PC Games: "Bargain Alerts" - [NO CHAT]

Mr E

Yeah, if you don't mind putting a big tower beside your TV. One of the main advantages of the steam link is its tiny footprint and subtlety.

johnny_ultimate

Thanks for the tip Mr E! After yesterday's lack of success I popped into one of the Gamestops in Dublin today and they had one going for €27.50. Gave me a code for a free copy of Rocket League too, so it's a great deal for sure

I picked up a few games at cdkeys.com:

Call of Duty MW3 for €3.41.
Borderlands 2 GOTY for €5.69
Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor GOTY for €4.55

You can get a 5% off code on their Facebook page for each game.

Thargor

Mr E wrote: »

Yeah, if you don't mind putting a big tower beside your TV. One of the main advantages of the steam link is its tiny footprint and subtlety.

Eh? Buy as long a cable as you need from Ebay for a few Euro and run it to the pc, thats what I do, I hate smart devices like this, they always irritate in some way, I want my own pc with all my associated accounts, tweaks, settings and everything else on the screen otherwise it will drive me mad.

mossym

Thargor wrote: »

Eh? Buy as long a cable as you need from Ebay for a few Euro and run it to the pc, thats what I do, I hate smart devices like this, they always irritate in some way, I want my own pc with all my associated accounts, tweaks, settings and everything else on the screen otherwise it will drive me mad.

i hate ugly cables running all over the place, and i woudn't trust a few euro cable from ebay for any distance over a few feet. i'd take one of these very day.

nothing wrong with your approach, but your way would drive me mad. to each their own

hots

mossym wrote: »

i hate ugly cables running all over the place, and i woudn't trust a few euro cable from ebay for any distance over a few feet. i'd take one of these very day.

nothing wrong with your approach, but your way would drive me mad. to each their own

A cable is a cable at the end of the day, I've had to run a couple of hdmis and an ethernet all for about 10m, all using cheapest cables possible on amazon (no more than a few euro), all been fine for the last 2 years or so.

It does look crap though.

mossym

hots wrote: »

A cable is a cable at the end of the day, I've had to run a couple of hdmis and an ethernet all for about 10m, all using cheapest cables possible on amazon (no more than a few euro), all been fine for the last 2 years or so.

It does look crap though.

having worked for several years for a company making hdmi IC's (rx and tx chips to go inside sources and displays), ive plenty of experience that says a cable isn't a cable at the end of the day, and that cheap ass chinese cables are an absolute lottery.

i've a couple of the amazon own brand cables running myself, no issue with them, but i'd rate them better than some of the muck i;ve see come from ebay.

also been around long enough to know that trying to convince people the cables are rubbish is pointless, so we'll have to agree to disagree.

running a cable to my garage would involve a run of 30/40m, which isn't going to work with HDMI. i can take one of these boxes, plug into my network, and voila. solved. i can add one of them in every room. it's a much easier and tidier solution than running a hdmi cable, and can be used in many situations where hdmi won't work.

apologies for going off topic, i'll leave it there

hots

mossym wrote: »

having worked for several years for a company making hdmi IC's (rx and tx chips to go inside sources and displays), ive plenty of experience that says a cable isn't a cable at the end of the day, and that cheap ass chinese cables are an absolute lottery.

i've a couple of the amazon own brand cables running myself, no issue with them, but i'd rate them better than some of the muck i;ve see come from ebay.

also been around long enough to know that trying to convince people the cables are rubbish is pointless, so we'll have to agree to disagree.

running a cable to my garage would involve a run of 30/40m, which isn't going to work with HDMI. i can take one of these boxes, plug into my network, and voila. solved. i can add one of them in every room. it's a much easier and tidier solution than running a hdmi cable, and can be used in many situations where hdmi won't work.

apologies for going off topic, i'll leave it there

That's fair enough, I was deeming my Amazon ones as budget (as opposed to stupid 30 quid diamond/gold/sapphire ones).

eyerer

OSI wrote: »

My PC is in an office a good distance away from the sitting room, so the Steam Link comes in very handy for that.

Ethernet cables are the one cable I wouldn't cheap out on though.

I agree, I got a really cheap ethernet cable on ebay and my router wouldn't sync with it, which worked fine on the old cable I had. Wasn't even worth the postage cost to return for refund lol.

Some cables are stupidly expensive though.

ED E

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Thanks for the tip Mr E! After yesterday's lack of success I popped into one of the Gamestops in Dublin today and they had one going for €27.50. Gave me a code for a free copy of Rocket League too, so it's a great deal for sure

This still going? Cant say no at that price.

Mr E

Should be. Call your local gamestop and see if they have any. I was in Gamestop in the Parkway in Limerick and they a clearance table but no steam links, so stock may vary from shop to shop.

johnny_ultimate

ED E wrote: »

This still going? Cant say no at that price.

As of lunchtime yesterday, yes! It was the GS in St Stephen's Green shopping centre, incidentally, in case that might make any difference (I'm not sure if the others are '+', and I don't care about their corporate branding anyway )

Mr E

Mr E wrote:

Should be. Call your local gamestop and see if they have any. I was in Gamestop in the Parkway in Limerick and they a clearance table but no steam links, so stock may vary from shop to shop.

I went into one yesterday and was told that the price was dropped for a day, but once store managers saw that they were selling the price was put up to €55.

Glebee

Deleted User wrote: »

I went into one yesterday and was told that the price was dropped for a day, but once store managers saw that they were selling the price was put up to €55.

And now they will stop selling again:pac:

Justwinginit

Have a few hours to spare? Why not pick up the Mass Effect Trilogy for less than a tenner....https://www.g2play.net/category/472/mass-effect-trilogy-origin-key/

Justwinginit

Like ARPG's? you can play single player or like me, I played this with 2/3 others and it's a great game. Fairly big, good graphics & gameplay. For less than €2.50 each it's well worth a punt.....https://www.g2play.net/category/14654/victor-vran-steam-key/

Mr E

17 Command & Conquer games for €5.99 (Origin).

http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/command-and-conquer-the-ultimate-edition-pc-download-code-cd-key-origin

Command & Conquer
Command & Conquer The Covert Operations
Command & Conquer Red Alert
Command & Conquer Red Alert Counterstrike
Command & Conquer Red Alert The Aftermath
Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun
Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun Firestorm
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
Command & Conquer Red Alert Yuri’s Revenge
Command & Conquer Renegade
Command & Conquer Generals
Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer 3 Kane’s Wrath
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising
Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight

ShooterSF

I had trouble getting RA2 to run in win 10 before...

Links234

Humble Survive This Bundle

Tier 1: Tharsis, Savage Lands, and Kholat
Tier 2: Space Engineers, Rust, and Shelter 2
Tier 3: Planetbase

Better than the recent monthly.

ShadowHearth

Holy crap, rust and space engineers for less then 4 quid!!! That's a bargain of the year!

Links234

For Tharsis and Planetbase, I'm super happy, everything else is gravy.

This is seriously better than the recent monthly bundle.

Thargor

mossym wrote: »

i hate ugly cables running all over the place, and i woudn't trust a few euro cable from ebay for any distance over a few feet. i'd take one of these very day.

nothing wrong with your approach, but your way would drive me mad. to each their own

The cable is perfect, like 99.99% of cables for sale these days, and its hidden, I didn't say sellotape it to the wall or anything, theres always ways to hide cables.

Theres no way in hell a steam link is smoother, faster or higher quality than a HDMI from source.

mrcheez

Links234 wrote: »

Humble Survive This Bundle

Tier 1: Tharsis, Savage Lands, and Kholat
Tier 2: Space Engineers, Rust, and Shelter 2
Tier 3: Planetbase

Better than the recent monthly.

Tier 1 for me thank you very much :cool:

Techniques07

Is Planetbase worth the extra €9?

RossieMan

Tier 2 myself, on to rust and cause havoc. * Most probably dying every 5 seconds.

Links234

Techniques07 wrote: »

Is Planetbase worth the extra €9?

It's meant to be like Banished in space, which kinda had me sold on it from day 1.

dunworth1

Techniques07 wrote: »

Is Planetbase worth the extra €9?

watching the video is looks interesting

its gets good reviews on steam (where its €20 atm)

mossym

Thargor wrote: »

The cable is perfect, like 99.99% of cables for sale these days, and its hidden, I didn't say sellotape it to the wall or anything, theres always ways to hide cables.

Theres no way in hell a steam link is smoother, faster or higher quality than a HDMI from source.

no-one said there was. but there is loads of situations where a hdmi cable won't work, and these make a lot more sense

ShadowHearth

Links234 wrote: »

Humble Survive This Bundle

Tier 1: Tharsis, Savage Lands, and Kholat
Tier 2: Space Engineers, Rust, and Shelter 2
Tier 3: Planetbase

Better than the recent monthly.

I am sorry, I already posted my opinion about this, but I looked at this again and it just mind blowing awesome deal for any pc gamer.

It has freaking space engineers for less then a fiver! I have that game from very very early access and I just looked at its state now and it is just Jaw droping. I havent played the whole planet and in planet atmosphere gameplay, but my friends had server going on for it a while ago and they said it is just simply amazing.

I will give a bit unfair point of view of Rust, but that game gave me some of the most amazing gaming moments of my entire gaming career. Me and a few boardsies had some epic sessions in that game. There were days were we would play for 14 hours, go to sleep, have shower, breakfast and go back on to the damn game again!
To be fair, I did not played much of modern Rust, but by the looks of it its even better then it ever was when we played it.

So TL:DR: JUST BUY THAT BUNDLE!

ED E

€12, price of two decent pints, I'm in.