Re: FYI: COMPLETE Gothic Series -- Steam Sale $18.75 thru Thursday, 3/24 @4pm Pacific Time.

From	Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
Subject	Re: FYI: COMPLETE Gothic Series -- Steam Sale $18.75 thru Thursday, 3/24 @4pm Pacific Time.
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Date	2011-04-03 06:40 -0500

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On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:43:21 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Ross Ridge
wrote: 

> Zag wrote:
>
>>My issue has *always* been the price, however. WiiWare, which is totally locked
>>to my individual console, even if it breaks, has mangaged to get me to purchase
>>a few things simply because they cost $5-10. At that point, I'm buying "Mappy"
>>on WiiWare, even though I've already got it on MAME (with a defunct PCB in my
>>closet somewhere), just to see what they've done with it.
>
>While I haven't bought anything from any of the console online stores,
>this has been my attitude with Steam.  I don't like that the fact that
>I don't own an unrecovakable copy of the games I've bought through the
>service, but I've bought, er... subscribed to games from them during
>their last two Christmas sales.
>
>My biggest regret with Steam so far turns to be buying games that weren't
>worth the $2 or so I paid for them.  I got around to playing Grotesque
>Tactics: Evil Heroes recently and couldn't get past the awful floaty
>scrolling.

Yup. A $2 mistake isn't so bad though, in my calculus. I'll be careful to avoid
that one. ;^)

-- 
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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