Anybody interested in doing a
"The Ship" group buy?
This would have to work a little bit differently than the usual group buy though. You see, until the end of the current Winter sale on Steam, when you buy The Ship, you are given 2 gift copies. When each of those gift copies are activated by the person you give them to, an additional is generated in the inventory of the person who activates the gift copy. So essentially, for each copy bought, 5 copies are generated (as long as it's all done before the end of the winter sale).
This is not a glitch. The publishers are trying to regenerate interest in this game. The game is 5 years old, and apparently the online community is a little sparse. So they've turned to giving away copies to generate interest. Read about it here:
http://blazinggriffin.com/2011/12/ho-ho-ho-argh-happy-fragging-christmas
So anyway, here's how I figure that this should work.
Person A buys the game for $10. Then after the two gift copies shows up in his account, he sells each one for $4 to person B & person C. Persons B & C (after activating the games on their account) wait until their gift copy shows up in their account. Then Person B sells his spare copy to Person D for $2 and Person C sells his to Person E for $2. In the end, 5 people end up getting the game for $2.
Is there enough interest out there to get 5 people in on this? I'm the first person, so I need 4 more.
EDIT: I managed to get a copy of The ship in a trade. So I'm out of this.