Steam begins pre-purchase for Empire Total War

[Bateluer]

Release date of 3 Feb 2009

Might jump on this . . .

 

[Eeezee]

Nice! Is the Rome Total War Gold inclusion a limited time offer? I'd hate to miss out on that (woot for digital backup), but I'm not 100% on board for Empire Total War...

 

[Zenoth]

Isn't it a little too much in advance? I mean four months? I think I will wait because maybe one or two weeks before its release they might make some $5 rebate thing like they've done to other titles not long before they were released. In other words, the prices for yet-to-be-released games on Steam sometimes tend to not be definitive until the release itself.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Zenoth
Isn't it a little too much in advance? I mean four months? I think I will wait because maybe one or two weeks before its release they might make some $5 rebate thing like they've done to other titles not long before they were released. In other words, the prices for yet-to-be-released games on Steam sometimes tend to not be definitive until the release itself.

Very true, they usually have a 10% off the week prior or the opening weekend.

 

[imported_Imp]

Ok... even if I did that, I'd delete it by Christmas cause I need the HDD space. Why I decided on an 80Gb HDD when a 320Gb was $20 more is a mystery. Can't just buy a new one cause my SATA ports are duds (didn't RMA, didn't know how to remove CPU fan or want the trouble). IDEs are occupied.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Zenoth
Isn't it a little too much in advance? I mean four months? I think I will wait because maybe one or two weeks before its release they might make some $5 rebate thing like they've done to other titles not long before they were released. In other words, the prices for yet-to-be-released games on Steam sometimes tend to not be definitive until the release itself.

Agreed. That happened to me for FC2. Oh, and I already have R:TW Gold anyway.

 

[mrblotto]

I'll wait a while till the DRM info comes out

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: mrblotto
I'll wait a while till the DRM info comes out

Creative Assembly usually has a benign DRM scheme that doesn't punish the customers. Times do change though, hopefully they won't decide on the Spore/Red Alert 3/Far Cry 2 model and shoot themselves in the foot.