At first it looked very nice, but in the end it will IMO be useless, because they wont match any sales and its valid only for those in USA
Nowhere does it say it is valid only for those who live in the US, only that the price must be what US gets, and seen from the US website.
How is D2D today? The last time I purchased stuff there, there was a limited time only that I could download my purchase, and a limited amount of times I could do it.
Yeah, too many conditions that make it basically useless. The only times prices really differ is during sales, and those are ruled out. In the vast majority of cases, for US users the prices tend to be the same across all the sales platforms.
@Heavenfall: Those limits don't exist anymore, and haven't since I started using the service (sparingly, but still) a few years ago. I didn't even know it did that. It's nothing special of a service, I haven't bought anything from them recently to know if they still attach their own "unlock" for their downloads.
Same - I've bought a game or 2 from them in the past. You download the full game as a zip or exe if I remember right and I remember it being a limited amount of downloads or timeframe. Very happy to hear if I am wrong, though.
Yeah - that's the only thing that could maybe make this appealing (but really just for direct2drive customers). And even then, I'd prefer to keep my games on steam and impulse... all they would be doing is matching a price I can get somewhere else - not actually saving me any money. Then having to take the time to contact their support and hope they'll give me the discount (in store credit, so I'm actually spending the "savings" from the start). Still not sure what the benefit is though. This would work in the magical scenario where direct2drive is charging $60 for a game and I find it on steam for $50 even though its not on sale... which I'd assume is impossible - anything other than the retail price is on sale, right? I guess the real challenge is to find any single game where this offer would apply. I can't think of any examples...
At any rate, fire their useless marketing/legal department.
In their conditions: ....applies only to ...residing in the United States... - so most likely unless you are buying from US IP adress you wont be able to use it.
... what? You can't just cut out significant parts of the quote like that, since it changes the meaning.
Our Price Matching is valid only against the pricing of an Authorized Internet Retailer* and applies only to prices both advertised and available to the general public residing in the United States and purchasing from the United States website.
NOWHERE does it say you have to live there, or buy from a US ip adress. It is possible you have to, but it doesn't say so there.
All it says is the price they will match is the one available to the US public on US websites. They won't match any other price.
general public residing in the United States and purchasing from the United States website? I have never used their service. I wasn't going to start today.
Christ... read the full sentence and stop quoting out of context.
It doesn't say anything about where you have to purchase from, only what price they will match their own to.
Still trying to figure out what you folks are on about. Again, this deal gets you absolutely nothing, right? Eg it can't be applied to any game, right?
D2D using the only thing they got that can keep anyone around- cost-cutting.
But the terms of their offer seem to exclude them actually cutting costs...
I am not sure how this is much of a price match policy. I mean without a promo or percent off, all the digi stores pretty much sell the same game for the same price. Maybe some competitor will do a PM policy with actual teeth though.
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