The Quakecon Bundle 2014 has no Quake games...

[UwU Clare]

The Quakecon Bundle 2014 has no Quake games. Why does it have no Quake games? I don't know. Maybe it should have been called something else.

The 2013 version was a lot better overall. They cut a lot of stuff out this year. If you've never purchased a Quakecon Bundle before consider waiting until at least 2015 especially if most games are just going to end up in your gaming backlog anyway.

[Black Blade]

Quake is all ready on sale:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?specials=1#term=QUAKE&category1=998&sort_order=ASC&specials=1&page=1

[Distec]

Originally posted by Black Blade:

Quake is all ready on sale:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?specials=1#term=QUAKE&category1=998&sort_order=ASC&specials=1&page=1

Not a great deal, honestly. I bought Rage during the summer sale for, what, five or six bucks? Quake ONE was released in 1996. I'm waiting to see if that will go for less over the weekend.

It's also just weird that the event's bundle doesn't include any of the titles it got its namesake from. It's more like a "Bethesda Bundle" when I see Elder Scrolls stuff in there. Nothing wrong with that, but it's odd.

[Crypto Carlos]

The "Steam Discussion" forum is what you want, this is the "help and tips" forum, people here aren't privy to the decisions of publishers like Bethesda, so we cannot tell you why game X is not in the bundle.

[UwU Clare]

Yes, just for the namesake the Quake games should always be included. It would also be nice if the quality or relative value of the bundle either stayed the same or increased with time. Instead the relative value of the bundle seems to have decreased rather significantly this year. Although I already have the 2013 version of this bundle I find this decrease in bundle quality to be part of a rather disapointing trend on Steam which also seems to effect the availability and quantity of such bundles.

Originally posted by yellowblanka:

The "Steam Discussion" forum is what you want, this is the "help and tips" forum, people here aren't privy to the decisions of publishers like Bethesda, so we cannot tell you why game X is not in the bundle.

I believe that's where I had it. It seems likely that it was moved. I don't know if there's anything I can do about this.

[semaj9001]

Originally posted by Nekurayasha:

Yes, just for the namesake the Quake games should always be included. It would also be nice if the quality or relative value of the bundle either stayed the same or increased with time. Instead the relative value of the bundle seems to have decreased rather significantly this year. Although I already have the 2013 version of this bundle I find this decrease in bundle quality to be part of a rather disapointing trend on Steam which also seems to effect the availability and quantity of such bundles.

I feel like the decrease in bundle/bundle value is a result of Steam's rapidly growing user base. Developers and publishers feel that offering a discount to more people is just more potentail loss in sales.

For perspective, imagine if you were giving away 10 copies of a 10 dollar game. Don't get me wrong, 100 bucks isn't just pocket change for most people, but that cost could be fit in to an average budget with a little effort.

Now imagine giving away 100 copies of a 10 dollar game. A cost of a thousand dollars is to much for most people to drop just to be generous. While you might consider giving away 10 copies, it's to much of a loss to give away such a large amount for free.


I'm not trying to compare bundle deals to giveaways, and I am aware that companies often profit from these sales more than they would on a normal day, but I think that this is the logic that some companies are following.

[Sppaeh.?]

I skipped out on the quake deals during the summer sales because I thought I'd find a better deal during quakecon.. and now I feel dumb.

[Start_Running]

Personally I think ID is just being greedy. I mean FOr Quake 1? Seriouslyl, that's as low as you can go, come on the game actually lookes worse than DOom these days.

[semaj9001]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Personally I think ID is just being greedy. I mean FOr Quake 1? Seriouslyl, that's as low as you can go, come on the game actually lookes worse than DOom these days.

I don't think id even runs the Quakecon event anymore. If you took a look at the bundle, you would see some of the Doom games and...a bunch of Bethesda games. I think Bethesda wanted to just have some of their own games in the bundle and at the last minute were like "Oh ♥♥♥♥! We should include something from the people who actually started the event!" Seeing as Doom is the most popular id franchise, that's the coice they made.

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Personally I think ID is just being greedy. I mean FOr Quake 1? Seriouslyl, that's as low as you can go, come on the game actually lookes worse than DOom these days.

Well i think as its some what a game that is not really going to sale much they do not see the reason to down the price, most chance only a few buy it any way so will be better for them to wait for users to get it on Full price or something like that for more profit