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It hasn’t. I’ve only bought ~4 games at full price the last decade, now I just wait for them to be around $20. The $70 price seems to be more focused on cashing in on people that buy on release, but prices go down all the same only like one year after release.
Games that have fallen to $20 also have the nice advantage of having most of their bugs worked out and the vast majority of the balance passes complete. It’s easily the best time to buy and play a game.
Depending on the game though the online scene may have died out by the time the game is discounted.
Depending on the game the modding scene may be much better than at release
They can raise it to $90 if it makes them feel better and I’m still a buyer at $10 or less, and an immoral archivist until then.
Preach it 🙌
SoF 2, still playing it to this day.
It’s kinda funny how much faster it is now compared to when it came out, almost like the hardware got better or something
I wait until it costs 20 € or less. No need to hurry, if it’s a game is good now, it will be good in 2 years.
Same. Especially since every game basically barely runs on release day, I don’t get why people don’t wait for a sale to get it.
If you pay $80 (or whatever) for a game that’s full of bugs on release day, you’re just a sucker.
*it will be better
I’m underutilizing my rig tbh. I’ve been playing primarily Factorio for the past few years. My monthly game spending is low. Tempted to get a steam deck for mobile Factorio with mods, though.
Just started playing Starsector. My rig isn’t some obnoxious beast…but like Starsector doesn’t even have a recommended cpu. You only need like 1gb of ram and a gfx card from over a decade ago.
There’s nothing coming out AAA these days that’s worth the price of admission or pre-ordering. Blizzard hasn’t made anything worth playing for years, I don’t give a shit about the yearly reskin of Call of Duty, Starfield was a try before you buy with Gamepass - it really feels there hasn’t been anything in years worth getting at full price. Even Baulder’s Gate, which I would consider worth the full price, I picked up below average price prior to official launch.
I am pirating EVERYTHING now.
I always wait for sales. No way I’m aying $70
Same here. I wait for sales.
Given that AAA games have become very samey, I have found myself drawn to more interesting titles from a plethora of other devs. These titles also have the nice advantage of almost never costing anywhere near $70 on release, not that I tend to buy them on release, I just add them to my wish-list while I buy something cheap that came out earlier.
Been buying for under €20 the lasts 5 years or so. Can’t see this trend changing anytime soon.
Good AAA games are rare these days. If there’s something I want from them I can it buy 2nd hand or during a sale. Been having the time of my life with indie games for so long now I can’t remember the last big title I bought.
Preorder Founders Edition $150 with exclusive Donkey Armor
I wouldn’t say it has. I don’t buy too much these days anyways as I already have a backlog, and there’s so much out there that I tend to buy things on sale that have been out for a while.
I’m willing to buy a higher-priced game or DLC on release, but it better be damned good. I’ll wait a bit before buying to at least ensure that it’s playable on day one.
Other than they ongoing payments for games I continue to play (hello, World of Warcraft), most of my money now goes toward games from smaller studios that aren’t so expensive. Valheim, Timberborn, and many others are well below $70, and now I get to try games from other creators while still affording the couple of big spenders I enjoy.
It’s fine, last game I bought was Minecraft, 9 years ago
I have bought less games but if is more due to lack of quality of games if anything.
