Steam's Black Friday deals will probably put it out of business

by Griffin McElroy on Nov 26th 2009 9:05AM

After reviewing Steam's Black Friday offerings, we can't help but find the post-Thanksgiving sales offered by other retailers kind of adorable. Aww, you're knocking $10 off the price of Red Faction: Guerrilla? That's cute. Steam is selling that game, and almost every other game by THQ in an enormous, $49.99 bundle. You've got a buy-one-get-one-free deal on LucasArts adventure games? How quaint. Steam is selling like, every LucasArts PC game ever in yet another $49.99 bundle.

On top of those two preposterous offers, Steam will be slashing prices on a handful of games every day for the next five days. Today's sales include Batman: Arkham Asylum for $24.99, Far Cry 2 Fortune's Edition for $9.99 and Dragon Age: Origins for $37.49. In short, you should spend as much time downloading things from Steam as you possibly can this weekend -- with prices like these, we're guessing they'll be filing for bankruptcy some time before Christmas.

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Tags: black-friday, black-friday-2009, bundle, deal, digital-distribution, lucasarts, sales, steam, thq, valve

Reader Comments (67)

I'm willing to bet this will be going on sale sometime this weekend.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2546/

Amen! I'm hoping for a $5 Portal sale. Only ever beat that game on 360.

I don't know if everyone got the memo but PC gaming is dead...

very funny

Then how am I buying Bioshock 2, Mass Effect 2, Crysis 2, The Witcher 2, etc. next year for my PC?

Even I, the Console King, still PC game. It will never die, so long as we have Steam...

Even with Steam, it wouldn't die. You have PCs, you have games on it.

forgot the /sacarsm tag XD
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mundox/games

Hey, how do you have a nice, pretty URL with your name in it? Mine's just a jumble of letters...

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197961723565/games

nevermind!

You customized your profile URL.

Haha, you better hope these game bundles don't kill off Steam or ironically you won't even be able to play the games that put the nail in the coffin.

I wonder how anyone can say consoles aren't ready for a digital distribution only model when Steam has already proven the concept on PC.

Valve would use their deauthenticator tool before they killed the service, to release all the games from the servers. They wouldn't leave you hanging. (Newell has already said they'd do this)

What if they fire the de-authicator guy before he hit's the big red deauthenticate button?

"Steam is selling like, every LucasArts PC game ever"

In case you were excited, like me, when you thought that really every game is in there, don't get too excited as this is quite the exaggeration. No, there is a fraction of games. The list of lucasarts games is quite long in comparison. It would be awesome if they did include EVERY game, but not today. I wish this had the x-wing and tie fighter games, as well as, maniac mansion, day of the tentacle, all the monkey island games, and a few others. But this is a good deal nonetheless.