2 for 1 normal game, ###### spec edition
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Join Date: 2008-04-10 Member: 64057Members
Join Date: 2008-04-10 Member: 64057Members
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Just sayin' id rather have the 2 normal games offer right now than having ever bought 1 copy Spec Edition
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Why didn't you pay for the normal $20 one if you didn't see any value in the special edition?
Just sayin' id rather have the 2 normal games offer right now than having ever bought 1 copy Spec Edition
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You bought the special edition and didn't get access to alpha? That's odd. Did you contact support?
Sorry that didn't come out right. I mean the game does run much more smoother. And back in alpha it wasn't to be expected to run, but for some it did. which I find amazing in itself... But this "bad press" has no relevance when the game is actually getting there currently...
Don't worry so much about the game being devalued by the xmas offer, it was a damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Besides your PC will have lost more value then this game since you purchased it.
Relax and think of it as a karmic deposit.
Just sayin' id rather have the 2 normal games offer right now than having ever bought 1 copy Spec Edition
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So you couldn't run the alpha, oh well. Neither could I. I bought the Special Edition, and I have no regrets. A good chunk of my money went into the development of NS2. That's all that really matters.
An alpha is by definition an unfinished, incomplete and broken product. You got what you paid for. You have no one but yourself to blame for not knowing what an alpha is and buying one with the wrong expectations.
That is a good and valid point but it's still a case that they needed the SE preorders to get to this stage to offer the xmas special.
You could give prezzies to 2 people.... ;)
I payed extra for an alpha which I expected to be buggy as hell. I got an alpha that was buggy as hell. As a side bonus, I got to pay UWE back for never donating to Constellation and I got black armor.
$40 well spent IMO.
You bought a pre-order to an unfinished game and could access the alpha. You need to figure out what you're buying before you buy it. I'm sorry you didn't.
If someone asked me to buy a preorder to an unfinished game, I'd tell them to take a hike until the game is released and gets at least 90/100 on metacritic and I've watched youtube videos made by players (not developers or game review sites). And then I'd try to give them a bad name if possible for acting like a shady sleaze ball.
NS2 was an exception because NS1 was fun and free. NS1 was worth 40$, and getting a copy of the sequel is cool too.
I'm sure we'll see sales left and right after it's been out a year or so. XD
Do keep in mind, though, that Steam always has permission from each of those games' owners whenever it puts on a sale. They carefully calculate each sale, and apparently they make more during the period of the sale than they would have in the same amount of time with no sale. (just a huge volume of purchases come in during every sale) I'm sure interviews have covered this before.
That being said, stuff is always cheaper a year later, no matter what you buy. (unless it goes out of print/becomes an antique) OP has no right to complain, of course.
Heck yeah. I bought like 10 games this morning for 17 Australian.
Don't you dare go out to eat tomorrow. Stay in, eat spam... Someone won't get a Christmas present if you don't....
Anyways, at OP...
Sorry bro, got what you paid for, and you can't go about life this way. It was a long time ago. Do you get this upset everytime a game goes on sale after you bought it?
And if it bothers you that much, buy another. 3 copies for a low low price =D
Sometimes, to cope, I will try to put a positive spin on it by looking at my <b>overall</b> expenditure over a day, or a week, or even a month, and compare that with a 'standard' expenditure which is ideally higher, thus achieving an <b>overall saving</b>; or if I'm really desperate, I'll delude myself into thinking 'it's for the community, or economy', 'it'll have a trickle-down effect', 'it'll come back around to reward me' (karmic deposit), or other such delusions.
If you become a charitable person though (and to me, that just means making small donations by habit), this sense of loss of funds is diminished, as you just consider it another donation. Of course, that's just another delusion.
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I bought Global Agenda a couple weeks ago, and the same day I bought it for $30, a friend yelled at me, asked me where I got it from. Direct 2 Drive had it on sale for $10 XD
Oh well~
I understand how you feel though, many years ago, when I got "early beta" access to Star Wars Galaxies - a game with a huge development team - I was disappointed that you could only log on during specific testing windows of perhaps 1 hour every few days, and be placed onto one planet (Tatooine) in the middle of an empty desert. That was their early beta.
Developing software myself, the idea of anything before Beta being usable is laughable, and even Beta products are intended for bug-fixes, optimization, stress testing, and iterative improvement based on feedback.
Personally, I considered my money payment for the thousands of hours of entertainment I had playing NS1. It is easily one of my most played games, perhaps second only to Tribes, and it was completely free. I might even buy a copy while it is on the holiday sale, which I can consider two gifts to give away.
Anyway, you thought SE was worth your money at the time, so try not to regret it.
edit: ###### yeah, just did. two copies for some friends at only 17$ a pop
Similar thing for me with Left 4 Dead 2. Bought it for 20€ just to see it on sale the next day for 7€ and i think week or two after that for 5€. These things happen and lesson learned.
I don't think i would have invested in NS2 right now if it were not for this 2-for-1 deal...
However, I don't expect UWE to turn around and offer us SE pre-order customers a new deal. They're not a big company with vast resources, so it's acceptable that they can't do anything for those of us who have "paid more for less" at an earlier stage.
What I will propose however is that once they fix the problems, get the game running smooth and looking good, i.e. when the game goes retail and doesn't have the kind of problems that would instantly put off non-NS regulars, UWE should give us Special Edition orderers some free gift-passes to get friends trying out NS2 for e.g. 7 days. A polished NS2 will be as addictive as they come, there's absolutely nothing like it in terms of gameplay, and I don't know about other people but me personally I'd like to get a few of my regular gamer friends hooked onto it too (ones who won't shell out for something they don't know anything about, especially a game as complex with a high learning curve as NS). I think this would be a good compromise for us pre-order folk, and could boost NS2 sales which would benefit UWE (so win-win).
i have purchased 4 copies of this game so far.
i had fun in ns, ns2 alpha, ns2 beta, and i can't wait for this game to be released in the fall of 2009.
my only regret is that i never donated and got my little golden battle gorge next to my name.
or a gorge plushy, or glowing red eyes skulk skin. or both.