Civ 4 complete on steam for $10, one day only
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Most of the skeptics are afraid of giving any personal info via Steam...and since they'd have to give them credit card info.....well yeah, you can see how the rest plays out.
Is a great deal though and it is really convenient.
Aeon221
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Oh noes, Steam, owned and operated by Valve with revenues and profits measured in the tens of millions, is going to rifle through your bank account to steal your tens of dollars. And they're going to get that info by practically giving away their product!
Best business plan ever.
For those of us existing in reality, I already snagged it the last time they ran this sort of promo. Such a good one.
Best business plan ever.
For those of us existing in reality, I already snagged it the last time they ran this sort of promo. Such a good one.
Mercade
the Counsellor
And which one day would that be? Today? Tomorrow? Last week?
A link would be nice, too.
muhtesem insan
Amateur Revolutionary
for a fraction of a moment i thought they'd be giving ciV, and i was like "WHAT!! WHEN!!" 
Senethro
Overlord
The 1 day is today, 20 hours left in the sale remaining. There will be a different one day sale every day until 4th July.
Download Steam here, it'll explain the whole registering an account thing:
http://cdn.steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.msi
Store here:
http://store.steampowered.com/
Download Steam here, it'll explain the whole registering an account thing:
http://cdn.steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.msi
Store here:
http://store.steampowered.com/
Jamuka
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DarkMaster
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Well, I doubt many people here will buy it because most of us already have Civ since 2005. It's worth it if you have a Mac and only have a PC version of Civ (Steam let's you buy once and install for any platform).
However, I'm using this sale to gift Civ IV to some friends of mine. Time to get some people hooked on it in time for Civ V
However, I'm using this sale to gift Civ IV to some friends of mine. Time to get some people hooked on it in time for Civ V
Ahriman
Tyrant
Does this get rid of the "Steam never has good deals" crowd, I wonder?
I don't think there was such a crowd.....but if there was and I missed it, they're crazy. Some of the deals are pretty ridiculous.
Actually some people were against Steam because they rip you off, which is not true, don't buy from them at RRP they will give really good deals On old games or if you buy a bunch of games. Infact heres a current deal.
2k Game Pack, (It says this pack will also include Civ V but then it doesn't list it on the pack, so -_-, but even without Civ V its a good deal, you'd have to want all the games though, its a long list, so I spoilered it. It costs you £69.99, and if that includes Civ5!!! then thats a great bargain.)
Ok, now to my other point, Someone said that most people don't want to use Steam because they have to pay with thier credit card. ??? Most people pay with stuff with Cards at shops, you aren't afraid they will steal your information so why do you think its in jeporady at steam. You can save your information to make future purchases just with a click or indeed you can have it so you need to type it from scratch each time, best to do this if you have other people on your steam account say Children who may decide to buy something without your permission. As for the security of sending your Credit card details over the internet. You don't send your pin code, if anyone gets this information, they can never access your bank, merely do what you did, to buy the game on steam, which is give your card number which isn't more dangerous than using the card at Tesco's. Though while I know, a criminal mastermind with your card number can do anything, but its not likely that your information will get into the hands of someone dastardly.
http://www.valvesoftware.com/privacy.html
This is thier privacy statement, read it if your privacy is important to you. I'm sure all transactions of money are done via secured methods. Or as secure as is possible. Your never safe from faudulant individuals, but Steam should not be more of a concern to you than any other shop.
"When you submit your payment information your data is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology certified by a digital certificate."
Steam does use as I thought SSl technology, which is the same technology every payment website uses, it keeps your information as secure as it possibly can.
To go back to the point of why steam is so amazing.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/29180/
follow that link, a game called Osmosis, simple, cheap, glorious, it only takes up 33mb's of space on your hard drive, where would you ever find a game like this if not on steam, I'll tell you, you'd be forced to play a graphically stunted version on flash on your PC, Steam allows small developers to get a game like this out to us, at a very cheap price. £1.74 is all this game cost's, and i'm going to go buy it right now, it looks like it will be my source of entertainment for some hours tonight. Thiers a similar type of flash game like this, I forget its name but thats good fun too
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2k Game Pack, (It says this pack will also include Civ V but then it doesn't list it on the pack, so -_-, but even without Civ V its a good deal, you'd have to want all the games though, its a long list, so I spoilered it. It costs you £69.99, and if that includes Civ5!!! then thats a great bargain.)
Spoiler :
Ok, now to my other point, Someone said that most people don't want to use Steam because they have to pay with thier credit card. ??? Most people pay with stuff with Cards at shops, you aren't afraid they will steal your information so why do you think its in jeporady at steam. You can save your information to make future purchases just with a click or indeed you can have it so you need to type it from scratch each time, best to do this if you have other people on your steam account say Children who may decide to buy something without your permission. As for the security of sending your Credit card details over the internet. You don't send your pin code, if anyone gets this information, they can never access your bank, merely do what you did, to buy the game on steam, which is give your card number which isn't more dangerous than using the card at Tesco's. Though while I know, a criminal mastermind with your card number can do anything, but its not likely that your information will get into the hands of someone dastardly.
http://www.valvesoftware.com/privacy.html
This is thier privacy statement, read it if your privacy is important to you. I'm sure all transactions of money are done via secured methods. Or as secure as is possible. Your never safe from faudulant individuals, but Steam should not be more of a concern to you than any other shop.
"When you submit your payment information your data is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology certified by a digital certificate."
Steam does use as I thought SSl technology, which is the same technology every payment website uses, it keeps your information as secure as it possibly can.
To go back to the point of why steam is so amazing.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/29180/
follow that link, a game called Osmosis, simple, cheap, glorious, it only takes up 33mb's of space on your hard drive, where would you ever find a game like this if not on steam, I'll tell you, you'd be forced to play a graphically stunted version on flash on your PC, Steam allows small developers to get a game like this out to us, at a very cheap price. £1.74 is all this game cost's, and i'm going to go buy it right now, it looks like it will be my source of entertainment for some hours tonight. Thiers a similar type of flash game like this, I forget its name but thats good fun too
.deanej
Deity
If there is such a crowd, no it won't. Let's do a comparison:
-Steam sells civ4 complete for $10 for one day only
-Amazon sells civ4 complete for $13.09 every day
Looks like steam's only cheaper for select periods of time. I'd hardly call that a good deal compared with Amazon.
mjs0
The 4th X
Quick fact check.
There is a difference between
- Civilization IV Complete, which is currently $12.99 on Amazon,
- Civilization IV: The Complete Edition (the one that was on sale on Steam, and is still priced at $29.97 there), which is currently $36.68 on Amazon
deanej
Deity
I was not aware the one without colonization had been made available outside of Europe.
mjs0
The 4th X
Although it is sold on Amazon it is not sold 'by' Amazon.
It is clearly an import, based on the box picture.
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
It specifically says "Excluding Sid Meier's Civilization V".
The_Coyote
Emperor
Quick fact check.
If you go to ebay - the lowest price there was ~23, if you buy them alone (civ4 complete + colonization) you can have them with shipping to a price around 20. So the entire package - if you wan´t all parts - has certainly not a bad price in this case. Perhaps one of the rare occasions, that of course exists.
Ahriman said:
You know the claim that the publisher set the price on steam. So steam can never have good deals - only the publisher can decide that it´s a good time to have a good deal there. So sometimes the publisher provides a good deals and sometimes steam will be the platform where you can buy this good publisher deal there.
So if you bought this packages - thank 2k (the publisher who set the price) for the nice and fair priced deal. Honour to whom honour is due.
Of course this would be wrong if steam itself has (some) control - like every retail distributor - over the final prices ...
Senethro
Overlord
The sale is at Steam so it makes more sense to say "the Steam sale" than "The 2K and THQ and Codemasters and 1C and and and 's sale at Steam".
Its just conversational English. No claim is being made about ownership or responsibility.
Its just conversational English. No claim is being made about ownership or responsibility.
Commander Bello
Say No 2 Net Validations
So you agree that it was solely 2K's decision to have this sale and Steam has had no influence on the prices?
