No new year sale on expansion packs at all?

[TehLexinator]

I brought 7 WoW guildees to play this with me again. They are interested in the expansion packs and we get no sales?

Lame, but I digress. Happy New year all!

[droid327]

I brought 7 WoW guildees to play this with me again. They are interested in the expansion packs and we get no sales?

Lame, but I digress. Happy New year all!

Did you miss all the December sales? There were packs on sale weekly. VoN and Necro are on sale through today.

[Grimtooth333]

Did you miss all the December sales? There were packs on sale weekly. VoN and Necro are on sale through today.
I believe he was asking why no expansion pack sales.

[droid327]

I believe he was asking why no expansion pack sales.

Oh fair enough - those were on sale in November though :)

They arent all going to be on sale every single time there's a sale, after all

[C-Dog]

Lame, but I digress.
No New Years' sale - never have been.

And just so you prepare yourself for disappointment in the future, there is no...


Martin Luther King Day Sale
Groundhog Day Sale
Valentine's Day Sale
Mardi Gras Carnival Sale
Daylight Saving Sale
St. Patrick's Day Sale
April Fool's Day Sale
Good Friday or Lent or Easter Sale
Earth Day Sale
Labor Day Sale
Cinco de Mayo Sale
Mother's Day Sale
Memorial Day Sale
Pentecost Sale
Father's Day Sale
4th of July Sale
Bastille Day Sale
Columbus Day Sale
Guy Fawkes Day Sale

... among so many others (except when a normal Thursday Sale, which happens every week, happens to coincide).

Myself, I'm especially bitter about Mardis Gras and Columbus Day. I know, Lame, right? :rolleyes:

[unbongwah]

I brought 7 WoW guildees to play this with me again. They are interested in the expansion packs and we get no sales?
Unfortunately, your friends are victims of bad timing: the older expansions (everything pre-Sharn) were half-price on the DDO Market during the Black Friday sales several weeks ago. :(

I don't think the expansions have ever been discounted on the DDO Store. Instead the trick there is to take advantage of a Double Bonus Points sale and use them to buy the expansions.

[There have been Triple Bonus Points sales, but they're incredibly rare. I think the last one was four years ago, before Turbine became SSG.]

[TehLexinator]

No New Years' sale - never have been.

And just so you prepare yourself for disappointment in the future, there is no...


Martin Luther King Day Sale
Groundhog Day Sale
Valentine's Day Sale
Mardi Gras Carnival Sale
Daylight Saving Sale
St. Patrick's Day Sale
April Fool's Day Sale
Good Friday or Lent or Easter Sale
Earth Day Sale
Labor Day Sale
Cinco de Mayo Sale
Mother's Day Sale
Memorial Day Sale
Pentecost Sale
Father's Day Sale
4th of July Sale
Bastille Day Sale
Columbus Day Sale
Guy Fawkes Day Sale

... among so many others (except when a normal Thursday Sale, which happens every week, happens to coincide).

Myself, I'm especially bitter about Mardis Gras and Columbus Day. I know, Lame, right? :rolleyes:

Snarky I can forgive, but giving out false info just makes you look ignorant.

I bought Underdark and Conspiracy expansions last year at 75% off. Here is the a link showing things were on sale for New Year, and ending on January 3rd.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/501950-Oold-Expansion-Packs-not-on-Sale

[Krelar]

Snarky I can forgive, but giving out false info just makes you look ignorant.

I bought Underdark and Conspiracy expansions last year at 75% off. Here is the a link showing things were on sale for New Year, and ending on January 3rd.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/501950-Oold-Expansion-Packs-not-on-Sale

That wasn't a "new years sale", that was the last week of December deals, we've know the expansions weren't part of that since last Thursday.

[TehLexinator]

That wasn't a "new years sale", that was the last week of December deals, we've know the expansions weren't part of that since last Thursday.

Fine. Let's call it end of the year sale. Does that make it better?

Still a bit surprised that they didn't do this.

When every other company is fighting for our gaming dollars, Turbine continues to charge full price.

We ended up buying Elsweyr and some EQ2 expansions that were on sale.

[droid327]

When every other company is fighting for our gaming dollars, Turbine continues to charge full price.


As has been pointed out above, the expansions were on sale just a few weeks ago for Black Friday. Its unfortunate timing that you just missed it, but its a bit narcissistic to think that SSG isnt trying just because they dont offer you a sale right at the exact arbitrary time you want one. Its not "fighting for your gaming dollar" if its perpetually on sale, then that's just reducing the price...

Also they havent been Turbine for quite a while now.

[C-Dog]

Here is the a link showing things were on sale for New Year, and ending on January 3rd.
Ignorant I can forgive (everyone is ignorant of something), but stubbornly denying all evidence to the contrary, that just makes you look... (fill in the blank yourself, don't want to be snarky).

There have "always" been "December Sales" over every week of December, 5 weeks of them. As pointed out above, your "end of the year sale" is just the one that started the last week of December - which, as it was a week long, simply lasted over the New Year.

I don't know why you were expecting the sales to be identical to last year -they weren't, and rarely if ever are. Accept it, make a mental note, move on.

And btw - you and your friends didn't need the expansions to go to 20 and TR, only for Epic play, which is only one small part of DDO. Lots to do from 1-20 without those, and lots of F2P content to see if they liked the game before needing to spend any cash.


We ended up buying Elsweyr and some EQ2 expansions that were on sale.
Because spending money while something is "on sale" is better than a F2P that you wanted to play in the first place. Good luck with that.