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How to Get Big Discounts on Games

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In the first segment, Rishi Alwani, Mikhail Madnani, and host Pranay Parab offer excellent tips on getting discounts while buying your favourite games. The second segment features lots of SPOILERS on the Lego Batman Movie, as pop culture nerd Akhil Arora and host Pranay Parab discuss the movie.

Getting big discounts on games

  • Why buying on launch day is usually a bad idea
    • Physical goods as reward for pre-orders
    • Discounts on PC games
      • Steam
        • Seasonal sales
        • Refund policy
        • Wishlists
        • Regional pricing
        • AAA games at super-low prices in India
        • Humble Bundle
          • Dollar pricing
          • Bundles versus individual games
          • Biggest discounts
          • Greenman Gaming
            • Pricing
            • Refund policies could be an issue
            • Payment verification issues
            • Why you should avoid resellers
            • GOG
              • I Have Over 300 Games on Steam and I'm Leaving It All Behind for GOG Galaxy
              • Games unavailable anywhere else are on GOG
              • DRM-free games
              • Season sales
              • Discounts and goodies
              • 30-day refund policy
              • Region-free
              • Is the GOG client as good as Steam?
              • Origin
                • Game selection
                • Changes over the past few years
                • Big games totally free
                • Seasonal sales with big discounts on AAA games
                • EA games such as FIFA get discounted too
                • Duration of sales
                • Refund policy
                • Customer support
                • Two-factor authentication
                • Massive discounts on game discs in India
                  • Flipkart and Amazon
                  • Beware of big downloads even on discs
                  • Falling retail releases in India
                  • Retail disc prices lower than even Steam prices
                  • PlayStation 4 discounts
                    • Sales have improved a lot
                    • Indie titles discounted during lean periods
                    • Refund policy not great
                    • Used games market
                    • Discounts via retail
                    • Xbox One discounts
                      • Why games are insanely expensive in India
                      • Games used to be reasonably priced
                      • Pricing management moves from India to US
                      • Black Friday sales
                      • Discounts on new releases
                      • Lightning deals in India
                      • May not always be a good idea to wait
                      • Nintendo
                        • Dearth of discounts
                        • What is a good deal on Nintendo platforms
                        • Better deals in the US
                        • Could we have better discounts with Nintendo Switch?
                        • iOS and Android
                          • Poor curation of deals on Android
                          • Humble Mobile Bundles
                          • Touch Arcade and App Shopper

                            • The Lego Batman Movie - SPOILERS ahead

                            • Our review
                            • Opening sequence
                            • Mocking Dark Knight Rises
                            • Mocking Batman and DC characters
                            • Self-aware jokes
                            • Deadpool for kids
                            • Jokes even without dialogue
                            • Relentless pacing
                            • Comments on editing
                            • Not so serious Batman
                            • Animation and Lego art
                            • Use of facial expressions for humour
                            • Other characters in the movie
                            • Excellent voice acting
                            • Character progression
                            • Laugh-a-minute
                            • The story (or lack thereof)
                            • Character development of characters other than Batman
                            • Music and sound effects
                            • Lego movie universe
                              • Ninjago movie
                              • Will success make movies worse
                              • Lego Movie ignored for Oscars

                                • Music: Popular Potpourri and Path Complete from PPPPPP by Magnus “Souleye” Pålsson.

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