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- pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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PC gamers already often have to wait for games to come to PC, so it’s no big thing to wait a little longer to get those games for cheaper. We’re already not getting it day one a lot of the time, so there’s no FOMO.
I want to play FF16, but since I’ve already gotta wait a year to get it, I’m fine waiting until it’s on sale. Same with Horizon Forbidden West. I’ve waited this long to be able to play the DLC (I have the game on PS4, but the dlc was PS5 only), I don’t mind waiting longer.
Buggy unoptimized releases has also trained more people to wait, and enough people have been burned by supposed publishers that can be trusted.
Yeah that’s huge, why pay full price for a buggy game when i can buy the patched/optimized version of the game for half price a year later??
I think most PC games are just PC games. The ones that are ported from consoles are a minority. Even though they are high profile because there’s a lot of marketing behind them.
OTOH, there’s now PC games getting poorly ported to consoles, which I think is only fair.
Often even when its on sale i have already lost interest.
I’m a patient gamer. I wish list interesting games, when there’s a sale, I pick up anything under $5. I have a huge back log.
I wish list interesting games
And that’s how I got to 400-something wishlisted games
The trick is to un-wishlist games that you pass up consistently even if they’re on a good sale. That’s what I do, so my wishlist is well under 100 games.
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I initially was waiting for Star Field to be less than $70 after launch, instead I lucked out and no longer have any desire to get it for anything higher than free
It´s not only about the price. I also prefer to buy games after initial bugs and other issues have been patched.
Exactly. If games were released in a polished state, I’m sure more people would buy them at full price.
I’ll pick up maybe one or two games a year at full price. Just about everything else goes in a wishlist and I’ll just wait for a sale.
Thanks for reminding me I gotta get the free games on epic for this week.
I wait about a year after release before buying a game on my wish list. There are just too many buggy games these days. Why should I pay a premium price for an unfinished product? I also have a backlog of games in my library.
Precisely. I’ll occasionally pay full price, but that’s only from studios that have earned my trust, which is essentially just Nintendo.
Like you, I’m not paying a premium for a worse product.
Or Larian. But yes, I otherwise agree.
Also: never pre-purchase any game from any publisher.
Real talk: how many of those choose the high seas?
I have like hundreds of untouched games in my library. Really couldn’t bother.
