{"id":4252,"date":"2011-09-09T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2012-07-17T01:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T06:07:23","slug":"on-the-cheap-downloading-video-games-legally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/gaming\/xbox\/on-the-cheap-downloading-video-games-legally\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Cheap: Downloading Video Games (Legally)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s no secret that I’m a fan of cheap games (cheap indie games<\/a>, specifically), but that doesn’t mean I sit around and play free tower defense games all day (well, not every day). No, sir, I still have a taste for the big expensive wow-me games, but sometimes I wish they weren’t so expensive.<\/p>\n

Today, I bought the Civilization V<\/a> Digital Deluxe package for $15 on Steam<\/a> (regularly $60) because they were having a 75% off sale. Yes, those numbers are correct and it’s a hell of a deal. And the best part? Steam regularly has sales like this on all kinds of games for PC and\u00a0Mac. Of course, the downside is that some of these discounted games — like Civ V — have been out for a while.<\/p>\n

Enter Green Man Gaming<\/a>. Similar to Steam in appearance, but they pride themselves on discounts for current games. In fact, they offer 15 percent off on all pre-orders as their raison d’etre and guarantee you the lowest price in town. The town that is the internet.<\/p>\n

If you’re into PC gaming, you owe it to yourself to check out Steam and Green Man (and Civilization V!). Happy gaming and happy wallets.<\/p>\n

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A greedy, cash-hungry alien (not to scale)<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s no secret that I’m a fan of cheap games (cheap indie games, specifically), but that doesn’t mean I sit around and play free tower defense games all day (well, not every day). No, sir, I still have a taste for the big expensive wow-me games, but sometimes I wish they weren’t so expensive. Today, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3062,35,125,512,2221,3063,36,26],"tags":[739,1271,1272,696,1270,1269,741,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}