Amazon: Buy One, Get One 50% Off on MW3, Skyrim, Arkham City, Uncharted 3, and more

by Christopher Grant on Nov 15th 2011 1:10PM

Amazon calls this deal "Buy One, Get One 50% Off" but we prefer to think of it as "Get Two $60 Games for Just $45 Each." Normally, these kinds of deals have perhaps one marquee title playing the role of siren, calling your wallet-shaped ship to its rocky, mediocre-game covered shores; however, this deal is different.

Blockbuster titles like Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3, Rage, and more are available choices, with some junk like The Black Eyed Peas Experience and Go Vacation, just to keep us on our toes. With this many options, we're more inclined to think of it as a "Buy Three, Get One Free" deal. This offer is good for a "limited time," which we think means "not long."

Via: Thrifty Nerd
Source: Amazon

Tags: batman-arkham-city, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3, elder-scrolls-5, microsoft, modern-warfare-3, nintendo, playstation, ps3, skyrim, uncharted-3, uncharted-3-drakes-deception, wii, xbox

Reader Comments (55)

Wouldn't that be two games for $90, not $45?

@(Unverified)

$45 each. Not total.

@(Unverified)

I think they mean each game is $45. But the way it's worded did make me confused at first.

@(Unverified)

The way its worded is horrible though.

"Get Two $60 Games for Just $45."

Definitely implies getting two games for a mere $45.

@Suichimo

"Get Two $60 Games for Just $45 Each."

That last word helps.

Don't you mean Get Two $60 Games For $90? I'd be all up on that deal if what you said was true.

@darkinchworm

I added "Each" to make it more obvious.

@chrisgrant
Kudos.

Hey, if you ever need a remote proofreader... ;) I'll accept payment in space bucks and Mountain Dew!

So I if buy Uncharted 3 I get Arkham City half off? SCORE!

@Mrguy you know that guy

i just got both of them for 80 smackaroos

pardon the lame lingo, im just excited

@Mrguy you know that guy
Sadly no, but if you get Arkham City you do get Uncharted 3 half off.

@Mrguy you know that guy

But it still better wait for Best Buy's black Friday where those games will be $30 each.

To Skyrim, or not to Skyrim? Hmmm....

I still have that $75 gift card to Target and they will, surely, be offering a Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale before too long.

@EvilCartographer
wait for the GOTY

@Protege420
I think that's my plan, actually, since that is the same reason I am holding off on Arkham and Gears 3.

@stiqlol
LOL, that's another great point. From what I've heard, I don't have enough free hours in a day to even scratch the surface of Skyrim.

@EvilCartographer
Afraid not, they had one just a few weeks ago. I don't think they do more than one a year, Best Buy is the only store that typically does b2g1 bi-annually.

@stiqlol

Isn't this the part where you're supposed to say

NooOooOoOooOOOOOooooo!!

@stiqlol http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

I was excited til I did some math and realized $45 won't get me two games

@AlexFirth91 oh 45 each damn no edit button lol

It's still better to wait for Black Friday when most to all of those games will be $35 somewhere. Of course you would probably have to brave Black Friday to take advantage of that.

@Dickhole Pasta

Lucky for you Tickle Me Elmo was sold out.

@Dickhole Pasta

LOLOLOL

you sir are amazing

@Cranky Penguin

u could just buy from Amazon on BF/Cyber Monday. Avoid the chaos altogether and get what u want from the comfort of your home :)

How dare you cut Skyrim in half.

@RANDOM G Joystiq Troll Slayer

It's more like 1/3rd

Personally, I'd rather have that picture the other way around.

Skyrim is worth its price. Heck, it might even be worth more.
COD? Quality game by its own right - but I wouldn't pay full price, personally.

@blahblah55

Depends, I guess. Bethsoft's games are long as hell, but I've got people on my friends list that were playing BLOPS until the day MW3 came out so if you're a multi-player going for sheer value, COD may be where it's at.

Personally, I Redboxed it, beat the campaign over the weekend and returned it...so it was worth the $8.50 or whatever that I paid for it.

Why would i participate in this when Black Friday is next week? Then I could get 3 games for 90, plus other games for ~35.

@Dickhole Pasta

Amazon my friend, I'm talking about Amazon.

I was hoping there'd be something I hadn't played yet to pair with Skyrim, alas. Here's hoping the next deal includes Saint's Row or Assassin's Creed...

It's weird because these are the exact two game I would get with this deal

It's a TRAP!!!!

$45 per game? Pfffftt. Wait for the Black Friday and Xmas sales people. Don't be fooled!

@FlashJS

So you can, what, save another $5-10 and possibly get trampled in the process? Or worse, be forced to set foot in a Wal Mart?

I'm cheap, but I'm not *that* cheap!

@FlashJS

True but still, you'd be saving roughly 30 bucks with this deal, which is still good. Especially when people want these games now

@baby sea tuna

Lol. I wouldn't do that madness either. I was referring to online Black Friday and Xmas sales. I got AC:B last year for something around $35-40 from Amazon, I believe, on Black Friday week. Hoping for similar deal on AC:R and maybe Skyrim.

There was actually a brief window (about three-five hours) yesterday where you could get both games for $60 total, because the wording on Amazon's site said "Buy two games and get 50% off each".

Unfortunately, they've since changed the wording.

Why do I not have a link to this Amazon page? Really Joystiq, you take the trouble to post this but can't include a link?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000666021

There, for everyone else. It's really not that hard....

@Vic Fontaine

Added!

@Vic Fontaine
I guess it is harder than it looks since that was the wrong link. Egg on my face.....

Finally, I can get 'The Black Eyed Peas Experience"

/sarcasm

Why do you guys hate Wal-mart so much? I keep seeing it with no explanation. I don't follow business world news much so some explanation is appriciated, thanks.

@Vic Fontaine

Imagine, a suburban place called Mountain View, where Target and Walmart are parked opposite of each other on the same street.

If you walked into both stores, you'd see a dramatic difference in customers, like night and day.

Walmart? Ghetto is, as ghetto was...

@kentuckyfried
It isn't just ghetto, though. It's the utter "We don't give a f***" attitude of the Walmart's higher-ups.
You can go into a giant rant about how horrible they are to family businesses around them, how they're one of the biggest threats to environmental and sweatshop issues but always dodge bullets, and the sudden culture change whenever one of the stores appear within a city...

My argument is simple:
On the Wii launch, the ones who had been staying in line had decided to create a list and sign it in order to mutually protect our spots in line (as the late-comers were starting to steal spots in line). The manager of the Walmart grabbed our list and ripped it up in front of us.

F*** Walmart.

Aimed at SeaTuna btw

Ugh, I really need to stop getting games anywhere else other than Amazon.

I'll wait for Black Friday, which has way better deals.

Batman for $28 and Uncharted 3 for $30, among a bunch of other great titles for $30.

Well luckily this new thing called the internet prevents us from getting hurt during Black Friday shopping. It shows promise.

Even if Black Friday weren't right around the corner, its completely normal for games to hit $40 shortly after release anyways, so $45 is pretty unremarkable.

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