Are you ready?! Can't think of anything I want really, but we'll see!

rms

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On 12/21/2023 9:29 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:19:40 -0700, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:

Are you ready?! Can't think of anything I want really, but we'll see!

Not really.

I've said it before but I'll say it again: Steam sales aren't what
they used to be. "Back in the day", you'd see some truly amazing
discounts - triple-A games dropped to $5 bucks! - that you'd only see
during the seasonal sales. The discounts would only last a day or two
(or sometimes only a few hours!) but if you could grab the game during
that period, you'd get a tremendous bargain. It also gave purpose to
visiting Steam often; you'd never know WHEN a sale like that showed
up.

GOG sales have some pretty deep discounts right now. Unfortunately I
own the ones that I'm looking at going "That's a steal!" Of course I
only know they're steals since I have played them already.

Witcher 3 is $13.
Dragon Age Origins is $4
Mad Max is $4

There's some that are tempting, but I'm just not sure, and I'm tied up
with Bloodborne (though put it on pause for a day and a half as I
started to get bored since there isn't much to try out.) And I want to eventually get back to BG3, and Cyberpunk '77, and possibly continue NG+
on The Witcher 3, and there's that game I got for Christmas from you.

Here's the tempting ones

Psychonauts 2 is $12
Divinity Original Sin is $18 and II is $14
Day's Gone is $13
Yakuza complete series is $28
Wasteland 3 collection is $13
Phantasy collection $9
Cult of the Lamb $15

I have a much larger wishlist on Steam, but nothing I can't resist
unless it hits about half what they're at even on sale. There's a whole
bunch of indy games that are under $5 on my wishlist but I'm not really
sure I'd enjoy any of them $5 worth, If I was between games, I'd
probably buy a couple.

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I'm tied up with Bloodborne

I just received this from walmart!

Day's Gone is $13

Playing this now and enjoying quite a bit. It is easy though to get tied
up doing the numerous sidequests and feeling like its demanding too much of
my time!

rms

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On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 09:56:09 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

As for myself... well, there have been a great number of older SSI
games recently re-released to GOG ("Phantasie collection" is one, but
also stuff like the "Wargame Construction Set", "Renegade: Battle for
Jacob's Star", "Prophecy of the Shadow", and many more) which I'd love >digital download versions of to bolster my floppy-copies. But it's
/really/ hard for me to justify spending $5-10USD each for such
ancient games that are mostly just purchased as backups.

Phantasie is one I missed back in the day. It looks interesting to me
so I plan on playing it at some point. If I am remembering correctly,
there is no DOS version of the second game.

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On 12/22/2023 4:30 AM, H1M3M wrote:

rms wrote:

Are you ready?!  Can't think of anything I want really, but we'll see!

rms

I'm going to reuse the "It's sale Time! No Steam, No!" Goofy time meme
this time. I barely touched Steam in 2022 (My year of Game pass), but
that Steam Deck required feeding.

So far:
- Clannad
- Hypnospace Outlaw (beat it on Game Pass, but I am not subbed anymore).

That looks pretty funny for a 90's retro-spective of the web in a game.
I'm not sure I want to remember the 90's web though :)


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On 12/22/2023 7:08 AM, Mike S. wrote:

On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 09:56:09 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

As for myself... well, there have been a great number of older SSI
games recently re-released to GOG ("Phantasie collection" is one, but
also stuff like the "Wargame Construction Set", "Renegade: Battle for
Jacob's Star", "Prophecy of the Shadow", and many more) which I'd love
digital download versions of to bolster my floppy-copies. But it's
/really/ hard for me to justify spending $5-10USD each for such
ancient games that are mostly just purchased as backups.

Phantasie is one I missed back in the day. It looks interesting to me
so I plan on playing it at some point. If I am remembering correctly,
there is no DOS version of the second game.

Phantasie was pretty fun on the C-64, I thought it was better than SSI's
D&D games, but doing the same general thing. You got to have a pixie
and troll in your party! It's a game I've thought of replaying
occasionally. I may have only played II, don't remember.

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On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:29:12 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

But then Valve put the kibosh on deals like that, and declared any
discounts had to last the entirety of the sale. Not only did this mean
that there was no purpose to visiting Steam more than once (usually at
the beginning of the seasonal sale), but it killed those
super-discounts entirely. No company could afford to give away their
games at a 95% discount for a whole week!

I'm pretty sure, with all the game discount watch sites, that a 48 hour
deal *was* like putting it on sale for a week. Probably longer in terms
of copies sold at a loss.

In this day and age, only one person has to "visit Steam." Everyone else
is on Reddit or Discord (or whatever) ready to pounce when the guy posts.

So the plan didn't work any more. I doubt it was enitrely Valve's
decision. I think they played with limited supplies for a bit until the
whole thing became more trouble than it was worth. At that point, IIRC, mistakes were made and Valve's clients got angry about it.

This is why we can't have nice things.

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Zag

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spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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On 21/12/2023 15:19, rms wrote:

Are you ready?!  Can't think of anything I want really, but we'll see!

As I've said before I stopped actively looking at Steam sales a few
years ago as I know what I'm like. I'll ended buying games as they were
a 'bargain' (not if you play if for no more that an hour the are) or
even worse buying something as otherwise I've 'wasted' the last
half-an-hour browsing the sale. Then there was the problem that I'd end
up dropping the game I was currently playing, and enjoying, just to try
the new ones out.

Anecdotally they also don't seem as good as they used to be with the
absolutely massive discounts which put it into the I'll buy it at that
price just to have a change of game for when I feel like it. The last
problem. There's very few games that I think if it's worth £10 pounds
then it isn't worth £30, to put it simply if I really wanted to play it
why haven't I already bought it. It's similar to why I'm quick picky as
to which freebie games I claim from Amazon gaming.

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On 12/22/23 22:00, Zaghadka wrote:

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:29:12 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

But then Valve put the kibosh on deals like that, and declared any
discounts had to last the entirety of the sale. Not only did this mean
that there was no purpose to visiting Steam more than once (usually at
the beginning of the seasonal sale), but it killed those
super-discounts entirely. No company could afford to give away their
games at a 95% discount for a whole week!

I'm pretty sure, with all the game discount watch sites, that a 48 hour
deal *was* like putting it on sale for a week. Probably longer in terms
of copies sold at a loss.

In this day and age, only one person has to "visit Steam." Everyone else
is on Reddit or Discord (or whatever) ready to pounce when the guy posts.

So the plan didn't work any more. I doubt it was enitrely Valve's
decision. I think they played with limited supplies for a bit until the
whole thing became more trouble than it was worth. At that point, IIRC, mistakes were made and Valve's clients got angry about it.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Scalpers ruin everything.
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On 12/24/23 09:49, H1MEM wrote:

Justisaur wrote:

That looks pretty funny for a 90's retro-spective of the web in a
game. I'm not sure I want to remember the 90's web though :)

Starts like a "late 90's internet simulation", then it starts getting
darker and darker. The moment the second game gets a date, I'm preordering.

Proud to say Hypnospace is on the list of games that made me cry.
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