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GFWL DotW for December 15th, 2011

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litepink
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Last post: Yesterday at 19:49
Posted on 16 December 11 at 06:55
Save 50% on the DiRT series

We've been seeing a lot of the DiRT series lately, with DiRT Showdown being announced, as well as DiRT 3 recently being featured as the Best Buy deal of the day. This week you can purchase two different LIVE enabled PC games from the DiRT series for half off:

DiRT 2 (PC) - $39.99/£34.99 $19.99/£17.49
DiRT 3 (PC) - $49.99/£49.99 $24.99/£24.99

You can download the titles here

While we're on the subject of GFWL deals, we have a few others from outside the xbox.com marketplace to highlight. Two sales are from the site GamersGate [Thanks, fuzzyGURU], and one is from retailer Gamestop.

GamersGate
Dead Rising 2 (PC) - $29.95 $14.98
Dead Rising 2: Off The Record (PC) - $39.99 $19.95

Gamestop
Batman: Arkham City (PC) $49.99 $29.99
Tardii
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Posted on 16 December 11 at 06:58
Any one know if these are worth it?
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GeoLotus
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Posted on 16 December 11 at 07:08, Edited on 16 December 11 at 07:11 by GeoLotus
Typo in Thread Title, you put GWFL instead of GFWL.

Thanks for the news, some of these are pretty good;

Batman and Dead Rising 2: OFR are great, AND have great discounts.

Gotta love GFWL, 2 lists of achievements for 2 different versions of the same game.
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TSG Dwaggie
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Last post: Yesterday at 10:57
Posted on 16 December 11 at 07:31
In further news, £24.99 DOES NOT EQUAL $24.99.
from xe.com/ucc:
24.99 US$ = 16.0893 GB£
1 USD = 0.643831 GBP, 1 GBP = 1.55320 USD

In even further news, £17.49 DOES NOT EQUAL $19.99
19.99 US$ = 12.8711 GB£
1 USD = 0.643831 GBP, 1 GBP = 1.55320 USD

UK prices should be around £15.99 and £12.99 respectively. Or you can get the disk versions for cheaper...
Mstrofdashadows - Held gears judgement yesterday, my store almost put it on the shelf i saved them don't worry
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Last post: 13 May at 21:30
Posted on 16 December 11 at 07:45
great deals glad to see some pc related articles. Batman should be a little cheaper IMHO since so many copies have been given away. It can be found free on overclock.net pretty easily. great deals none the less
S P 4 C E Y
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Last post: 15 May at 17:30
Posted on 16 December 11 at 08:18
i'm getting sick of being fucked over by companies charging outrageous prices. The exchange rate is 1.55 yet £24.99 = $24.99.


Disgusting.
JDA27
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Last post: 21 May at 18:44
Posted on 16 December 11 at 09:03
I saw the headline, and thought "yes! Time to get DiRT" but even half price they are more than some online retailers.
Sk3tchD
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Posted on 16 December 11 at 10:07, Edited on 16 December 11 at 10:08 by Sk3tchD
http://store.steampowered.com/app/12840/
Dirt 2 £14.99 on Steam, f**king rip off on M$'s part
Ki11erLawnGnome - anybody have Dead Rising 2 or Dead Rising 2: Off the Record and want to do the co-op stuff?
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Last post: 17 May at 05:20
Posted on 16 December 11 at 11:37
is dead rising 2 from gamersgate the gfwl version with achievements? it doesnt have the logo on the picture like Off the Record does.
Subliminal Cuts - Did anyone pick up the free ms points by trialing Lovefilm the other day, having issues getting the points
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Last post: 17 Jan at 15:17
Posted on 16 December 11 at 12:36
Still expensive, dirt 2 on PC is £17 thats a joke, and to have a listed price of £50 initially for Dirt 3 is just a LOL price.

Cheap dirt 2 link - http://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=5024866341850
dW01F
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Posted on 16 December 11 at 12:54
Subliminal Cuts said:Still expensive, dirt 2 on PC is £17 thats a joke, and to have a listed price of £50 initially for Dirt 3 is just a LOL price.

Cheap dirt 2 link - http://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=5024866341850
Thats *offline* so the activation code to play it online will have already been used.
Subliminal Cuts - Did anyone pick up the free ms points by trialing Lovefilm the other day, having issues getting the points
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Posted on 16 December 11 at 14:04
dW01F said:Subliminal Cuts said:Still expensive, dirt 2 on PC is £17 thats a joke, and to have a listed price of £50 initially for Dirt 3 is just a LOL price.

Cheap dirt 2 link - http://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=5024866341850
Thats *offline* so the activation code to play it online will have already been used.
Still getting that from the marketplace is going to be quite a bit cheaper
JMJimmy
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Last post: Yesterday at 16:07
Posted on 16 December 11 at 14:37
Aside from the prices not being deals, I wouldn't be surprised if the extra £ vs $ is due to VAT.
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J Pinder
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Last post: 25 Apr at 02:44
Posted on 16 December 11 at 14:49
I would pick up DR2: Off the Record if my CPU was 300MHz faster...
Catranizi
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Last post: 21 May at 20:46
Posted on 16 December 11 at 14:51
Dirt 2 at 19.99$ is not a discount, it's the regular sale price on Steam. Anyone thinking about either Dirt 2 or 3 should wait for 75% off deals during Steam Christmas sale.

Batman is an ok deal if you missed the 25$ sales during Thanksgiving. Else, again, I'd suggest waiting for Steam sale, it will probably be around 20$ at that point.
Christian Doe - 13 of my last 15 achievements were on my phone. Call me the bus gamer.
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Last post: 23 May at 15:31
Posted on 16 December 11 at 16:36
I got Dirt 2 for $3.96 on Direct2Drive last March. Now that was a good deal.
blkalleykat
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Posted on 16 December 11 at 21:57, Edited on 16 December 11 at 21:57 by blkalleykat
Maybe Off the Record I'll get
Riconoclast
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Posted on 16 December 11 at 23:56
Hmmmm "Save"
DivineWind72
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Last post: 29 Mar at 21:19
Posted on 17 December 11 at 01:37
Tardii said:Any one know if these are worth it?If you're in the UK then probably not.
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Last post: 10 May at 13:12
Posted on 17 December 11 at 02:31
I'm canadian and this is not a good deal.