It hasn’t. I’ve only bought ~4 games at full price the last decade, now I just wait for them to be around $20. The $70 price seems to be more focused on cashing in on people that buy on release, but prices go down all the same only like one year after release.
Games that have fallen to $20 also have the nice advantage of having most of their bugs worked out and the vast majority of the balance passes complete. It’s easily the best time to buy and play a game.
I’m underutilizing my rig tbh. I’ve been playing primarily Factorio for the past few years. My monthly game spending is low. Tempted to get a steam deck for mobile Factorio with mods, though.
Just started playing Starsector. My rig isn’t some obnoxious beast…but like Starsector doesn’t even have a recommended cpu. You only need like 1gb of ram and a gfx card from over a decade ago.
Given that AAA games have become very samey, I have found myself drawn to more interesting titles from a plethora of other devs. These titles also have the nice advantage of almost never costing anywhere near $70 on release, not that I tend to buy them on release, I just add them to my wish-list while I buy something cheap that came out earlier.
I bought a couple of newly released games that I would have bought if they were $60 or $80, but other than that, I have been getting my gaming on with cheaper games that are worth the price, like Talos Principle 2 ($30, and worth every penny), as well as older games, like Outer Wilds, Inscryption, Stray, Hades, Spiritfarer.
EDIT: I will add that every game that I have purchased for the full $70 has been worth it. Starfield, Hogwarts (family never played more than 2 hours each), Last of Us Part 1 (haven’t finished), TOTK (haven’t started it yet).
You can use gg.deals to see all the keyshop prices at once, and can log in with your steam and gog accounts to sync wishlists. I have bookmarked views for $5 or less, and historical lows.
You’re welcome, it simplifies things so much, and I find deals I would have missed. Note you can also filter out DRM sources so you can remove Ubisoft, EA, Epic, etc. My bookmarks only include GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Rockstar, DRM free, and Other.
I wouldn’t say it has. I don’t buy too much these days anyways as I already have a backlog, and there’s so much out there that I tend to buy things on sale that have been out for a while.
I’m willing to buy a higher-priced game or DLC on release, but it better be damned good. I’ll wait a bit before buying to at least ensure that it’s playable on day one.
I dipped out when games jumped to $60 CAD sometime back in the XBox 360 era iirc. (For context, games are $80-90 CAD now.) Since then, I’ve bought maybe 4 or 5 AAA games total.
That era was also when indie games exploded onto the scene. These indie games were/are better than most AAA titles, and way more affordable, so it just made sense to pivot.
Other than they ongoing payments for games I continue to play (hello, World of Warcraft), most of my money now goes toward games from smaller studios that aren’t so expensive. Valheim, Timberborn, and many others are well below $70, and now I get to try games from other creators while still affording the couple of big spenders I enjoy.
There are very few games I’ve bought at full price. Baldur’s Gate 3. Elden Ring. Dark Souls 2 and 3. Those were all worth it. Most things I’ll just wait for a sale. My friends don’t really play a lot of games, and rarely all want to play the same thing, so I don’t have that peer pressure problem.
I can’t even think of anything that exciting coming out soon.
There’s nothing coming out AAA these days that’s worth the price of admission or pre-ordering. Blizzard hasn’t made anything worth playing for years, I don’t give a shit about the yearly reskin of Call of Duty, Starfield was a try before you buy with Gamepass - it really feels there hasn’t been anything in years worth getting at full price. Even Baulder’s Gate, which I would consider worth the full price, I picked up below average price prior to official launch.
@alessandro I’ve always bought the majority of my games during sales or used from websites like eBay, so it doesn’t affect me that much. I considered buying Persona 3 Reload at launch, but I’ll wait for a sale since it’s $70 and SEGA games tend to go on sale pretty quickly.
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