*** PC Gaming - Daily Deals Thread ***

HangTime said:
Gunslinger also £4.07 direct from Steam in Flash Sale atm. Might be better for those who get hit with ridiculous card fees for ordering off amazon US.
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I've never had any fee's with Natwest, but yep if it works out more Steam has it cheap also.

Freddie1980 said:
+1 to this. I picked up Gunslinger on a steam bundle deal with Far Cry 3 blood dragon and it's well worth playing if you fancy a western style fps.
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I had a brief go on the console version at release and forgot just how polished and fun it was.

The shooting feels weighty(?) and the narrative/story is really well done. Everyone who enjoys a good shooter should grab this.
 
jimhaumman said:
Any good deals for Fry Cry 3 or Metro Last Night?
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Cheapest price at the moment for Far Cry 3 at the moment is £9.99 at 50% off. Worth waiting as it will probably go cheaper.

Metro Last Light is cheapest at Gamefly at £14.99 with 40% off.
Both games are on my wishlist so i'll update if it goes cheaper.
 
Yes, TAREM-4PLAY-VOUCH which makes it £9.60

Worth pointing out though that in the Summer sale on Steam it was very close to that price so might pay to wait it out. I can thoroughly recommend it though, great fun.
 
uncle_rufus said:
Not disputing this! Just pointing out that the review scores there might no longer reflect the quality of the game now that the issues have been fixed.

Fun fact: How do you ensure that a game isn't buggy? You might say keep testing until there are no more bugs but it isn't quite so black and white as that, especially when trying to manage a release deadline and development costs. What a lot of the big development houses do is they estimate the number of likely bugs based on functional lines of code (a commonly cited metric in programming) and then have a target threshold they aim to meet before the game is ready for release - i.e. once 95% of the estimated number of bugs are fixed assume that the game is "good enough". Of course depending on the quality of their teams the true number of bugs could be far more than they thought (in which case you get a horrible buggy mess on release) or they might be far less (and the game is nice and stable). I'm sure this doesn't apply to all developers but I know it does at a few.
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I agree with what you say and most game developers seem to get the balance right but some get it so wrong you have to wonder if they had any QA processes at all (X-Rebirth is a good recent example).

In terms of software development, game developers are in the enviable position of being able to recruit testers at no cost. Some game developers even make significant money from their testers (see Squadron 42 and Elite Dangerous as examples). I'm a software developer too but in my sector you actually have to pay people to test so I have little sympathy for game developers who have terribly buggy initial releases and get panned by the early reviews and never fully recover from it.

An appropriate and justified warning for next time that testing is NOT optional.
 
Bought Far Cry 3 few days ago via amazon.com, Black Friday sale made it $7.49. Was a little tricky buying it. Had to enter my Debit Card details but used an US address, as another person on this forums suggested, easy to find one using google maps. Clicked buy and it accepted my payment, which was surprising cause obviously the online bank check didn't use the address I supplied here otherwise it would have spat it out. I suggest you use the same method. I just checked my bank statement, came to £4.61 and for some reason my bank has started charging me a transfer fee from foreign currency since @month ago, came to £0.13, odd cause I never had this before (probably some greedy group of bank managers/shareholders got together before Xmas and thought, how can we pay for our Nth payrise of the year, I know, lets charge an extra fee for customers buying stuff online in foreign currency). Gonna have a talk with the bank soon, its a 2.99% charge that seems to have come from nowhere, banks are becoming more and more like politicians, black holes for our hard earned money!

PS Anyone else suddenly noticed their banks charging for foreign currency bought items on your account? Lloyds TSB here.
 
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Soya said:
I just checked my bank statement, came to £4.61 and for some reason my bank has started charging me a transfer fee from foreign currency since @month ago, came to £0.13, odd cause I never had this before (probably some greedy group of bank managers/shareholders got together before Xmas and thought, how can we pay for our Nth payrise of the year, I know, lets charge an extra fee for customers buying stuff online in foreign currency). Gonna have a talk with the bank soon, its a 2.99% charge that seems to have come from nowhere, banks are becoming more and more like politicians, black holes for our hard earned money!

PS Anyone else suddenly noticed their banks charging for foreign currency bought items on your account? Lloyds TSB here.
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Currency charges are pretty standard and have been for years, especially with debit cards. Have you purchased anything in USD before?

Otherwise you might have had some T&Cs come through the post which would have detailed the changes. Pretty sure they have to inform you, but like you say they can be pretty sneaky with changes.

On the plus side even with the fee you got a bargain. :)
 
Soya said:
PS Anyone else suddenly noticed their banks charging for foreign currency bought items on your account? Lloyds TSB here.
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They've always charged me an extra £ on foreign transactions, before and after they split into TSB + Lloyds recently.
 
I get charged £1.50 per transaction in a different currency by BoS. Next time I buy from Amazon.com I'll buy a $50/$100 gift card and then use that to pay for games instead (eliminating the cumulative currency charges). Gift cards never expire and what isn't spent carries over to your next transaction
 
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