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Awesome Indie Games Sale

thaneofcawdorthaneofcawdor
edited August 2009 in Video Games
from IndieGames.comWe've been recommending these five games for quite some time, and now there's a chance to purchase them all from Direct2Drive at a very special price of $17.75. It would normally cost you close to $80 for Defense Grid, Democracy 2, The Path, Zeno Clash and Cogs, but with the collection you are getting five fantastic indie game releases for the price of one (or two, in some cases). Don't miss out on this time-limited offer, as the discount is only valid until August 9th.
I thought this was such an amazing deal that I had to post it here. A bonus, mentioned in the comments of the article, is that both the Zeno Clash and Defense Grid serial codes can be entered into Steam and can be downloaded and run through that service. Link

Comments

  • thaneofcawdorthaneofcawdor
    Steam responds.
  • Nine BoomerNine Boomer
    Comment from Nineless about regional pricing in 3...2...1...
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    Dude, it's four in the morning where he is right now.
    Comment from Nineless about difference in time zones, people's calculating thereof, spelling, the weather, the troubles of being a tsundere, etc..
  • NeitoNeito
    Dude, it's four in the morning where he is right now.
    This is NINELESS we're talking about, tho.
  • SailSail
    Steam responds.
    Done. I had been wanting to play pretty much all of those games but was never willing to spend the face-value for them.
  • KoholintKoholint
    I wish they'd let you choose the five games you want in the $20 deal. I have enough of them that neither of them really feels worth it.
  • lackofcheeselackofcheese
    Steam responds.
    Done. I had been wanting to play pretty much all of those games but was never willing to spend the face-value for them.
    Same here.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    Ugh...$30...

    So tempting, and yet I actually want only a few of the games...
  • AprecheApreche
    Ugh...$30...

    So tempting, and yet I actually want only a few of the games...
    Yeha, I already own a few of the games. If Steam would let me gift them, but nooooo. Right of first sale is starting to bother me on Steam. They need to fix that. Maybe we need to make a petition.
  • AndrewAndrew
    Yeha, I already own a few of the games. If Steam would let me gift them, but nooooo. Right of first sale is starting to bother me on Steam. They need to fix that. Maybe we need to make a petition.
    Yeah...that's working real well for the L4D2 petitioners...
  • Nine BoomerNine Boomer
    I'll start a petition for people to pay more attention to petitions.
  • KoholintKoholint
    I'll start a petition for people to stop making dumb petitions.
  • AprecheApreche
    Well, it doesn't have to be a petition. Maybe we can go to small claims court.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited August 2009
    Well, well, well.. pirates win again. Checkmate.
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    Well, it doesn't have to be a petition. Maybe we can go to small claims court.
    Would a small claims court be appropriate for this?
  • SailSail
    Well, well, well.. pirates win again. Checkmatey.
  • KoholintKoholint
    Well, it doesn't have to be a petition. Maybe we can go to small claims court.
    Would a small claims court be appropriate for this?
    It isn't a very big claim.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited August 2009
    Perhaps an actual campaign with a proper website to promote the enforcement of consumer's rights on digital media? Somewhat the like the Stop Software Patents guys.
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • AprecheApreche
    Perhaps an actual campaign with a proper website to promote the enforcement of consumer's rights on digital media? Somewhat the like the Stop Software Patents guys.
    Ah so rather than just target Valve, target right of first sale in general.
  • ΣπεκωσποκΣπεκωσποκ
    What I don't get is that it would cost Steam nothing to allow you to gift games you already own that are part of a pack, and it would encourage people to buy packs because you could also gift the games you don't want/already have to friends... it would seem like a win/win situation for both parties.
  • KoholintKoholint
    What I don't get is that it would cost Steam nothing to allow you to gift games you already own that are part of a pack, and it would encourage people to buy packs because you could also gift the games you don't want/already have to friends... it would seem like a win/win situation for both parties.
    Probably because with the current system, they'll sell more of the packs. If I bought a pack and gifted my friend all the games he wanted, that's one sale. If my friend and I both buy the pack, that's two sales.
  • AprecheApreche
    What I don't get is that it would cost Steam nothing to allow you to gift games you already own that are part of a pack, and it would encourage people to buy packs because you could also gift the games you don't want/already have to friends... it would seem like a win/win situation for both parties.
    Probably because with the current system, they'll sell more of the packs. If I bought a pack and gifted my friend all the games he wanted, that's one sale. If my friend and I both buy the pack, that's two sales.
    The thing is, that's not how it actually works. See, because I already own two games in the pack, I don't buy it. That's zero sales. If they let me gift the games I already have, that would be one sale.

    Now let's say my friend wants the pack. If he only wants the two games I'm going to gift him, then he probably wasn't going to buy it anyway. If he wants all the games, and I still gift him, then he can re-gift the two duplicate games yet again. The people who end up with the gifted games weren't going to buy the pack anyway. Also, those gifted games were paid for by somebody. And the price originally paid for them was probably more than what they are charging for them in a discount pack.
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