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@ARPK you can save it, but you might be low on funds, or it expired, or another card now has better rewards. deleting and adding a new card was incredibly slow

amazon currently gives you a $1 digital gift card every time you pick 5 day super save shipping. It's good on kindle books, movie rentals, and mp3 downloads.
In 2017-2018, the $1 free credits were good for eshop and psn cards as well.

I think they stopped offering the promotion when people like me ordered 400 ten-cent items, got the $1 refund, and immediately bought 8 $50 eshop cards.

Oops

@KingMike ah, i see you've rarely shopped before.
Bestbuy has an ebay store, often 20% off in-store price. You can buy all your eshop cards there for a decent discount. I've paid full price for an eshop card maaaaybe 2% of the time

@Alucard83 ive been using paypal on the eshop for like 7 years now.

@ARPK this changes nothing. you can still use your credit card on the website or buy an eshop card from any store on the planet. typing your credit card info with a 3ds stylus was incredibly awkward.

@SpicyBurrito16 ebay has listings . for $30-40 for the rare pokemon. if he's selling all 8 of the rayqquausuauaua, he could easily be looking at $300 for 30 mins work.

@Heavyarms55 ah, i see you've never driven before, and don't know what a highway is.
The side of a highway is for emergencies only. Pulling onto one in heavy traffic would block ambulances and fire trucks from using the shoulder to get where they are going.

This is explained to you on your very first day of driving school.

@AlternateButtons who caaaaaresssss

@AlternateButtons my email address is already tied to the eshop account that paid for it. typing it in on more time and never again is something so boring i wouldnt remember it at all if hysterical gamers werent shrieking about it a week later. Each of your posts about it is 10x longer than actually typing it.

@AlternateButtons is "the whole drm" thing the fact that you have to type your email address a grand total of once across all 3 games?

Anyone know how many levels there are? I'm on level 13 and games like this are typically around 20-25 levels, I don't want it to end but i also want to be done before fire emblem this weekend so i can finish that by next monday too!

whelp i'm taking a week off work for Baldur's Gate!

@Yorumi i do and don't. Goldeneye and Donkey Kong 64 both launched at $70 US- adjusted for inflation, thats $130 . I'd rather have a $60 game with $10 DLC that i might not . have to get, or more likely, buy on sale half off vs games always be 130.

@Heavyarms55 you say "they" but remember stardew is made entirely by 1 person, with only translation and some of the multiplayer code involving a second person. all that art, music, dialog and programming being one person and still coming up with 200+ hours of content is still amazing to me!

i took off half a day of work for the android and iphone ports, and a day off for the 1.3 update. ima take two days off for this one!

@MrBlacky ah you don't know what character it is either.
In a world where people can tell mario's mustache from a mile away and recognize the shadow of any one of 400 pokemon

you have no idea what mysterious character this is shown alongside 3 of Nintendo's biggest franchises.

How interesting! Someone should write an article wondering what this mysterious character is, this mysterious character that you just asked me about.

@MrBlacky the head of Nintendo and the maker of Rare titles both show an image of a Nintendo character we've never seen before

and you're wondering why people are talking about it.

well okay then.

@Onion the TATE controllers were like $10 when they first came out but they sold out everywhere, youll just have to prop your
switch up to play in tate mode

@kobashi100 i think it was 15, i had a $9 credit so i paid a few bucks.

@PhilKenSebben I'm not THAT big into this type of shooter, but this is likely tied for my favorite of all time.

@retro_player_22 my smart aa charger i plug into a wall, but amazon has $7 usb plugs that i plug into my solar wall panel and takes up no room.

you . can also get aa batteries that have a usb plug built in but theyre overpriced for what they are

@tenmetresam mine fits in my pocket so i take it to work daily, and i play it in line at grocery stores and such

@Cathousemaster i've played maybe 100 hours of 2-8 player games in handheld mode only, doubt this will change anything.

@AlohaPizzaJack i definitely need one more, and that one i am certain will never be docked. if its smaller, cheaper, or even just a prettier color, ill def get the new one.

@thesilverbrick i picked it up on ps3 psn store for like $5 a year or so ago, i still like it a lot, but there is something about it that was never perfect

@AlohaPizzaJack there are 5 switches in my house and i think 2 have never been docked.

fine by me. my switch is docked barely 1% of the time.

I enjoy Gunsmoke (not most other westerns, Gunsmoke was so much better) and love love love XCOM, so Hard West was a definite preorder for me. Paid $6 grand total for it.

@S4ndm4n like others said, just copy paste. i try to do it every other month and back up to google cloud just in case. same with my 3DS. ONCE i had a card corrupt or something and i just installed it from the last google cloud version.

@SuperGhirahim64 for years i heard of the salary man working til after the sun went down, and played games like earthbound where the dad was just a phone, because he was always at work and called to check up on the kids.

read an article a few years ago saying thats half-true: certainly true for some workplaces, but for the most part, managers show up at 1030 or 11am, employees show up at 1029 and everyone then makes a big deal about staying til 6 when the sun goes down. no one actually worked even 7 hours, but they stayed LATE like good salary men.

when i went to japan a couple years ago, i stayed with friends that work in the gaming industry there.
they rolled out of bed around 10, went to work, and got back at 7.

hmmmmmmmmmm that detective pikachu...

@Mrrabbitpuncher assuming they also keep the current sliders you can make some insanely hard matches

@AlternateButtons yeah but how long does it take for these 30% oiff coupons? I'm not CERTAIN, but i have a good 300 nintendo games and i feel like the 30-40% off games are always at least 2 years old, and many are 5-10 years old. thats why i can rarely use them- theyre really only good for rebuying the $20 player select download of a $60 game i traded in or sold many years ago.

with gold points i get them on new games and spend them on new games. the super awesome giant $15 off rewards are so old theyre worthless to me.

@AlternateButtons Costco and Xenia/whatever its called sell $50 eshop cards for 40-45. I got one last week for $35, downloaded the game and got my $6 gold points refund which paid off another game entirely.

@AlternateButtons ehhh. i kinda wish gold coins were worth more, but ive gotten $10 off a switch game with my gold coins, vs $15 off offers on a 10 year old wii title i bought at launch.

i kinda wish the gold points were worth twice as much but

i spend my . gold points the week i get them, i have hundreds and often thousands of the platinum points. and i doubt theyre gonna wanna give $20 off breath of the wild . in exchange for points i got answering a survey or two

@fusermarucs i also remember donkey kong 64 costing $70 in the store at launch, which is $103 adjusted for inflation. I paid $45 for smash~

@Hikingguy I'm glad you buy several copies of the same game. I have 100 copies of Breath of the Wild I'd be willing to sell ya!

The "free cd with digital content" is a massive waste of time and space. I do it because the physical media will be $9 with MP3, while the Mp3s alone are $15 for lordi knows that reason. Since CDs came out in 1985 and you can hardly even find a cd player anywhere, it's a plastic frisbee someone had to drive to my house. Typically i just sell the CD on ebay for $10 and wind up paying $0 for my album. But its a waste of time, plastic, and effort. Cars don't come with CD players anymore, 3 of my 4 computers don't have CD drives, and the nearest portable CD player is 4 bestbuys away.

Buying a CD or an 8 track makes as much sense as getting my favorite switch games on cartridge.

I prefer digital since its 100x better than physical, so the digital+box has worked really well for me. Amazon and BestBuy have and have had discounts for physical releases, not on digital. The boxes with download codes count.
I bought mass effect andromeda for 48 with physical discount, and a$10 reward zone card came with it. The download was 60.
I then sold my empty box on ebay as "empty box, for collectors" and several people bid $20 on it, since they likely did the download but still want a box on their shelf.

So people who paid digitally paid $80 total, while i went
"physical box with download code" and after reward zone card and my ebay funds, wound up paying $18 for a $60 title on launch day.

@Hikingguy not sure if you've ever heard of "computers", but PC videogames have been a box with a download code in it for about 12 years now. No one's "missing the point" since PC games make billions every year.

Fallout, Mass Effect, Fortnite have been doing this for years in America.

I swear half the people shocked and confused on here have never bought a videogame before.

@Baker1000 i've worked in PS3/Steam game design and interactive website design, and we've always had placeholders for things 6 months to a year down the line.

@JayJ grrossss, how dare they add two of the most popular characters from two of the world's biggest franchises.

Can't we just have 5 more versions of mario ?

@HobbitGamer thanks! its jack/pete from harvest moon at work and earthbound references at home and online!

@Andyjm a season pass for a santa tracker! Track the 4th of july man on the 4th of july! Only makes sense in america.

Better yet, make it so microtransaction model, so kids will need to beg for their parents credit card to pay 10 cents for Santa to wear clothes and 20 cents for him to be jolly!

...or pay the $2 and be done with it none of this "its disgraceful charging money for products!" nonsense.

@Rohanrocks88 i got it on black friday as well, thanks to a $5 reward points card and the other black friday sales, i went into my local gamestop at 9am, got 2 gun packs and a figure for like $11 total.

what it costs money?!!? I thought programmers, designers, UI people all paid their bills with magical unicorn smiles

@sketchturner there were a huge amount of updates and patches as i understand it. the version i got a month ago was amazing.

@BanjoPickles it has a 71 metacritic but i'd say 8/10 easy. i've rarely had so much fun with a racing game and i love love love burnout and twisted metal

@OorWullie https://www.facebook.com/groups/stardooky/ . do itttt

@TheFanatic there are a few physical releases, and its been out for years. go buy it already!