Steam Games Deals - Holiday Sale is over :/

[Red_Dragon]

I guess this is capcom's idea to push out the awareness for the franchise now that lost planet 2 is on the way.

[mobius1aic]

I bought it 2 hours ago when I noticed the ad as I logged on to Steam. At 5 bucks, it was a definite buy considering I wanted to get it at some point.

[crash]

Ceville is no longer 10% off.

[Citizen86]

I guess this is capcom's idea to push out the awareness for the franchise now that lost planet 2 is on the way.

Maybe, but it's mostly just a weekend deal. Happens every weekend

[nic.]

Got myself a copy, cheapest game I've bought yet.

[unknown555525]

Sometimes there is game's deals that is only available to US users, what is the chance of me offending their EUA by bypassing the region protection? Or having someone from the US to buy me the game while I pay them extra?

This is actually against their TOS, and can get your steam account with all of the games you bought permanently disabled.

Also, the weekend sales are actually a research study on buyer behavior conducted by valve. Participation in the study is entirely up to the developer of the game, or whoever owns the rights to it.

Basically they are doing these constant deals to try and find the sweet spot between unit sales, and price. And while the choice to do Lost Planet at this point may have been to get more people interested in the 2nd game, it's still just part of this experiment.

[Dustin Sklavos]

I will say that Lost Planet is worth the five bucks if you have a decent GPU. I run it on my 4870 and it's a beautiful game, if not particularly great.

If you want mindless action entertainment in a pretty environment, you could do a heck of a lot worse.

...still a crappy console port, though.

[Shadows1990]

Just bought the game after playing the demo last night.

Seems repetitive, yet highly addictive. The gameplay also feels pretty solid, considering the amount of abuse this game has received from critics.

£3.50 well spent, i say

[Citizen86]

This is actually against their TOS, and can get your steam account with all of the games you bought permanently disabled.

Also, the weekend sales are actually a research study on buyer behavior conducted by valve. Participation in the study is entirely up to the developer of the game, or whoever owns the rights to it.

Basically they are doing these constant deals to try and find the sweet spot between unit sales, and price. And while the choice to do Lost Planet at this point may have been to get more people interested in the 2nd game, it's still just part of this experiment.

Well technically, there are some companies that restrict where their game is sold in which regions, I'm not really sure why, whether it's because of tax-type reasons or they simply don't want to deal with it.

There IS a way you can buy it, through use of a proxy, but that's questionable ethically, and I would also be hesitant about doing it through a strange proxy, dealing with credit cards and what not.

But if you have a friend that lives in the States, or even a fellow NBR friend you trust, they can easily gift you the game and you can pay them back. I'm pretty sure there is nothing illegal about that. It's how I got the game Prey back when it was 5 bucks, had a friend on Hardforum gift it to me and I paypalled him the money.

The game is being bought in the States and basically sent to you. I even doubt it's a loop hole because if Valve didn't want that, they could have easily stopped it from happening.

[nic.]

I'm actually thinking of VPN and use payment method that don't review your address. But I guess it is just not worth it overall, I miss $5 Bioshock .