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From one extreme to the other lol
Anyone going to be buying £65 PC games?
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From one extreme to the other lol
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No, or otherwise - I don't know what this game would have to offer me to spend this amount. Looking at the current gaming market, it seems impossible. I could pay half of it for the games I have been playing for years and they are free - they are about to shut down the HoN servers (June 20, 2022) - I have been playing this game every day for at least two hours for 5 years.
The current market looks like there's more marketing and hype building - than there should be. We pay extra money for this.
The current market looks like there's more marketing and hype building - than there should be. We pay extra money for this.
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It only takes one 2 minute theatrical non gamplay trailer to get the average gamer Lemming wet between the legs, 2 minutes later they are tryping a flex post on a forum/reddit that it "looked amazing" they have "grabbed" a pre-order - as if there was a scarcity of digital codes for a game that won't be out for 2-3 years.
dragging you into appropriate thread and wondering if that will be your last oneI got a refund, 69 quid and no wide screen support
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I tend to stick around the £25 mark. I even got re8 for £25 2 months after release. I keep an eye on prices for games I like across the board. If I don't I will loose the chance to nab it for a nice price. However having dabbled in the stock market (10 years ago) I know how to read said markets 
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However having dabbled in the stock market (10 years ago) I know how to read said markets
Games drop in price as time goes by, that isn't the same as the stock market, at least.. I hope you know that.
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I know this lol. I mean my mediocre skills in the stock market has made my keeping an eye on prices a habit. Anyone in the stock market knows just how much you have to keep your eye on it always looking for a quick buck so to speak. That scanning the stock market turned to a habit of scanning the web for deals on not only games but anything I buy to find the best available price. It got me re8 for £20 less then retail at the time
Set up price alerts then you can chill
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i did it got quite boring plus family life got busy haha
Tbh i used to preorder everything (many years ago) but started to go down this route.
in last month ove got around 30 new games under £100
Also only give publishers 3 chances & bar them from purchasing again
works on a strike system
3 strikes & your out, but if they do a release well or somthing good they can get + 1 point to stay in my none barred list
Barred list:
Bethesda - duh they never realease anything ready or in a working state
EA - greedy money grabbing gits
Last chance:
Ubisoft - dont some wrong stuff, but done a lot right too
Blizzard - not blizzard as we know it
Activision - greedy, but have had decent work in bandicoot/spyro
Nintendo (mario party not fixed)
two chances left
Take Two (after GTA remaster deal)
Publishers doing well - although these have issues they dealt with issue fairly quick a swiftly
Microsoft
Sony
The only game I've bought on release in the last couple of years was C&C remaster which I think was around £25 and got 300 hours of playtime so was well worth it but a lot of new games now get released in an unfinished state and I'm not paying the full price to Beta test.
For me it is EA and Ubisoft. I go out of my way to try and not give them my money. I was close to forgiving EA as they returned back to Steam, but you still need origin installed. I guess they don’t want my money.
Nah.
I don't necessarily begrudge these sort of prices - allowing for inflation, I used to pay this much for console games in the 90s - but I just can't bring myself to shell out these sort of numbers on PC games because generally they will eventually drop in price or come on Game Pass. I don't think I've ever paid more than £35(?) for a PC game, and again that would've been late 90s when games still came in big boxes with manuals.
The irony is, I don't end up spending less money overall though, because I just buy games for cheap and they sit unplayed for years. Arguably, I would have more fun just buying AAA titles on release for big prices rather than scratching around in the bargain bin sales.
There was a brief glory years period in the early-mid 2000s where brand new games typically cost about £17 on PC via stores based in the channel islands. Maybe £25 absolute max for some AAA stuff.
I don't necessarily begrudge these sort of prices - allowing for inflation, I used to pay this much for console games in the 90s - but I just can't bring myself to shell out these sort of numbers on PC games because generally they will eventually drop in price or come on Game Pass. I don't think I've ever paid more than £35(?) for a PC game, and again that would've been late 90s when games still came in big boxes with manuals.
The irony is, I don't end up spending less money overall though, because I just buy games for cheap and they sit unplayed for years. Arguably, I would have more fun just buying AAA titles on release for big prices rather than scratching around in the bargain bin sales.
There was a brief glory years period in the early-mid 2000s where brand new games typically cost about £17 on PC via stores based in the channel islands. Maybe £25 absolute max for some AAA stuff.
I guess it depends if they want to play the games in the future or just buy a game, complete it and then bin. What you've described isn't really so different from the days of physical media, just instead of searching around for a long-lost disc you are searching email inboxes and the like.
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I would pay double that for a game that's actually next gen in terms of AI, graphics, gameplay, sound, story, etc. But that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
