Originally Posted by puffy 7200 drive on a great-and very expensive -nas would be faster than a cheap enclosure and disk but why do that seriously???for fun) dont get me wrong,external disks have their uses ,we agree in that you could try a custom enclosure + a fast 7200 rpm drive, id say wd black too id prefer e-sata over usb,if your laptop supports it e-sata is basically sata and works natively , usb is universal- this means good but not great -and needs driver. an extra and not neededlayer that may cause problems on poor implementations external drives frequently change letters, if you are swaping external drives and it may be annoying in that case --- alternatively you can download any game and move the installation directory anywhere without uninstalling the game when you want to play the game just copy it t again to your int hdd in the appropriate dir this is the best compromise but may become boring -

Yeah, good advice. It totally slipped my mind that I have a hybrid e-SATA/USB 3.0 port on this thing.

I'm also familiar with symlinking, so it makes moving installations around (to faster drives, for instance) a breeze.

So, is the chance of more keys for Paradox 2012 Ultimate collection officially dead now?
I notice that the pack no longer shows on first page...

Originally Posted by jester55 So, is the chance of more keys for Paradox 2012 Ultimate collection officially dead now? I notice that the pack no longer shows on first page...

I THOUGHT he was prolonging it till the 2nd, but hopes are looking bleak at this point.

Originally Posted by puffy id prefer e-sata over usb,if your laptop supports it

eSATA is definitely a good option. You could just get an enclosure or docking station with both eSATA and USB 3.0, and see which connection performs better on your setup.

Originally Posted by r9800pro Where I live, they give 2 years warranty for "any" HDD

you can send it to WD directly if RMA needed-blacks have 5 years worldwide guarantee
even receipt is not needed,they check serial

Originally Posted by puffy ......... id prefer e-sata over usb,if your laptop supports it e-sata is basically sata and works natively , ........... -

^^^^
This. I'll be buyign an external HDD soon for my laptop; fortunately it does have an e-SATA port [faster than USB 3.0]

eSATA is definitely the best option - it's just SATA with a different plug and cabling standard.

Originally Posted by jester55 So, is the chance of more keys for Paradox 2012 Ultimate collection officially dead now? I notice that the pack no longer shows on first page...

The message from Tony seemed to be, if he was going to get more keys, he would have gotten them by now.

Too bad. I regret holding out for the 2012 pack and not getting the CKII pack instead.

Originally Posted by Correlli The message from Tony seemed to be, if he was going to get more keys, he would have gotten them by now. Too bad. I regret holding out for the 2012 pack and not getting the CKII pack instead.

^this

I'm upset I saved my last coupon to use on this. Would've liked to buy Age of Empires 3 Collection, but held out to get the Paradox 2012 pack. Wish the coupons were still usable throughout the weekend for those that held out hope.

Clearly the best solution is to convert all EC leftover amounts into promo credit eligible for PC digital downloads only that expire once the month is over. Did I say month? I meant year. Or week. Or whatever makes that more likely to occur in any remote way.

Originally Posted by DarkZero104 Clearly the best solution is to convert all EC leftover amounts into promo credit eligible for PC digital downloads only that expire once the month is over. Did I say month? I meant year. Or week. Or whatever makes that more likely to occur in any remote way.

I have like 5 EC credits left...if you didnt use them you didnt use them. Im not gonna whine about it...I knew the risks and it is what it is. Lets get the next weeks sale goin

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I see "Fable Bundle $10" in the title, but cannot find it in the original post (or on Amazon yet). Any help please?

Aye agreed, would have liked to at least grab CKII if the 2012 pack wasn't gonna make it. Rather bummed I didn't get either. But the truth is Tony you've done an amazing job the last two months, and I hope the coming year is just as awesome : )

BTW I can't remember but was the Prototype Bundle from a few months ago, said to never be coming again or something like that? I have horrible memory issues but I thought I read someone saying we weren't going to see it again. Just out of curiosity.

Happy February all!

Originally Posted by BaboonSqueezer I see "Fable Bundle $10" in the title, but cannot find it in the original post (or on Amazon yet). Any help please?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B86BPW2

Originally Posted by Idiotekque lol...The college programming courses we all took sure have paid off, huh? We're all geniuses!

I bet he's still on AOL.

Originally Posted by N3UROP0D Google docs? That's what I use. 'Course I wouldn't put anything too valuable there, just extra indie keys and stuff.

Tried that, but it got posted on reddit. >.<

Originally Posted by Idiotekque Would there honestly be a notable performance loss with an external installed game running through a 3.0 port though?

I don't have one of them newfangled USB 3 ports myself, but USB 1 & 2 had terrible CPU utilization (and no DMA), but hey, it's an Intel standard -- maybe you should buy a new CPU. So I was wondering if USB3 is similarly bad -- quick searching revealed not as bad, but it still can chew 12% load.

Honestly, I'd just copy whatever on/off an internal.

ref: http://www.myce.com/article/usb3-sup.../#.UQyWYqVEEns

Cheap enclosures not only suffer from poor thermals, but often have powersupplies that aren't robust.

Originally Posted by r9800pro I got Risen 2 for $6.43 from GMG on 12/12/12 I hope to get the DLCs for cheap from Amazon. Where I live, they give 2 years warranty for "any" HDD I do have 3x 1.0TB WD Black HDDs and they are indeed very reliable. The oldest one has 33484 Power On Hours

Now go snag GW2 @ $22 so we can envy you more, Euro-CAG! ^_~

am admittedly a bit pissed that the Paradox bundle didn't come through and I saved a key for it, but I understand it's not Tony's fault or anything. Paradox's reps didn't come through.

Originally Posted by BaboonSqueezer I see "Fable Bundle $10" in the title, but cannot find it in the original post (or on Amazon yet). Any help please?

I found it here.

Originally Posted by mcthatch am admittedly a bit pissed that the Paradox bundle didn't come through and I saved a key for it, but I understand it's not Tony's fault or anything. Paradox's reps didn't come through.

You seriously think a big company like Paradox should be easily able to just get one person to generate the keys approve and forward them to amazon in a very short time frame :/

Originally Posted by smurfinaus You seriously think a big company like Paradox should be easily able to just get one person to generate the keys approve and forward them to amazon in a very short time frame :/

Generating keys is like printing money. I'm assuming that the process to approve it isn't a short/quick one, and the people with the authority to approve it were at that meeting in Iceland.

Originally Posted by Dreamweaver7 Generating keys is like printing money. I'm assuming that the process to approve it isn't a short/quick one, and the people with the authority to approve it were at that meeting in Iceland.

That seems kind of silly for a business to put a transaction on hold (and to a big customer as well) because the important people aren't there to approve (or put aside time to do it). Having said that, like you said we have no idea how this all works. Hopefully something positive happens for the people waiting for these keys to turn up