tinyE: I'm with you, but at least it's better than that Insomnia bullshit.
hah yeah. good from a promotional standpoint but they overused it. should have been a once a year thing. no more than that.
I was kind of surprised when I saw that they're rolling out stuff as they go along in this sale as well. made me wonder if Steam is going to do something soon or if we've discovered a new type of collage.
I don't miss the days of sales being basically catch the chicken. Steam does it better now.
What with all the DLC, pre-order bonuses, multiple day one editions, in-game microtransactions and gameplay alteration to facilitate them, including healthy doses of best-effort social-engineering ham-fisted into the game (menus? never! social space where we open our crates in front of eachother!), cross-game promotional leveraging, ready and frequent presence of lock iconography, short-term re-releases and bundle releases, roadmapped convoluted pricing strategies leveraging DLC and rereleases, I can slowly feel myself turning into a Russian videogame user.
imagine going to a 3D movie but not getting every scene in 3D because you didn't pay the extra price? instead, a lock icon showed up in the bottom corner and you saw that portion of the movie in 2D until it was finished. imagine seeing in real-time how many people are blinking 3 times at the lock icon in order to immediately purchase the current scene in 3D (slight mark-up from pre-purchase ticket price). if we hit a certain number of buy-ins, we show a little icon representing each person or number tally. happy green guys for buy-ins, blase red guys otherwise. if we don't hit a certain number, we hide the thing of course.
or maybe there's no really good reason for the staggered roll out. how about that new Destiny 2 patch. really excited for these hot new releases.