Tag: Discount

Epic Giving Automatic Partial Refunds For Game Sales


Alongside Epic’s self-service refunds.

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This Week In Red Dead: Free Permanent Posse This Week


Also a seller’s market for Moonshine.

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This Week On Red Dead: Bonus For Showdown Mode/Races


And more discounts.

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This Week On Red Dead: XP Bonuses For Traders/Moonshiners


Get your moonshinin boots on.

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This Week In Red Dead: Free Roam Event Bonuses


And more.

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Albion Online Goes Free To Play April 10


Albion Online is officially going free to play. Starting April 10, you’ll be able to jump into the fray without being required to buy a game pack. Free accounts will be under no gameplay restrictions and can take part in all aspects of the game. The business model will not be changed, being built on premium status as well as a vanity-only cash shop.

As a thank you to their present customers, Albion players who buy the game before April 10 will receive a Specter Wolf mount, 1,000 gold, and 3 days of claimable premium. Starter packs will be discontinued as of April 10 and will be discounted until that point.

Overall, the game is doing very well. We have a fully staffed development team of 35 people, just released our sixth major post-release update, and have a stable and growing player population.

However, we’re also convinced that Albion Online can be taken much further. Our mission is to bring back that old-school, hardcore MMORPG feeling, to as many players as possible.

In today’s world, a 30-dollar paywall – the price of our cheapest game pack – is a massive deterrent for trying out a new game, especially one as unconventional as Albion Online. We believe that by removing the initial paywall we will be able to grow Albion Online as a game and continue to further expand our development team to bring you even more content updates and exciting new features going forward.

Ultimately, we believe this step will help us realize our long-term vision for the game.

Steam: Devs Cannot Discount Within 30 Days Of Price Increase


With the Steam summer sale upon us, it might be useful to look back at a not-so-new but not-so-well-known policy laid out by Valve in terms of how and when developers can put their games on sale. According to the terms of service as laid out by Valve, vendors are not allowed to discount their games within 30 days of a price increase, cannot change prices while a promotion is live, and cannot run another discount for two months following a launch discount.

These rules were likely put into place to prevent a repeat of previous years where some developers would increase their costs right before a big Steam sale and then discount it to make it look like the game is at a big markdown, such as a $20 game boosting its price to $50, then offering 50% off and selling at $25 so people think they’re getting a great deal when really they’re paying even more than the regular cost.

The full rules breakdown as follows:

  • You can run a launch discount, but once your launch discount ends, you cannot run any other discounts for 2 months.
  • It is not possible to discount your product for 30 days following a price increase.
  • Discounts cannot be run within 2 months of your prior discount, with the exception of Steam-wide seasonal events or other specific Valve-organized sale events.
  • Discounts for seasonal sale events cannot be run within 30 days of releasing your title or 30 days from when your launch discount ends.
  • You may not change your price while a promotion is live.
  • It is not possible to discount a product 100%.
  • Custom discounts cannot last longer than two weeks, or run for shorter than 1 day.

Enjoy Black Desert Online For 7 Days


If you haven’t played Black Desert Online yet, but you want to, then you are in luck. Starting now and running through January 4, you can get your hands on a free seven day trial for Black Desert Online. The trial involves no content restrictions or progress loss, you can pick up where you left off should you decide to buy the game.

In addition to the seven day trial, all BDO game packages will be 50% off for the same time period (through January 4). Purchasing the Explorer’s Pack will get you access to the Noel Costume Set, while those who own the game can receive the costume by purchasing it through the store or referring other players.

Check out the free trial at the official website.

Steam Sale MMO Discounts


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The time has come again. Hide your wallets, folks, because this battle is going to get brutal. The Steam Summer Sale is already underway, and only the intervention of some deity from above can save us now from the avalanche of cheap games. In order to facilitate your buying experience, MMO Fallout has compiled a list of sales in the MMO department. As usual, sales are listed as they are shown for US customers, your milage may vary, and definitely do not browse the Steam Summer Sale while intoxicated. The Steam Summer Sale runs until June 30th, MMO Fallout does not guarantee that games will be on sale for the whole duration.

Get Forge 75% Off On Steam


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Forge is already available on Steam for $19.99, but if you’ve been holding out for some kind of sale you are in luck. Those of you who read MMO Fallout know that I love Raptr because it is essentially a version of Xfire (or similar programs) that gives you free stuff just for playing video games, including free copies of Rift and beta keys for other MMOs. Since I can’t write an article about Raptr without someone accusing it of being sponsored, and since Raptr has still yet to send the unmarked bills I specifically requested, I’ve kept the articles to a minimum lately.

The important part of this story is that, starting April 16th, you’ll be able to grab a 75% off coupon for Forge on Steam. All you need is newbie rank or above in one of the games below, have a Steam account connected to your Raptr profile, have run the desktop app recently, and have a verified email address. That’s it. No subscription, no surveys completed, no stupid fracking advertisements. If you aren’t familiar with Raptr, you gain ranks in the games the longer you play them with the desktop app activated (or the more achievements you gain on console games if you link those accounts).

  • Assassin’s Creed III (PC)
  • Borderlands 2 (PC)
  • Diablo III (PC)
  • DOTA 2 (PC)
  • Guild Wars 2 (PC)
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC)
  • Team Fortress 2 (PC)
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC)
  • Torchlight II (PC)
  • World of Warcraft (PC)

So what is the catch, Omali, you say. The reward will be offered on April 16th and there is a limited number of codes. I have no idea how many at this point, but you can be assured it will likely be in the hundreds, if not thousands.

(Source: Raptr)