Loki Offers 50%-off Discounts to LUGs

Robotech_Master writes "Looks like Loki is going to be offering substantial discounts to Linux User Groups wanting to make mass purchases of 10 or more copies of their titles. 50% off, and they cover shipping." Quite the deal for lugheads. Get your copy of Tribes 2. Loki continues to do really good things. I know things are tough, but hopefully they can make it. Good luck guys.

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/. Buy-In

[Jethro73]

So, who is going to organize a /. buy-in? We can get a hell of a discount on 10,000 copies!

Jethro

Re:Not very impressed AT ALL

[sigyn]

We received an email from Michael last night and will be responding to him directly. Still, we would like to address a few points here.

The LUG program is intended to support the efforts of non-profit groups who are evangelizing Linux. Our program allows LUGs to purchase Loki products at a discount for promotional purposes (e.g. give aways and contest prizes) and to generate financial support for their efforts via resale to their members.

There are strict qualification guidelines--you actually have to be a LUG, LUGs cannot sell or distribute products to anyone except their own members, and sales and give aways of products must be done at LUG meetings and events.

Tuxgames.com is an online webstore which sells Linux products to end users. They buy the product at a discount and sell at a profit. The more they buy, the bigger the discount. There are a number of such sites in countries all over the world. A list of stores (both online and brick and mortar) that resell Loki's products can be found at http://www.lokigames.com/orders/resellers.php3. We value our resellers and have worked hard to build relationships with them. We use Tuxgames, for example, to offer product discounts to our beta testers and, when we had problems with our own webstore recently, we emailed customers and suggested they use the Tuxgames site instead to avoid delays.

Loki is proud of its record supporting the community of users and developers involved with open source software. We believe that our game products play an important role increasing the appeal of Linux to new users, and are excited about reaching new users by sponsoring LUGs with this new program.

Kayt Sorhaindo
Queen Bee
Loki Software, Inc.

Time to pay your dues

[jvmatthe]

This means you can get Tribes2 for less than the Windows version. For once, Linux users have a leg up on the Win32 guys.

Note that I'm not taking into account the limited time special prices you can get from local stores from week to week. The price for Tribes 2 on ebgames.com is currently $45. The price for Tribes2 Linux is $50, so you can get it for $25 or less with this LUG deal.

Ok, Linux supporters...time to put up or shut up. If you truly want to help, lay out the money now.

FWIW, I put down over $100 in games from TuxGames to get my Tribes2, SMAC, and other Linux games earlier this week. Reviews forthcoming here.

Not very impressed AT ALL

[michaelsimms]

As CEO of a company that has just shelled out MANY thousands of dollars on copies of Tribes 2 and Alpha Centauri, I was less than impressed to see Loki was selling to every LUG at a price LOWER than they are selling to their resellers. I can tell yuo for a FACT that Tux Games dos NOT get discounts like this, and we have been ordering Tribes 2 and Alpha by the hundred, not by the ten.
Loki has of yet not responded to my demand for an explaination, but I think this is NOT the way to win loyalty in resellers. If they charge LUGs less money than they charge resellers, the resellers may as well just pack up shop and go home.

Suffice to say, we arent best pleased at this news. All well and good to give discounts to LUGs, but please, lower than the resellers?? Thats a great way to kill your reseller channel stone dead! </rant-mode>