caved in and signed up for Steam a couple of weeks ago and I've suddenly inundated myself with games that I've scrupulously avoided playing for the past decade because I either didn't have the money or the horsepower to play them until now. I still have the horsepower anyway. :D

[Yellow5]

Kerbal Space Program (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/)

Design/Build rockets and then launch your poor astronauts into space.. if you don't explode the rocket first.

Free because it's in alpha. Having a lot of fun with this.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Kerbal Space Program (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/)

Design/Build rockets and then launch your poor astronauts into space.. if you don't explode the rocket first.

Free because it's in alpha. Having a lot of fun with this.
terpkristin would probably kick all our asses at this

[BrianD]

Kerbal Space Program (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/)

Design/Build rockets and then launch your poor astronauts into space.. if you don't explode the rocket first.

Free because it's in alpha. Having a lot of fun with this.

So far, it is pretty interesting. I haven't gotten past 5km yet, but I am interested to see if I can actually make orbit.

[Groundhog]

Excited about trying this Kerbel game when I get home tonight.

[EagleFan]

Kerbal Space Program (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/)

Design/Build rockets and then launch your poor astronauts into space.. if you don't explode the rocket first.

Free because it's in alpha. Having a lot of fun with this.

Damn you...

:)

[Yellow5]

I know fun isn't it??

I made it to 400,000m tonight and the capsule just kept going and going. Trying experimental rockets now that I have a solid delta style working.

Half the fun is the failures for me. I almost feel bad when I nuke my kerbals.. almost.

[Izulde]

I got stuck on a mountain for the tutorial launch and it didn't do anything.

[EagleFan]

I know fun isn't it??

I made it to 400,000m tonight and the capsule just kept going and going. Trying experimental rockets now that I have a solid delta style working.

Half the fun is the failures for me. I almost feel bad when I nuke my kerbals.. almost.

Had my 10 year old daughter sitting next to me while we tried different combinations. She wants to play again tomorrow. Haven't had many successes yet and had a couple really bad crash and burns (not a good sign when the rocket is leaning on the launchpad. But she wanted to see it take off so we hit takeoff anyway; lets just say that would have gotten NASA shut down immediately.

[heybrad]

I know fun isn't it??

I made it to 400,000m tonight and the capsule just kept going and going. Trying experimental rockets now that I have a solid delta style working.

Half the fun is the failures for me. I almost feel bad when I nuke my kerbals.. almost.
My 11 year old son and I had a blast making various rockets for the last hour. He's definitely hooked. And yea... I'd like some input from terpkristin.

[BrianD]

I finally managed to get a rocket past the edge of the atmosphere and into "deep space". I think I topped out at about 500,000m before falling back to earth. I keep hoping to come up with enough horizontal velocity to fall past the earth and orbit, but that hasn't happened yet.

I read that in the next version, they will add in symmetrical construction. That should help a bunch with rocket stability.

[DataKing]

Newegg has NCAA Football 2012 for $49.99 ($10 off) with Promo Codes as follows:

Xbox360: EMCKCJH69
PS3: EMCKCJH72

[gstelmack]

MLB 2k11 is $10 on Steam right now.

[Tasan]

holy crap I've blasted a bunch of Kerbals into space (and the dirt) today. That game is really fun.

[BrianD]

KSP 0.8.2 was released yesterday. It adds symmetrical construction which greatly helps balance. It looks like it introduced some bugs into the vehicle construction UI, so I have had mixed luck. Nice to see the progress though.

[SackAttack]

Kerbal Space Program (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/)

Design/Build rockets and then launch your poor astronauts into space.. if you don't explode the rocket first.

Free because it's in alpha. Having a lot of fun with this.

Clicking the 'launch' button does nothing. Anybody else run into that?

[BrianD]

Clicking the 'launch' button does nothing. Anybody else run into that?

If you are running 0.8.1 or 0.8.2, that would be the UI bug I referenced above. Something got "stuck" and you'll probably have to start with a new rocket to get unstuck. I hope this buy gets killed quickly as it is quite annoying.

[SackAttack]

If you are running 0.8.1 or 0.8.2, that would be the UI bug I referenced above. Something got "stuck" and you'll probably have to start with a new rocket to get unstuck. I hope this buy gets killed quickly as it is quite annoying.

I tried creating a new rocket and ran into the same thing. I couldn't even save the rocket and try launching it from the pad instead of directly from the warehouse.

[Yellow5]

Dungeons of Dredmor is new, and on sale on Steam for $4.49

If you enjoy Rogue-like games, this is really fun. Wall of text:

About the Game
Battle Diggles, Find Loot, Sacrifice Lutefisk to the Lutefisk God!

Long ago, the Dark Lord Dredmor was bound in the darkest dungeons beneath the earth by great and mighty heroes. Centuries later, the magical bonds that hold him in place are loosening and his power grows ever stronger. The land cries out for a new hero, a powerful warrior or a mystic wizard like those spoken of in the prophecies of yore.

What they have, unfortunately, is you...

Step into the Dungeons of Dredmor! Embrace your destiny! Face evil of the likes the world has never known - the terrifying Swarmies, the undulating Thrusties, and the adoreable nest-building Diggles. Worship Inconsequentia, the Goddess of Pointless Sidequests, or try your luck as a devotee of the nameless Lutefisk God. Cast powerful magic learned from the dark business warlocks of the school of Necronomiconomics, or summon the Viking Runes of your ancestors to blast your foes with thunder and lightning! Discover the power that can be had by wielding a bizarre armament of devastating weaponry such as the Interdimensional Axe, the Plastic Ring, and the Invisible Shield (if you can remember where you left it). Wield shoes decorated by the Dwarven Glittersmiths, all of whom have now committed suicide because of their shame, and embrace the joys of destroying giant moustache-wielding brick demons with a mace decorated with tawdry, delicious bacon.

While you’re at it, be prepared to die. A lot. In hideous, screaming pain that makes you throw your keyboard out the window.

The Dungeons of Dredmor await. Are you ready for them?

Key features:
Classic Roguelike gameplay with the sweet, refreshing taste of point-and-click interfaces. No longer must you press CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-x to drink a potion.
Randomly generated dungeons entice you with the sweet, sweet promises of treasure and … things.
Old-school pixel goodness. Face lovingly hand-animated monsters and enjoy the great taste of beautiful, individually rendered items on top of a sea of gorgeous, potent tile-work.
Wield the awesome power of the Anvil of Krong, lest it wield you!
Incredibly complicated crafting system! Wield relics of the Great Elven/Dwarven conflict; grind down ingots to make powdered aluminum and shove it directly up your nostrils!
Hordes of monsters never-before-seen in a video game!
Deploy cunning traps to defeat your foes!
Infinite replay value: choose from a selection of mind-boggling skills to create your character. A new gameplay experience awaits every time!
Did we mention there’s lutefisk?

[gstelmack]

The sense of humor in the description is almost enough to make it buy it on pure principle.

[Yellow5]

Played a bunch last night and it's fun. It makes you almost enjoy the fact that you will die a lot.

I don't like the drag and drop interface.

You don't auto-attack monsters when you walk into them which bothers me. Every other dungeon crawler does that.

Crafting is a blast. I also love the randomness of the game. It's just silly and fun.

Love the current crop of indie games that have come out the past year. Minecraft, Terraria, Dungeons of Dredmor, Project Zomboid and Kerbal Space Program.

All of these are cutting into my time spent on big budget titles.

[mckerney]

I bought Dungeons of Dredmor last night after watching TotalBiscuit's WTF is video for it. Player through the tutorials so far, definitely like a roguelike that has an interface and it seems fun so far.

[Lonnie]

Both Stone Soup Dungeon Crawl (http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/) and TOME (http://te4.org/) have pretty slick interfaces these days and they are still free. I did like TotalBiscuit's video about it, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet.

[tyketime]

I bought Dungeons of Dredmor last night after watching TotalBiscuit's WTF is video for it. Player through the tutorials so far, definitely like a roguelike that has an interface and it seems fun so far.
I'm close to snagging that one. I like TotalBiscuit's videos...

[Peregrine]

If anyone uses the Impulse store to download games, they are having a pretty substantial sale on various games for this weekend - each day has different games. I like the fact that some of them are kind of hard to find - may pick up a copy of Revolution Under Seige for 15 bucks, even though I'm not a big fan of Impulse.

Today's list

http://www.impulsedriven.com/explore/games/onsale

[Peregrine]

Also I am having fun with Dungeons of Dredmor as well - I don't have tons of experience with roguelikes, the permadeath is driving me crazy, but I'd feel pathetic if I turned it off.

[frnk55]

Dumb question but what exactly is Rogue like play?
Also with this perma death do you loose everything? Start over?
Is this game like a DnD game like leveling up?
I watched a video of it and it looks cool but I'm still undecided.

[Thomkal]

Dumb question but what exactly is Rogue like play?
Also with this perma death do you loose everything? Start over?
Is this game like a DnD game like leveling up?
I watched a video of it and it looks cool but I'm still undecided.

Roguelike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike)

What a roguelike is - RogueBasin (http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=What_a_roguelike_is)

Not Dumb at all Frnk55. Roguelikes have a lot in common with D&D, and there was even a Dungeon and Dragons Roguelike (Dungeon Hack). In most you start out with a race and character class just like D&D. You then enter a randomly generated dungeon-every level will be randomly generated. You basically try to stay alive long enough to get to the bottom level of the dungeon to defeat the bad guy and/or find the object that allows you to "win" the game. Roguelikes get looked down upon because they often have ASCII graphics, which goes back to the genres origins some years ago. But the gameplay with the randomness and the threat of permadeath hanging over your head makes it very appealing and addictive. I've been playing them since I was in college more years ago than I'm willing to say-not a lot of computer games out there that you can say you've played for years.

Yep permadeath is just that-you die, lose everything, have to start over. That's the challenge of the game-it would lose a lot of its appeal and replayability if it wasn't there. You get experience points for kills and other things you do and when you have enough you go up a level and get more hit points, spells, skills, etc.

If you decide you want to check out one of the games, Angband is a good place to start-the newer versions are newbie friendly with lots of info on the web if you get stuck. Angband at oook.cz (http://angband.oook.cz/) is a good place to get the game (click on the download tab on the top) and find forums and links and info on the game.

[frnk55]

Good info there Thomkal. Thx!
Think I'll take the plunge. 4.49 at Steam ya can't go wrong.

[cuervo72]

Save 67% on City of Heroes Going Rogue®: Complete Collection on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/29680/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1)

CoH Going Rogue for $10 today (with one month playtime, usually worth $15 itself). Comes with perks even if you don't stay subscribed and continue with F2P (extra slot unlocks, Praetoria access).

[mckerney]

Also I am having fun with Dungeons of Dredmor as well - I don't have tons of experience with roguelikes, the permadeath is driving me crazy, but I'd feel pathetic if I turned it off.

I've been having a lot of fun with it too after about 5 hours of play. I finally had a character clear out the first floor and move down to the second, one of the first things I find down there is a zoo that is absolutely filled with monsters. I don't think I'd ever been so happy to have an ability as I was to have Ninja Vanish. :)

[SnowMan]

Been loving Dredmor. The humor and the snarkiness is right down my alley. Permadeath isn't as annoying as I'd thought it would be either.

[Thomkal]

well I got Dredmor as well. First impression was not that good as I opened the first door with my first character and was immediately confronted by five or six mobs that I could not escape from. I hope that doesn't become a trend. :)

[Fidatelo]

I've got Dredmor, only played the tutorial thus far. Seems like it could be lots of fun.

[frnk55]

Been loving Dredmor. The humor and the snarkiness is right down my alley. Permadeath isn't as annoying as I'd thought it would be either.
Same here. The game is a blast! Up to level 5 now. :)

[moriarty]

Is there ever any end to these Roguelike games (e.g. A final treasure on level X or something) or do they just go on until u die?

[WSR]

Trainz Simulator for the IPad is $0.99 this weekend. (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trainz-simulator/id405824661?mt=8) I've been playing around with it today and it seems pretty fun. First time playing any version of Trainz, and it seems like it will hold hours of my play time.

[thesloppy]

Is there ever any end to these Roguelike games (e.g. A final treasure on level X or something) or do they just go on until u die?

Most all roguelikes do have a definite endgame (and usually it just happens to be a final treasure on level X).

[dubb93]

I need some help and hopefully I can get it here.

It seems someone has taken control of my Impulse account. I have been in contact with Impulse support but it seems that without any of the account info(name, email addy, billing address, phone number) I am SOL with them. Whoever took the account, named dubb93 ironically enough, changed all of that information. Impulse is open to the idea that someone with access to the account could change all of this information but they can't access if and when anything was changed nor can do anything without any of the information.

They said they could take order numbers as alternate proof, but I'm not real sure how to re-obtain these. I have access to my account in an offline state and provided them serial #'s for all 8 games I have on the account, but it seems this isn't good enough. I'm really stumped AND pissed about this whole situation. Anyone have any idea where to go from here?

[jeff061]

Do you not have order numbers in email form from the initial purchase? Been a long time since I used Impulse. Shitty situation to be in.

[jeff061]

Been messing around with Dungeons of Dredmor based on the recommendations here. So far I've been pretty happy with it, fun little game with good character.

Also picked Terraria up during it's accidental 2.49 listing. I'm not really "getting" this one so far. But I'll spend more time on it, I've barely touched it.

[dubb93]

Do you not have order numbers in email form from the initial purchase?

Sadly no.

[dubb93]

Some progress. I was able to establish that dubb93 is a moniker I often use by linking to 6 gaming related and social media sites(and XBL and PSN) where I use the moniker. Seems that atleast got them to do their job. They have verified that my email was once associated with the site by pulling it off of their internal receipts.

He claims they "just upgraded the tools he has available to him." That is customer support talk for, "I thought you were just trying to scam me prior to this so I never really looked."

Now he admits this is getting ridiculous but wants me to tell him who has my account(accuses one my friends or family of having my account, won't give me a name). Says he has to use his judgement on if this will happen again before he can restore the account to my email addy.

I really not sure what this guy is waiting for at this point. I have provided serial numbers for the games, established dubb93 as a moniker associated with my name on six different sites, provided screen shots of the account in an offline state, and he has found my email associated with purchases on the account in the past. I'm not sure what he is using his judgement on here.

[tyketime]

That sucks dubb! I'm sure he's double and triple checking because the unfortunate fools who apparently pull the opposite scam and say their account was hacked (but in reality are trying to steal an account). Seems to me you have more than covered your bases at this point. Hopefully it's resolved soon!

[dubb93]

That sucks dubb! I'm sure he's double and triple checking because the unfortunate fools who apparently pull the opposite scam and say their account was hacked (but in reality are trying to steal an account). Seems to me you have more than covered your bases at this point. Hopefully it's resolved soon!

He seems to have discussed my case with his boss and his boss decided I need to supply them with a CC # that I used to make a purchase nearly two years ago. I guess it is kind of like pin the tail on the donkey as I'm not sure what card I would have used.

I know the most likely one has been changed twice in that time. Once b/c the bank did it without consulting me as they said it could have been compromised and then again b/c of the PSN hack. Seems I have some digging to do.

They also implied that whoever is now in control of my account has made a bunch of purchases as he said that "the majority of the purchases on the account were not made by you."

This is a whole lot more trouble than I expected. All I wanted to do was play Space Rangers II again. Had been over a year since I accessed this account. :confused:

[DaddyTorgo]

He seems to have discussed my case with his boss and his boss decided I need to supply them with a CC # that I used to make a purchase nearly two years ago. I guess it is kind of like pin the tail on the donkey as I'm not sure what card I would have used.

I know the most likely one has been changed twice in that time. Once b/c the bank did it without consulting me as they said it could have been compromised and then again b/c of the PSN hack. Seems I have some digging to do.

They also implied that whoever is now in control of my account has made a bunch of purchases as he said that "the majority of the purchases on the account were not made by you."

This is a whole lot more trouble than I expected. All I wanted to do was play Space Rangers II again. Had been over a year since I accessed this account. :confused:

Good reminder of why you shouldn't store your CC# with these places I suppose.

You should have your bank notified too - assume you've covered that?

At some point I think you should either be like "listen I gave you enough...give me my account back and fix this or I'm gone and you can deal with the fraud division at my bank to try to get paid for these other purchases."

[dubb93]

Good reminder of why you shouldn't store your CC# with these places I suppose.

As far I as I know nothing CC wise was stored on the account. As I said even if it was then it has changed atleast twice since I put it on there. Nothing came across my bank statements as odd either as I check them every time I get them.

You should have your bank notified too - assume you've covered that?

No I have not yet actually. I'm not sure if I even should. Any card I used would have been canceled a long time ago(over a year maybe two). Last time I got my bank involved was the PSN issue and they seemed to imply that the email sony sent me wasn't legit so I'm not exactly sure they are on top of things there.

He seemed to imply that the "majority" of the purchases were made with a card that didn't have my name on it. Almost seems like someone took my account over sometime in the year+ since I was managing it and made it their own. Playing not only the games I had on there but actually adding more games to the collection.

At some point I think you should either be like "listen I gave you enough...give me my account back and fix this or I'm gone and you can deal with the fraud division at my bank to try to get paid for these other purchases."

As I said above it seems the above were all bought and paid for by someone who was not me so I'm not real sure what kind of leverage that play would have but I can say I think I have given them more than enough at this point.

[DaddyTorgo]

Aaaah - I missed the point where it wasn't your CC# anymore. Well at least that's good.

[dubb93]

He made a point to say that things don't normally take this long but that this seems to be a rather odd case.

I guess hackers don't normally assume control of an account for a while? Or I guess people normally don't leave their Impulse account idle for over a year?

Since I found Steam it was kind of like why bother with Impulse, but I got the itch to play a game that is linked only to that account. I'm rather glad I did too to take it out of the hands of whoever has it, but this seems like overkill at this point.

[dubb93]

I almost wonder if someone didn't hack it and sell it on craigslist or the like. Without getting any confirmation from Impulse yet that would be my current thought.

Seems as if the hacker will profit. I will "suffer" for the couple of days it takes to get it back to me, and the third party will be out all the money they spent on the account and maybe the purchases they have made.

[gstelmack]

Normally when someone hacks an account, the original owner will at least have kept the e-mails with order numbers to prove it. The problem here is you haven't used it in a while, didn't keep any of the old order e-mails around, and have moved on to new credit cards. You have almost no evidence this account is actually YOURS. This puts them in a very tricky situation, since calling up over and over to get bits of info about an account that you can then use to switch the account to your control is a common phishing tactic. You sound just like a phisher right now to them.

Now mind you they may not have done due dilligence on the switch, like e-mailing you at the old address that you've switched to a new one, etc. But next time, keep your old order e-mails.

[jeff061]

Just bought Grid for 5.99 on Steam. Don't know a lot about it, but good reviews and it doesn't come across as a budget game.

[dubb93]

It seems that they have come to a "solution.". They want me to create a new account they will transfer the games that are linked to my credit cards to the new account with new serial numbers. So far I have rejected this solution on two grounds:

1. I'm not in the business of rewarding my account hacker with the current serial numbered games on the account.

2. I created the account and linked it with my personal information. Regardless of if they say that was changed or not I don't know that it was infant changed and this has become as much about protecting my identity as it has about the games at this point.

[dubb93]

Normally when someone hacks an account, the original owner will at least have kept the e-mails with order numbers to prove it. The problem here is you haven't used it in a while, didn't keep any of the old order e-mails around, and have moved on to new credit cards. You have almost no evidence this account is actually YOURS. This puts them in a very tricky situation, since calling up over and over to get bits of info about an account that you can then use to switch the account to your control is a common phishing tactic. You sound just like a phisher right now to them.

Now mind you they may not have done due dilligence on the switch, like e-mailing you at the old address that you've switched to a new one, etc. But next time, keep your old order e-mails.

I see your point but I do have the original email address, the original credit card used for the account is in my name, and I have the original credit card numbers(I did find them). I would hope this would hold as much water as the "current" email on the account.

[mckerney]

Just bought Grid for 5.99 on Steam. Don't know a lot about it, but good reviews and it doesn't come across as a budget game.

It's not a budget game, just 3 years old and on sale for charity. It's a very solid racer.

[jeff061]

Messed around with it some. Holds up pretty damn well for a 3 year old 5.99 game. Good deal.

[jeff061]

Err not even 5.99, it's actually 4.99.

[mckerney]

Runespell: Overture was just released and is $1 off at $8.99.

[dubb93]

This is fantastic. Unless I can provide the credit card number of they hijacker they can't provide me with control of the account.

But I presume the hijacker is able to keep the account without providing my CC #. I'm not impressed by this turn of events.

[dubb93]

Should I give this up or should I continue to persue the account. The guy I am in contact with assures me that I have no personal info on the account but he has made atleast one statement that makes me think this is not the case and makes me think that I have personal information exposed to the hijacker. I will quote the customer service rep's message that makes me think I do infact have personal information on the account still.

I've reviewed all of the order numbers and it appears that a friend or family member might have purchased most of your games for you. The orders do show your [my email address is listed here, I have removed it] email address and the address you provided, but all the games you have listed, registration codes and all, are under his account now.

I know this is getting a little ridiculous, but I need to prevent further issues and fraud to the best of my ability and with my best judgement. If you could provide me with any of your friend's/family member's information I will be willing to change the email to the email you have requested.

The "friend/family member" in this case would be the hijacker. So this says to me that this guy has purchased games and used my email and address(he did not use my name or card, we both seem to agree on this). That is the part that is making me fight so hard for the account back. The part that sucks is this guy is unwilling to do this without me guessing this guys credit card number. He is only willing to give me a new account with the games that were purchased by my credit cards.

I feel like we are both talking to brick walls at this point. For the record here is this guys last message to me.

Currently, the only thing they have access to is your games. None of your personal information is on this account and this is why we've had such trouble verifying your account. Unless you can verify the other credit card I've found making purchases on this account I cannot hand this account over to you in full.

Advice on how to proceed would be appeciated.

[SackAttack]

Runespell: Overture was just released and is $1 off at $8.99.

Fantastic game. Been playing it since Friday or so. Hoping to have my review up tonight.

[frnk55]

Fantastic game. Been playing it since Friday or so. Hoping to have my review up tonight.
Damn u people. I got enough games! Leave me alone. :p

[DaddyTorgo]

Should I give this up or should I continue to persue the account. The guy I am in contact with assures me that I have no personal info on the account but he has made atleast one statement that makes me think this is not the case and makes me think that I have personal information exposed to the hijacker. I will quote the customer service rep's message that makes me think I do infact have personal information on the account still.



The "friend/family member" in this case would be the hijacker. So this says to me that this guy has purchased games and used my email and address(he did not use my name or card, we both seem to agree on this). That is the part that is making me fight so hard for the account back. The part that sucks is this guy is unwilling to do this without me guessing this guys credit card number. He is only willing to give me a new account with the games that were purchased by my credit cards.

I feel like we are both talking to brick walls at this point. For the record here is this guys last message to me.



Advice on how to proceed would be appeciated.

Escalate to his supervisors, immediately. This guy is an entry-level doofus and can't help you.

Once you get a supervisor, you say "look...somebody obviously hijacked my account and is using a different credit card, so I'm not worried about that. I just want a separate account created with the following games that I bought with my old credit card # (and then provide that # to them and the serial #s of the games so they can verify you bought them). Then I want you to remove all personal information from the account that was hijacked."

**I'm confused still though - so the hijacker is using your email address? Can't you just reset the password yourself and lock them out then? Or they've changed the email address? If they changed it, as long as you get the games you bought then I think you just say "Remove all other information from this account aside from the email address and password. The person who is now using it can fill it back in right?"

Seriously - I'm getting pissed about this...do you want me to call up and fucking ream these assholes for you??

[dubb93]

**I'm confused still though - so the hijacker is using your email address? Can't you just reset the password yourself and lock them out then? Or they've changed the email address? If they changed it, as long as you get the games you bought then I think you just say "Remove all other information from this account aside from the email address and password. The person who is now using it can fill it back in right?"

Seriously - I'm getting pissed about this...do you want me to call up and fucking ream these assholes for you??

Whoever is now in control of the account I guess changed the email associated with the account. At first the rep I am talking to(the is the 2nd one, it was escalated once) told me that my email had never been associated with the account. Then when I showed him that I have the dubb93 moniker linked to my name on social media all of a sudden I got a comeback that he was just given new tools and found a bunch of new information(code for he just now took this seriously). This was the lead in to him implying that my email and personal address has been associated with this hijacker making purchases.

But long story short my email is no longer linked to this account and my personal info has been replaced as well. I guess this place doesn't keep backups as he seems to imply that it is possible that someone could have changed this information but it seems what is done is done in his mind.

And I would love you to call these guys. Hell I would love it even more if I could call these guys but they have no phone number listed. I gave them my cell phone number but they won't call me.

[DaddyTorgo]

Whoever is now in control of the account I guess changed the email associated with the account. At first the rep I am talking to(the is the 2nd one, it was escalated once) told me that my email had never been associated with the account. Then when I showed him that I have the dubb93 moniker linked to my name on social media all of a sudden I got a comeback that he was just given new tools and found a bunch of new information(code for he just now took this seriously). This was the lead in to him implying that my email and personal address has been associated with this hijacker making purchases.

But long story short my email is no longer linked to this account and my personal info has been replaced as well. I guess this place doesn't keep backups as he seems to imply that it is possible that someone could have changed this information but it seems what is done is done in his mind.

And I would love you to call these guys. Hell I would love it even more if I could call these guys but they have no phone number listed. I gave them my cell phone number but they won't call me.

So you're doing this all by email? That's bonkers.

And they won't remove the games that were associated with a different credit card and enable you to start a new account just with those?? WTF?? What's their rationale for not doing that?

Fuck this...I'm pissed about this. Impulse right? I'm going to go on a fucking carnage-rampage.

Well in their TOS I found their likely corporate address...

Impulse, Inc.
Legal Department
625 Westport Pkwy
Grapevine, TX 76051
Fax: (817) 424-2002
[email protected]

They're owned by Gamestop - Gamestop's Corporate Offices main # is 817-424-2000. I'd start there. Happy to have a run at them if you want.

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[Mota]

Advice on how to proceed would be appeciated.

I say create your new account and get the games re-associated with this account. It sounds like all your personal info isn't on the account anyways. Plus if they were going to do something with your info they would've had a long time to do it since there are numerous purchases on the account.

You shouldn't be entitled to any games that the hacker bought on your account, although it would be a good jab in the eye to them. Most likely as you said, the hacker isn't the one using the account now so you'd be getting revenge against the wrong person.

[PilotMan]

At the very least they should give you a new account with access to the games that you had there in the first place. It's a small price to pay for a customer, when that customer had their account hacked. I mean, do they really think that there are people out there scamming trying to get free copies of Space Rangers 2? Why would you go to all this trouble? Somewhere, someone in the pipeline can fix this, they just need to give the ok.

[dubb93]

So you're doing this all by email? That's bonkers.

And they won't remove the games that were associated with a different credit card and enable you to start a new account just with those?? WTF?? What's their rationale for not doing that?

They will do the second part. They offered the chance to start a new account and they would give me all the game sI have purchased on it but as I said above I'm not sure that is good enough at this point as

1. That would be letting the hijacker win. They said they would issue me a new account and new serial numbers for my games. Why? I have my serial numbers and gave them to them. Why does this guy get to keep these games and these serial numbers that I paid for?

2. Can I really take this guys word for it that I have no personal info left on the account? I linked this account at one time with my credit cards(now expired) and all my personal info including phone #, street address, birthdate, email, etc. Do I really take this assholes word for it that this can't be assessed anymore when he seems to imply this guy has already used it? I believe at this point this is just as much about my identity protection as it is my games. I don't feel comfortable settling for one and not both.

[DaddyTorgo]

They will do the second part. They offered the chance to start a new account and they would give me all the game sI have purchased on it but as I said above I'm not sure that is good enough at this point as

1. That would be letting the hijacker win. They said they would issue me a new account and new serial numbers for my games. Why? I have my serial numbers and gave them to them. Why does this guy get to keep these games and these serial numbers that I paid for?

2. Can I really take this guys word for it that I have no personal info left on the account? I linked this account at one time with my credit cards(now expired) and all my personal info including phone #, street address, birthdate, email, etc. Do I really take this assholes word for it that this can't be assessed anymore when he seems to imply this guy has already used it? I believe at this point this is just as much about my identity protection as it is my games. I don't feel comfortable settling for one and not both.

I think you need to escalate to make sure that all of your personal info is removed from the account, at least. But as far as the other thing, take them up on their offer and just accept that the person who hijacked the account "won."

[dubb93]

You shouldn't be entitled to any games that the hacker bought on your account

I agree and I told this guy as such. I asked that those games be wiped as well as all of the hijackers personal info(wiped as well) and the account be returned to me. I don't think I'm being unreasonable but he seems intent on letting this guy keep it.

[DaddyTorgo]

Eh - from their POV they have no way of knowing that the hacker's CC# isn't legit and belonging to them (we all know it likely doesn't, but still). So they can't just wipe that person's stuff out.

But they should certainly be able to split it out since it wasn't bought with the CC# that's currently on the account and you have the receipt emails for those games.

[jeff061]

you have the receipt emails for those games.

I didn't think he did, which is the main problem.

[dubb93]

I didn't think he did, which is the main problem.

You are right I do not have them. I however do have one better. I have the credit card numbers, email, and name linked to my purchases which has been verified by Impulse. There is no question of who purchased what. I clearly made the first ten purchases on the account with my card that I have the number and name on. We both agree on that. One would think this would prove account ownership. Impulse would beg to differ it seems.

[stevew]

BBB complaint? Maybe worth a shot.

[dubb93]

I think tomorrow I am going to try calling the Gamestop corporate office and maybe the BBB(even though I know this is a dead end).

I will see if Impulse has anything else to say and if not request that a supervisor contacts me and ensures me that my info is gone from the account(and not recoverable). I may even go as far as to report this as identity fraud or an Internet crime. I am that fed up with this at the moment. I guess if all else fails they can't really take back their new account offer as I did buy these games.

I just can't believe they aren't making this guy jump through these hoops as well to prove it is his account. If they can't take his games fine. Give HIM a new account with whatever games he can prove he purchased(or make us both start new accounts, a PITA but I can swallow this better). I don't see why I need the new account.

[MacroGuru]

BBB complaint? Maybe worth a shot.

Wouldn't waste my time with the BBB...they really do nothing but harass the company that the complain it filed against for money to clear the "issue".

[stevew]

Isn't that the point?

[MacroGuru]

Isn't that the point?

The negative mark won't do anything and Impulse will tell them where to go. They are not a government entity put a private organization looking to make a profit...

I am anti BBB to the greatest extent....

[PilotMan]

Gamersgate has FM 11 for $6.78 (http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-FM2011/football-manager-2011?aff=fb)

Must use restraint and wait for 12!

[Fidatelo]

Steam has Civ V on for $17 this weekend.

Very. Tempting.

[dzilla77]

Steam has Civ V on for $17 this weekend.

Very. Tempting.

Sold - like I have time for another game.

[Crapshoot]

Steam has Civ V on for $17 this weekend.

Very. Tempting.

Ooh - sounds done. What's the consensus on it? Tom Chick over at a Quarter to Three says the combat model is broken, but has the game gone through its patching period yet / been fixed?

[PilotMan]

Big Paradox sale @ Gamersgate (http://www.gamersgate.com/offers).

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Five good indie games with Steam keys included. Name your price for the next 14 days.

The Humble Indie Bundle #3 (pay what you want for five awesome indie games) (http://www.humblebundle.com/)

[EagleFan]

Batman: Arkham Assylum for $7.50 until Thursday afternoon on Steam.

[I. J. Reilly]

Big Paradox sale @ Gamersgate (http://www.gamersgate.com/offers).

Has anyone played East India Company? Looks like it's probably worth $7.50

[Mota]

I picked up Darkest Hour for $2.50. Looks really good so far, graphics look better than Hearts of Iron and it seems easier to understand.

[MizzouRah]

Both Madden 12 and NHL 12 have the $20 preorder special like NCAA 12 did.

[MJ4H]

Oh god VVVVVV is amazing. Humble Indie Bundle is worth it for that game alone.

[Izulde]

I'm strongly considering Knights of Honor for $5.

[Groundhog]

I'm strongly considering Knights of Honor for $5.

Definitely worth that. A very solid game, I spent a lot of hours on when I picked it up in a former Steam sale for roughly that amount.

[Izulde]

Just bought it. Downloading it now.

[PilotMan]

Five good indie games with Steam keys included. Name your price for the next 14 days.

The Humble Indie Bundle #3 (pay what you want for five awesome indie games) (http://www.humblebundle.com/)


I would highly recommend this, especially as PC gamers who support indie developers.

Basically, 5 developers have put their games up for purchase as whatever price you want. Proceeds go to support 2 charities they have chosen. On top of that, you can decide how much of your amount goes to the charities, developers or the group putting this together to cover costs of the site. Almost $500,000 in total payments have been received so far.