Saying indies are expensive seems wild, but I kind of get it since the Steam Sales on pre-2015 games go hard. And easy piracy of anything up to PS2.
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SethranKada@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
For me, it goes:
0 - hell no
1 to 5 - sure why not, that’s about as much as a bottled drink.
6 to 10 - maybe once a month.
11 to 15 - better be a pretty damn good game, or I’m refunding.
16 to 20 - I’m waiting for a discount, not worth it.
21 to 60 - hell no
61+ - I’m blacklisting your company from my recommendations.
Datz@szmer.info 9 hours ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The biggest challenge I have with pirated games - especially Nintendo games - is the controller.
Yeah, I can get Metroid Prime or Mario 64 or Super Smash easily enough. But I can’t have that classic experience on a PS knock off controller.
It’s not the end of the world, of course. But I feel it.
untorquer@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I found some good stuff in the F2P demo/early access. Especially if you’re just looking for a few hours of fun. Every now and then you can find a release F2P title that’s not monetizing you. But without the marketing budget or polish they don’t take off in popularity.
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
What do you have against OpenTTD and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead? \s
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
I spawned as a nun in-game on the rooftop of a cake restaurant. I’ve got nothing but a bible to wreck zombies. And there are so many, there is no tutorial, the controls are tanky, the devs are out of their mind.
0/10
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Some of the best games i’ve ever played are in the 1-10 range. With that in mind, i do brlieve that a 60+ game would at least be über eccellent and have much to do. Which might unironically make such games bloated, if they weren’t costly that is.
ulterno@programming.dev 9 hours ago
So I suppose you are not doing
pacman -S endless-sky endless-sky-high-dpi?
gmtom@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I get that this is Lemmy and users here are a certain way but calling anything over 16 dollars not worth it is genuinely insane.
fishy@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Yeah, I’m with you. There’s tons of games I’ve paid a lot more than $16 for that I would absolutely tell past me to buy again instantly. Most recently Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. $40 with all dlc and I’m over 100 hours in, enjoying every minute. Over 100 hours of entertainment from something that cost me less than an hour of labor, in what world is that not worth it?
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yeah man, every single game I’ve got a ton of hours in or thought was a truly great game has been over $16
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You can always do the XKCD trick
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But even this seems to have gone stale over time, as retro game prices get sticker (even going up as vintage games come back into fashion).
One thing I don’t see on this list is “piracy”, which is a bit weird if your line is $15. I find a lot of bargain bin games to be as bad or worse than FTP games. $20-30 has historically been my sweet spot
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Considering the huge number of games I have that I haven’t tried yet, I don’t think it’s crazy at all to have a high threshold for buying yet another one.
dil@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
imo over 16 it better have workshop support or an active online playerbase