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Watch out on some Steam Holiday Sale prices!
We haven’t done this in a while but fuck it here’s a list of games you should really look out for! Got some nice comparison thanks to Vogel:
Nuclear Dawn
http://store.steampowered.com/app/17710/
US: $4.99
UK: £3.74 (17% higher)
EU: €4.49 (17% higher)
WARNING DON’T BUY NOW:
Nuclear Dawn is going to be on IndieRoyale.com bundle!
Official confirmation here!
Gabe Newell on pricing and free to play
Gabe Newell discussed the difference between silently discounting a game and making a big sale. When they quietly lowered prices, they found it to be elastic (sales increase proportionally, so the overall revenue remains the same), but…
“The sale is a highly promoted event that has ancillary media like comic books and movies associated with it. We do a 75 percent price reduction, our Counter-Strike experience tells us that our gross revenue would remain constant. Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40. Which is completely not predicted by our previous experience with silent price variation.“
This experiment was successfully repeated with a third party game, and the result is the non-stop flow of heavy discounts you’ll now see on Steam. It’s no coincidence that the already massively discounted GTA games, being priced at 75% for all of them ever is the number one best selling title on Steam.
Difference between saying something is “free” or “free to play”
Now a little more about discovery of the difference between saying something is “free” and saying it’s “free to play”. Newell’s explanation is not entirely clear, but it seems that the latter implies some greater level of content and long-term support for players. He says:
“The most recent thing that also is really puzzling is that we made products available for free on numerous occasions, without significantly impacting the audience size. We recently said, we’re now going to do something different, we’re not only going to signal that it’s free but we’re going to say, ‘it’s free to play,’ which is not really a pricing signal, even though that’s what you would ordinarily think it is. And our user base for our first product that we made free to play, Team Fortress 2, increased by a factor of five. That doesn’t make sense if you’re trying to think of it purely as a pricing phenomenon.
Why is free and free to play so different? Well then you have to start thinking about how value creation actually occurs, and what it is that people are valuing, and what the statement that something is free to play implies about the future value of the experience that they’re going to have.”
And being free to play, rather than simply free, seems to bring with it profit. Newell reports that since TF2 has become free to play, they’re seeing a conversion rate of players of 20 to 30 percent, going from getting the product free, to spending money on hats, etc. Why? No one yet knows. Gabe continues:
“We don’t understand what’s going on. All we know is we’re going to keep running these experiments to try and understand better what it is that our customers are telling us. And there are clearly things that we don’t understand because a simple analysis of these statistics implies very contradictory yet reproducible results. So clearly there are things that we don’t understand, and we’re trying to develop theories for them.”
Make sure to read the rest of Geek Wire’s transcription, which also includes thoughts on piracy, and Valve’s impressive success in Russia.
Source: Rock Paper Shotgun
THQ Summer Sale
- Metro 2033: $12.50,
- Dawn of War 2: $7.50,
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl: $5 + many more.
Some keys may activate on steam (DOW2 & Metro 2033).
Go to the THQ Store now and save big!
Source: reddit
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter FREE WEEKEND
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is 33% off for this weekend.
And additionally you can play it for free for the whole weekend! Pre-load the game now now!
SEGA week on Steam
SEGA Week kicks off with a bang starting with the uber SEGA Complete Pack available at a great discount price. This bundle includes EVERYTHING from Sega currently available on Steam (excludes unreleased games). Offer ends on May 24th – don’t miss out on huge savings!
Sega Complete Pack
€ 59.99
$ 89.99 » € 70.86 (+18.12%)
£ 49.99 » € 58.18 (-3.01%)
Fair price I guess. Worth for the Total War series. Individual price is well over 400€! This deal is week-long and ends on May 24th. Doesn’t include AVP2010 in Germany! Yet they sell it for the same price in there.
Monday – May 17th
Aliens vs. Predator 2010 – 50% off Tuesday – May 18th
Sega Sci-Fi Pack : Space Siege, Stormrise, Universe at War: Earth Assault – 75% off Wednesday – May 19th
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing – 50% off Thursday – May 20th
Total War™ Mega Pack – 66% off
Napoleon: Total War™ – 33% off
Friday – ? – May 21th
Football Manager™ 2010 € 49.99 € 24.99 $ 39.99 $ 19.99 » € 16.00 (-35.97%) £ 29.99 £ 14.99 » € 17.22 (-31.09%)
The deal continues during weekend. By the way FM2010 is the only game from the SEGA pack which will give you a chance to download it onto your MAC. Also, the game is currently on free weekend and so you can try the full version for free. Click HERE to participate. You gotta have Steam installed though.
This deal again means nothing to our readers from Germany, who are unable to buy it off their part of Steam Store.
Can’t wait which prices are going to drop during Saturday and Sunday.
This post will get updated as new "day" deals are announced.
Weekend Deals (16.04.10)
Finally.. the weekend!
Poor Icelanders, they all are covered now with ashes. This is their revenge to EU.
But fortunately our money spending will be untouched, because we get our stuff digitally, there will be no retail junk carried with planes or other transports that are waiting for clearance.
But let’s check out what we can get this time.
GamersGate, who usually offers lots of deals, has this time only 2 things on weekend sale: Street Fighter IV (-60%) and Ceville (-50%).
Steam has Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition (30GB!!!) on sale with 50% discount. US: $29.99 $14.99 / UK: £19.99 £9.99 (3% higher) / EU: 29,99€ 14,99€ (35% higher). PS. It’s metascore is 65, so think or try before buy :)
But there are more good deals in Steam worth to check it out – cheap indie games Beat Hazard (EU price is lower than in US/UK); Xonix clone Fortix; Carmageddon style zombie killing game Zombie Driver and so on, just check the specials tab on Steam.
FREE weekend for Madballs Babo Invasion! And if you want to buy it (which is recommended), then save 75% when buying now!
Ouch, I totally forgot Direct2Drive spring sale! Last 3 days to act! Week 1 has 21 games on sale with huge (really!!) discount!
Tropico 3 (-50% £9.95 £19.95), RollerCoast Tycoon 2 (-75% £3.75 £14.95), MotoGP 08 (-88% £2.95 £25.95), King’s Bounty: Gold Edition (-67% £9.95 £29.95), DCS: Black Shark (-63% £10.95 £29.95), Dirt 2 (-75%!!! £8.95 £34.95), Gothic 3 (-83% £3.50 £19.95), Dark Void (-70% £8.95 £29.95), Call of Cthulhu (-83% £3.50 £19.95), Democracy 2 (-77% £3.50 £14.95), Outrun 2006 (-50% £2.50 £4.95), GUN (-50% £3.95 £7.95), King’s Bounty: Armored Princess (-75% £7.50 £29.95), The Club (-50% £4.95 £9.95), Elven Legacy Complete Edition (-67% £15.95 £48.80), Downfall (-50% £3.50 £6.95), Fallout 3 (UK) (-50% £15.25 £30.50), Reservoir Dogs (-20% £7.95 £9.95), Atari 2010 Spring Bundle (-75% £14.95 £59.95), Battlestations: Pacific (-48% £12.95 £24.95), Just Cause (-20% £7.95 £9.95).
Atari 2010 Spring bundle is Act of War: High Treason, Indigo Prophecy, ArmA: Armed Assault – Combat Operations, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut.
Here is link to deals: UK version, EU version, US version. NB! Don’t get carried away, think first :)
Impulse also has lots deals to offer this weekend. 26 (including 4 items for US/Canada only) titles total, check them all out here. Red Faction Pack, Majesty 2 + expansion Bundle, Zombie Driver, Lost City of Aquatica, Tropico 3, THQ Ultimate Bundle, World War 2, Grand Ages Rome – Reign of Augustus, Fences Pro, Alganon, King’s Bounty Gold Edition, Dawn of Magic 2, Tropico Reloaded, Ceille, Grand Ages: Rome (Europe), Imperium Romanum (+ expansions), Hollywood Pictures 2, Star Assault.
Good Old Games doesn’t have weekend deal (yet) but they have counter running on frontpage talking about being outcast from Orion, so lets hope that they bring excellent Master of Orion series on sale!
GetGames has also discounts but I am not sure how many of them are weekend deals, so simply check their homepage and maybe you will find something interesting.
Games on Demand is offering GTA IV with 50% discount $14.99 $29.99. Check it out here. Steam price is the same $29.99/£19.99/19.99€
So that’s all for this week. Please post all good offers you find to comments, just like you usually do ;) And thank you for doing this! :)
Have fun and don’t spend too much money :D
Impulse: 5% off anything!
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Torchlight Update Adds Steam Achievements, Cloud! –50 off until Monday!
Runic’s critically-acclaimed action RPG, Torchlight, has received a major update to add support for Steam Cloud functionality and Steam Achievements. With Steam Cloud support, Torchlight saved games and characters now follow you to any PC. In addition to adding Cloud support, Torchlight players may now slash their way to over 60 Steam achievements.
In celebration of the update Torchlight is available for 50% off until Monday!
Get it NOW!
US: $19.99 $9.99
UK: £14.99 £7.49 (21% higher)
EU: 15,99€ 7,99€ (15% higher)
Check out our Torchlight review!
DLGamer: Discount coupon for our readers!
Thanks to DLGamer we received a 10% (5€) off discount coupon on the upcoming hit Borderlands.
The game is already 10% off in pre-order which gives us a total of 20% off.
Here’s the coupon:
5ER719935
And here’s a link to buy the game:
http://www.dlgamer.eu/buy-borderlands-p-5899.html
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