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[Graknorke]

Origin.

eeeeeh
Not worth it.

[BigD145]

Origin.

eeeeeh
Not worth it.

Buy a physical copy for 5 bucks shipped on amazon.

[Zangi]

Origin.

eeeeeh
Not worth it.

Buy a physical copy for 5 bucks shipped on amazon.

Don't you still need origin? (Does not know.)

[nenjin]

For SimCity2000? No. The original installer should have fuck all to do with Origin unless it was remade in the last two years. It has no requirement to dial out or check the product key even.

[BigD145]

For SimCity2000? No. The original installer should have fuck all to do with Origin unless it was remade in the last two years. It has no requirement to dial out or check the product key even.

Zero bloat and a hundred year physical copy. Get bent, EA.

[aristabulus]

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Buy a physical copy for 5 bucks shipped on amazon.

Or a digital copy of Simcity 2000 from GOG for 3 bucks, till the 15th.

[Shadowlord]

You also don't have to have Origin running to run it. Once you've downloaded it (which only took a couple seconds for me), you never have to run Origin again. Personally, I've gotten Sims II, Wing Commander III, and now this - although I already had multiple copies of SimCity 2000 floating around my hard drives, in backup folders, etc, having one registered to an account somewhere seems like a good idea. (I didn't like the demo of either SC3000 or SC4, and didn't even try the newest one)

The version on Origin comes already set up with DOSBox and such, but that's also how GoG rolls, so if you want to throw money at GoG, go right ahead. Just bear in mind that EA owns the rights to the game, so undoubtedly GoG is going to give some of that money to EA when you do so.

[BigD145]

(I didn't like the demo of either SC3000 or SC4, and didn't even try the newest one)

Both superior to 2000 and the new revamp.

[BurnedToast]

Psychonaughts is 80% off ($2 USD) on steam for the next ~40 hours as part of the double fine catalog day.

If you somehow don't own it yet, it's a somewhat strange but very excellent game and absolutely worth $2.

[BigD145]

Psychonaughts is 80% off ($2 USD) on steam for the next ~40 hours as part of the double fine catalog day.

If you somehow don't own it yet, it's a somewhat strange but very excellent game and absolutely worth $2.

The Cave is crap. Psychonauts is great.

[Cowboy Colt]

Psychonaughts is 80% off ($2 USD) on steam for the next ~40 hours as part of the double fine catalog day.

If you somehow don't own it yet, it's a somewhat strange but very excellent game and absolutely worth $2.

The Cave is crap. Psychonauts is great.

I quite enjoyed the time I spent with The Cave, which admittedly, wasn't too long. But still, it's got a lot of charm and clever puzzles.

[BurnedToast]

Steam has some sort of auction thing going. You can "recycle" your cards and other inventory stuff into gems and then use the gems to "bid" on a list of games.

I guess they finally got tired of having 8937894594 cards on the marketplace going for 5 cents or less each and are trying to clear them out, but at least so far it seems like kind of a bad deal - you get something like 5 - 20 gems per card you recycle, and everything has bids of thousands of gems on them. You'd spend as much, or more money buying cards to recycle then you would just buying the game directly.

I'm also not sure what happens to gems after the sale is over... I assume they are deleted or rendered useless, so converting your cards instead of selling them for steam wallet (especially since this will probably increase the sale price on cards) seems like a bad idea.

Edit: If we assume an average price on a card of 5 cents, and 10 gems as the average recycle value, every single item I've checked so far would cost more to bid on then to just directly buy... and some things even cost over twice as much to bid on then to buy.

[Metalax]

Just had a look through my inventory and there doesn't appear to be any obvious link between the value of the item and the number of gems it gives. Cards valued at £0.06 range between 3 to 24 gems at a quick look.

If you are after gems buying £0.03 backgrounds and emoticons are by far the cheapest way of acquiring them.

It also appears that gems will be usable in creating booster packs, so converting unwanted backgrounds/emoticons into cards seems to be possible. However that functionality is currently not activated so no telling how many gems per booster are required.

[nenjin]

Feels like busy work to me. Some bids are already in the 25k range. At least there's maybe something else I can do with all the crap building up in my inventory I don't care about.

[umiman]

Remember that Valve hired an economist exactly for reasons like this. They need to control their created economies. They're just making it look fancier than a company buying back their own shares.