Platinum's Hour strikes again. Will you buy it?
Kingdom Come D sounds good on paper, but it only one DLC from like 5.
Teslagrad 2 sounds pretttty good, I hope it will get into cheaper tiers or traditional bundles soonish
Oblivion is a choice from Hungary, it's just a low-stock (likely heavily region locked) version as usual
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+1
Also tempted by Patch Quest. Others that I would buy for this price if I didn't already own them: Kingdom Come Deliverance, Dishonored Death of the Outsider, Rain World, and Owlboy. Maybe Teslagrad Remastered as well if I didn't already own the original version
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Where was Kingdom Come Deliverance given away for free en masse? Looks like it was July 15th, 2021.
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Really? So that makes it zero CV on Steamgifts? That seems like an odd policy.
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Apparently this wasn't what made it 0 CV on Steamgifts. See this comment and my subsequent reply.
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Thanks, you learn something new every day.
Personally feel like that's an even flimsier reason to nuke its CV, but meh, it's been years since then. Not my problem anyway, KC:D's been on the wishlist for a while so I'd just keep it for myself.
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Hold up - Kingdom Come was not given away by Epic on July 15th, 2021, it was given away in 2020:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (February 13-20, 2020)
So that's not the reason for zero CV.
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Apparently this wasn't what made it 0 CV on Steamgifts. See this comment and my subsequent reply.
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It was evidently a free game from Intel:
I tend to check barter.vg's pages for free game notices, and for that specific game there is no free game notice. However, I did previously submit a give away notice on that page 2 years ago (2021), and it still has record of it though only I can see it because the notice was not approved. The URL I provided was this, though no longer working: https://game.intel.com/giveaway/masterofgame-2021/learn-more/
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Thank you for the sleuthing-- I had checked barter as well. Here's a reference to the giveaway, I think. Not sure how I feel about this...I guess you don't want a flood of (then) 60 CV giveaways for very little effort. On the other hand, it was US only, didn't work via VPN, and I wonder how many people it really affected. Plus, it did require some effort...it wasn't exactly a mass giveaway. Oh well. None of this affects me; I was just curious.
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A few other good and fairly expensive unbundled games got nuked to 0 CV as a result of that giveaway: Cuphead, Subnautica, Need for Speed™ Heat just to name a few. Feels a bit heavy-handed if you ask me especially since, looking at the archive, there were very few giveaways for those games around that time period, so hard to argue that there was CV abuse going on. IMO, it would've been better to wait for empirical evidence of CV abuse before acting. The main effect of that decision was to discourage future giveaways.
And like you said, obtaining those games required some effort which is the argument I hear against making things like Feudalife games 0 CV.
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We didn't want to add it to Barter because this was an extremely exclusive giveaway. Reaching level 4 was difficult enough, but the giveaway was also restricted to some countries only (US only as far as I remember) and VPN was prohibited. Plus, you were able to select only one of the options available for each level.
Due to all these factors, we thought that there won't be many tradables anyway, so we decided against adding it. The given away flag could have been extremely misleading for future trades, when users would just consider that it was given away for free in large quantities, thus the actual trading value of the game would have decreased considerably. Obviously the same applies for all the other games from this event.
Imagine seeing STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order or Serious Sam 4 marked as given away in large enough quantities because of the green $0 on it or even having people use the corresponding Steam item instead of the Origin one as a bait (unfortunately, it happens very often with non-Steam items given away in actually large quantities, such as the ones in Prime Gaming).
Take Cuphead for example, which was reachable fairly easily compared to the other levels - there are still rather few tradables on Barter for it. Of those listed, at least 3/4 of them are fake tradables or come from grey markets; they are listed mostly by resellers who would use the game as bait for users to give them several more valuable games in exchange for it, that they will then resell for profit on the grey market.
I didn't expect SG to mark them as 0 CV and I think it's rather unfair for them to do so.
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Some stuff off my wishlist on here, this is actually not bad. I'm a bit torn between this and the RPG Legends bundle now, eugh. I guess since this goes until September, I have until then but y'know...
I think my only complaint is that I'd rather they just not have any DLC for KC:D here than just having the one, but beggars cannot be choosers.
Update: Trading for Hero's Hour and KC:D is unavailable now. Guess I'm skipping out!
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Missing 5, bought 5. I was also missing the DLC for Kingdom Come Deliverance but it's not worth buying the pack just for it.
I remember playing the Fall of Porcupine demo a couple of months ago during s Steam event, it hadn't been released yet. I'm surprised to see it on bundle so soon. I tried the demo on the Steam Deck (it crashed after the intro level) and it felt a quite nice game.
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Backfirewall_
Arcanium
Terracotta
Was looking at a couple more I didn't already have and they had bad reviews or were platformers
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Teslagrad 2, Arcanium, and Backfirewall_ are easy choices for me. I'm considering bumping it up to the 5-choice for Hero's Hour and Rain World, but I technically already own those on the Twitch launcher, so I haven't decided if I want to drop an extra $5 just to have them on Steam.
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As a fellow prime sub, I get the conflict. What helps me decide is determining if I am going to play it on my deck or if I really want the Steam features (e.g. achievements, card drops, profile stuff). Also, if you really wanted you could probably swing a trade for those two since they were in recent bundles. :)
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Those cursed achievements! I'm by no means an achievement hunter, but I'd be lying if I said they didn't add some play time to certain games (Bonus goals to aim for). Thankfully these platinum bundles tend to last a month, so I've got time to decide if it's worth it.
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I had just the normal version of the goty (not deluxe) and after activating the key got the deluxe, although I had to make sure from in-game, since it never updated on the game page that I own the deluxe. One can check the dlc tab in the properties of the game, if there's Oblivion Game of the Year DLC, then it's the deluxe. Or from the launcher in-game, there're the additional dlc that only the deluxe version has.
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I'm at my PC again, if I can trust the version Fanatical sells by itself, Oblivion's region lock for Hungary is Hungary only. no other country is in the green.
Bethesda games used to have Russia-Hungary-Czechia-Poland (RHCP) region because of some publisher deal? and it was expected that if the game can't be activated in any of the other three, then nowhere else either.
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Platinum Collection - Build Your Own Bundle (August 2023)
3 Tiers, 16 Items
03 Aug 2023 - 07 Sep 2023
View this bundle on: ITAD - Barter.vg
* Converted to USD using 2023-08-03 exchange rates (the lowest converted prices are bolded)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance + Band of Bastards DLC = Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Kingdom Come: Deliverance – Band of Bastards, delivered as separate keys
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider: customers from RU, CN do not have this as a choice but should be able to redeem the key that everyone else receives
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe: customers from Hungary receive a region locked key (?) but should also be able to redeem the key that everyone else receives
The Ascent {sub/838652}: cannot be redeemed in RU,CN; customers from RU, CN do not have this as a choice
Patch Quest {sub/803071}: cannot be redeemed in CN; customers from RU, CN do not have this as a choice
Pick & Mix: $2.85 - $3.33 / each
☠ - Game was free at some time and does not grant any CV if given away.
* - the game was featured previously only in Build-a-Bundle / Pick & Mix bundles that are usually priced too high for the games to receive partial CV (exclusions apply) and are therefore not included in the bundle count.
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Steam Deck info: D✅ = verified, D🟡 = playable, D❌ = unsupported
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