This BundleFest was...
Too early to say it's been disappointing? ;)
Thanks for being on the case already, Lilly and remember to breathe. Nobody will lose a limb if the thread is not getting live updates.
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I'm keeping my hopes up. Naive? Maybe. But that'll give me a few days of optimism before Fanatical decides to disabuse me XD
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Ya never really know, Fluff. Keep hope alive 2023! Bring back great bundles!
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TIL that "disabuse" is a word. At first I thought it was a pun / portmanteau with "disappoint" and "abuse". Would have made a lot of sense as well. ^^
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Haha it works as a portmanteau. I'm always using it like that now :D
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when I started buying games back in December and discovered Fanatical for the first time it seemed like they have amazing bundles, I spent hundreds during a few months and I don't know if it was just lucky timing or me having small game list, but for the past 6-8 months it's been absolute garbage and extremely overpriced at that, even in the supposedly "platinum" ones
still see some hidden indie gems every once in a while though but from what I understand they've been rebundled countless times, it's just that I never had them
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Not at all. They used to have great bundles. Then the bundle economy crashed due to the grey market, and since they had sold out to Fandom, Inc. in 2021, the bottom line became a bigger thing than it was before I guess and it went to hell
And when you can make a lot preying on gambling addict with "mystery" trash, real bundles kinda take a backseat to that, you know?
I am not going to lie, theirs are probably the only bundles I buy anymore because every once in a while a BYOB has a couple of games I can see myself playing and IG and HB don't even have that anymore and their bundles are way way more overpriced but I bought maybe two bundles this year total. I used to have to drag myself from the site when they had Bundlefests before.
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Too early to say it's been disappointing? ;)
lmao! The community members voting have ESP.
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lol When I posted there was zero vote and I didn't even bait the trap. Just let people come naturally to the button that they were itching to push.
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I'd be disappointed if you weren't already disappointed. lol.
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I wonder if fanatical employee see this and then also disappointed XD
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50 votes already? Stay classy people. :')
Personally, I like to hope for the one good Killer bundle.
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Same. I want to believe there will be at least one great bundle and the Killer one is where I've got my money. Not actual money, because I'm broke, but you know... virtual bet.
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the last Bundlefest wasn't that good. too many repeat games that I already had
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i hope that there will be a bunch of new and never bundled good games
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Nah. That's what Mystery bundles are for... no wait... nvm
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the OMEN10 coupon doesn't work with the Platinum Collection and other actuals bundles
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It works fine with regular bundles but not with "build your own bundle" bundles.
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Oh, it starts at 15h utc, that is what i wanted to know, thanks!
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timer on fanaticals site to for those who don't want to figure out what time that is for them locally.
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it starts in 3 hours & 15 mins so meanwhile at 10 AM CT
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AI told me I have better chance to win lottery than to see a good Fanatical bundle.
The only bundle worth to purchase (sometimes) is the Humble Choice, every single other bundles there or on other bundle pages literally reached EOL.
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good one - you are joking right choices is one of the worst bundles every month it's full of dead multiplayer games - indie games know one has heard of and games anyone who wanted them has already played
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Still waiting for a subscription for mystery bundles
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prestige bundle - lol good one Fanatical where do they get of telling us Death Loop and Turbo golf racing are worth over £7
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Turbo Golf Racing definitely. Deathloop, well current min on dubious sites is higher, so they are half-right or half-wrong if you like.
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7,25€ per game, are they crazy???? no feast, no fest, just expensive!
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Maybe they need an OMEN50 coupon to fix their pricing...
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The prestige bundle having Afterimage and Thymesia (both games I really wanted) is very tempting, but some of these choices in the bundle are very questionable. I'll sit on it for a bit and/or wait for other bundles.
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I bought Thymesia like a year ago for like 17€ expecting it to be great, but it's only like 5-6 hours lol
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I actually just double-checked and realized Team17 published it so I may end up holding off on grabbing that one [Clarification edit: because team17 gets bundled a lot], moreso since you mentioned how disappointingly short it is :/
Thanks for the info though! :)
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The game is good though, but it's quite unbalanced in terms of difficulty, at least in my opinion... I feel like the common enemies are just very tanky for my taste.
If you are good at parrying, you can complete the main game within 4-5 hours easily I would say. I have 4.0 hours played and I am right in front of the final boss, I have also tried the boss a few times, but I took a break for a bit lol.
By looking at howlongtobeat, if you wanna do 100% achievements, it would take like 14-15 hours, but the main story is like 5~ hours lol...
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I ended up caving and getting Thymesia + Afterimage + 9 Years of Shadows since two were on my WL for awhile. May give Thymesia a try in the near future. Thanks for the thoughts! My parrying skills are kinda rusty since I barely parried in Elden Ring lol
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Thymesia is definitely a good game to try, but it's just too short and it's for me quite unbalanced, especially the first boss...
It's more like Sekiro than ER though. I mean you don't have to parry at all, but it gives you a nice advantage.
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and we start with an overly expensive bundle that isn't worth it. disappointment
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The prestige has some games I'm interested in but idk how I feel about the price for them. Hopefully there will be one I will think is amazing this bundlefest.
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Speaking strictly to the current min price and quality, there are a couple of games in the Prestige Bundle that are worth the asking price. At the same time this feels more like a sale, rather than an actual bundle and people will be disappointed.
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yep that's how I feel like. they could have just had multiple star deals and call it a day. I wouldn't be so disappointed by that.
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They're glorifying a regular sale by calling it BundleFest. Happening since the last couple of such events.
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felt lucky, got two VIP mystery bundles...
Metro: Last Light Redux
Breathedge
Torchlight
Darkwood
Torchlight II
Dead Island Definitive Edition
felt yucky...
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why isn't this joke of an 'event' called fanaticalfest? these aren't bundles. bundlestars got renamed to fanatical as they moved into lootbox territory, so this is at best false advertising. though to be fair, fanatical is fanatical about that, so very on-brand.
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starting with one gamble and one overpriced bundles? way to start the party fanatical
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15€ for 3 games xD most were bundled or sold cheap on steam already
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I'm wonder what kinda sales projection or did they promise to developers who joined on these "bundles"...
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They're just advertising all the bundles they normally release during a month anyway. Don't expect it to be much different.
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i'm expecting nothing less than what they brought.
actually, i'm expecting the very opposite... for worse... and my expectations that are being fulfilled.
although, my comment wasn't about the end consumer.
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active bundle now
https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/killer-bundle-27
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killer bnundle kekw xD
or they mean it kills your wallet?
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1056250947313094777/1151243119036207235/image.png
New Realms 2 tomorrow from GG deals.
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We were previously asked by Fanatical representatives to not leak the bundles in advance (they are also actively monitoring these threads). This information is available to Fanatical Affiliates only, and gg.deals should not have made it public.
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It's okay, it's only fair that Fanatical also has a reason to be disappointed.
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Intriguing. There are no qualms about sharing this on their discord.
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This is when we were contacted by Fanatical and asked to remove the bundles we pre-announced based on their Affiliates newsletter:
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/foB8J1L
But you tell me, did this change in the meantime? I suppose you know better than me, since you're a moderator on Fanatical's Discord server?
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BundleFest (Sep) 2023
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