What are you buying?

  • 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.

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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.