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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.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
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rcsample said:
u should get that silk-screened on a XXXXL black shirt and hang it next to ur "Three Wolf Shirt"

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Hopefully you guys all got this one too:

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archbishopthedoge said:
Within a 10 mile radius of my front door there are over 60 Gamestops.

I live in the NYC area, so its an anomaly b.c of that, but Gamestop is fucking everywhere around here.
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But you need Best Buys and Targets to partake in the flippings. You take credit from one store, buy games there, trade them in another store, rinse repeat.

 
FoxyPie said:
But you need Best Buys and Targets to partake in the flippings. You take credit from one store, buy games there, trade them in another store, rinse repeat.
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I go to GameStop, buy a $60 game, drive to the next GameStop then -- get this -- "return" it and get sixty dollars! The secret is to take the refund in credit so now I have over $12,500 in GS credit and can buy anything I want there for free.

 
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FoxyPie said:
But you need Best Buys and Targets to partake in the flippings. You take credit from one store, buy games there, trade them in another store, rinse repeat.
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Around 20 Best Buys but only 5 Targets. I know how to flip. I dont do it often around here though since its so saturated and traffic is a real issue/headache that dilutes the benefit, but when I was a console peasant and originally started on CAG, I was doing it in Virginia regularly. Good memories from when Blockbuster was having their used game sales and dropping a hundred bucks there on Wii games and flipping them at Gamestop for 3x the cost I paid in trade credit. Getting up early to scour the Target and Kmart clearance racks too. I had fun doing it there b/c it was easy to hit all the stores in one morning. Up here theres so many people that live in the area its hard to even find stuff to flip at times. Much more of a case of "getting lucky".

 
Syntax Error said:
I go to GameStop, buy a $60 game, drive to the next GameStop then -- get this -- "return" it and get sixty dollars! The secret is to take the refund in credit so now I have over $12,500 in GS credit and can buy anything I want there for free.
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Hey, you should buy a steambox! You'll still have at least $6000 left, and be able to play Witcher 3 in glorious 28fps!

 
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FoxyPie said:
Everything you mention can be done sitting on our asses though. So it's relatively effortless and not that time consuming. Flipping requires driving different places and lots of time.

Not saying it's not worth it or that people don't build up significant credit or get more money/stuff out of it, just requires more effort than most of our lazy asses want to put into it.
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That exactly.

Plus all off those things generally are a small one time investment of about twenty minutes and then maybe 5-10 minutes every once in a great while if some software needs and update, patching, or they change something in their system that makes your automation cease to function. Not to mention the fact that many of those small tasks can be slotted in to small amount of time where you're sitting in front of your monitor ANYWAYS. (Should automation not be possible).

Farming steam cards requires you to be able to have enough on the ball to install and configure Idlemaster.
Then you either just list everything in the mall OR you run a simple query to see what's worth selling as a single card, profit off those, and then use your fake money to complete card sets that let you sell off event cards and items at a profit while giving you the fringe benefit of raising your steam level. (A minor bonus, but it has some minor value if you're the sort who needs LOTS of friends).

It doesn't require continuous monitoring and unless you're getting down to a silly point where you're including the cost of electricity, processor time and wear on your hardware, it has pretty much zero ongoing cost. Doing that in the real world takes extra time, fuel, wear on your automobile, etc. While even with this efficencies can be gained (such as only stopping places that are on your route home), those still never reduce the sunk time cost a significant amount.

Plus, after a while stuff just starts to become +1's anyways. Why buy things at full price if you're not going to get around to actually playing it until it's available for 50% off or better?

 
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FoxyPie said:
I play Daily Fantasy Sports as my adult past time.
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I play Sakura Spirit as my 'adult' past time.

FoxyPie said:
But you need Best Buys and Targets to partake in the flippings. You take credit from one store, buy games there, trade them in another store, rinse repeat.
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There is a plaza with both a Best Buy and a Gamestop right across the street from a Target that I pass twice a day on my way to/from work. It's not always the big driving hassle that some claim.

 
hostyl1 said:
There is a plaza with both a Best Buy and a Gamestop right across the street from a Target that I pass twice a day on my way to/from work. It's not always the big driving hassle that some claim.
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Driving to work is a hassle for me! I just walk downstairs into my office and unfortunately for me there are no targets, bestbuys or gamestops that I pass. I do pass a few people and dogs but thats about all the scenery I get on my way to work.

 
hostyl1 said:
I play Sakura Spirit as my 'adult' past time.

There is a plaza with both a Best Buy and a Gamestop right across the street from a Target that I pass twice a day on my way to/from work. It's not always the big driving hassle that some claim.
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P.S. There's also a Gamestop in that picture.

 
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Some of us don't live in a strip mall paradise.  I can find like 50 corner stores within 5 minutes.  No Best Buys or Targets.  Probably would take me 30min to an hour to get to one.  

 
FoxyPie said:
Some of us don't live in a strip mall paradise. I can find like 50 corner stores within 5 minutes. No Best Buys or Targets. Probably would take me 30min to an hour to get to one.
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If I drive 45 minutes in one direction I'm in downtown Chicago. If I drive 45 minutes in the other direction, I'm near my work and in a small town surrounded by cornfields where, once a week, the mayor sells me a big piece of steak on a bun outside her shop for $7 with a soda and chips. Best of all worlds.

Anyway, I get that console media is a different animal and doesn't hit the same PC sale prices and the scene is different. In that situation, I'd probably just buy fewer games. I mean, I like saving money and all but I wouldn't get up off my couch, much less hit three different stores to build up store credit for a game I'm marginally interested in. If it's $5 online though, sure why not. But I also have no interest in collectors editions and steel cases and little video game dolls and all that other stuff -- I play games but I'm not that kind of a "gamer" who'd need hundreds of dollars in GS credit or Best Buy GCU bux, etc. I suppose, if you are, then you might as well play the circuit to get your collectible Call of Weeaboo limited edition with real working tampon machine for that much cheaper.

 
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Syntax Error said:
If I drive 45 minutes in one direction I'm in downtown Chicago. If I drive 45 minutes in the other direction, I'm near my work and in a small town surrounded by cornfields where, once a week, the mayor sells me a big piece of steak on a bun outside her shop for $7 with a soda and chips. Best of all worlds.
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I didnt realize you came to my town for that $7 steak on a bun... The friendly village with country charm is where I reside.

 
Foxhack said:
Incidentally, do not buy the Arkham Knight Season Pass at Nuuvem. WB added a South America version and it can't be activated anywhere else. Even I'm locked out of it.
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Not that surprising, seeing as WB found out about all the non-Brazilians buying from there, of course their return to the place was probably going to implement some sort of measures like this. I guess they just don't care enough about the older stuff to do the same.

 
Syntax Error said:
If I drive 45 minutes in one direction I'm in downtown Chicago. If I drive 45 minutes in the other direction, I'm near my work and in a small town surrounded by cornfields where, once a week, the mayor sells me a big piece of steak on a bun outside her shop for $7 with a soda and chips. Best of all worlds.

Anyway, I get that console media is a different animal and doesn't hit the same PC sale prices and the scene is different. In that situation, I'd probably just buy fewer games. I mean, I like saving money and all but I wouldn't get up off my couch, much less hit three different stores to build up store credit for a game I'm marginally interested in. If it's $5 online though, sure why not. But I also have no interest in collectors editions and steel cases and little video game dolls and all that other stuff -- I play games but I'm not that kind of a "gamer" who'd need hundreds of dollars in GS credit or Best Buy GCU bux, etc. I suppose, if you are, then you might as well play the circuit to get your collectible Call of Weeaboo limited edition with real working tampon machine for that much cheaper.
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Fairly condescending, but at least I can agree with it.

 
I see the appeal of flipping to get a console or something.  I mean I get that it can be big money for some and people can genuinely have fun with it.  I used to collect CDs and would happily spend each Saturday hitting up used CD stores and looking through new arrivals for a hidden gem.  That said, I think I just don't have the free time or desire to flip or scour stores for physical deals as much as I used to.  I hit up Goodwill when I check my PO Box and that's about it.  

 
Daykain said:
Whoever said 8 GB RAM is good enough for gaming, they shouldn't expect to run Arkham Knight on Windows 10 smoothly. Short patch notes show at least 12 GB is required... http://steamcommunity.com/app/208650/discussions/0/490124466455488492/
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Okay for every other game in the universe except that one shitty port.

BTW, even the next gen consoles only have 8GB RAM and they managed to get it to work on those.

Also I'm not convinced it will run smoothly even with 12 and above and even after they supposedly patched the hell out of it at this point.

 
Motoki said:
Okay for every other game in the universe except that one shitty port.

BTW, even the next gen consoles only have 8GB RAM and they managed to get it to work on those.

Also I'm not convinced it will run smoothly even with 12 and above and even after they supposedly patched the hell out of it at this point.
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Batman: AK PC for me after that so-called "improvement patch" w/ the 60 FPS cap on my PC (i7 970; Win 7 64-bit; 4GB 960 + 16 GB RAM DDR3) was still constantly bouncing b/t 30-60 frames a lot all over the place at any time. Best solution for me was to lock it back to 30FPS. That's at 1080p w/ everything in the first section at max & all NVidia GameWorks stuff off, BTW.

Before the improvement patch, at those same settings - 25-30 frames consistently. So, yeah, it's a bit better now for me - but not by much, TBH.

TL;DR - Batman: AK PC runs better than before, but still doesn't run that great IMHO.

 
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MysterD said:
TL;DR - Batman: AK PC runs better than before, but still doesn't run that great IMHO.
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So basically, the turd is all polished and shiny now but it's still a turd.

Honestly as much as it pains me to say this, I think I'd rather get the peasant version. This is one game that clearly was not made for our platform and all the glue and putty and good intentions they tried to put over all the holes probably won't ever change that.

 
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[quote name="Motoki" post="12993593" timestamp="1446071306"]Okay for every other game in the universe except that one shitty port.

BTW, even the next gen consoles only have 8GB RAM and they managed to get it to work on those.

Also I'm not convinced it will run smoothly even with 12 and above and even after they supposedly patched the hell out of it at this point.[/quote]
I don't disagree, I just find it humorous that memory specs have changed for a game where the long awaited "patch to rule them all" took over 2 months and SLI/crossfire support still hasn't been added. Pretty disappointing...
 
Motoki said:
So basically, the turd is all polished and shiny now but it's still a turd.

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This is one game that clearly was not made for our platform and all the glue and putty and good intentions they tried to put over all the holes probably won't ever change that.
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Basically, in a nutshell - yep.

It's a game where the difference b/t Normal and High settings here are pretty much bloody night & day here. There doesn't seem like much of an in-between, either.

Most games, there's some kind of in-between - where you turn a few things down; get some performance back; and it still looks good & still retain a really high FPS - and you're happy with a good & fair mix of both performance + graphics quality.

This is not really the case here - which I think is one of Batman AK's biggest problems. Normal looks decent, but High looks amazing. There's no real in-between here to make the game look good + run great.

And the price is we pay is major - those Max settings are highly + clearly unoptimized for probably most rigs; especially for those PC gamers that want that 60FPS. It's pretty obvious to me why the game had originally that 30 FPS cap in the first place.

 
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Mooby said:
Also doesn't help they changed what the game is about making crappy vehicle combat around half of the content.
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No arguments there either.

Boss fights ain't that spectacular in AK, either. Seems to lack them, TBH. And some boss fights get over-used, too - so it also feels recycled. Some of the better boss fights in a Batman Arkham game were in Arkham Origins - I guess WB Montreal had to get something right.

It's too bad about that b/c Arkham Origins still, for me, is the worst Batman game of the bunch b/c it also does way too much recycling of other AC content, IMHO. Still, a decent and fun game - but it surely ain't as good as the other 3 Rocksteady games.

 
Mooby said:
Also doesn't help they changed what the game is about making crappy vehicle combat around half of the content.
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AK deserves criticism for the port and for leaning too heavily on the Batmobile.

Having said that, most of the Batmobile stuff can be skipped if you really want, and it is actually done pretty well. Lots of Riddler puzzles make use of its tools and aren't too obnoxious. What does wear thin, for me, are the obstacle races where loss of control basically means try-again.

Some of the boss stuff is not as good as past titles, but only because a few fights have been oversimplified and pass too quickly. The combat overall is highly polished.

The city itself is pretty amazing and building interiors and cutscenes load (nearly) seamlessly.

I say all of this because I hear the game getting trashed and it's actually quite good. If you have a PC that can run the game or a console then you should at least give it a try if you enjoyed the other games.

 
Hilarious to see people defending the 12GB thing.  'Derpa derrr 8 GB was the standard 4 years ago!'  'Derpa derrrr, I have 32 just because my mother board can't support anymore.!'

 
Yeah these companies don't get the concept of loyalty I guess. Or they don't care.

Hey let's reward our most loyal fans by giving them something they already have! Who cares if they can't use it, the PR we'll get will be great.

 
Don't you remember when someone on 'gaf or reddit or some other crap-fu site caught the head of WB's interactive media division posing as a 'fan/consumer' on forums and defending the game/bashing detractors?    Nothing is beyond them.

 
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