GreenManGaming has 25% off ALL PRE-ORDERS Plus

[CPA]

Cash Back or GMG Credit on a future game.

Bioshock Infinite: $37.99
Company of Heroes 2: 42.99
Aliens: $35.49

And a bunch others. Good through January 18.

Edit: Seems that right now the offer is not working on Bioshock, but is on CoH2.

 

[gothamhunter]

As long as it works for Bioshock Infinite at some point, you can get it for $30 with GMG credit back instead of cash back...that's pretty awesome and GMG usually has great game deals so you'd definitely use it in the future.

 

[Rinaun]

You should post this in Hot Deals if you haven't already. Pretty amazing how GMG has grown from something small into a reputable game retailer

 

[Fenixgoon]

i'd love to know how they have such crazy sales on new games. not that i'm complaining

 

[KaOTiK]

It says select preorders, not all. Bioshock hasn't worked with any of their coupons since they put it up for preorder with that $15 credit.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I almost wonder if they are taking hits on games themselves because they are saving costs on bandwidth/servers due to most people actually buying from them, then activating on Steam and downloading from there instead.

Or...maybe the publishers want to pull some of Steams power away from them so they give them better breaks on pricing.

Looking at their preorders..I just realized there's a crap ton of games I actually am interested in coming out in the next few months

Aliens, Dead Space 3, South Park (I hope it doesn't get canned!!), Bioshock Infinite

 

[Rinaun]

I almost wonder if they are taking hits on games themselves because they are saving costs on bandwidth/servers due to most people actually buying from them, then activating on Steam and downloading from there instead.

Or...maybe the publishers want to pull some of Steams power away from them so they give them better breaks on pricing.

Good point. I totally forgot about that. I'd bet they are making more just based on bandwidth, as I do NOT know of one person who hasn't used steam to activate their products. They could also be selling GMG instead of just steam to keep it from being a monopoly.

Do they sell any games not on steam? That would be a good clue.

 

[KaOTiK]

I posted that as my theory a month or two ago as to why they are able to sell these preorders for so cheap. They are just providing a Steam/Origin key and are happy just making a couple of bucks on sale since they will not have to support it at all once they give you the key.

 

[Dankk]

Good point. I totally forgot about that. I'd bet they are making more just based on bandwidth, as I do NOT know of one person who hasn't used steam to activate their products. They could also be selling GMG instead of just steam to keep it from being a monopoly.

Do they sell any games not on steam? That would be a good clue.

Most of their games do not activate on Steam. At the same time, there are those kinds of games that require Steam to run, and thus will activate on Steam regardless of where you buy them.

These "Steam-required" titles happen to be the ones that GMG markets the most heavily.

I posted that as my theory a month or two ago as to why they are able to sell these preorders for so cheap. They are just providing a Steam/Origin key and are happy just making a couple of bucks on sale since they will not have to support it at all once they give you the key.

Yup. While it might seem ironic for a DD service to promote games that require a rival DD service to run, it makes sense in a way.

When GMG sells a Steam game, all the consumer has to do is copy+paste the activation key into Steam, and go from there. GMG has to provide literally zero support, and there is virtually no bandwidth cost for them to eat. They can afford to sell Steamworks games for cheap with razor-thin profits.

Edit: 25% off coupon + $2.00 cashback credit on GMG, Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 comes down to twenty bucks. :thumbsup:

 

[Rinaun]

Yea that make sense. It also makes ten times more sense when I remember these are digital copies and in no way is GMG bound to some pre-cost to the publishers. When the game is sold, they get their money; no money is put up front by either party. Really nice system, I'm surprised steam lets them piggyback on their system.

 

[KaOTiK]

Steam isn't doing it out of the kindness of their hearts either. More people that buy these games that get introduced to Steam and its ecosystem is a big motivation for Steam. Also it gets to a point where people don't want their games anywhere else but Steam as well making you more dependent on them. Basically they use it as advertisement of a sort and as a gateway to get more users. Also by having more games supporting Steamworks it makes the Steam platform itself stronger with having a bigger list of titles that run on its system.

Valve knows how much and where most of these keys come from as they are the ones giving them to the publishers that request the Steam keys. That is a lot of valuable data to Valve.