Basically me on the last few of these sales. Such a backlog I can no longer justify even the deep discounts.
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tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.
Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Damage@feddit.it 2 days ago
I have no data on this, but it doesn’t feel like the discounts are all that deep anymore
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
They’ve been pretty underwhelming for a while now.
You used to get crazy deals on games only a few months old. Now it’s just the same 50% off a five year old game before being ramped back up to full price between sales.
There’s a few bargains of stuff you may have missed, but likely they’ve been an Epic freebie, or on PSPlus or in a Humble Bundle by now.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Its a mix of things.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
At one point I picked up six copies of Fallout: New Vegas at like three or four USD each. I kept the extras in my Steam inventory to trade or gift later. I traded some for TF2 items and gifted two or three to friends when Christmas hit.
Now no more 90% off of good games (okay rarely) and absolutely no keeping games in your inventory. It’s so different now.
GCanuck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I saw a game DLC I play that is ancient in game terms (Battletech) and they still want $15 per DLC.
That’s barely a sale imo.
Damage@feddit.it 2 days ago
Battletech rocks tho
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 1 day ago
Part of the sale issue for me, is that I sometimes already own these deep discount games. It makes it feel like there are less good deals.
Also some new games have what I consider to be really high base prices, so a 60% discount is still not near the impulse buy range.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like, I’m sure Spider-Man is good but it’s still $60 and ‘only’ on a 50% sale? You can get it for $15 at GameStop.
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 1 day ago
Last winter sale was pretty good. I got the entire Borderlands collection, dlc included, for $36.
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Yeah. I’ve missed out on Yakuza 0 for 5€, now it’s always 12€. I mean it’s probably worth it, but not when I already own a ton of games that I still want to play.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yakuza 0 is with it but then you have to play Yakuza 1-6 and then you put the games down and get gifted Yakuza 7 so now you have to beat 4 through 6 and they just announced Kiwami 3 so you’ll probably want to compare that to 3 remastered and next thing you know you’ve bought Yakuza Dead Souls and you’re questioning your life.