I haven’t played a single game I bought from last summer sale ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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What should I get? I'm back on Morrowind from a bout of dwarf fortress. A modern Morrowind would be perfect. But not oblivion I need something fresh. I've been eyeing start citizen but the reviews are really lackluster especially about the thing I care about.
I just got:
JoJo's All-Star Battle R, Strobophagia, Arkham Origins: Blackgate
I'm not really into fighting games, but I got pretty into the JoJo anime and played the demo for All-Star Battle R before and I really liked it, so I got the deluxe edition or whatever for $20.
Strobophagia popped up on my homepage one time and caught my eye cause I like EDM, and mixing it into a game about a rave with a horror twist seemed pretty cool.
I've heard rough things about Blackgate as it's a 3.5D side scrolling brawler, but I'm hoping it'll play similar to those Assassin's Creed Chronicles games, cause I really liked those when they came out. Also I just want to experience more of the Arkham story/universe. At some point I'd like to play Arkham Shadow as I watched a bit of gameplay and heard a lot of positive things about it.
Why is Persona 3 Portable more expensive than Persona 4 Golden? Why is SEGA being so stingy with only a 20% discount. Another 5% (on the SALE price) if we use the Persona bundle. Why SEGA...? It's the oldest and ugliest one. Why...
Lossless Scaling. Worth it
Alright already have it but for my VR bros, Into the Radius is half price at 15 right now. It's has its own story but it's heavily inspired by stalker. Probably the best shooter/scavenger game on VR period.
Picked up: Supreme Commander Collection, Rider's Republic, Rakugaki, The Stone of Madness, Look Outside, and Sol Cesto.
Not a bad sale imo...
Supreme Commander is good. It is the closest modern-ish game to Total Annihilation that I've seen.
I bought: Drova - Forsaken Kin, Kamiko, Spiritfarer, & Beseige
And Factorio still doesn't changes price. Wth
It’s already the cheapest game per minute played
You meant the cheapest drug, right? Factorio is addicting.
It’s worse than alcohol but better than heroin
Iirc the creators said they'll never put it on sale because that's unfair to people who paid the full price. The price is the price for Factorio.
Gamers will use anything to justify the price for their favorite games.
I'm not saying it's a bad game or anything, I've never actually played it as it doesn't really look like my type of game, but the "reasoning" that they'll never put it on sale because it's "unfair" to people who paid full price is stupid.
Aa per the FAQ on their website, Factorio will never go on sale.
There's always the five finger discount
I don't think it goes on sale, at least not for any significant amount. To be fair, it's easily worth the full price, which is not something I often say.
Yeah, they took a shot at doing their pricing strategy backwards from everyone else. The game was cheapest when it was in early access and the cost has only gone up as they make the game bigger and better. I don't think it has ever gone on sale, but is easily worth the full price.
I have like 4k hours in that stupid game. I love it so much
Little nightmares II looks good at $2.99
I could maybe use 20-40 euros, so I could get one of these
These
- DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT 15,99€
- God of War 19,99€
Or
- Star Wars Outlaws 34,99€
Or
- Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition 38,62€
Don't know yet which I should get
Summer Stale.
I miss the old sales, when games had deep discounts and the deals cycled like every 2/4/6/8 hours.
consumerism is a disease. i can't believe I'm still seeing people asking for gamified fomo bullshit.
"WAH, WAH, HOW DARE PEOPLE LAMENT THE FACT THAT THEY USED TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE ONLY ESCAPE FROM THE HELL THAT IS REALITY!"
Wow. That was unnecessary
The periodic sale is already driving up the consumerism enough for me, I really don't need to buy more games, but I want to
Yeah idk if its nostalgia or wut.
In my head, the sales were much deeper like you say, but I could be wrong.
I also miss when the sale would start and there'd be a minigame or some type of event. They've really been streamlining a lot of stuff though I think to reduce network traffic maybe, or maybe they haven't had the time for events when they are redesigning their whole client and steamos and stuff.
discounts were much deeper. because devs/publishers were more willing to give a 90% discount to their newer games if it was for 2/4 hours.
yup, but in exchange would you give up the refund process that we now have?
Has the refund process changed? From what I remember it has always been very easy to refund?
they were easy to get if the game was a scam or if you had serious unresolvable technical issues, but not so easy if you just impulse bought a game and regretted it.
Australia sued Valve due to their refund policy and Valve changed the refund policy to what it is today.
Well, the refund policy has only existed 10 years now. Well in it's current form. Previously refunds were much harder to get.
Personally, yes.
I've only had 3 refunds.
2 on the old system, 1 on the new system.
All were accepted and refunded, because all were for technical issues that made them literally, factually unplayable.. and probably because in 10 years of steam I've only had 3 refunds.
So Yes, because it wouldnt change anything for me.
Yes because by the time I actually get passed the character creator or the introduction I've usually already used up my time
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