SF2 sale?

[Spare15 0]

I am wanting to get SF2 Complete, but $100 is a bit pricey (yes I am aware it saves me $160 from purchasing everything individually, but I am not too keen on $100 for a game, especially at that age). Are there ever any sales for SF2 games on the thirdwire site?

[Wrench 10,314]

Nope

That IS the discount

[+EricJ 4,409]

I don't think Thirdwire has ever done a sale where they reduce the price for a bit (but I could be wrong too). I mean yeah why pay 160 when you can pay 100? It's definitely worth it though.

[orsin 160]

for a game that has been abandoned from official support, $100 is not very worth it. So think twice.

[+daddyairplanes 11,409]

4 hours ago, EricJ said:

 I mean yeah why pay 160 when you can pay 100? It's definitely worth it though.

to answer why

get it in portions over the course of a year as you can afford it. maybe get SF2  Europe first, then Vietnam or North Atlantic to have carriers a few months later. etc etc

its the route i wound up taking, and probably still would have taken as my mind and budget would have justified several $40 purchases over time rather than $100 at once

[+daddyairplanes 11,409]

16 hours ago, Spare15 said:

(yes I am aware it saves me $160 from purchasing everything individually, but I am not too keen on $100 for a game, especially at that age

she may be old, but she has frankly an even bigger third party support crew than DCS with over 5000 various mods to add to the stock games

[+DoctorQuest 134]

^What he said.

[+EricJ 4,409]

6 hours ago, daddyairplanes said:

to answer why

get it in portions over the course of a year as you can afford it. maybe get SF2  Europe first, then Vietnam or North Atlantic to have carriers a few months later. etc etc

its the route i wound up taking, and probably still would have taken as my mind and budget would have justified several $40 purchases over time rather than $100 at once

Fair enough.

[Wrench 10,314]

Nice job there Orsin. Way to go! 

You want a shovel to complete burying it? Maybe some concrete for the tomb??

 

[+Menrva 4,389]

I don't blame Orsin for what he said. The complete pack is overcostly for 2025, the games look pretty dated, have their own set of small issues, and TK aka ThirdWire seems to have entirely forgot about them. So yeah, I'd advise users to either buy one of the games (SF2 Europe would be my main pick for what it offers compared to the others) instead of the complete pack, unless they want to download and play all possible mods created by the community over time without any compromise.

[Spare15 0]

On 2/22/2025 at 11:02 AM, daddyairplanes said:

to answer why

get it in portions over the course of a year as you can afford it. maybe get SF2  Europe first, then Vietnam or North Atlantic to have carriers a few months later. etc etc

its the route i wound up taking, and probably still would have taken as my mind and budget would have justified several $40 purchases over time rather than $100 at once

Could I save up and spend the $100? Instead of several $40 purchases, I save up $50 twice?

[+daddyairplanes 11,409]

21 minutes ago, Spare15 said:

Could I save up and spend the $100? Instead of several $40 purchases, I save up $50 twice?

im not TW, i dont run the store.

my point is that i spent $40 increments getting the parts i wanted most, then the next most and so on until i had it all. but that was buying each part instead of the whole box set

the $100 edition is the box set, everything at once. actually saves money over buying each piece over time (it also wasnt available when i was doing that)

you do you want to within the limits your budget constrains you to

 

[Mr_Tayto 159]

On 2/22/2025 at 6:06 PM, daddyairplanes said:

On 2/22/2025 at 1:30 AM, Spare15 said:

(yes I am aware it saves me $160 from purchasing everything individually, but I am not too keen on $100 for a game, especially at that age

she may be old, but she has frankly an even bigger third party support crew than DCS with over 5000 various mods to add to the stock games

Yeah, this.

 

It might seem like a lot for one game, but in reality it's 4 or 5 "stock" games, along with the potential of hundreds of other full conversions; I'm not talking about just the odd modded plane, I'm talking about stuff like ODS, Falklands etc.

 

Also, the fact that the game is so old, I've always considered the 2012 update the "final" version.

[+daddyairplanes 11,409]

39 minutes ago, Mr_Tayto said:

, the fact that the game is so old, I've always considered the 2012 update the "final" version.

dont you mean Jul 2013?

[Mr_Tayto 159]

Just now, daddyairplanes said:

dont you mean Jul 2013?

Oops, yes

[+1Patriot-of-many 21]

$100 for the whole package is well worth it IMO. Especially with all the mods you can pack on from here. DCS you pay what $50-60 bucks for the basic game and everything costs you $50 a pop here, $50 for a terrain. Plus it's so complicated at least for me, this is the flight sim that keeps on giving and I keep playing, middle of the road complicated. I've got a ton of flight sims, Janes and Microprose were state of the art at the beginning and frankly I still play Janes Fighters anthology now and then. I didn't even know about Strike fighters2 till fairly recently in the big scheme of things. Wish I had.  Only thing I wish for is multiplayer to get finished.

Edited June 26 by 1Patriot-of-many

[+yakarov79 11,597]

20 hours ago, 1Patriot-of-many said:

$100 for the whole package is well worth it IMO. Especially with all the mods you can pack on from here.

Yes...but still all those mods are free...made by players. What makes that 100$ little too much in my opinion. Honestly, I would pay 100 for this, knowing that the game is still being cared for by developers. With current "care" status...I am not sure.