What are you buying?

  • tomkatt@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      1 month 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.

      • GCanuck@lemmy.world
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        1 month 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.

      • llii@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 month 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.

      • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
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        1 month 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
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          1 month 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.

    • Anissem@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Basically me on the last few of these sales. Such a backlog I can no longer justify even the deep discounts.

      • Damage@feddit.it
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        1 month ago

        I have no data on this, but it doesn’t feel like the discounts are all that deep anymore