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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14580 on: July 06, 2017, 08:57:24 pm »

Your link doesn't back up your claim.
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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14581 on: July 06, 2017, 10:42:31 pm »

Sorry, didn't realize things from less than 6 months ago no longer counted.

E: For your more pedantic needs: https://www.steamprices.com/us/bundle/3100/paradox-grand-strategy-collection
Price goes up when sale hits, in order to pretend to be a bigger sale than it is.
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« Reply #14582 on: July 07, 2017, 04:30:19 am »

From the text I believe you are eligible for the compensation as long as you bought any paradox product in a non USD currency regardless of if it was affected by the price change or not. If so, yes it's a bit of goodwill concerning their market practices, but don't think it will solve the core problem with feature-DLCs in the long run.

By excluding USD they don't have to deal with the Humble Monthly Stellaris offer either.



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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14583 on: July 07, 2017, 08:33:01 am »

Sorry, didn't realize things from less than 6 months ago no longer counted.

E: For your more pedantic needs: https://www.steamprices.com/us/bundle/3100/paradox-grand-strategy-collection
Price goes up when sale hits, in order to pretend to be a bigger sale than it is.
You claimed that Paradox had raised the prices of the games for those who use USD in the last few months, which your own link proves to be false.

As for six months ago, yeah, when the price goes up for literally an hour, I'd put that as a glitch, not some sort of evil plan to get more money out of people. As for the winter sale price jump, that's super misleading in the graph, because what they did was discount the game and soundtrack bundle to the same price as the game by itself, and in the graph that's shown as the price changing. That's not a change in catalog pricing though, that's just a higher priced item getting discounted more.

As for the Grand Strategy Bundle, Its one of those Steam bundles where there's a permanent 10% discount on buying all four games, and the price goes down if you already own some of the games in the bundle. However, because during a sale the bundle gets a deeper discount, the price tracking website uses the total cost of the games as the price. That's not Paradox changing the catalog price, that's the way Steam bundles work. Its a little misleading, but that's more on the price tracking website and the way steam Bundle works than Paradox changing the catalog prices of its games.
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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14584 on: July 11, 2017, 10:27:01 am »

Well, the Amazon Prime sale is running now.

So far, everything that looks remotely interesting is 100% claimed. Also the test on their sale pages is borked.
Also I don't have Prime.
So...meh.
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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14585 on: July 11, 2017, 01:19:40 pm »

Amazon Prime Day has always been full of meh deals. It's usually just a way for them to offer mediocre sales to clear out their back stock.

You might see good deals in like... diapers or something but AFAIK there hasn't been any good deals for electronics or games. At least without having you jump through like a hundred hoops or something.

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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14586 on: July 11, 2017, 02:03:22 pm »

Prime Day is about clearing out back stock and getting Amazon hardware into homes. There are pretty good deals on the whole Echo/Fire lines, I've been told. This isn't really related to game sales, though.
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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14587 on: July 11, 2017, 02:25:50 pm »

This isn't really related to game sales, though.

Well they do have a whole category for gamers, with both hardware and software.
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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14588 on: July 11, 2017, 02:52:38 pm »

Man, look at those reload animations. So douchy. So arrogant. I want to slaughter them.

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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14589 on: July 11, 2017, 05:08:04 pm »

Man, look at those reload animations. So douchy. So arrogant. I want to slaughter them.

Which game?
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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14590 on: July 11, 2017, 05:33:06 pm »

Man, look at those reload animations. So douchy. So arrogant. I want to slaughter them.

Which game?
I fucking typed in the wrong thread. My bad.

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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14591 on: July 11, 2017, 05:46:59 pm »

Man, look at those reload animations. So douchy. So arrogant. I want to slaughter them.

Which game?
I fucking typed in the wrong thread. My bad.
Yeah but now we're curious
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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14593 on: July 11, 2017, 06:24:40 pm »

I 100% agree with your statement.
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Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14594 on: July 11, 2017, 07:06:06 pm »

It looks like pretty standard reloading to me...?
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