Fanatical Thread

FoxyPie said:
Yeah, they've been like this a lot to me. Like 1 game that you might really want and the rest slightly above IG/Groupees level. So in essence you are paying close to 75% off for the game you really want, but are given a whole bunch of trash with it. Which wouldn't work in real life. Like if I saw Among the Sleep for $3.99 plus 9 free trash games I'd laugh, but when you call it a bundle I'm all like "this is great!"
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That may be because a bundle is essentially marketing that says "here's a bunch of similarly-valued items, all for the price of one!". "Buy this game, get 9 free", on the other hand, says "here's one valuable game with a bunch of significantly less valuable games thrown in, which will hopefully sway some indecisive buyers."

 
I call this the "spoder swoop".

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Not criticizing you spoderman, it's fair game. I might use the "multiples or none" strategy in the future. :p

 
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inm8num2 said:
I call this the "spoder swoop".

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Not criticizing you spoderman, it's fair game. I might use the "multiples or none" strategy in the future. :p
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I've done it before with success, and I prioritize buyers that multibuy when I host splits. Some guy got pissed that the host sold to me in that thread though, kind of ridiculous.

 
Motoki said:
What is it with Poutine pricing and the gimme5 discount, like $3.30 or $3.40?
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To answer my own question now that I'm home it comes to $3.34 if you use Paypal's exchange rate. Google is putting the exchange rate at $3.26 so if you set a card to do the exchange instead of Paypal you can possibly squeeze a few more cents out there.

 
There's a new Slitherine bundle (not the Harry Potter thing--that's Slytherin--and, yes, I have a perfectly legitimate reason for knowing the difference) on BS. It's one of their three-tiered bundles, which I kind-of hate, but Slitherine doesn't bundle their stuff much, so it might be worth checking out if you're interested in this genre (you know who you are).

$1.99

Battle of the Bulge

Time of Fury

Pride of Nations

$3.99

+ Vietnam 65

Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion

Legions of Steel

Close Combat: Panthers in the Fog

$7.99

+ Pandora: First Contact

 
bought all three tiers.  It's a no brainer to bum up to Tier 2 and Tier 3.   :whistle2:

Slitherine has very little promo for their games.  At most 33% to 50%

 
nitrosmob said:
I think the bigger question for me is do I even want these games in the first place heh.
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Legitimate question. Most of these are turn-based wargames, and that's a fairly niche audience. The two that are likely to have the most mass appeal are Ravenmark, because of its fantasy setting, and Pandora, because it appears to be a conventional 4X space game and looks like it would appeal to the Civ V/Beyond Earth crowd.

BTW, Ravenmark was in a Humble Weekly previously, but it was a second-tier item in a sketchy Android/Steam crossover bundle, so many people probably skipped it.

 
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warreni said:
Legitimate question. Most of these are turn-based wargames, and that's a fairly niche audience. The two that are likely to have the most mass appeal are Ravenmark, because of its fantasy setting, and Pandora, because it appears to be a conventional 4X space game and looks like it would appeal to the Civ V/Beyond Earth crowd.

BTW, Ravenmark was in a Humble Weekly previously, but it was a second-tier item in a sketchy Android/Steam crossover bundle, so many people probably skipped it.
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Wait, by skipped you mean pennied in just for the android stuff, right?

 
warreni said:
Well, that or gilby'd.

But actually I personally don't go for Android bundles because I don't fiddle with that stuff on my phone and I don't have an Android tablet.
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What a coincidence, I don't fiddle with that stuff on my phone and I do go for android bundles. (I intend to play them. At some point I'll try a new game rather than just doing crossword puzzles or sudokus. Really. Any day now.)

 
I just keep remembering that Slitherine did the software for Deadliest Warrior to determine if a katana out-damages a Viking axe or how many Apache warriors a Mafia goon can kill... and I'm still not sure if that's a point for or against their favor.

 
Deadliest Warrior, show that used to be on Spike, used software from Slitherine.  They'd hack at some pig carcasses or gel torsos with weapons, input the "data" into the software and it would supposedly spit out results of how formidable each fighter was.  The joke was that each episode's fight played out the same way anyway: each weapon used once and coming down to some one-on-one fight rather than, say, "Marine throws grenade and blows up ten Zulus, never uses rifle, pistol or combat shovel."

Looking it up just now, I found an AMA from Max Geiger, the "computer whiz" who ran the software on the show.  He mentions that Slitherine sort of got the shaft from Spike which had little interest in promoting them as the 'brains' behind the simulation so Max made a point of name dropping Siltherine during his parts as much as possible.

 
I got the slithereene for the two sort of mainstreamish ones Warreni mentioned, the Pandora Civ Beyond Earth wannabe and the Medievalish game. A couple of the others have cards too soo woohoo 5 cents here I come. :p
 
I used to moran the Humble Android bundles but I haven't bothered in years. Now I just moran the Kemco games when they go on  sale on Google Play. They're basically Android's answer to RPG Maker junk but actually made by real Japanese instead of weeaboos.
 
If I'm going to have shit I never play on Android I at least want it to be on Google Play.
 
I used to be big into turn based games....I may give it a try....I do like trying random 4x type games. I somehow get a bunch of those android humble bundles, though my phone is crazy out of date and can't play like 80% of the games. 

 
I used to buy Android bundles and then I realized that the only stuff I ever play on my tablet are mahjong, marble shooters and those cutsie Dungeon Village/Game Dev/whatever management games.  If I want to play arcade stuff, I do it on my PC anyway.

Speaking of, does anyone know of a decent Match-3 for Android that isn't microtransaction based?  My little one likes to see us play them and would probably be able to fumble his way through some levels except they're all "Oh, gee, you lost so now pay thirty coins to try again or wait three hours".  I don't care about paying up front.

 
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In all seriousness for Match 3 on Android I would suggest either Doctor Who or Marvel Puzzle Quest. They are both F2P but they don't really gouge. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a decent not F2P Match 3 for mobile.
 
Marvel Puzzle Quest is on Steam too but unfortunately you can't carry progress over. You can try it out though and see how you feel about it.
 
The Doctor Who one is interesting because you can sort of dragon and individual gem all the way around the screen and have it bump over the other ones in different ways instead of just swapping it with the one next to it. It's hard to explain but it works well and give a bit of a different dynamic than the usual match 3.
 
Motoki said:
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a decent not F2P Match 3 for mobile.
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Yeah, I think you're right. I was just hoping that maybe something remained from the good old days when people would sell you a game for $3 rather than "giving" you the game and waiting for their $55 in microtransactions. Amusingly, the closest I found was 10,000,000 except the frantic nature of that game doesn't really work for what I want (he can swipe it but obviously doesn't last very long). Him trying to play that is part of what made me start looking for a more traditional Match-3 game for him.

For reasons not worth getting into here, a F2P model won't work for me, not that I don't appreciate the suggestions. :)

 
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Blah I didn't get one either. Was going to pick up Killer 7. Every time I miss something like this I think "obviously I spend too much money here".

 
I just got a coupon on a junk email account that I don't even remember using for bundlestars.  It's tied to that account too, so I just reset the password and bought what I wanted on that one.  Might be for people that haven't shopped there in a while?

 
Malkan said:
I just got a coupon on a junk email account that I don't even remember using for bundlestars. It's tied to that account too, so I just reset the password and bought what I wanted on that one. Might be for people that haven't shopped there in a while?
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I checked both emails I have accounts on and haven't received anything

 
Malkan said:
I just got a coupon on a junk email account that I don't even remember using for bundlestars. It's tied to that account too, so I just reset the password and bought what I wanted on that one. Might be for people that haven't shopped there in a while?
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Or ever if Tomasety got one.
 
I haven't used my main account since last year, I think.. and don't have a coupon for that. Madjoki rarely buys bundles so I'm surprised he hasn't gotten one.

 
spoderman said:
I haven't used my main account since last year, I think.. and don't have a coupon for that. Madjoki rarely buys bundles so I'm surprised he hasn't gotten one.
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and when I do, I use Canada account. Gotta save dem pennies.

Last purchase on main is like 2.5 years ago

 
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Well, if it's not account-age based, I guess it's for people who have been signed up for the newsletter for XYZ amount of time?

Based on this line:

We've been together since the early days... it's time for a catch up. So here's a discount voucher for an extra 15% off loads of Steam bundles and games!
 
Playlist Bundle 5 - $1.99

  • RePete
  • Elliot Quest
  • Asteroid Bounty Hunter
  • The Haunting of Billy
  • 3 Coins at School
  • Project Graviton
  • Insane
  • Lucid
  • Lift It
  • Drizzlepath

Looks like another RePete.

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Only missing 3 Coins At School and Insane from that bundle, but I liked the post because they claim it's the "last" Playlist crap repeat bundle they're doing.

 
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