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Old 03-24-10, 02:41 PM
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Re: The Video Game Deals Thread

From SD, Walmart has a ton of preorder with gift cards as well:

Nintendo Wii

Super Mario Galaxy 2 + $20 Gift Card $50
Madden NFL 11 + $20 Gift Card $50
Prince Of Persia: Forgotten Sands + $10 Gift Card $50

Xbox 360

Halo Reach + $20 Gift Card $60
Splinter Cell: Conviction + $10 Gift Card $54
Crackdown 2 + $10 Gift Card $59
Red Dead Redemption + $10 Gift Card $59
Prince Of Persia: Forgotten Sands + $10 Gift Card $60
UFC: Undisputed + $10 Gift Card $60
Singularity + $10 Gift Card $60
Just Cause 2 + $10 Gift Card $60
Split Second + $10 Gift Card $60
Blur + $10 Gift Card $60
Mafia II + $10 Gift Card $60
Alan Wake + $10 Gift Card $60

Playstation 3

Madden NFL 11 + $20 Gift Card $60
Red Dead Redemption + $10 Gift Card $59
ModNation Racers + $10 Gift Card $60
Prince Of Persia: Forgotten Sands + $10 Gift Card $60
UFC: Undisputed + $10 Gift Card $60
Just Cause 2 + $10 Gift Card $60
Mafia II + $10 Gift Card $60
Split Second + $10 Gift Card $60

PSP

ModNation Racers + $10 Gift Card $40
Prince Of Persia: Forgotten Sands + $10 Gift Card $40
Madden NFL 11 + $10 Gift Card $40

DS

Prince Of Persia: Forgotten Sands + $10 Gift Card $30

PC

Split Second + $10 Gift Card $30
Splinter Cell: Conviction + $10 Gift Card $50

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Re: The Video Game Deals Thread

Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
*NEW* $20 credit when buying Halo: Reach at Amazon.
And ordered. That $15 credit from Just Cause 2 didn't last very long in my account, did it?
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Thanks mattysemo for the Walmart list. Here's to hoping that Amazon will match on all of them.
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
*NEW* $20 credit when buying Halo: Reach at Amazon.
ordered. thanks MC.
will be the first and only game out of my near 20 that i will buy on release day and 1<sup>st</sup> at full price.
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<--- Will order Mario Galaxy 2 the millisecond Amazon matches Wal-Mart.
Old 03-24-10, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
The best gaming deals I've ever gotten have all been on Steam.
Not all developers and platform holders are as generous as Valve. Though, it is an apt point.
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On the flipside it took nearly 3 years before we got a deal on any XBL content.

Originally Posted by chess
<--- Will order Mario Galaxy 2 the millisecond Amazon matches Wal-Mart.
It's been in my gold box a dozen times, but haven't yet pulled the trigger for some odd reason.
Old 03-24-10, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
*NEW* $20 credit when buying Halo: Reach at Amazon.
Thanks!
Old 03-25-10, 07:46 AM
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Amazon matched Wal-Mart on SMG2. Buy this game people!!!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Ga.../dp/B002BSA388

Order Super Mario Galaxy 2 and get $20 off a future video game purchase. The promotional code will be placed directly into your Amazon.com account within 2 business days after the product ships. Offer valid when shipped and sold by Amazon.com. Promotion valid on all existing orders. Limit of both one per household and one per customer. Amazon reserves the right to change or terminate this promotion at any time.
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I already pre-ordered SMG2 from Amazon using credits from other games. They usually add these promos to pre-orders retroactively, hope that's the case this time as well.

Edit: just read the text. It clearly states "Promotion valid on all existing orders."
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The one game on the Wii I was looking forward to and that's a deal I can't pass up.

I just hope my Wii still powers on.
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SMG2 pops up in my Gold Box all the time, so I think I'm going to wait a few days to see if I can get it to show up again before pulling the trigger. Every $3-$4 bucks help.
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Originally Posted by chess
Amazon matched Wal-Mart on SMG2. Buy this game people!!!!!!
Had it pre-ordered since GDC (one order with SMG2, S&P2 and M:OM).

ILU, Amazon.
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
SMG2 pops up in my Gold Box all the time, so I think I'm going to wait a few days to see if I can get it to show up again before pulling the trigger. Every $3-$4 bucks help.
preorders show up in the gold box?
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All the time. Fable III is in my Gold Box right now for $56.99. Yesterday I had the Last Guardian and Lost Planet 2 in there.
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Yesterday I had exactly one item in my Gold Box: Fancy Feast Cat Food.

I don't even have a cat.
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Maybe it's because you're a pussy cat?
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Ooo, Vagina Talk.
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Originally Posted by pinata242
Maybe it's because you're a pussy cat?
Or he's a Prawn?
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Is there any truth you can make certain items show up in your goldbox? I thought someone was talking about that before.
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Originally Posted by mattysemo247
Is there any truth you can make certain items show up in your goldbox? I thought someone was talking about that before.
To an extent. You can weed through your recommendations to move stuff towards the top. However, I've had Alan Wake at the top of my list for 2 months now and it still hasn't shown up in my gold box.
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That was me, and yes, although I have noticed a discrepancy in my method in the store forum*. And it's pretty lengthy, and I couldn't find and old post where I summed it up, I'll try and make this short. There are four methods in order of easiest to most time consuming:

1. Wish List - In the past things in your wish list or saved in your cart wouldn't show up. As soon as I started clearing them out of my wish list things started showing up. There are a few people in a store forum thread claiming otherwise, so that method to determine your GB may have changed. Personally, I have never had anything show up in my GB that I currently had in my Wish List. Did I say never? Yeah, not yesterday, not today, not 6 months ago or otherwise, it hasn't happened for me. Maybe the rules are different in regards to BDs since that's the big discrepancy that I've seen from those posters (they're talking BDs and I'm talking VGs)

2. Frequently Bought Together - When you click on an item you want you scroll down to the "Frequently Bought Together" section. Click on the other item(s) that are paired with the one you want and scroll down and mark them as "I own this" and give it a 5 star rating. Since those are frequently paired together Amazon will see that you own one and recommend the other(the one you want) by tossing it in your GB. Example, I want SMG2 so it shows Metroid: Other M and NSMBWii as frequently bought together, so I mark Metroid and NSMBW as owned and 5 stars.

3. Improve your Recommendations - Go to the Personalization section of your account and there is a link to improve your Recommendations. This is a combination of your order history and everything you have marked as "I own this" on their site. You can scroll through and mark anything you don't want Amazon to use for recommendations. So if you bought a $5 gardening tool 6 months ago, Amazon will still see that and use it, so go through and mark anything and everything you don't want them to base recommendations on.

4. Rating Recommendations - Again under Personalization in your account there is another link called "Recommended for You." This shows everything that is recommended for you on any given day. You can click any item and it shows you why it is being recommended and you can mark whether or not you are interested in that item so it never gets recommended again.

This is not 100% foolproof, but I have narrowed it down to where I get nearly all BDs and games every day. There are still days where I get random shit like a Beard trimmer and Water Filters (like today) but there's usually at least one game or movie in there as well (Fable 3 and Sherlock Holmes today). So one method may help a little, but I keep up on all four and usually get everything I want in there.

Just so you don't think I'm talking out of my ass, I have the following already pre-ordered with GB discounts(I can always cancel later if a better deal comes along):
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Epic Mickey
Halo: Reach
Crackdown 2
Dead Rising 2
Metroid: Other M


*Discrepancy aside, I tossed a few new things on my Wish List today to see if I can get them to show up in my GB. I'm not very hopeful that it will work.
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Originally Posted by TLwizard
To an extent. You can weed through your recommendations to move stuff towards the top. However, I've had Alan Wake at the top of my list for 2 months now and it still hasn't shown up in my gold box.
I've had Alan Wake in my GB a few times.

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