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• BenjiRenji@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The game must be a GOTY contender or I’m not gonna pick it up at full price. I have no issues paying up for a new, unique experience that sounds exciting. Games I know I like, but rehash an old formula land on the wishlist until they are 30% off. Games that look cool, are recommended, but I’m not sure I will like them land on the wishlist and need to be below $20 when I buy.

  With these simple rules I still have too many unplayed and unfinished games in my library, so… yeah… you gonna have to take some risks to win big.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve got to be honest, the price of a game is probably the least important factor on whether I make a full price purchase.

  I’m not going to rush out and buy something I’ve no real interest in. I can count on one hand the number I’ve made this generation. On PS2 I’d be grabbing something every week or two, but now I just can’t get excited for the latest and greatest updates on old formulas. Half the time I buy just to encourage them to make more games like that, like I did with Talos Principle 2, Astro Bot and Split Fiction.

  I might pick it up later if I feel inclined, or see it on a decent discount. Like Clair Obscur, that I picked up for £29 in a sale just because I remembered it existed and fancied something to play over the winter holiday.

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• systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Better to say, they are compared to good games priced at 10 to 15.

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• Donebrach@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “gAmeS aRe tOo ExpEnsiVe tHesE Days!” paid $70 for a major release in 1999, also paid $70 for a major release in 2025

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  • M1ch431@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The difference is back then, I didn’t have to wait 2 years (give or take) for it to go on a proper sale to enjoy it. I’d just wait until a month or two passed and ask around, go into Gamestop, find used games at yard sales, etc.

    We pay $70 to not play at release due to server issues and critical bugs and we enjoy zero QA and do it for free for these big corporations.

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  • Shirasho@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Games were released as complete games in 1999.

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  • urandom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    paid $70 for a major release in 1999,

    Aha

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe you did, I bought used games for 10.

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Buying power is down. If they want me to spend more, capital has to pay me more.

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• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had to drop my “under 5 bucks” rule because games don’t drop that low anymore. 10-15 is where it’s at now, for better and for worse

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  • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m still holding to it, but I agree, it’s getting harder and harder to find stuff on sale for less than $5. Especially if you’ve been on Steam for a long time and have a large library already.

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    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      SUICIDE SQUAD FOR $3.50 GAMERS REJOICE

      ~/s, obviously~

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  • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah the subtext of the article is the more interesting point, that good quality indy games are perhaps a bit more expensive.

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• tflyghtz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thing is, anything under 20 gets purchased, anything above that will be pirated (quite easily)

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• flandish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  is there a way to tell what is indie and what is slop? i really think it’s getting like the ebay days of the 90’s. just … something feels off. repetitive. odd.

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  • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If it has the AI content flag, it’s most likely slop.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Indie and slop are not mutually exclusive. Something can be both.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Megabonk, my beloved…

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thing is, I can also NOT play games and spend my money on other hobbies.

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  • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m a very patient gamer, I’m perfectly happy to just play games on my Steam Deck years after they come out. If there’s something I want, I’ll usually just wishlist it and let it sit there until it goes down to a price that seems reasonable. Much better to get it for $15-20 with all the DLC and bug fixes than paying $80+ for an unfinished buggy mess IMO.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, especially since I know I likely wouldn’t play it much.
    On the other hand, if it was free (also as in money) and open-source, and I liked it, I could donate. Although I don’t have much money, so probably just smaller amounts, better than the 0 I do right now by not gaming instead.
    For example, I absolutely wouldn’t pay $9.60 for Binary Eye (barcode/2D code scanner app) if it cost that much, but as a donation that was fine.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i will continue buying the games and not playing them, tyvm

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    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A person of culture, I see.

      I have the time to play games. I own many games. Yet I am not playing them. Why? I used to love games. Why can I not get sucked in anymore?

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  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s why they add gambling mechanics in games. That way many can not stop playing.

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s see, 70-100+(!) bucks for the (yawn) twentyseventh COD with a 4 hour campaign, or 20 for a game that is complete and lasts for dozens if not hundreds of hours?

  Yeah, my choice is easily made.

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  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve got something like 200 hours in Vampire Survivors, and it cost me less than a fiver

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The price has crept up with the paid expansions, but holy shit do NOT sleep on the Castlevania one. It doubles the base game content, and fits in great.

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  • grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    factorio has mods that last thousands of hours. they’re free additions, and the full game with its dlc is only like 60USD. is ridiculous.

    THE FACTORY MUST GROW THE FACTORY MUST GROW THE FACTORY MUST GROW THE FACTORY MUST GROW THE FACTORY MUST GROW

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  • bobo1900@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget that Fallout New Vegas regularly drops below 15$ with all the DLC

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  • Malix@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it kinda feels like the more expensive a game is, the less value it seem to have.

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    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The most expensive game I own is Baldurs Gate 3 and it’s the only game that was worth full price in my 12 years of activity on steam and over 250 games purchased. My next most expensive game was $30 CAD and I only bought a few games that high.

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    • zecg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s exactly it, was looking for this comment.

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not only that, but charging full price for a game and then charging $15-20 for cosmetic DLC is fucking wild. If I’ve paid you $60+ for a title, I expect the full experience. If you want to add some shit a year down the line to lengthen the life, I’m on board, but day one DLC that costs more than the base game was played out the moment Bethesda graced us with horse armor. I’ve gotten more joy out of Vampire Survivors than I have out of any Ubisoft and EA games in the last 20 years combined.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was considering buying Risk of Rain 2 on sale yesterday for 9€ but buying all the DLCs costs 45€.

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    • erin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As the other commenter said, only one person needs the dlc to play the (non-character) DLF content. It also frequently goes on pretty big sales, though right now it’s probably full price since the newest (and imo, best) DLC just dropped. Each dlc is a significant content expansion to the game, and is absolutely worth the asking price (except maybe seekers, which fell a bit flat for me on release. It’s since been rebalanced).

      If you wanted to weigh which DLC to consider getting, I would recommend Void if you like the idea of modified items that do cool shit, an alternate ending to the game, and some cool new mechanics. It comes with a dope sniper survivor and a void survivor that trades health for damage or vice versa.

      Seekers comes with an alternate path of stages leading to an alternate (very challenging) boss. I find that the seekers boss is a severe difficulty check compared to the ease of reaching the boss, compared to the void boss which you only fight late in a run or after a different boss. Two of the survivors feel lackluster to me, but False Son is an absolute beast and the only melee character capable of truly tanking rather than using i-frames or mobility.

      Alloyed Collective is the newest, and comes tons of new mechanics (free for everyone but expanded on in the DLC), a new path to follow, SEVERAL new super interesting boss fights, tons of new stages, and tons of new enemies. Overall, super worth it. The characters it adds are a drone controller (a previously unviable play style) and a loot gremlin that gets tons of really awesome interactions and A Cube.

      My list would be Alloyed, Void, then Seekers. Alloyed and Void add the most to the base game, Seekers is mostly alternate stuff that won’t touch your runs, though the new shrines are pretty useful early game.

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    • ramsgrl909@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is one of my favorite games and I haven’t bought any DLC, my friend has and I mooch off of them when we play :)

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    • moncharleskey@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For what it’s worth, only one player needs the DLC for everybody in the session to use it, which is pretty cool of the devs to allow that in this day and age.

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And compared to the 10 year old titles on sale that actually work well and look great on 5 year old mid-range HW…

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  • zecg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s another problem, even if we disregard optimizations, AAA games from 2015. look better than modern upscaled stuff, Unreal Engine seems to be so easy enough to use nowadays that big vertically-integrated slop publishers replaced seasoned developers with the cheapest of zoomers.

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