Though my overall luck with digital distribution platforms hasn't been going that well lately, Stardock has something really good going: communication. Unless something extraordinary happens, it will be a pleasure to take my business elsewhere. I complained in the same support ticket about the unilateral "generosity", but I know that I lost the game I purchased. Hey, at least I got my money back.
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Did they really expect me to go buy the other version now with such a steep price difference? Under the circumstances, of course I would have preferred to keep the game I had if I would be given the choice. With a price difference of $11.20, that's a lot more then the initial 3 dollars I was willing to pay. I first payed $16.79 for the GOTY and the Deluxe is now $27.99. Third and final WTF moment. They didn't even ask me if I wanted the refund or not. Unfortunately we are unable to charge you the difference for a different package, as such we have processed a refund to your account where you will now be able to repurchase the game, this time the deluxe version. I open my email and got the following answer from support: It's now June 20th, Saturday morning, after an exhausting work week. Whatever reason for that decision, it was a greedy one.īut wait! Here comes support. WTF?!?!? Another slew of complaints ensued in the forum. From $16.79 and $19.99, for the GOTY and Deluxe respectively, they're suddenly at $23.99 and $27.99. Somewhere on June 18th, the base price suddenly increases (still with the 20% discount). No justification, no community communication whatsoever, no nothing. I noticed that other customers got a refund and were quick to change versions, but were asked first if they wanted the refund. I then proceeded to contact Steam's support to try and change from GOTY to Deluxe (I asked for the possibility of an upgrade), since that would be a better purchase in my view. I went to Steam's game forum and see people complaining that, like me, they wanted the Deluxe instead, and others even that wanted the GOTY instead because that version has more languages than just English (the Deluxe is only in English). Only 3 dollars difference? What a mess of an advertisement!
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I eventually went to Steam's game tab and noticed that there was also a DELUXE edition, with the expansion and all of the 9 official add-ons at $19.99. there was a DELUXE edition?!?Īfter I made the purchase, I downloaded it and played a bit.
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I then purchased the Oblivion GOTY, which has the Shivering Isles expansion and the Knights of the Nine add-on.īut wait. In that page there was also an option to buy a package of Oblivion + Morrowind, but nothing else. An excellent deal! I clicked on that advertisement that took me to the game page. On June 17th, Steam had an advertisement of Oblivion: Game of the Year Editon with 20% off. A good price for Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition!