Castle Crashers
http://store.steampowered.com/app/204360/
Dec 1, 2014

Maybe yesterday they added it. I didn't create the giveaway of this game. I am just curious where?

8 years ago*

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Had to do with an Amazon sale IIRC.

8 years ago
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According to IsThereAnyDeal.com, the highest cut on Amazon is 90% off. Do they have a bundle had the game included?

8 years ago
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Yup but in Russia the game is more than 50% cheaper, so if you bought it in Russia it was more than 95% cheaper than the base price.. I guess that must be it as it was the case for other games added to the bundles list.

8 years ago
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Non-restricted?

8 years ago
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world-wide games restrictions started only last winter - before that there were just rare cases mostly for AAA games - most of the games bought in russia were region free.

8 years ago
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RIP...

8 years ago
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Every game is cheap like that in russia :|

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every game is cheaper in russia, but most of them don't get over 95% discount. Let's say game is 50% cheaper in russian store - it will still take 90% discount for it to be 95% discount. Sure - some games will fall into this cathegory but saying "every game does" is a massive exaggeration.

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A lot of games are 65% cheaper, for them an 80% should be enough

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it's not. 65% cheaper with 80% discount is still only 93% off so no bundle list. For a game to get over 95% discount (at least 95.1%) and get to bundle list with just 80% discount base russian price need to be at least 75.5% cheaper than US price - sure - such games exist, but again - there are just few of them, not "every game" like you suggested.

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Uhm ok then, I thought that even 91% was enough

8 years ago
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The Can't Stop Laughing Bundle for US$1.50 offered two keys.

8 years ago
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BattleBlock Theater isn't in the bundle list.

8 years ago
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Well **** if I know. I don't update the list, I just saw mention of it elsewhere, so I'm trying to be helpful.

Its in the bundle list no matter your complaints, deal with it.

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I mentioned BBT just because I thought it wasn't that case :p. They should be in the bundle list indeed if you're right. (I'm not saying that you're telling something isn't truth. Just that they did not use this case.)

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Also it's been very discounted a few times. I picked it up for pennies on the dollar about a year ago.

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On Steam?

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90% a multitude of times on Steam yep, it'd probably hit 90% off again during the next sale :)

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Yeah, but 90% is not enough for the definition of the bundle game.

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Well - to elaborate on what Starlynk said above, it may have been 95%+ off in Russia and region-restricted, but because it's >95% off in one region, it gets put on the bundle list anyway - unfortunately, there have been multiple cases of different games in the past where (some) Russians have abused >95% off discounts in region-restricted giveaways to quickly amass non-bundled CV...

8 years ago
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Maybe.

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I do remember there were threads asking why X game was in a bundle and it was exactly the same reasoning as what I suggested above, unfortunately I can't find them at the moment :(

jatan or SleepyCat did start or comment in a few such threads though

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Then 90% off is a thing from now on.

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It has been for a while now, it just doesn't get noticed as much because most games that go on sale for 90% off typically have been bundled already.

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The bundle game list is so unreliable :P

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the time when they get added is unreliable.

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It's bundled because it dropped @ 90% discount. Russia has a base discount of 71.2% against US price.

1 - (1-0.9)*(1-0.712) = 97.12% discount, over the 95% discount ruling here

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According to this "rule" everything that goes on 80% should be bundled xD

NOICE !

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Eh...the base discount for each game varies depending on the price of the game, e.g. Besiege which at full price is cheaper than Castle Crashers, the Russian discount is only 65.16% (for a game called gShift which is even cheaper than Besiege, it's only 61.85%) so it's kinda by case basis lol

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yep that's more or less the russian difference (60-65)
so if a game is 100$ → 80% → 20$ → 60% → 8$ < 90% → bundled

I don't think is the best way to handle russian's price abuse, it will discourage to give away AAA games not really bundled, but well that's it.

8 years ago
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Adding a game to the bundles list with a date 8 month in the past is just mean :) Did a Castle Crashers giveaway two month ago that got reduced aswell

8 years ago
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yeah, this is stupid, games should not be "bundled" retroactively

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(^_^)

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(^_^)

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