Best deal you ever got?

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨gibmiser@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨patientgamers@sh.itjust.works⁩

What’s the best game deal you ever got?

For me it was the original Subnautica. Was a free give away before it got popular and I had no expectations when I played it. Really enjoyed the exploration and the pacing.

Second was Axiom Verge - I got it for free before it became popular but I don’t remember how. I bought it when it went to Steam because I wanted to support the creator.

Both are fun exploration sorts of games if you haven’t played them. Axiom Verge is a metroidvania. Kinda a weird game, but in a good way.

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graymess@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s not really worthy of Patient Gamers because I bought it shortly after launch (in an actual box at Best Buy), but the Orange Box was one of the most absurdly good deals I’ve ever seen. I can’t even calculate how many hours I’ve gotten out of it because it ended up on an old Steam account, but TF2 alone is easily my most played game ever.

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- korny@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I bought this for the 360 and it blew my mind at the time. I had never played a Half Life game before, and that coupled with TF2 lead me down the path to PC building for the superior gaming platform. I owe a lot to The Orange Box!
  
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  - graymess@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Dang, Valve stealth indoctrinated console gamers to Steam with the Orange Box lol.
    
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- Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same story, 1400 hours in TF2, and traded enough hats to sell em all for an Index. Great deal!
  
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  - Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Okay thats a level of crazy I never thought Id see. Trading in digital items for enough cash to buy a freakin VR set. Madness. Congrats!
    
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- DABDA@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I was really hoping for an Orange Cube around the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx.
  
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caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think I got Terraria for like a buck (can’t remember where) and while it isn‘t my favorite game ever, my gf loved it to death and I got dozens of hours out of it (my gf hundreds). It‘s undeniably a great game and the dev is a maniac in terms of long term support.

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- henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I got it in exchange for a slice of pepperoni pizza because an old school friend wanted me to join him.
  
  Wow, what a value.
  
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Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Got GTA 5 for free from a terrible game store no one should use or give money to.

Only take, no give

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specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Decades ago I bought a sealed copy of Dragon Warrior off a guy for $30. While exchanging info he said he’d throw in a sealed copy of Dragon Warrior 2 for $20 more. I wasn’t really a collector (I wanted to play them) so I said sure what the hell, nice boxes and inserts are always cool. I never got around to playing them so they sat in a plastic shell.

They’re perfect, they’re unopened, and I still got em.

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MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I bought a big box copy of Quake 2 on eBay many years ago, and was surprised to open it and find not only Q2 inside the box but also a full retail CD of the original Quake. I’d never played the non-shareware version before, so I got two great games that day!

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I bought Factorio and Minecraft in Beta/Alpha, and still use the same keys to this day. So something like 15 years of entertainment.

Those definitely weren’t patient gaming buys, but they were good buys.

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- jemikwa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I bought Minecraft a month before Beta came out and man what a deal that was. Only something like $10. I got thousands of hours out of that over the following 5ish years. I don’t play it as often any more, but I still think it was worth it
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yup, I don’t play anymore, but my kids do. I ended up buying a second license, but that original licence has gotten a ton of use.
    
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Donut@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t know if this counts, but it was a trade. I won Tenchu z for the Xbox 360 and I didn’t have one (yet), so I traded with some random guy for the following GameCube titles:

DBZ Budokai

Viewtiful Joe

Super Mario Sunshine

Tales of Symphonia
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CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Free, many times…

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otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Final Fantasy 13 disc-only for $0.33 (CAD). It was.3 games for a dollar from the local library when they were clearing out old stock.

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crossmr@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Years ago, probably.. 2006 or 2007, Microsoft had some kind of deal online where you could get Age of Empires 3 for 99 cents, it wasn't that old at the time. Bought it on my hotmail back in the day, but lost that when Microsoft decided they desperately needed to wipe e-mails for people.

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drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I got Copy of Maniac Mansion for NES for free at a second hand games store . According to the store owner the game didn’t work and asked me if I wanted it because the box still looks good in a shelf anyway. I put it in my NES and it worked without issues. This was around 10+12 years ago.

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- gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Reading the title was enough to start the soundtrack in my head. Good shit.
  
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dezvous@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
GTA V for free.

A customer left a seller review on G2A stating that their provided key didn’t work. They posted the key in the review and I claimed it on steam without any issue.

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- graymess@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Kind of weird to admit to stealing someone’s purchase. Dick move, really, regardless of how dumb that was of the buyer.
  
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  - dezvous@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They publicly posted a key that “didnt work”. How is that stealing? It would be like me leaving a piece of equipment in my front yard with a sign that says “free, doesn’t work” but a mechanic picks it up and fixes it in a matter of minutes.
    
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tim-clark@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Couple of decades ago bought a box of new ps2/1 games that had fallen off a truck... got around 300 games for 100$

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- gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “Fallen off a truck” niiice.
  
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KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Picked up borderlands 3 for $3 maybe 2 months after release. Bought 2 copies actually one for my brother.

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simple@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Got Bloons Tower Defense 6 for free on mobile (it was a 24 hour promo I believe), and I also got it for $1 on Steam. There’s cloud save between both of them and I’ve maybe put in over 200 hours into that game, what a steal that was.

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promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Skyrim for under 4 euro (iirc) in 2012 in a christmas sale.

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Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Back in the day when game bundles werent a super common thing, Humble Bundle was the absolute GOAT when it came to acquiring a massive amount of titles for cheap as dirt. The best part too was you could choose how much of your donation went to different places. I realize its like that now as well but theyre a mere shadow of what they once were. There were so many times I would see 1 or 2 titles I wanted, pick up an entire bundle, then later find 1 or 2 indie diamonds in the pack I wasnt expecting.

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Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I got xcom 2(200 ish hours) and slay the Spire (500+ hours) from humble bundle.

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steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Picked up Conker’s Bad Fur Day on N64 for £20 when I was 12 in 2004. I thought it was a bit pricey for an “old” game at the time. However in the years since it’s become a rare game (in addition to being a Rare game) and it’s now worth 5-6 times as much 2nd hand.

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Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
First one that comes to mind was getting a used PS3 for $75 in late 2017.

I’d become a big Persona fan after liking P3 and with P4 becoming an all-time favorite soon after, but I’m mostly a PC gamer. I don’t always pick up current-gen consoles. Eventually I got sick of hearing the heaps of praise for P5 that I figured I’d take the risk on a used PS3 (getting a PS4 was way out of my budget). That’s not why it ended up being a great deal, though.

Now that I had a PS3, I figured I’d try all the games I’d been missing out on that didn’t have PC ports. I had a remarkably high hit rate with these: Demon’s Souls, Dragon Quest Builders, Journey, The Last of Us, NieR, and of course Persona 5 itself. Ended up playing through (almost) all of FromSoft’s following games and NieR: Automata because of this pickup. Still never got that PS4, though, so I’m still waiting on Bloodborne and TLOU2.

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Starb3an@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m not sure if it was the first time they ever did a free weekend for a game or not, but I played Day of Defeat: source and it never left my library. I think I lost that steam account at some point though.

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zeekaran@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Jet Set Radio Future, $2 Xbox disc.

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Mine came with my Xbox. That game rocks.
  
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hubobes@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Portal 2, bought it a month ago for 1.-

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- gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ooo nice
  
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tal@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Axiom Verge

Yeah, that’s decent. Still haven’t gotten through it, though.

I think that the price of a game matters a lot less than the gameplay time, in terms of value. You can have enormous differences in the amount of time you play a game, much more than the price typically varies from game to game.

looks at Steam

My top-played games by hours of playtime are:

Oxygen Not Included

Fallout 4 (the game itself is decent-sized, plus there are expansions, but this is really due heavily to mods)

Wargame: Red Dragon

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

Sid Meier’s Civilization V

Caves of Qud

Fallout 76

Rimworld

X3: Reunion

Mount & Blade: Warband (again, mods add a lot to this)

So those are probably the best deals, as I’ve gotten the most time out of them.

The bad deals are games that I get and then don’t like and so don’t play.
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- BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t see Factorio on this list! Why is the factory not growing?
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I played it for a while, but never got that into it. Ditto for Mindcraft and Satisfactory. Oxygen Not Included just has more stuff going on.
    
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Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just got the Lego Batman trilogy on Steam for like $5.

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hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Psvr (original) as an amazon prime day deal about baby ear after launch. It was about AUS150, so US100 by today’s exchange.

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ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Best full-price video game deal in history, in my opinion, was NFL 2K5 selling for $19.99 at launch.

It was such a good deal that EA shit themselves, bought the exclusive NFL license, and ruined football gaming for future generations.

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