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Moob22
11/21/2010, 09:28 am
Yes its real and for today only. I know this sounds like a ad, but its a good game and its for 10 cents!
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/dailydeal/day7/
JedExodus
11/21/2010, 10:29 am
Nice find! Thanks for the heads up.

Microsoft charged me ten whole pence as opposed to the six or so it should be with the exchange rate, I need to pen an angry letter now
Moob22
11/21/2010, 10:40 am
Nice find! Thanks for the heads up.

Microsoft charged me ten whole pence as opposed to the six or so it should be with the exchange rate, I need to pen an angry letter now

In Canada its more like 15 cents but still..... the sale ends at 9 PM PST if anyone's interested.
Alcoremortis
11/21/2010, 11:35 am
Awesome! Now I can force my brother to play this game. No excuses anymore!
Friar
11/21/2010, 12:24 pm
It's just told me to type in a product key... which can apparently be found on the back of the case... which doesn't exist ¬_¬
Any ideas?
ShaggE
11/21/2010, 12:32 pm
From a fine commenter on Kotaku:

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/9/2010/11/543f3fb7086fa7eac3a8c40c6dda5d78/original.jpg
Gman5852
11/21/2010, 12:32 pm
Is there a steam version of this for 10 cents?
Secret Fawful
11/21/2010, 12:35 pm
It's just told me to type in a product key... which can apparently be found on the back of the case... which doesn't exist ¬_¬
Any ideas?

Buy a case (http://www.amazon.com/Age-Empires-III-Complete-Collection-Pc/dp/B002L6HJCI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1290375386&sr=8-1). Be sure to toss the CD inside away afterward though; that's useless, you won't need it.
Gman5852
11/21/2010, 01:02 pm
HA I still had 40 microsoft points left over from who knows what(I think during that arcade thingy microsoft released)
Perfect for me.
Origami
11/21/2010, 02:50 pm
10 cents is like....6 euro cents =P
Gman5852
11/21/2010, 03:44 pm
Man I wonder why microsoft did this
wait this isnt an online pay to play game is it?
RingmasterJ5
11/21/2010, 03:46 pm
Man I wonder why microsoft did this
wait this isnt an online pay to play game is it?

Nope, just an awesome deal. I don't really play RTS games, but at 10 cents, this seems like a good starting point.
Ribs
11/21/2010, 03:50 pm
Man I wonder why microsoft did this
wait this isnt an online pay to play game is it?

To promote Age of Empires Online, slated for next year.
Gman5852
11/21/2010, 03:51 pm
Nope, just an awesome deal. I don't really play RTS games, but at 10 cents, this seems like a good starting point.

Heck yeah.
Of course poker night comes first.
corruptbiggins
11/21/2010, 03:55 pm
Never really looked into the Age of Empires series. Seen it around but it's never really interested me. Still, at 10p it's worth a go.
Alcoremortis
11/21/2010, 05:53 pm
Never really looked into the Age of Empires series. Seen it around but it's never really interested me. Still, at 10p it's worth a go.

Age of Empires II is the best of the series in my opinion, but this one is pretty fun, if a bit easy.
der_ketzer
11/21/2010, 08:12 pm
I think even 10 cents is too much for that game but that might just be me.
Rather Dashing
11/21/2010, 08:24 pm
I think even 10 cents is too much for that game but that might just be me.

That's because you're German. Germans have obscenely exacting tastes in strategy titles. =P
taumel
11/22/2010, 12:05 am
Dunno, is there any difference between offering it for free or for 10 cent, beside of all the buying hassle? Anyway it is a very good game but the fighting somehow was too realistic, i therefore prefered Age of Mythology.
Hassat Hunter
11/22/2010, 01:52 am
Dunno, is there any difference between offering it for free or for 10 cent, beside of all the buying hassle?
Well, it prevented me from getting it, since I noticed this by 2AM (was away for a day...), and by then it was too late to nudge my parents into boring their credit card.
And now it's over...

So; I guess that was it's purpose :(.
JedExodus
11/22/2010, 10:12 am
To promote Age of Empires Online, slated for next year.

Don't forget to get their crappy pretender to the Steam throne on as many comps as possible.

I think even 10 cents is too much for that game but that might just be me.

Oh now come on. I'd buy Big Rigs for ten cents!
PecanBlue
11/22/2010, 10:14 am
Looks like they're out of activation keys, so I'll have to wait a week to play. :|
der_ketzer
11/22/2010, 11:21 am
Oh now come on. I'd buy Big Rigs for ten cents!

I don't know. You cannot get better than Age of Kings in the real time strategy genre. Really all that game needs is a patch that fixes errors on newer GPUs and OSes. Not a Sequel even if it is only 10 Cents.
Gman5852
11/22/2010, 12:38 pm
Looks like they're out of activation keys, so I'll have to wait a week to play. :|

So that is why I have no code.
Alcoremortis
11/22/2010, 12:58 pm
I don't know. You cannot get better than Age of Kings in the real time strategy genre. Really all that game needs is a patch that fixes errors on newer GPUs and OSes. Not a Sequel even if it is only 10 Cents.

Yes! Yes! Yes! I lost my activation code for my second copy of Age of Kings (first was "borrowed indefinitely" by a friend) a few years ago and have been missing it enormously ever since. I've been considering buying yet another copy, but I don't think it will run on either of my computers. T_T

Very, very sad, especially considering that Age of Kings and the Conquerors expansion were to me what CoMI and DotT were to many people on these forums.

I still like AoE III, but it really is missing something from the original two games. I don't know what, though.
Hassat Hunter
11/23/2010, 02:16 pm
Hehe, bought AoE + XP and AoE + XP with Soundtrack several years ago for the price of AoE was back then alone. That was a really nice deal. Gigantic box too, very thick manuals...

Aaaaah, the good old days...
They work fine for me (XP though)
Alcoremortis
11/23/2010, 03:41 pm
I still have XP! Now all I need is a code...
der_ketzer
11/24/2010, 06:52 am
I still have XP! Now all I need is a code...

My Game needs no code. Are you sure you are talking about Age of Empires 2?
Alcoremortis
11/24/2010, 08:03 am
My Game needs no code. Are you sure you are talking about Age of Empires 2?

Yeah, the version I got had a product key code on the box that you have to type in at some point during the install. I remember throwing it for my second copy away quite vividly. I guess I'll just see if I can find the code that came with my first copy of the game and then mix and match. Or I'll just head off to my local used games store and buy copy number three....
Friar
11/24/2010, 09:59 am
Yeah, the version I got had a product key code on the box that you have to type in at some point during the install. I remember throwing it for my second copy away quite vividly. I guess I'll just see if I can find the code that came with my first copy of the game and then mix and match. Or I'll just head off to my local used games store and buy copy number three....

Do A search on the internet. Some games didn't have unique codes. I went years thinking I would never play Sim City 3000 again, after I lost the code, but a quick google a few months ago turned up a code which worked!
Hassat Hunter
11/24/2010, 02:40 pm
I don't recall AoE/AoE2 requiring a CD-key. You got one after installation, you didn't need to input one.
Alcoremortis
11/25/2010, 11:11 am
Well, I'm home now, so I guess I'll give it a go. And my brother and I can usually find pretty much anything on the internet, so if it doesn't work, a code-hunting I will go!

Edit: Turns out it worked anyway, without the magic code that seems to have been a figment of my imagination. Now I really wonder what the hell it was I threw out all those years ago...
Hayden
11/26/2010, 02:51 am
I'm quite annoyed that I missed this, but... eh, oh well. I probably would have gotten sick of it after a while, like I do with most strategy games.

If I was a person with a little less integrity, I would have pirated it, justifying my actions by saying that I would have bought it had I known it was on sale, and that I'm only cheating the company out of 10c. But I'm not that sort of person.
Hassat Hunter
11/26/2010, 07:48 am
Or just play AoE2, which is better anyways :p.
Friar
11/26/2010, 10:49 am
I'm quite annoyed that I missed this, but... eh, oh well. I probably would have gotten sick of it after a while, like I do with most strategy games.

If I was a person with a little less integrity, I would have pirated it, justifying my actions by saying that I would have bought it had I known it was on sale, and that I'm only cheating the company out of 10c. But I'm not that sort of person.
Well, you could always give double the money to charity instead, and justify it by saying Bill gates is giving the majority of his cash to charity...
JedExodus
11/28/2010, 01:59 pm
If I was a person with a little less integrity, I would have pirated it, justifying my actions by saying that I would have bought it had I known it was on sale, and that I'm only cheating the company out of 10c. But I'm not that sort of person.

That, would be me gentlemen
flesk
12/14/2010, 10:17 am
I still like AoE III, but it really is missing something from the original two games. I don't know what, though.

The home town concept ruined it a bit for me. I still like the game though, it just doesn't have the casualness I liked so much in the first two games and AoM. It also feels somewhat less epic.