It’s beyond insane to me that a $70 “AAAA” game (kidding, it’s AAA) dips down to the absurd price of $5. I’ve never seen anything like it. Wish the entire Sims 4 “collection” if you can call it that was $5 total, would be incredible, or Starfield.

8 points

Black Friday sales are crazy sometimes

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63 points

The steam fall sale is going on right now.

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62 points

Rope people in with the base game discount and flood them with DLC is the EA way.

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I was really tempted by the sale for BFV and BF2042 and a friend told me not to saying it’s EA owned and that’s bad 🥲

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15 points

Be aware of the kernel anticheat,

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Who gives a shit. If it’s fun and you like it, buy it and play it. Every game studio/publisher is greedy.

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This is why they get away with greediness - many people don’t care or can’t restrain themselves. Every company is certainly not the same. Don’t encourage and reward bad behavior.

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16 points

I bought Witcher 3 AND ALL dlc for like 8 dollars last year during this sale.

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5 points

NFS Unbound wasn’t taken too well by the community. I recently replayed NFS Heat (which was the release before unbound) and it is still a great modern NFS game!

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It happens all the time on Steam and physical retail. Especially when the game is critically panned or is old enough that it’s not selling at the original price anymore.

Pretty funny to see the big budget “AAAA” games going from $70 to $5 in just a few months, while seeing an independent game like RimWorld never go on sale and have multiple DLCs that aren’t much cheaper than the base game because the former loses interest hella fast, while the latter seems to keep gaining popularity.

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I think part of this has to be related to the idea that you cant do good, creative, interesting things on e the number of cooks in the kitchen gets above a certain size, which might actually be quite small. I mean look at terraria and stardew valley. Microscopic dev teams with impact the size of asteroids in terms of total effect and the long term impact on gaming.

I think “good” in media is an extension of having a singular vision for what you are trying to do. Focus too much on crowd pleasing and you lose the plot.

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I completely agree with that. Even the games that made the big companies big back in the day started off being like 3-5 people, tops. Now they have hundreds of people, tons of ideas, along with limited time and tons of bureaucracy. Even if there’s just one person making the decisions, it can’t be easy frequently hearing good suggestions from other people working on the thing under you and not wanting to try and incorporate them.

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Just fyi, Ludeon Studios changed their stance on sales some time ago, in fact it’s on sale right now! Never more than a 20% discount though. Factorio however has still never been on sale. But your point still stands

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Both are pennies on the hour investments though. Factorio Space Age has drawn me back in like the OG did years ago.

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24 points

No. Don’t. Don’t tell me this, don’t do it to me, I’m trying to complete Satisfactory playthrough

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Bruh… :(

I just bought Biotech and Anamoly for regular price like 2 weeks ago. I hate not being able to predict the future. This way of perceiving time sucks ass.

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3 points

I hate you not being able to tell me the future too. I need those damn lotto numbers!!!

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7 points

Never buy games prior to a holiday, there’s always a sale coming up that might save you some money.

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3 points

or any nintendo game, I swear they’re never on sale.

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6 points

They’re on sale right now

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1 point

oh jeez! finally!

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1 point

Literally on sale right now.

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2 points

“The Callisto protocol” went from release @$60 to free on Epic, in less than two years. That’s the fastest I’ve ever seen a game depreciate.

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9 points

Factorio has only ever gone up in price, and the new expansion costs more than the base game did.

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