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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

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archibishopofBAH said:
the game looks like fucking garbage, very dated textures, mostly terrible optimization

buried underneath the muck is an interesting story, but it annoyed me so much I uninstalled it before getting even 30% into it and wont touch it til they fix it (if ever). There may have been some improvements since then (I got it via the Humble glitch), but I havent paid attention.

It pissed me the fuck off. They had a solid location and time period to work with.
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So, it's like ME:A then, worse in nearly every way to a previous game?
 
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MysterD said:
So, how does this Mafia 3 game run for you?

How's the story + character development stuff here, BTW?
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Well, since you didn't ask, it's a 29Gb download.

Since you did ask, not great. I spent about an hour and a half playing tonight. On high settings, I experienced a fair bit of stuttering. Even at 30 fps cap, my computer's native resolution, and low settings, it felt a bit like the protagonist was walking through molasses. It's playable, but you can tell my hardware's not really up to snuff. Or possibly it's poorly optimized, although I don't remember reading that anywhere. This is the work laptop that ran Shadow of Mordor at medium-high settings.

The story is interesting so far. Orphan boy Lincoln Clay grows up in a rough neighborhood in faux-New Orleans, decides to volunteer for the Vietnam War and comes home five years later to find his family in trouble. The '60s soundtrack playing while you drive around town is sublime. The shooting's a bit tricky and the driving controls themselves aren't the greatest, but I'm enjoying it overall.

 
So maybe I missed it but if Mafia 3 is $15.60 with real money about how much does that make it with the zgold nonsense?

Edit: Looks like it's just 10% so around $14. Tempting.
 
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spoderman said:
I think most of the games are 4 players max, while Rampage Knights is 2 players (can split up into groups if we have more people). Can't be too hard to fill up a single lobby. I have a bta tab open for $5.88 that I was going to save to sell or gift to someone anyway.

I know the price is a bit higher than most people are willing to pay for a MP bundle, but the games are high quality for what they are (based on reviews) so I figured I'd schedule them. I've been trying to schedule games that aren't absolute shit recently and I've been successful at it so far, except for *cough*SurvHive*cough*, and most of the games have had pretty good turnout
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I played a little bit of Helldivers on the PS3 when I still had PS+. It was pretty fun, and would be great multiplayer, but if no one else is getting it now I hesitate a little. As someone else noted it has a lot of DLC. I might take you up on the bta tab.

 
Not sure which thread to post this so I'm posting in both.

Both 360 and PS3 have had $5 fire sales on Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions last week and the Humble Store it on sale for $10 until midnight April 1st (roughly 18 months after the release of the PC version), so my "delisting alarm" is blaring.

if anyone has some Humble credit gathering dust in their account/has the Humble Monthly discount and wants to sell to me at cost (or at a discount, I'm not picky ;) ) hit me up. I'd buy a Steam gift copy, but it's full price there.

tl;dr Grab Spoderman: Shuttered Dimebags before April 1st or you may be SOL.

Deadpool's probably next, but I'd wait for it to be $10 like the last pre-delisting sale before worrying too much.

 
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warreni said:
Well, since you didn't ask, it's a 29Gb download.

Since you did ask, not great. I spent about an hour and a half playing tonight. On high settings, I experienced a fair bit of stuttering. Even at 30 fps cap, my computer's native resolution, and low settings, it felt a bit like the protagonist was walking through molasses. It's playable, but you can tell my hardware's not really up to snuff. Or possibly it's poorly optimized, although I don't remember reading that anywhere. This is the work laptop that ran Shadow of Mordor at medium-high settings.

The story is interesting so far. Orphan boy Lincoln Clay grows up in a rough neighborhood in faux-New Orleans, decides to volunteer for the Vietnam War and comes home five years later to find his family in trouble. The '60s soundtrack playing while you drive around town is sublime. The shooting's a bit tricky and the driving controls themselves aren't the greatest, but I'm enjoying it overall.
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I decided to check Mafia 3 Demo out for a bit tonight, also.

You ain't kidding; performance in this game is terrible. I had to look it down to 30 FPS at 1440p here just to keep performance stable, so it ain't bouncing around b/t 30FPS and 60 FPS. Basically, this runs very similar for me to other games like Batman: Arkham Knight + Homefront: The Revolution - which means, it runs like ass when it's not locked down at 30FPS.

I'm running a GTX 970, i7 950 Bloomfield, 16 GB RAM DDR3, W7 64-bit OS here - and this game's just horribly un-optimized. Unfortunately, for those settings - unlike those other games, this game doesn't even look that great for the performance it's getting. At least technically, Batman: AK + Homefront: TR looked really good - despite running like ass. This game might ooze personality b/c of its style, but that's all artistic from it being set in their version of New Orleans. Even at other resolutions, i.e. 1200p + 1080p, this game still ran pretty poorly The game defaulted to 60FPS at 900p, looked pretty "ewwwww" at that res on this monitor (2160p / 4K).

Story + character development is excellent here. I'm really digging this stuff. I really love the music, the settings, the atmosphere, and all of that stuff - it's extremely well put together + presented quite well.

Combat is fine; it's playable with 30FPS cap, but nothing super-special. This game's combat doesn't feel over-the-top, it feels very grounded - i.e. similar to GTA4 base-game, in that regard. So, combat's different here - b/c it seems to have a heavy reliance on being a 3rd person cover-shooter + it has stealth elements. It kind of reminds me of a cross b/t both GTA4 + Watch Dogs (open-world 3rd person action game w/ vehicles & cover shooter elements + feels very grounded & realistic for its combat); and Hitman + Splinter Cell games (i.e. you can and sneak up on enemies to get the drop to knock 'em out, drag bodies & dumpy bodies).

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archibishopofBAH said:
the game looks like fucking garbage, very dated textures, mostly terrible optimization

buried underneath the muck is an interesting story, but it annoyed me so much I uninstalled it before getting even 30% into it and wont touch it til they fix it (if ever). There may have been some improvements since then (I got it via the Humble glitch), but I havent paid attention.

It pissed me the fuck off. They had a solid location and time period to work with.
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Curious:

What was the Humble Glitch on Mafia 3 PC that I missed out on?

 
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BobbyTastic said:
Not sure which thread to post this so I'm posting in both.

Both 360 and PS3 have had $5 fire sales on Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions last week and the Humble Store it on sale for $10 until midnight April 1st (roughly 18 months after the release of the PC version), so my "delisting alarm" is blaring.

if anyone has some Humble credit gathering dust in their account/has the Humble Monthly discount and wants to sell to me at cost (or at a discount, I'm not picky ;) ) hit me up. I'd buy a Steam gift copy, but it's full price there.

tl;dr Grab Spoderman: Shuttered Dimebags before April 1st or you may be SOL.

Deadpool's probably next, but I'd wait for it to be $10 like the last pre-delisting sale before worrying too much.
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Get out of here with your telltale console firesale signs and your boobies, bobby. I'll blindly trust things to stay listed so I can gilby them if I want, you're not the boss of me.
 
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Yeah, bah just seemed to hate the way the game looks, so I don't know how much to credit that assessment. Because I am rarely running any relatively new game at anything over medium settings, I have lower expectations when it comes to graphical fidelity than some folks with better hardware. Still painfully slowly assembling my bits and pieces for my new desktop.

MysterD said:
I decided to check Mafia 3 Demo out for a bit tonight, also.
Combat is fine; it's playable with 30FPS cap, but nothing super-special. This game's combat doesn't feel over-the-top, it feels very grounded - i.e. similar to GTA4 base-game, in that regard. So, combat's different here - b/c it seems to have a heavy reliance on being a 3rd person cover-shooter + it has stealth elements. It kind of reminds me of a cross b/t both GTA4 + Watch Dogs (open-world 3rd person action game w/ vehicles & cover shooter elements + feels very grounded & realistic for its combat); and Hitman + Splinter Cell games (i.e. you can and sneak up on enemies to get the drop to knock 'em out, drag bodies & dumpy bodies).
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I may need to try using KB+M with the shooty bits; using a controller with aim-assist disabled was difficult.

Speaking of poorly-optimized demos, I finished Episode 1 of Telltale's Batman game Wednesday. After at least two patches, this is still the most cantankerous of Telltale's offerings, which are not exactly known for being graphical powerhouses. I wonder whether it plays better on the PS3.

Also, I don't know how many folks have been following the Eador series, but this event seems to bode ill for the new one. TL;DR: new studio owner fired entire development team for this game and Blood and Gold! Caribbean because he was unsatisfied with the progress being made.

 
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Syntax Error said:
I got Just Cause 3 for 50% off from GMG pre-order glitch. Whaddadeal!
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2 months later...

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MysterD said:
"Yay" @ Destiny 2 coming to PC.

BTW, where's that Destiny 1 PC port?
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Frankly, as I understand it there's no need for a port... Your character isn't going to carry over and the story is non existent.

Anyhow, as the game that The Division gets compared against the most its a game I'm interested in but I need to see allot more of it for me to consider fakeybroing it. (Like the story needs to be vastly improved, etc.)

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I feel bad for anyone who got in on that.
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I got it as a preorder at like 40% off... I didn't feel like I had many performance issues... but I didn't play it for very long. Which wasn't what I was expecting as Mafia II is one of my favorite titles from that generation. I was still really deep into the Division at that time, though I thought I was ready for a break but Massive ended up releasing their best patchwork at the same time and I just couldn't break away.

I'm sure I'll get back to it sooner rather than later but I can honestly say that their desire to mimic a GTA title (with tons of side content) got in the way of what they did best. Which was the story.

 
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Valve is taking steps against cheap and free steam keys.

Giveaways and selling keys in bulk

Steam keys are designed to help our partners run their businesses on other retail and digital stores, where the partner is compensated for every unit sold.
Keys are not intended to be sold in bulk or given away for free, except for testing.
If you want to give your game away for free, we think that’s great, but it should also be free on Steam.
If you want to sell copies of your game for pennies or less, Steam probably isn’t the right store for your game, and Steam keys aren’t an appropriate way to distribute your game in that manner.

Note: Valve reserves the right to reject key requests.
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Got my router from tanga. 

I'm irritated that they didn't bother sending a "Your Order Shipped" email.  I don't use the front door of my house often, so it could've been sitting out there for a while if I didn't happen to have to use it yesterday.

It does look clean though, I read a comment on the item page that someone received one that was all dirty.

I'll probably have it set up in a week or couple dozen.  Probably going to just use Asuswrtmerlin instead of DDWRT, since merlin maintains hardware accelerated NAT.

 
madjoki said:
Valve is taking steps against cheap and free steam keys.
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Who Steam aiming this at?

Is this aimed at developers + publishers?

Humble Bundle + other places where gamers can wind-up w/ extra keys?

CAG's giving away keys on Steam+ Board and/or selling keys over in the good ole Cesspool?

All of the above?

 
madjoki said:
Valve is taking steps against cheap and free steam keys.
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Sounds like we're going to see the beginning of the end of certain bundle sites. Now if only Steam would retroactively remove some of the trash from the store.

DD83 said:
Got my router from tanga.
I'm irritated that they didn't bother sending a "Your Order Shipped" email. I don't use the front door of my house often, so it could've been sitting out there for a while if I didn't happen to have to use it yesterday.
It does look clean though, I read a comment on the item page that someone received one that was all dirty.

I'll probably have it set up in a week or couple dozen. Probably going to just use Asuswrtmerlin instead of DDWRT, since merlin maintains hardware accelerated NAT.
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Glad you finally got yours, but Tanga sounds like a pain to deal with. Mine has been chugging along strongly since I got it.

 
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warreni said:
I may need to try using KB+M with the shooty bits; using a controller with aim-assist disabled was difficult.
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Yeah, definitely use KB+mouse for the shooty-stuff. It's fine at that stuff, for a cover shooter + stealth hybrid type of game.

On-the-fly, I basically switch to the controller to drive the vehicles.

 
madjoki said:
Valve is taking steps against cheap and free steam keys.
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Pretty stupid, honestly. If it's your game, Valve should have no right in the say of what you want to do with keys for your game. If you want to do a giveaway? It's your game, that's your right. If you wanna sell your game for cheap, that's also your right. Steam has games in the store for 49 cents, yet they're complaining about selling keys too cheaply? It's a thinly concealed joke.

The only logical reason they would be looking into this is because they're bitching about how little revenue they pull in from bundled keys. Money money money.

 
madjoki said:
Valve is taking steps against cheap and free steam keys.
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If I buy a game pack or set of keys from the developer directly or let's say Humble Bundle then I have the right to give the rights to the game away till it's redeemed

Valve can complain if I'm selling/trading outside of Steam even then that's a stretch.



TL;DR We all knew that Steam eventually would become a monopoly service at some point.


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Seen the Corsair headset for $20 off, can anyone recommend these or any decent headset?
I've been using pair of headphones and a cheap $2 clip on mic that is starting to break after an entire year.

https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Gaming-VOID-Wireless-Headset/dp/B013GMX9HE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491000153&sr=8-1&keywords=CORSAIR+HEADSET

 
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Idiotekque said:
Pretty stupid, honestly. If it's your game, Valve should have no right in the say of what you want to do with keys for your game. If you want to do a giveaway? It's your game, that's your right. If you wanna sell your game for cheap, that's also your right. Steam has games in the store for 49 cents, yet they're complaining about selling keys too cheaply? It's a thinly concealed joke.

The only logical reason they would be looking into this is because they're bitching about how little revenue they pull in from bundled keys. Money money money.
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It's their store dummy. What rights exactly is Valve infringing upon?

Devs/Publishers can certainly sell their game for whatever they want...and Valve can also tell them to fuck off from Steam.

There is always Origin & Uplay

 
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Voken said:
It's their store dummy. What rights exactly is Valve infringing upon?

Devs/Publishers can certainly sell their game for whatever they want...and Valve can also tell them to fuck off from Steam.

There is always Origin & Uplay
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It is, but without the developers Steam would be nothing. Hell, without indie devs Valve would take a huge hit. The bullshit is that they're making a fuss over something that is 100% about them making as much money as possible, and taking more freedom away from the entities driving their business (it's not like Valve is making shit income with their own licenses). Sure, legally they can do anything they want to, and the sad part is that the more a presence like Steam is a monopoly, the more they can do with no real repercussions from the sellers.

If they're becoming so insistent on so-called misuse of keys, they could very well make all sales go through the store instead of issuing keys. But now let's think why keys more or less exist in the first place? So that they can sell MORE copies of games to a wider audience via countless retailers and make MORE money. Now that they're looking at how bundled keys aren't bringing them much profit, they're complaining about a situation that they themselves created. Basically they want to have their cake and eat it too.

By all means, it's not like they're doing anything legally wrong, but that doesn't mean it's not a dick move and disrespectful to the devs who are driving the vehicle Valve created.

 
KeeperOfWind said:
If I buy a game pack or set of keys from the developer directly or let's say Humble Bundle then I have the right to give the rights to the game away till it's redeemed

Valve can complain if I'm selling/trading outside of Steam even then that's a stretch.



TL;DR We all knew that Steam eventually would become a monopoly service at some point.


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What I really came here to post

Seen the Corsair headset for $20 off, can anyone recommend these or any decent headset?
I've been using pair of headphones and a cheap $2 clip on mic that is starting to break after an entire year.

https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Gaming-VOID-Wireless-Headset/dp/B013GMX9HE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491000153&sr=8-1&keywords=CORSAIR+HEADSET
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The HyperX Cloud series seems to be the go to headset these days:

https://www.amazon.com/HyperX-Cloud-Gaming-Headset-Line/dp/B01MTLMV89/

First one is $80 and II is $100. Not sure what the difference is between the two.

I've switched to a standalone mic (Blue Nessie, though I will upgrade to a Yeti eventually) and I use the headset just for sound, so technically I could use anything, but currently I am using a Turtlebeach Earforce DXL1:

https://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Beach-Force-Gaming-Headset-Surround/dp/B006W41X18

It's older and technically not for PC, but since I don't need the mic feature I use them as headphones and I love them because I just started wearing glasses recently and these are the lightest, most comfortable headphones I've worn since. The sound is good if you are gaming, not sure about music.

The HyperX are supposed to be super comfortable too though.

 
Idiotekque said:
Pretty stupid, honestly. If it's your game, Valve should have no right in the say of what you want to do with keys for your game. If you want to do a giveaway? It's your game, that's your right. If you wanna sell your game for cheap, that's also your right. Steam has games in the store for 49 cents, yet they're complaining about selling keys too cheaply? It's a thinly concealed joke.

The only logical reason they would be looking into this is because they're bitching about how little revenue they pull in from bundled keys. Money money money.
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I kind of think they're just getting annoyed by extra rework created by companies that it's fairly unprofitable to work with.

It's not the top 20% of sellers this is directed at. Each of those Valve probably bends over backwards to keep relatively happy.

It's the people at the bottom, the ones whose games likely don't even produce enough revenue to make it worth offering them support, yet come yelling and screaming at Valve to create X keys, now invalidate X keys because of a bad business deal, now create Y more, etc.

These people are devaluing games to less than even the 49 cent minimum Steam is trying to enforce, and they're doing it on the back of the people that are actual direct Steam customers. What likely goes on in the heads of several devs is that they believe they can fire sale somewhere for a very limited time frame (1 or 2 weeks), and then have their game on Steam until the end of time: All of those keys that went out are advertising for the full-price sales they're looking to inspire.

This does things that aren't good for Valve: It brings down the average level of perceived quality on the service, and it drives more people to be cheapasses: looking for where they can pick up the games for almost nothing rather than being the rube that pays full retail in the Steam client.

While there will eventually be fallout for the customer, I'm pretty sure this is just Valve telling devs, publishers and bundle sites that they're tired of their shit, and while they're willing to play ball, if you're make yourself a giant hassle that surpasses your value to them, they'll tell you to get bent.

 
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KeeperOfWind said:
What I really came here to post

Seen the Corsair headset for $20 off, can anyone recommend these or any decent headset?
I've been using pair of headphones and a cheap $2 clip on mic that is starting to break after an entire year.
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Those are ugly as sin... That said esthetics aside Corsair usually has good products. I'm using one of their keyboards right now and love it to death.

Still think I would follow fox's suggestion about the hyperx cloud. I hear amazing things about how comfortable they are.

 
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The HyperX Cloud series seems to be the go to headset these days:

https://www.amazon.com/HyperX-Cloud-Gaming-Headset-Line/dp/B01MTLMV89/

First one is $80 and II is $100. Not sure what the difference is between the two.

I've switched to a standalone mic (Blue Nessie, though I will upgrade to a Yeti eventually) and I use the headset just for sound, so technically I could use anything, but currently I am using a Turtlebeach Earforce DXL1:

https://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Beach-Force-Gaming-Headset-Surround/dp/B006W41X18

It's older and technically not for PC, but since I don't need the mic feature I use them as headphones and I love them because I just started wearing glasses recently and these are the lightest, most comfortable headphones I've worn since. The sound is good if you are gaming, not sure about music.

The HyperX are supposed to be super comfortable too though.
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Well I have these for headphones that I use for everything.

https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATH-M50x-Professional-Monitor-Headphones/dp/B00HVLUR86/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1491002200&sr=8-3&keywords=m50x

Should I just wait and save for the Yeti or Razer Seiren?

 
KeeperOfWind said:
If I buy a game pack or set of keys from the developer directly or let's say Humble Bundle then I have the right to give the rights to the game away till it's redeemed
Valve can complain if I'm selling/trading outside of Steam even then that's a stretch.
TL;DR We all knew that Steam eventually would become a monopoly service at some point.
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What I really came here to post

Seen the Corsair headset for $20 off, can anyone recommend these or any decent headset?
I've been using pair of headphones and a cheap $2 clip on mic that is starting to break after an entire year.

https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Gaming-VOID-Wireless-Headset/dp/B013GMX9HE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491000153&sr=8-1&keywords=CORSAIR+HEADSET
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https://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-598-Over-Ear-Headphones/dp/B0126HISOO
https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATH-M50x-Professional-Monitor-Headphones/dp/B00HVLUR86

What I use.
 
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KeeperOfWind said:
Well I have these for headphones that I use for everything.

https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATH-M50x-Professional-Monitor-Headphones/dp/B00HVLUR86/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1491002200&sr=8-3&keywords=m50x

Should I just wait and save for the Yeti or Razer Seiren?
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I would. You have a great set of cans and I think a Yeti or other standalone mic will have better quality than most headsets. Yeti Blackout Edition routinely goes on sale for $80-90 at Amazon and Gamestop and comes with Watchdogs 2 if that is something you'd be interested in.

 
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