Official PC Thread

[Mzo]

Holy shit, got home just in time for Trine 2! Amazing!

[dave is ok]

Yeah, thats the only one I bought so far. Fuckload of new Flash Deals at 11am EST today

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Playstation + gave me that game for free.
I looked through the bundles, nothing appealed to me enough to make me want to buy anything. I bought crusader kings ii because i was told to.

[FirstBlood]

So far I grabbed Saints Row, Grimrock, Shogun 2, Pixel Junk Eden, Inside a Star-filled Sky and Trine 2.

Something is wrong with me.

[Mzo]

Did Darksiders have a good PC port? It's like $5 and I never played it.

[Yoshi]

I didn't have any issues with it. It even has Steamworks support.

[Changeling]

American Nightmare for me. That was the game I was waiting for. I can wait on Ridge Racer unbounded. 25 bucks is still a lil too high.

[MechDeus]

I bought Trine 2 even though the first has never been installed. Figured I can back-to-back them at some point.

Everything else is either still too much for when I know I'll get to it (Unbounded) or I know I won't play it forever if at all even though I want to (Crusader Kings II). $5 is my impulse level. Even the developer packs are all really bad for me because I either only want one game or already own the only good games in the packs. BRING IT ON, STEAM. I CAN RESIST YOU.

[jyoung]

lol EA/Origin

David Demartini is the head of EA's Origin service. And he's most certainly not going to be announcing any 75%-off sales on his service any time soon. Why? Because he says it damages publishers' intellectual properties (the value of their brands), cheapening them and giving customers a huge reason not to buy new games at launch. He told GamesIndustry:

“We won’t be doing that. Obviously [Steam] thinks it’s the right thing to do after a certain amount of time. I just think it cheapens your intellectual property. I know both sides of it, I understand it. If you want to sell a whole bunch of units, that is certainly a way to do that, to sell a whole bunch of stuff at a low price. The game makers work incredibly hard to make this intellectual property, and we’re not trying to be Target. We’re trying to be Nordstrom.

“When I say that, I mean good value, we’re trying to give you a fair price point, and occasionally there will be things that are on sale you could look for a discount, just don’t look for 75 per cent off going-out-of-business sales.

“What Steam does might be teaching the customer: ‘I might not want it in the first month, but if I look at it in four or five months, I’ll get one of those weekend sales and I’ll buy it at that time at 75% off. It’s an approach, and I’m not going to say it’s not working for Valve. It certainly works for Valve; I don’t know if it works as well for the publishing partners who take on the majority of that haircut.”

[Chux]

We talked about that like 4 years ago, what the fuck.