Worth noting that you probably won't get the reward points credited until at least a week after the order has been dispatched, and they expire at the end of November - so only a short window to use them.

Something about the description tells me that OP works for Game Collection. Can't quite put my finger on what it is though.

I've gone for the £100 Pip Boy Edition. :confused:

Great deal. Went with GAME myself just because of that steelbox edition, I need it :disappointed:

I've gone for the £100 Pip Boy Edition. :confused:

I am spending my super points from a deal I posted the other week , I got 8350 super points , this is a deal that just keeps on giving !!!

I've got two ordered, lol. One in case payment fails at GAME and they flat out cancel it, as they often do. Means I won't get the free bobble head (already received the free t-shirt) from my other order at Gamestop, but at least I'll get the Pip Boy which I can then wear down to Tesco and blast some radioactive scum with my potato gun.

Bought this with Syndicate and Tomb Raider, should hopefully get £24 back in points ready for Battlefront

Do they charge immediately on pre-order, or do they charge on despatch?

Something about the description tells me that OP works for Game Collection. Can't quite put my finger on what it is though.

Worth noting that you probably won't get the reward points credited until at least a week after the order has been dispatched, and they expire at the end of November - so only a short window to use them.

Best price on the PC still at CDKeys? I think I'm going to wait till a bit nearer the time, see if any other offers materialise.

The main thing is I've already booked a week off work in anticipation :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks for raising awareness OP.

Was gonna pre order and use the points towards Battlefront but, Battlefront isn't listed on the site

Really want to pre order this but I can't decide whether I want it for PS4 or Xbox One, I know it'll look better on PS4 but I played the others on 360! dilemma!!

I need a ps4 for my son. Might hold out for combined price that means we both save. Clearly he won't be playing this game!

look good but going to hold out on a better offer.

Am I right in thinking Game Collection generally send games out to arrive the day BEFORE release?

I find deals on Rakuten tend to be closer to the date of release , plus usually pre-order prices can be a bit over priced until closer to the release date...

£33.80 after using previous points. Great deal considering the points you get back. Have the Pip Boy edition and Amazon bundle both on order, this one will do for my mate.

Points will not become available until around 7 days after you receive your order , so perhaps just in time for the release of Battlefront .

Fallout 4 on PS4 is £38.95 on Rakuten, but only £36.85 on the main TheGameCollection website (+ 360 points) so you're saving £2 straight away right there on this purchase.

I take it this deal is only highly rated because you can get 20x points today only, or the equivalent of around £7 off a future purchase (or effectively £5 if you take into account you're over-paying by £2 on Rakuten) but only till the end of November to use the £5 of points? Doesn't seem like a great deal to me...Not sure why you'd need any other game after buying Fallout 4 anyway :smiley:

You might be right on the game front , but hmmmmm Dark Souls 3 comes to mind , but sadly not until next year !

Because you have Rise of Tomb Raider and Battlefront to come in November.

​But Battlefront isn't listed on there

Thanks very much, I will go with this then.

Well I can assure you , that I believe this to be my first and only ever Games Collection deal I have ever posted and I have posted plenty of deals in the past before , Plus I have been a member for around 6 years , take a look at my profile...it kind of says it all really....

BUT Battlefront will be listed in say November closer to the release date , your points will not come through until around the 17th of November anyway .

Given Bethesda\s previous record of totally screwing up the fallout titles on playstation and xbox I would strongly suggest that anyone who wants to play this uses a gaming PC instead. I saw people saying this previously but put it down to PC users being asses but TBH they weren't wrong!

I initially played Fallout 3 and New Vegas (both the base versions and GOTY versions) on the Playstation 3 and having recently bought a really cheap gaming PC I acquired the same titles again off steam for a couple of pounds. The differences are quite shocking it really is like playing a different game. I even managed to get my old PS3 controller working on the PC so there is very little difference in the controls.

I appreciate that the latest gen consoles are more like PCs so in theory there should be less issues but what would really worry me is that Bethesda's minimum requirements on the PC are 8Gb of RAM something those new consoles are really going to struggle with - so something is going to have to give?

The PC version of Fallout 4 has already been selling at around the £25 mark for a few months watch it drop after launch.

Some people just question why you are so thorough on your post details. Can't win either way. Heat from me even though i done min at 7am this morning lol

True , I tried to offer clear and concise information ! I guess I am just too good !shame on me.

Can anyone confirm if the xbox version comes with fallout 3 as a download etc? Read that it did but then that you had to buy as digital download? Would really help me decide on my next console purchase!

So more expensive than other, better retailers, and a short window to use points on stuff you were probably never going to buy otherwise.

Starting to think this site is run by CDKeys and Rakuten shareholders.

I'd guess it might also be because a lot of people have points from the 25X points deal at the beginning of the month which make this a far more tempting offer.

How is that even a deal? Console gaming is a rip off!

I had 8350 points to spend , due to buying a new ps4 with Rakuten , based on using TCB and my points , my ps4 deal is a deal that just keeps on giving !

Also gone with the pip boy edition, this is a fantastic price though!

That is true, installing takes forever on xbox.

I picked up the PS4 a week before that offer from the ebay/shopto deal (£250 with Fifa using the code), although I probably would have gone for the Destiny one if I knew it was coming.

I preordered Halo 5 from Base/Rakuten and it's a shame I probably won't get those points before they expire. The issue is it's a relatively short window to use said points (although more than doable) and for those saying battlefront, I very much doubt you'll get it on release day if you choose to do it with the points.

Still tempted. Haven't decided where I'm putting my preorder down for yet. Hopefully this will be my last preorder in a long time :laughing: Hate preordering, but this and Halo are two games I'd rather not see spoilers for before I get round to playing.

When will my 25x points be applied to my account for there anniversary promotion. I am still waiting.

For me cost is everything regardless if I paying with points , cash , or bottle tops , I actually ordered this game a couple of days ago via Games collection due to the pre-order price + cash back + 190 points at the time.....But due to the points offer this morning , I cancelled my original order and re-ordered again this morning....its all money to me !!!

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/limited-edition-destiny-ps4-console-taken-king-game-329-99-8225-super-points-82-2294788?page=5#comments

I never understand why on the Game Collections own website the games are always cheaper than on Rakuten. This game is £36.85 on its actual site (PS4 and XBone).

So if you dont plan to buy anything in November from Rakuten, buy the game for £2.10 less at the Game Collection site - 2% quidco

I got The Nathan Drake Collection PS4 a week early from SimplyGames,so I ordered Fallout 4 from them also.But I've ordered it from Amazon also,just in case it does come well early ;-) Whichever comes last goes to my nephew ;-)

Works out at about 8.1% - bit steep for commission. Think I'll wait as this is bound to drop below £30 once Phantom Pain and Battlefront are out.

Well ebay charge 10 % + paypal fees and amazon charge around 10 % so hey , not a bad deal really

Didn't even realise I had points on play, just got this for £19

Tell that to my NV save. It cries whenever I try to load a new area. I actually had a replicatable save crash/corruption whenever I left the main building in Red Rock Canyon if I left auto save on. But still, the issues were worst on PS3 .I'd say Xbox and PC issues were similar from playing both. Though a lot of PC issues you could fix with console commands at least if they weren't crash related.

Fair point. Whats weird is I went through to buy this anyway (760 points grabbed me) and I had 210 points on my account, the exact amount it is less on the Game Collection site!!!

Also, with the 210 reduction, the 760 new points arent reduced.

Nice.

Also TCB pay out the full 3.45 % none of this before VAT price...

Rakuten know how to keep you coming back with these points offers!

I don't like being tied to points though so preordered mine via flubit for about £30

Ah well NV suffered a lot worse than F3 did, though I lay the blame for that more at the door of Obsidian than anything, when it was released it was a complete disaster.

Fingers crossed Bethesda get it out the door fully functional, though there will be bugs in all versions without a doubt (likely some save corrupting ones too so I'll be keeping backups upon backups), PC will be patched up first as ever because they won't have to wait on certification from MS & Sony.

I've not had the best experiance with Bethesda games in the bug department regardless - if it's there I've probably seen it :laughing: To be fair, auto saves cause a lot of issues in a lot of games, and turning it off made me realise how many issues it must have caused. I know my save is rather large which also causes loading issues (I'm about 500 hours in on that save). That said, Bethesda do patch there games relatively well and quick, and the games themselves are good just hindered from the bugs, rather than bad and bugs make it worse. I always keep backup saves (for my main one I do a new save everytime and other saves alternate between 5) for any game that allows multiple saves as more than one occasion I've been screwed, worst being NV I lost 50 hours of play because I couldn't leave an area without it crashing and I saved in there because of a speech challenge.

could you get cashback when buy using points?

bought bargain

Would have done this but already pre-ordered mine and a friends copy at Tesco, which see's me getting 1080 clubcard points. And with the upcoming clubcard boost possibly works out better depending what is wanted

NV was a buggy mess at release, but now (from a PC perspective) it is far easier to get NV to work than FO3. I also preferred NV from a story/atmosphere perspective so hoping FO4 takes some pointers from Obsidian on that side of the game.

What price was the game when you copied the link over? As of right now Amazon is £40 so I just made a demand on Flubit to see what they will offer. About a week or few days ago I did manage to get Battlefront to £35 which was over £6 saving. Tried Assassin's Creed Syndicate and was given £36 but rejected that as I bought from Rakuten today using my 25 x points which I got from Uncharted.

My concern with the current generation of consoles is basically RAM allocation. Apparently the PS4 and XBone make between 1-2 GB less RAM available to developers than an 8GB PC running Windows 10 does! I dread to think what the wait times between locations will be on the XBone/PS4 versions ?

Bloody typical as only yesterday I used up my Superpoints ordering Halo 5 and Fallout 4, if I had waited would have got another tenner in points :disappointed:

Less than an hours wage? Wish I had your job :laughing: But still, people love to moan. 300 hours is being generous, I'd bet on nearer 400/500 hours.

you do know you can use the points for more than just console games? I've just used my last x25 points buying a board game for the family.

I don’t think that should be a concern, the recommended PC specs call for 8GB ram and the chances of the game utilising that 8gb fully are pretty remote, I mean on PC you’re usually running other stuff than just the game anyway, same as consoles are running the OS & other services at the same time.

If you’re concerned about load times then on Xbox you can use an external drive, that improves things and on PS4 perhaps a replacement for the internal drive and on PC, store the game on an SSD.

OK fine I don't deal with all this cash back stuff so if you can get the game for £30 it is good for a console game but I still stand by what I said console gaming is a rip off!

I Wil likely play the game for around 6 weeks and sell it on eBay ,I guess I will end up with around 23 ish after fees and posting , so hey 7 quid to finish a game is pretty good ,fair value in my book ,you've just got to be able to buy at the right price to begin with and flog it on at the right time

I just done the same thing right now :smiley:

My only worry about fallout 4 is that I can't see any upgrade on PS4 graphics vs last gen when I bought (actually preordered) on Xbox360, although the gameplay maybe better.

Hardly. Licensing fees. Simple as. I'd say a 15% mark up isn't unreasonable vs the PC version (which FYI is the £40 retail on Steam, if you could get foreign imports digitally like CDkeys operate console gaming would be cheaper). It's easier to source CD keys from a cheaper market and also licencing is the main reason for the difference. Inflation should dictate games should be in the £60 - £70 region at a £40 RRP - basically gaming is cheap.

My concern is the 30 fps , I have a good pc for gaming , should easily max out FO4 at 1080 , but I play a lot of Destiny that is also 30fps ,but I tried out far cry 3 on ps4 and I found it unplayable at 30fps compared with my pc version running super smooth 60 fps , but at this price point ,if I really don't like the frame rate then I will flog it on and buy a cheap online key offer with the proceeds , so I kinda have nothing to lose , but my big incentive is the pick up my ps4 pad and play situation, as opposed to going upstairs and playing on my pc , even though I have a cable I can run to my tv and play downstairs , its just a bit to much hassle if I am going to play for a hour or 2 . But time will tell

So you trade in all your games? What about online only games or games with a huge online features? Do you trade them in after 6 weeks too?

​What kind of savage plays fallout for an hour or two?!!

You sicken me.

:stuck_out_tongue:

I don't get your response PC gaming is cheaper than console gaming then you say gaming is cheap but that has nothing to do with my point and I also don't agree with it.

Battlefield 4 bought the premium edition using a cheap 35 voucher for 31 ,when it was on offer paid 20 quid ,excellent offerring, sold my old destiny disc on fleabay for 14 about 10 after fees etc , sold the surous gun pack code for a tenner ,paid 33.85 for taken king , bought dark souls 2 for 25 played it for months sold it on for 25.99 on fleabay before fees etc , I only buy the games I want ,no point owning a vanity collection of games I wont play , I bought eos on pc before it went free to play each month for 7 quid , why spend a fortune on games

I was even given by a generous person on here a free code for the latest Batman on pc , they had 2 codes bought 2 980GTX cards with the free code for the game .... IMHO all the fun is in the wanting , once a person has a game ,it rarely gets a good play , lots of people have a collection of hardly played games .

Okay let me say it simply
1. PC gaming is cheaper due to the lack of licensing needed, and the fact it's easier to source games from cheaper countries (Euro countries like CDkeys do).
2. Consoles are more expensive for new releases by around 15-20%, this is because of licensing, no easy foreign sources, as well as boxed copies having a production cost and laws. However it's still cheaper than it should be (see point 3.)
3. Gaming in general is still a cheap hobby as inflation dictates a game with a £40 RRP 10 years ago, should be selling at a £60-£70 RRP which they don't

There's not a lot to disagree with, its just fact. If you don't want to buy console games - then don't. Simple. More power to you.

I don't spend that much on games but a lot of console gamers will be buying games like Halo 5, Fallout 4, Star Wars Battlefront etc all for £40.

use the rakuten link from this deal and you'll get an offer of £32 or so

For real. I have no idea why people buy single player games then keep them forever, or even buy them digitally. In the past 6 months or so, I've played Witcher 3, Arkham Knight, Mordor, Metal Gear Solid, Mad Max, Tomb Raider and quite a few others and spent about £5 max in total after selling the games on when you're done.

1. So basically Sony and Microsoft makes you pay extra and you guys are just lining the pockets of these already multi millionaires who don't care about you. Not to mention the paying to play online fee which is ridiculous.
2. It's not 15-20% that's the absolute minimum. A lot of PC games are half the price they are on console and some aree even more than that. Console gaming is a rip off.
3. Why should games be £60-70 because of inflation? Didn't games used to be £30 brand new if I remember correctly. They've already gone up and remember those were the days when there was no DLC, micro-transactions. They make their money from that stuff now so I don't agree with you on that. Also, I don't buy console games that much anyway but I'm here to tell people the truth that it's not good value because some people might not know about that.

Sadly they all paid too much, cheaper offerings where available.

I feel the same with 30fps. Play destiny fine and a few others but I tried tomb raider and sleeping dogs on xbox one and they feel like slideshows.

and me

yup, shame on you!! :smiley:

Hopefully game don't shaft me on my pip boy edition

1. It's the price you pay - Nintendo are also the same but nobody mentions them.
2. You can't compare grey key sites to brick and mortar stores. It's not the same. I buy from grey key sites all the time like you probably do. But cases like Mad Max being £10 for example is completely down to a number of factors that I'm sure the devs don't appreciate us taking advantage of (I'm not taking a moral ground, just stating how it is). That said, the moment retail stores get with the times xbox/ps digital downloads should drop.
3. Inflation dictates that $60 in 1995 is worth around $90 in 2015. While those are American stats the UK and American economy is very similar so is comparable. You're also forgetting that videogames used to cost more than that, around $80/£60 in the NES and SNES days not £30.... I actually have a SNES cartridge somewhere in my room that still has a £60 sticker on it. Can't remember anything other than Gameboy games retailing for less than £30 RRP. So basically prices have actually gone down when in reality they should have increased.

But they are good value? £40 for 400 hours plus gameplay? You could waste that in a night out drinking. Yes PC games are better value, but saying console gaming isn't good value isn't true. Gaming is probably one of the best value hobbies there is when you think about it - regardless of how you do it.

Edit: For background, I have a pretty capable PC that would likely max Fallout 4 at the resolution I use. Some games I just prefer on my console.

I remember street fighter 2 on snes being £70+ back in the day.

I went to buy this at 23.55, couldn’t remember my password so reset it but by the time I’d got to the very last confirm screen it was about 10 seconds too late. Damn!

1. It's the price you don't have to pay if you game on PC. Why would I pay more to play games on an inferior platform only to support companies worth billions that don't care about us?
2. The less money I give to these greedy companies the better. I would rather support the indie devs if you want to support these companies that's on you but I'm going to keep telling people PC is cheaper because it's facts and I'm actually helping them know the truth.
3. I already told you they make way more than that because of DLC and microtransactions. How many AAA games come out nowadays with all the additional DLC being free? They are actually taking stuff out of the game and putting it back in later as DLC. Why do you think games like the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront have so little content? They keep the price at that because they have done the research and found out that it's actually better for them to keep the games the same price.

If it is £40 for 400 hours gameplay then that is good value but what about games like Order 1886 which is £40 for 6 hours gameplay?

A little flawed that, I picked the order up for £17.99 a few weeks after release.... I'm thinking you many have been held at gunpoint and forced to pay £40 for the order on the day of release, or even weeks after given your comment!? Or was it a lack a patience and willpower that forced you to drop £40 and then feel ripped off?

​when did you receive the free t shirt? I ordered pip boy from game and have got nothing so far

PC gaming might "seem" cheaper but that's mostly down to the fact that they can release titles digitally without production costs, obviously most games have packaging but they don't have to produce as many.

Also, PC games come with 1 license only, as soon as you use your CD key, regardless if it's a physically or digital copy, you won't be selling the game on. You won't be playing the game forever so at some point in time, you'll own the game and never play it again, rendering it useless.

Console gaming is pretty cheap if you stick to the HUKD deals, I can't count how many times I've snagged a cheap deal on this site, played the hell out of the game, got bored, sold it and either ended up with a profit from CEX/eBay or lost a few quid, for playing the latest game. I know some people are "collectors" and this might not count for them but overall, a console gamer WILL be the one saving the most money and playing the latest games.

Saying that, for me, I've got a beast of a PC (4K capable at 30-60fps depending on game, 1440p at 60fps) and it **** all over console gaming and for me is worth the extra money to be able to experience something that runs smoother and looks a hell of a lot better. Far Cry 4 on PC at 4K resolution makes the console version look like minecraft. I prefer Fifa on my PS4 though.

​I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest a lot of people looking to save a few quid on a deals website may have to work more than an hour to pay for this having said that you point about cost vs game time is totally correct. I'm pay £100 for my version and even at that price I am willing to bet it will cost me less than £1 an hour.

PC games cost less, this is a thing we know so I don't know why people have to keep bringing it up. Having said that they have no trade in value, I have, in the past completed a game 100% and then managed to trade it for more than I paid, seems pretty good value then.

Last Saturday. You needed to be within the first 10,000 people who ordered from them.

How to check:

"If you have pre-ordered after Tuesday 16th June 10:11AM unfortunately you would not be eligible for a T-Shirt"

http://kotaku.com/fallout-4-on-xbox-one-will-have-mods-1711418973

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/fallout-4-pc-mods-will-be-playable-on-ps4-eventual/1100-6428239/

It seems they both get the mods, just Xbox One gets it first. I would say the best way to make the choice between the two platforms is to decide if the longer wait for PS4 a problem or if someone wants to get the free Fallout 3 with Xbox One

I don't get it. If PC games cannot be traded in, then why are there tons of pre-owned games online and instore! Does that mean I have to buy an activation code too to play a preowned game?

​thanks for reply, I shall call them later. took 3 days to order as games system kept crashing.

Yeah but try reselling a PC code