Irishdoom

@believer258 I'm interested in at least half of those.

The extra bonus is I can sit here and think about what DS games I missed, since I missed them ALL. :) What are some of the best of the best from regular old DS?

That is a nice bonus. I don't know anything about that Pokemon game, but I was looking at Luigi's Mansion already.

Fire Emblem and Ocarina of Time alone should be good for an awful lot of gaming. I do have 2 young kids as well that might be ready to enjoy something like it. From what I understand, 3DSXL is the way I should probably go, both for the size and better battery life.

This is exactly the kind of thing it would have been nice to see in the redesign of the site. Think outside the box, GB, focus on your strength, the staff! It should be a piece of cake to filter anything on the site based on who is in it or created it.

You should care. It's about having a little fucking integrity and not taking advantage of shit just because you can. I like to get stuff I want cheap just like anyone else, but that doesn't mean I do it with reckless disregard for honesty. This isn't a question of "degrees" of wrong-ness or anything like that. This is obviously dishonest. Minor? Sure, it's minor, in relative terms. It's minor to steal 10 bucks from someone relative to stealing a grand from them too, that doesn't make it ok.

I wonder if at some point the legal teams at places like Amazon will bake in stipulations to credits like this. "By using this promotional credit, you agree to blah blah blah." I think my biggest gripe isn't the low morality Greater Internet Fuckwads, but how they may make things shittier for everyone else in the future due to their actions.

@hiono: Agreed, obviously. :)

Offended by smart marketing? Or maybe you just like to complain. :) I don't know if feeling "pressured" and thinking "that's a pretty good deal!" are the same thing exactly. If I didn't already own Xcom, I would have gone the Steam route for sure, but instead I went Amazon so I could get a sweet deal on the 2K Mega Pack. I guess I'm not entirely sure why it's a bad thing, aren't free games good for everyone?

I'm just surprised it took this long for the defenders to surface. ;)

"The corporations and/or other people are dishonest too, so that makes it ok."

"They still come out ahead in the end, so that makes it ok."

"People do a lot worse, so that makes it ok."

If there's one thing people are good at, it's rationalizing bad behavior.

Well, it's not like you HAVE to pay a reasonable amount for that kind of stuff. In some cases it just isn't possible. But always try to remember it later, when you DO have the money to pass around, to pass it around to some of those folks!