What are you buying?

  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    The thing about sales, are that if they happen every month is no longer a big event.

    I feel like an old man yelling at a cloud here, but it really seems like everything is on sale all the time, but the sales aren’t actually sales they’re just the price a thing should be

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      11 hours ago

      I think sales have lost their luster when they’re almost the same prices we’ve seen all year around. The golden age of sales was from 2010 - 2018 I would say and it was THE time to wheel and deal on getting games you sought for the most for crazy prices.

      Nowadays, things remain stagnant. You’ll find games released 5 years ago get an eh -15% off. You’ll find games even 10 years ago get an eh -30% off. Most of the games you see go 65 - 90% off are either games you already had gotten long ago with better prices or games you couldn’t give a shit about.

      I understand that it’d be dumb to expect one or even two year games to be more than -50% at least. But the older the game gets, come on, you can do better.

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    Ugh, I have too much to play in my backlog already. I’ll probably pick up one game that I want to play eventually, maybe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

    I’ve been playing Outer Worlds, though, so I’m saving up for the 2nd one just in case it’s good. Given Avowed’s release, my hopes aren’t high. However, the first game is so intensely 6/10 that if they can just improve a tad bit on the formula, I think I would like it a lot.

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      12 hours ago

      Just don’t mix up Outer Worlds with Outer Wilds lol.

      Or maybe do, since they’re both good games.

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        13 hours ago

        No, not trolling. I’d never heard that they had a policy against it until I looked it up just now.

        Somehow I was under the impression that devs didn’t even get a say as to if or when Steam would put their games on sale. I thought I had heard that as a major gripe of devs who list games on Steam.

        Now I’ll have to decide when I feel like it’s worth the remainder of my life and $35.

        • StuffYouFear@lemmy.world
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          8 hours ago

          As someone with 902 hours on steam and about that much on the standalone client, I highly recommend you dont. It will consume the next month of your life. If you do buy it. Learn about blueprints and how to import them. Dont have to use others but one of the better teaching tools in the game for belt mechanics. If you like trains, use the mods, the train logistics mods make them so much better, but do take some study to make work.

  • AshCircuit@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    Honestly the sheer number of games that I have is just unsustainable relative to how much work I have 🤣 I simply don’t have time for it all. Not to mention as I get older all I want to do is play World of Warcraft or the games I used to play in high school.

    Skate and Apex Legends have been really fun for me though recently, but there’s no games I want to really buy so they can just sit in my library like we all do.

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    14 hours ago

    Only buying Ghost of Tsushima and just gifting Cyberpunk 2077 to a friend. It feels like every sale it’s the same deals, at least to me.

  • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today
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    14 hours ago

    Everyone in this thread: happy with what they have and got bills to pay
    Me: ok cool I can actually stay under 400€ nvm the fact my backlog bigger than Beverly Hills

  • charles@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    Just purchased Stationeers and that’s likely it for me. I’ve been meaning to pick it up forever and it rarely goes on sale, so it felt like a safe choice!

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      14 hours ago

      Ahh that game is so great but I hate it and can never get far in it. It both scratches a itch that almost no other game can yet is so exhausting to play I can never keep at it for more than a couple hours.

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    16 hours ago

    Never played the first Hades. Never played Cult of the Lamb. They’re both on sale now, and they seem like pretty good Steam Deck games.

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    17 hours ago

    Probably these: Doom Eternal (3.99€), Dust to End (2.99€), Night of the Dead (8.69€), Days Gone - Broken Road DLC (5€) and Sniper Elite 5 (5€)

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    23 hours ago

    I have a huge backlog, both in steam and physical, so no, thanks….