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Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten DLC from Amazon is giving a key that activates both base game and the DLC. At $2.49 that's 88% off AOE II HD base price, not counting the $10 DLC. Of course, you have to want AOE II HD, I guess.

Just worked for me, your mileage may vary.

Edited, Jun 21st 2014 6:48pm by Jophiel

Amazon doesn't have a way to reclaim or invalidate a Steam key. I suppose the publisher does in extreme cases but I've never seen it happen even with things like the huge Bethesda/BL2 fiasco at GamersGate or when Amazon sold pre-order keys for Alien: Isolation for $9.99. I assume the publisher would just go after the merchant for their missing revenue.

Thinking back, the only times I can think of keys getting revoked on Steam were for fraudulent keys. Some game (I don't remember... Borderlands 1?) where a ton of keys were generated out of Eastern Europe via cracked keygen thingie. People were trading for them or buying them from the forums and they all got revoked. But if you had bought your key from a legitimate seller you were still fine.

Edited, Jun 21st 2014 7:16pm by Jophiel

Yeah, with the Bethesda thing, if you got a key (and revealed it) to any of the games in the bundle then they honored the whole purchase. If you were backlogged on the keys or had a key but never revealed it, they canceled the purchase (refunded and gave you an additional one year discount). But they never took away any activated products. Once the key was revealed, it was considered to be your game.

I got that game. I bought it for $1.39 from Steam back in December. I don't think that's a price error :)

Edit:
I see it is the Gold Edition (all the DLC stuff and Sound Track). So ya... probably not set right.
Wonder what happens if I redeem the Gold edition ontop of a standard.

Edit2:
It is redeemable if you already own the base game, and adds the DLC to your game. For 1.79, getting the DLC (4.99 and 2.99 list) and the Sound Track (4.99 list) is good.

One DLC is not included in the Gold Pack (A $1.99 DLC). It's a new character and a few monsters/items.

Edited, Jun 21st 2014 8:45pm by TirithRR

I voted for the Epic - Fantasy flash sale this time, because I owned every game in the Comedy - Platformer choice. But I am guessing the Platformer will win because it's got Psychonauts, Guacamelee, and Gunpoint, plus two 80% off discounts.

Edit:
I got my first Playfire (GMG Steam Stat monitoring) update email since I really started farming cards.

"Hey, you started tracking a new game!"'
Then near the end:

You've also just started tracking:
*LIST OF 60 GAMES*

Edit 2:
Age of Empires II HD has Steam Trading Cards. 4 of them :)
So you can drop probably 30-40 cents off the already give away price from Amazon.

Edited, Jun 21st 2014 11:14pm by TirithRR

Grabbed a 4-pack of Monaco as well. I think this sale is going to end up with me not spending any real money, but buying a bunch of super cheap games with Gaben FunBuxx.

Edited, Jun 22nd 2014 12:09am by IDrownFish

I really thought that Guacamelee and Psychonauts would win the flash sale. But maybe the Final Fantasy VII name made people vote for the other one.

I picked up Un-Epic and Epic Battle Fantasy 4. I'd probably grab Age of Mythology if it were a bit deeper discount, -40% is a little Meh. I'm trying to decide whether or not to buy Craft the World. It's been on my wishlist for a while now, but I'm not sure if I should bother with it. Early Access (I'd hate for it to end up being another Starbound) and probably wouldn't play it very much between now and the next time it's on sale for 75% off.

Edited, Jun 22nd 2014 7:39am by TirithRR

Epic Battle Fantasy cards still selling for a lot... even with the game being on a flash sale for cheap.

Just sold the first one for 16 cents. 7 Card Drops total.

Just ran like all the games I have card drops remaining for through SAM. Cut the lawn, and came back to 59 cards in my inventory.

I ended up buying it. It was only 40% off, when it had been 50% previously, but the difference was a buck.

From the hour I played (roughly) it is better than Starbound so far. A lot to take in though, and there are some quirky bugs here and there. Maybe not bugs, I'm not 100% sure. My Dwarves fall off of log bridges occasionally, not sure if they are supposed to cause they suck at walking or if they glitch through. They also have a habit of walking across small gaps.

Enemies have interesting AI. I had a large cliff protecting me, and laughed as the skeletons at night tried to jump up and couldn't. But then a few more came, and one of them crouched down and raised its shield above its... and the other jumped ontop of it. Then another came behind and crouched down. Then the giant zombie abomination hopped up ontop of the skeletons like a stairway and attack.

Took me an hour to figure out that I didn't have to craft the stupid protection totem, kept trying to find the ingredients for it. Turns out achieving level two gave me one to start with. The Dwarves won't rest in the beds to regain health until there is a totem in a secure area. And apparently they won't share beds even if the other isn't using it. Not sure if that's a bug or if the dwarves each claim a bed to use and refuse to use each others.

Yeah!