Opinions: Orange Box only $9.99 This Weekend
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im temped to set up a steam account with a generic username and give it to a mate as his bday present in 2 months... (hes a console gamer with a decent pc)
I'd get it if I could run it. Seriously, this is the best deal I've heard of since I got the Unreal Anthology (which contains Unreal 1 and 2, Tournament, and 2004) for $5.
I accidentally found out today and I just bought two copies; one for myself and one for my brother.
On occasion, Valve remembers that they're not suppose to suck on the business department. Still BS that we have to pay more than the Americans for the same product through digital distribution. It creates a dangerous precedent; but that's a discussion for another time.
On occasion, Valve remembers that they're not suppose to suck on the business department. Still BS that we have to pay more than the Americans for the same product through digital distribution. It creates a dangerous precedent; but that's a discussion for another time.
I bought it already for $20. However, HL2 and Episode 1 don't work. At least I got Portal's dialogue to work.
The short answer, valve does it because they can afford to. The long answer.RRilef said:
Valve has already made huge profits off of orange box. The cost of developing the game is long past paid for. They could literally price the game at just about any price now and make a profit of it (via digital distribution anyway). Valve has sales on games for 2 reasons. The first of which, as is the case with orange box, is to stimulate sales and generate an immense profit off of a game that's already paid for its development cost several times over. Being that orange box has been out for 2 years now, sales have dropped off and they are no longer making very much money off of it. As stated earlier, that's ok because they've already made buttloads of money on the project. However, dropping the price in order to stimulate sales generates a huge revenue for them over one weekend. For instance, in any given weekend they might sell 1,000 copies of orange box (purely speculative figure) for 20$ or however much it sells for. In one weekend, they drop the price to 10$ and they sell 10,000 copies, thus generating 5 times the profit for that game on one weekend than they would any other weekend.
The second reason for a drop in sale price (and really is the same reason) is to stimulate sales on a product that wasn't selling to expectations. Dropping the sale price once again stimulates people to buy it. As you can imagine, there's generally a huge overhead on software. What they weren't making by selling the product at a higher price, they hope to make up for by dropping the price and selling in quantity. (UT3 for example).
Anyway, I hope this answers your question. It's not because Valve is an amazingly generous company, it's because Valve has an excellent business model. They're not taking a loss on anything, everything they do makes good business sense.
Then you, my friend, were ripped off. If you were sold a copy of a Steam game, and it did not have an activation/registration key printed somewhere on or in the box, then it was either used or illegal. Simply put, you paid for the game twice. Valve has a specific policy that no store is to sell used copies of it's games. The keys for any given game are registered to a user's account. Once they're in that account, they can't be transferred or reused on another account. (unless they're gifted duplicates, as in the case of Half-Life 2 and Episode 1 in the Orange Box)link670 said:
I wouldn't really say that. We're talking about one of the only game development companies in the market that gives out every update, every bug fix, and every bit of added content for free to any one who purchased their games. I'd say that's pretty damn generous.Crash486 said:
i dont know. i dont think i'll buy it, it depends. all i'm interested in is TF2 and portal but portal is way creepy.
Yes you can. When you are purchasing the game, you can have it be purchased as a gift instead of just for your account. Steam will then place the game in your account and you can then send the game to whomever you wish. (specifically, to someone's Steam account)link670 said:
TF2 also goes for 10 bucks this weekend... though that's kind of the point. Same price, so if you intend on getting one, get them all.Captain Schpack said:
I love when Valve does this stuff, it's just a shame I don't catch all the steals like this on steam. I did catch L4D when it was like $10 (or was it $20?) for what 3 days? But I've had the orange box for like a year, and I got it for $30 and I still think it was worth every single penny.