Age of Empires 3 10 cents from microsoft

I dunno if its a mess up from microsoft or not, but if you have their games for windows live client you can currently buy age of empires 3 for .10 cents. If you try and see the sale from their marketplace website it doesn't show it, but if you download their client here http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Download/ it will show up as .10 cents. I just bought it and currently downloading it.

Credit for finding this deal goes to The Holy Pretzle over at CAG.

I'm not really into these types of games, but for 10 cents, why not?:)

WOW thanks! If you already have GFWL (I play Dawn of War 2) installed, click marketplace and Age of Empires 3 is actually advertised right when the page loads up. It is indeed 10 cents.

Downloading..

Very cool, played this at my friends house a while ago and thought it was fun. Thanks!

Not avaiable on Mexico :(

But it's still a great deal.

I'm at the download page, but I'm nervous. What if I purchase it now, but Microsoft realizes that they've made a mistake and charge me the full price at a later time? Can they do that? By the way, what is the full price?

Not avaiable on Mexico :(

But it's still a great deal.

KillerJuan77

I'm at the download page, but I'm nervous. What if I purchase it now, but Microsoft realizes that they've made a mistake and charge me the full price at a later time? Can they do that? By the way, what is the full price?

BluRayHiDef

[QUOTE="BluRayHiDef"]

I'm at the download page, but I'm nervous. What if I purchase it now, but Microsoft realizes that they've made a mistake and charge me the full price at a later time? Can they do that? By the way, what is the full price?

testfactor888

How can they cancel the purchase after the game has already been downloaded?

[QUOTE="testfactor888"][QUOTE="BluRayHiDef"]

I'm at the download page, but I'm nervous. What if I purchase it now, but Microsoft realizes that they've made a mistake and charge me the full price at a later time? Can they do that? By the way, what is the full price?

BluRayHiDef

How can they cancel the purchase after the game has already been downloaded?

I dunno if its a mess up from microsoft or not, but if you have their games for windows live client you can currently buy age of empires 3 for .10 cents. If you try and see the sale from their marketplace website it doesn't show it, but if you download their client here http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Download/ it will show up as .10 cents. I just bought it and currently downloading it.

Credit for finding this deal goes to The Holy Pretzle over at CAG.

Rec-neps

hope you don't mind if I passed this to another board.

I edited your name out just in case you didn't want it passed around. unless you want credit, then I can edit it back in for you.

[QUOTE="KillerJuan77"]

Not avaiable on Mexico :(

But it's still a great deal.

Elann2008

Don't you think Microsoft has enough cash already? :P

Besides, I still remember downloading the Undead Knights demo for the PSP just to find out it was the full game, it's a human mistake. Although the big difference is that Undead Knights is horrible.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"][QUOTE="KillerJuan77"]

Not avaiable on Mexico :(

But it's still a great deal.

KillerJuan77

Don't you think Microsoft has enough cash already? :P

Besides, I still remember downloading the Undead Knights demo for the PSP just to find out it was the full game, it's a human mistake. Although the big difference is that Undead Knights is horrible.

Cool, got it. Thanks :)

Cool, I can finally put some of those 40 Microsoft points I have to good use.

Somebody there messed up reeeaaalllll hard man......

Somebody there messed up reeeaaalllll hard man......

doanm

It's advertised on the front page, of GFWL, I don't think this is a screw up

Somebody there messed up reeeaaalllll hard man......

doanm

Probably the same guy who put Fable 2 up on Live marketplace for free:P

Cool, I can finally put some of those 40 Microsoft points I have to good use.

Ingenemployee

[QUOTE="doanm"]

Somebody there messed up reeeaaalllll hard man......

breakinglaws

It's advertised on the front page, of GFWL, I don't think this is a screw up

Not sure if serious....

Just because it's advertised on the front doesn't mean 100% error proof. Best Buy has been known to this as well. Even if it was a super sale, super discount, it would NEVER go down to $0.10..... Let's see... developer can have 2 cents, Publisher 3 cents, and distributor 5 pennies. DEAL!

Of course it's a mistake.

[QUOTE="doanm"]

Somebody there messed up reeeaaalllll hard man......

breakinglaws

It's advertised on the front page, of GFWL, I don't think this is a screw up

Somebody there messed up reeeaaalllll hard man......

doanm

[QUOTE="breakinglaws"]

[QUOTE="doanm"]

Somebody there messed up reeeaaalllll hard man......

Elann2008

It's advertised on the front page, of GFWL, I don't think this is a screw up

Not sure if serious....

Just because it's advertised on the front doesn't mean 100% error proof. Best Buy has been known to this as well. Even if it was a super sale, super discount, it would NEVER go down to $0.10..... Let's see... developer can have 2 cents, Publisher 3 cents, and distributor 5 pennies. DEAL!

Of course it's a mistake.

Did you even check the front page?

Not available outside of US. How nice.murekkep

its not a screw up, its advertized on the front page. The game page even says TODAY ONLY- AGE OF EMPIRES III FOR a DIMEJangoWuzHere

It is a screw up. From a business perspective they're not going to be making any sizable revenue from it what with it being priced so unreasonably low. Even at $1.00-$3.00 this game is a hell of a steal and while it won't still be a huge profit if it will be far more significant then the current price tag they are selling it at now. Heck even if such an absurdly low price tag was designed for the objective of penetrating the online digital distribution market it still is unreasonably sound to have the price tag so low. So i'll stick with what I said. Somebody in there messed up.

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

its not a screw up, its advertized on the front page. The game page even says TODAY ONLY- AGE OF EMPIRES III FOR a DIMEdoanm

It is a screw up. From a business perspective they're not going to be making any sizable revenue from it what with it being priced so unreasonably low. Even at $1.00-$3.00 this game is a hell of a steal and while it won't still be a huge profit if it will be far more significant then the current price tag they are selling it at now. Heck even if such an absurdly low price tag was designed for the objective of penetrating the online digital distribution market it still is unreasonably sound to have the price tag so low. So i'll stick with what I said. Somebody in there messed up.

No one screwed up. And just to point how greatly flawed your argument is, ill post links to the pages you did not visit

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/dailydeal/day7/

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/

The fact that they even took the time to post this should easily symbolize they that WANTED it at 10 cents.

I had 430 MS Points left over from a purchase I made one or two years ago, now I have 420 MS Points. Thanks Microsoft! My first game on your service.

[QUOTE="murekkep"]Not available outside of US. How nice.blangenakker

Ah, I bought it and I'm in Australia.

developer can have 2 cents, Publisher 3 cents, and distributor 5 pennies. DEAL!

No one screwed up. And just to point how greatly flawed your argument is, ill post links to the pages you did not visit

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/dailydeal/day7/

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/

The fact that they even took the time to post this should easily symbolize they that WANTED it at 10 cents.

JangoWuzHere

So? It just tells me they've demonstrably and consistently priced so questionably low those past few days on top of the current one happening right now.

Also, Bioshock 1 was on sale for 1.99 on the GFWL marketplace. Far more reasonable and sensible then today's deal. As a consumer i'm not complaining but i'm still left to question todays price for todays deal.

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

No one screwed up. And just to point how greatly flawed your argument is, ill post links to the pages you did not visit

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/dailydeal/day7/

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/

The fact that they even took the time to post this should easily symbolize they that WANTED it at 10 cents.

doanm

So? It just tells me they've demonstrably and consistently priced so questionably low those past few days on top of the current one happening right now.

Also, Bioshock 1 was on sale for 1.99 on the GFWL marketplace. Far more reasonable and sensible then today's deal. As a consumer i'm not complaining but i'm still left to question todays price for todays deal.

The whole point is that this isn't a screw up. They INTENDED it to be 10 cents. I don't think this is meant to drive a profit in the first place. They obviously wanted to let themselves be known through this whole daily deals thing. Well, today is the end of the week, so why not go out with a bang?

also

"So? It just tells me they've demonstrably and consistently priced so questionably low those past few days on top of the current one happening right now."

That sentence gives me a headache...

And in their intentions they screwed up. The point here being is that it is by no means a screw up for the consumer end but on the business end it is. Not hard to understand now is it?

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

I don't think this is meant to drive a profit in the first place.

JangoWuzHere

At those price tags thats a dead given. Odds are its a chance to shed an excess of user keys that they have. However the opportunity to at least make some extra money doing so has been wasted.

They obviously wanted to let themselves be known through this whole daily deals thing. JangoWuzHere

Had I not covered this in my first post in response to you?

That sentence gives me a headache...

JangoWuzHere

your problem that simple concepts seem to make your head hurt.

I just purchased it and I'm downloading it right now.

Awesome deal. I had 190 spare microsoft points so a good opportunity to use a few of them up. I already had the game but not the expansions. Thanks!

Bought. I mean, yo, it's 10 MSP.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

[QUOTE="breakinglaws"]

It's advertised on the front page, of GFWL, I don't think this is a screw up

JangoWuzHere

Not sure if serious....

Just because it's advertised on the front doesn't mean 100% error proof. Best Buy has been known to this as well. Even if it was a super sale, super discount, it would NEVER go down to $0.10..... Let's see... developer can have 2 cents, Publisher 3 cents, and distributor 5 pennies. DEAL!

Of course it's a mistake.

Did you even check the front page?

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

And in their intentions they screwed up. The point here being is that it is by no means a screw up for the consumer end but on the business end it is. Not hard to understand now is it?

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

At those price tags thats a dead given. Odds are its a chance to shed an excess of user keys that they have. However the opportunity to at least make some extra money doing so has been wasted.

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

They obviously wanted to let themselves be known through this whole daily deals thing. doanm

Had I not covered this in my first post in response to you?

"So? It just tells me they've demonstrably and consistently priced so questionably low those past few days on top of the current one happening right now."

That sentence gives me a headache...

JangoWuzHere

your problem that simple concepts seem to make your head hurt.

I don't care about what they could have done with the deal. They priced it at 10 cents and have advertized it as so. What you think of as a "screw up" is a totally different subject from what I'm talking about.

I don't care about what they could have done with the deal. They priced it at 10 cents and have advertized it as so. What you think of as a "screw up" is a totally different subject from what I'm talking about.

JangoWuzHere

So why even bother arguing with me if you're not even going to care about me clarifying my position on why i think its a screw up? Especially considering that i'm arguing from a business perspective you don't seem particularly arsed about.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

[QUOTE="breakinglaws"]

It's advertised on the front page, of GFWL, I don't think this is a screw up

JangoWuzHere

Not sure if serious....

Just because it's advertised on the front doesn't mean 100% error proof. Best Buy has been known to this as well. Even if it was a super sale, super discount, it would NEVER go down to $0.10..... Let's see... developer can have 2 cents, Publisher 3 cents, and distributor 5 pennies. DEAL!

Of course it's a mistake.

Did you even check the front page?

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]I don't care about what they could have done with the deal. They priced it at 10 cents and have advertized it as so. What you think of as a "screw up" is a totally different subject from what I'm talking about.

doanm

So why even bother arguing with me if you're not even going to care about me clarifying my position on why i think its a screw up? Especially considering that i'm arguing from a business perspective you don't seem particularly arsed about.

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]I don't care about what they could have done with the deal. They priced it at 10 cents and have advertized it as so. What you think of as a "screw up" is a totally different subject from what I'm talking about.

doanm

So why even bother arguing with me if you're not even going to care about me clarifying my position on why i think its a screw up? Especially considering that i'm arguing from a business perspective you don't seem particularly arsed about.

business intentions are an opinionated subject. it was not exacly what I was talking about when I quoted doanm.

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

Not sure if serious....

Just because it's advertised on the front doesn't mean 100% error proof. Best Buy has been known to this as well. Even if it was a super sale, super discount, it would NEVER go down to $0.10..... Let's see... developer can have 2 cents, Publisher 3 cents, and distributor 5 pennies. DEAL!

Of course it's a mistake.

Elann2008

Did you even check the front page?

Fair enough, but how is it an error like you said?