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Individual Orange Box Games Next Month

Joystiq reports an April 9 street date for the retail editions of the individual games from Valve's Orange Box collection (thanks Mike Martinez). Indications are the MSRP for Portal will be $29.99 and $19.99 will be the price for Team Fortress 2 or Half-Life 2: Episode Two.

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19. Cheapskates Mar 6, 2008, 14:55 Tumbler
 
Steam doesn't allow resale either, even if bought at retail, so auction sites are also out. Cheapskates like me are being priced out of the PC game market.

PC games are not worth the New Release prices. There is so much crap to deal with in games now between serial codes, copy protections, bugs that crash the game, everything you get out of the box has been declining in value for PC games and I'm sick of paying the same high prices. Serial numbers were ok, something that you needed to enter when installing the game, but now many have to be registered to accounts that you use and in some cases you have to pay fees to link those to other accounts to resell them! Some games don't even work out of the box, you have to connect to a server to "activate" it, or download a patch on day ONE!

And most of this stuff is kept hidden and you don't learn about it until someone who's bought the game on day one cry's foul...

PC games on clearance is what I buy. Nothing new anymore, it's gotten too risky to drop dollars only to find they are screwing you out of most of that money.

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