Comments on: The RPS Bargain Bucket: Odes To Joy

By: KilgoreTrout XL

KilgoreTrout XL — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:52:24 +0000

Just picked up Titan Quest, it is dangerously addictive, don’t buy it.

Jesus this game is frigging awesome, but WTB BIGGER FONT. Ok, that’s all.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:30:49 +0000

@Natus

Really? I’ve had whole weekends where Steam wouldn’t download at all. Impulse has the fastest download system of the bunch, no question, but I really prefer not to be beholden to a client and I’ve never had the problem you’re describing. Make sure you archive the downloaded files, then at least you’ll never have this problem again.

By: Natus

Natus — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:25:23 +0000

@Vinraith

I’m an American and it fluctuates constantly from 35-100 kB/s, but I’m appalled that it will take me three days top download this game. It feels like I’m using a dial-up connection.

I’ll stick with Steam and Impulse from now on; never had this issue with them.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:20:30 +0000

@Natus

What actual download speed are you getting? I’ve never had a problem like that on GamersGate before. Most of their servers are overseas so if you’re an American it will be slower than, say, Steam, but I’ve never had a download that was less than 100 kB/s from them.

By: Natus

Natus — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:10:47 +0000

Sixteen hours to download half of Medieval Total War Gold from Gamersgate on a cable modem. It will probably take 2-3 days, all told.

But a Gamersgate employee told me that the game files are “really, really huge”, so that must be it.

By: MrSexyMan

MrSexyMan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:08:26 +0000

Blood Bowl back in stock at GoGamer for those who missed out. Hurry! Hurry! RUN!

By: untot.

untot. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:49:17 +0000

Hmmh. Perhaps some temporary problem? Or they have regional servers which differ in quality. When I downloaded my games some weeks ago, I got 1,8 MB per second, max of my line.

By: Anthony Damiani

Anthony Damiani — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:56:35 +0000

So, I bought Titan’s Quest on Saturday. It’s now Sunday night, and I’m still trying to get it to download and install. Remind me to think twice before listening to any reccomendation for Gamer’s Gate again. Their bandwidth is just unacceptable.

By: untot.

untot. — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:33:51 +0000

Yeah, the layout of their site and random presentation of the deals is bad.
But I don’t know what you mean with the original price. On the product page is a crossed list price under the actual price. Besides the fact that counting back from 50 % off is not a very difficult mathematical problem. ;) … Or I misunderstood you.
And if a deal is really good, you only know when you compare it to other sites.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:04:57 +0000

What frustrates me about Gamersgate deals is that they don’t have a reliable way to check what, exactly, the deals are at the moment. They just kind of randomly load deal links here and there and are by no means necessarily displaying all of them on the front page at any given moment. That and the way they express their deals just as “X 50% off”. Since I don’t know what they were originally charging, I have no idea if 50% off is a crazy deal or if the game’s still, I dunno, $35 because it was ludicrously expensive to begin with.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:40:36 +0000

@untot

Yeah, it’s pretty fantastic. Gamersgate sales are a large part of the reason I have a giant pile of game I haven’t even had time to touch yet, and this daily deal business is only going to exacerbate the problem.

By: Dracko

Dracko — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:25:06 +0000

If you can’t get into The Dig’s first half, then the second will just offend you even more.

And seriously, play Last Crusade.