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Age of Empire III for.... 10¢?
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[n00b] Member  Joined: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:00 am Posts: 3031 
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 Age of Empire III for.... 10¢?Well I dunno if this is old news, but that's worth a couple of ¢...
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-CA/Games/AgeofEmpiresIII/ |
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One-Eyed Elder, Senior Admin  Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:00 pm Posts: 4936 Location: Gardendale, Texas
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? Holy crap, that's awesome. Seems like they'd lose money on processing a 10 cent credit card order though.
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[n00b] Member  Joined: Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:46 am Posts: 2623 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? I'm buying it when I get back home.
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fomenta's bitch  Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:53 pm Posts: 2811 Location: giving bitches wet willies
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? bioshock is 2 bucks now too i think
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[n00b] Member Joined: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:00 am Posts: 3031
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? I don't get this whole thing... they surely loose a lot of money by selling these games that cheap...
Like, for a moment I was thinking that I would get trapped just like the 5 free games thingie, but it seems like it's completely legit... Why are they doing this? |
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? Because after a certain period of time, it makes sense to lower the price quite a lot to attract more customers. The amount of sales that'll generate in 24 hours will be worth it.
99% of the people who are anywhere near interested in playing Age of Empires 3 have already done so - either by buying it or pirating it. This move will compel quite a lot of people (including those who pirated it) to go out and buy it since there's no excuse not to buy it anymore. Also, this is a one day only deal :) It'll go back to the regular price in 24 hours. |
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n00bfest Elder, Senior Admin  Joined: Mon May 10, 2010 11:45 pm Posts: 3503
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? So who all bought it? :D Cause I did. And I bought it for Strange. Because I'm a big spender. ;)
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[n00b] Member Joined: Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:46 am Posts: 2623 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? I bought it as well. I'm having trouble with the Games for Windows thing though. Every time I've tried to download AOE it crashes...
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n00bfest Elder, Senior Admin Joined: Mon May 10, 2010 11:45 pm Posts: 3503
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? They ran out of game keys. Says they will provide you with is next week.
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? Reborn wrote: Because after a certain period of time, it makes sense to lower the price quite a lot to attract more customers. The amount of sales that'll generate in 24 hours will be worth it. 99% of the people who are anywhere near interested in playing Age of Empires 3 have already done so - either by buying it or pirating it. This move will compel quite a lot of people (including those who pirated it) to go out and buy it since there's no excuse not to buy it anymore. Also, this is a one day only deal :) It'll go back to the regular price in 24 hours. Not to mention the fact that they are profiting completely off this. It doesn't cost them that much to make a transaction on your card. It's Microsoft. You are paying for a Digital Download, all it costs them is bandwidth. You get no CDs, no artwork, no shipping, handling, etc... just the game. |
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? acid_rain wrote: Not to mention the fact that they are profiting completely off this. It doesn't cost them that much to make a transaction on your card. It's Microsoft. You are paying for a Digital Download, all it costs them is bandwidth. You get no CDs, no artwork, no shipping, handling, etc... just the game. I wrote a thesis paper on this last year for a CS major class. Pretty much laid out why torrent is more economically sound than the current structure of distributing media. _________________  |
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n00bfest Elder, Senior Admin  Joined: Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:00 pm Posts: 7108 Location: Texas
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? Stupid Microsoft not having enough keys.
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? I finally got mine!
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[n00b] Member Joined: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:00 am Posts: 3031
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Re: Age of Empire III for.... 10¢? Yeah that was one hell of a nice deal actually, so cheap for such an awesome game, + it runs great on my laptop so I got 1 more awesome game on it !
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