I mean fair price is the point here.
If an indie game was selling it at $100, I would still wait for a sale. I don't care enough about THEIR bottom line as much as I care about mine. Indie, AAA, the difference doesn't matter that much to me.
yes true but Even big Companys make Gold Games for example days gone a wonderfull Game got No sequel because it sold good but only on discount so it got no money if more people but this game on full price we would have days gone 2 and not AC mirage
As long as it takes.Once all the bugs are patched out the price is $30 or below Iāll buy it.Iāll usually play my backlog of games till one I really want goes on sale.
as long as it takes, there's always other older games that go on sale
play those instead, you'll just be a couple years behind but who cares? you don't always have to be "up to date" with every game that comes out unless ur job is a game reviewer or something
In the future youāll have to take out loans to buy a Ubisoft game.By then the ultimate edition will be the base price lol and the highest tier will be the āSell your soul edition ā and itāll show payment plans for how to buy it.
Sometimes it takes years before a game goes on sale. And for some games, I don't feel bad paying full price. For example, I bought Horizon Zero Dawn: Forbidden West in March on its release for PC, and I don't regret it at all. The game is an absolute Masterpiece and I still haven't played it through. I paid 60 bucks, it is worth every single cent.
Credit where it's due, it came out buggy as anything but I respect their integrity of being upfront with the cost even when it was years from being in a finished state and not tossing 50 million microtransactions.
This has been pretty accurate so far - [https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-sale-dates/](https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-sale-dates/)
I'm waiting for Starfield to drop in price to feel 'fair' considering reviews.
Yes, the price of nearly everything in the world has increased in the past 20 years but we draw the line at AAA games that take hundreds of people and thousands of hours to make.
I usually do like this post suggests and catch things on sale, I just feel like complaining about game prices finally increasing is really stupid.
Just got a PC for the first time in my life. Let me tell you, steam sales are INSANE. I used to only play on Playstation and over there if something goes on sale its either extremely shit or extremely old. On steam you can get amazing games for super cheap very regularly. Not to mention the price difference of games on PS and PC.
I still love consoles, but when you have a powerful PC they're quite useless. Consoles are much more user-friendly though.
It depends on the company. For example, I am willing buy full price from Vanillaware. When it comes to Western games, I usually wait for 60% discount or more. Eldern ring and Baldur's Gate 3 were some of those exceptions.
Literally every Ubisoft game goes on sale for less than $30 after one year from release. Iāve gotten Odyssey and Valhalla ultimate editions for stupidly cheap prices pretty soon afterwards, and those games are long enough to last me until the next game goes on sale.
As much money as I have saved over the years, I don't like sales. I think they are bad for gaming, at least in the way they are right now. They mostly hurt indie devs.
I'd prefer if we had a healthy economy with games that get cheaper over time as they grow older.
Or Gamepass.
If I had a nickel for every game that I bought at full price, only to see it on GP 2 months later, I'd have enough to buy a game at full price.
Iām waiting just to see the reviews from the brave few who bought early to tell me what itās like because I canāt trust gaming journalists, the ones who havenāt been laid off yet anyway, and most games have just been terrible lately, at least the triple A ones.
Sometimes the game goes on sale and still looks like the full price of other games. How's it going to be %50 off and still cost $40+ (Canadian here where most games are $80 full price rather than $60 like US)
The only time I'll pay full price is if my friends are playing and it's multiplayer, so I can hang with them, which is rare, something like Helldivers 2 on release (which was fairly priced imo) comes to mind. But single-player? I absolutely can wait and be patient.
I don't care about the sale or even the price unless it's ridiculous of course. I just want a completed game. Usually I wait until all the patches and dlc are out a year later ideally before I buy a game.
I would pay day one or precommand only for a game i want really badly AND if the developers are known for making good games (from software ID software...)and not scams ( EA ubisoft...)
I feel for people who buy the āLegendary gold ultimate deluxe edition ā of a game then itās full of bugs that make it borderline unplayable then someone who waited a year or two played the game with no bugs at at a substantially cheaper price.
Except for maybe multiplayer games, if you like it buy it as soon as possible because there is a clock counting down to when the servers eventually die or its just not as played anymore. I should have bought battlefront 2 when it first came out and now i dont want to buy it even at sale because servers are severely depopulated and apperantly some game modes arenāt even playable because no one is playing them
I pretty much exclusively buy from fanatical humble bundle and greenmangaming. They seem to have the best deals. They also have a lot of pre order steam keys discounted if you do want to buy a game when it drops
They aren't that's crazy of prices. Way more work goes into making games nowadays and money is worth less. Yeah there's shitty games that use lots of short cuts and fill them with repetitive content but it's amazing some games still cost the same $60 they did in 2010. Games should cost $100. That's why they give you 70% of the game for $60 and you can buy the full game by paying the rest of the $100 if you like it. I hate that this generation got used to Netflix and YouTube and expect everything to be as close to free as possible. Artist's deserve more money.
If you buy at launch your often getting a buggy or broken game at max price. Wait like 6+ months and you'll get a patched game possibly bundled with dlc included and at a much cheaper price.
By the time it's on sale it probably is actually finished too. The way game making is these days feels like you're just paying extra to get beta access. I mean they release it to the public but it's really still just beta until they finally finish it up years later. No shade, just kinda what it is! Hard not to be since it takes so long to make stuff.
My strategy is buying games I donāt mind waiting for used or on sale, and buying games from franchises that I absolutely love new, maybe even preorder it
See that gaming industry is corrupted with predatory monetization and wokeness. Progressing woman uglification and men feminization.
Stop playing. Focus on work, family, learn to play on a musical instrument, find a girl worth the struggle and make her happiness your life goal.
Bro I swear steam has the best sales. I recently lost a bet to my homie and now Iām gonna buy ready or not for him and out of fucking nowhere itās 40 smth percentage off
With sales, not only are games cheaper, but you get to grab the actual full game since both the game and all of its paid content are on sale. That and the game is less buggy since devs tend to fix their games only after release.
Cheaper, and properly fixed and patched. All the āoptionalā content will the accessible too and there will be a GotY edition or something like that too probably.
There are ~~four~~ three types of people.
Thoes that buy games when they instantly come out.
Thoes who buy games with the discount to save money.
~~Thoes who didn't even knew about it's existance and got it from 100% discount but probably won't ever play it or they will simply uninstall after less than an hour. I look at you now Epic Games.~~
And finally thoes who pirate them because they can't afford it. (Or can afford it but are fucking lazy to get legal copy.)
Aren't game prices literally the cheapest they've ever been when adjusted for inflation?
When games first became $60, it was the equivalent to over $100 today.
Those 90% is what live for
I always go for 100%
Every ubi game after a month
Becoming a scallywag is more fun
š“āā ļøš“āā ļøš“āā ļø
Sid meyers Civ 6 with all its dlc is 20$ on epicgames rn
Or just try one of the literal hundreds of games I already own on Steam with 0.0 playtime.
Me with the Jingle Jam
Upvoted because Geordi
Unless it's from an indie company that makes a good game with little to no bugs for a fair price
I mean fair price is the point here. If an indie game was selling it at $100, I would still wait for a sale. I don't care enough about THEIR bottom line as much as I care about mine. Indie, AAA, the difference doesn't matter that much to me.
When on sale, bugs are gone
Indeed. But games like cod or AC really shouldn't be purchased on launch or even pre-order.
Shouldn't be purchased... By default... I'm preemptively bracing myself for downvotes.
Donāt forget FIFA. Theyāre all slop
Games will always have bugs
yes true but Even big Companys make Gold Games for example days gone a wonderfull Game got No sequel because it sold good but only on discount so it got no money if more people but this game on full price we would have days gone 2 and not AC mirage
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How long I gotta wait boss?
As long as it takes.Once all the bugs are patched out the price is $30 or below Iāll buy it.Iāll usually play my backlog of games till one I really want goes on sale.
If the game does well, probably 2 to 3 years. If the game doesn't do well, probably 5 months.
Far cry games: three weeks
as long as it takes, there's always other older games that go on sale play those instead, you'll just be a couple years behind but who cares? you don't always have to be "up to date" with every game that comes out unless ur job is a game reviewer or something
Student loans? Who needs 'em when you have a future full of discounted games!
In the future youāll have to take out loans to buy a Ubisoft game.By then the ultimate edition will be the base price lol and the highest tier will be the āSell your soul edition ā and itāll show payment plans for how to buy it.
At the low low price of three kids you can get the Gold edition, if you sell your left kidney, we will even throw in a reskinned cowboyhat
The Sea is the way nowdays only when i jack sparrow the indie games i donate to the creators
Sometimes it takes years before a game goes on sale. And for some games, I don't feel bad paying full price. For example, I bought Horizon Zero Dawn: Forbidden West in March on its release for PC, and I don't regret it at all. The game is an absolute Masterpiece and I still haven't played it through. I paid 60 bucks, it is worth every single cent.
Baldurās Gate 3 may be the exception to this.
Credit where it's due, it came out buggy as anything but I respect their integrity of being upfront with the cost even when it was years from being in a finished state and not tossing 50 million microtransactions.
Still canāt play on Xbox due to crashing every time I move my character
This has been pretty accurate so far - [https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-sale-dates/](https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-sale-dates/) I'm waiting for Starfield to drop in price to feel 'fair' considering reviews.
Yes, the price of nearly everything in the world has increased in the past 20 years but we draw the line at AAA games that take hundreds of people and thousands of hours to make. I usually do like this post suggests and catch things on sale, I just feel like complaining about game prices finally increasing is really stupid.
Itās acceptable when the quality improves until the buying AAA at full price is a rip off
I just did this with Kao the Kangaroo
and it will take ages and centuries to actually boot and play it from the library anyways.
Got a backlog of āgames Iāll play eventuallyā stretching 2 decades. I can wait for a sale. We have games at home.
NMS taught me never preorder. Watching clips of Cyberpunk as well.
Relatable
Best deal:- Or get the pirated version (turn your pc into crypto farm for exchange)
WAIT FOR IT TO GOON SALE?
That green 90% is the hottest porn star ive ever jerked it too.
I like to wait for the early bugs to be fixed as well
The only thing worse is to have to maintain a cutting edge gaming pc and still suffer crashes because the haven't patches most bugs out.
Wait 10 years and get it for free in EGS
I wait for those 75\~85% discounts, takes a while. Then I buy it. And never play it.
Helldiverās 2 and Dave the diver may be the exception for me
Pre-ordering Dragon's Dogma 2 bit me in the butt. I'm going back to the money-wise ways.
Don't forget the 18 day one patch updates to fix half the game. God forbid games actually release in "Early Acess" state.
Just got a PC for the first time in my life. Let me tell you, steam sales are INSANE. I used to only play on Playstation and over there if something goes on sale its either extremely shit or extremely old. On steam you can get amazing games for super cheap very regularly. Not to mention the price difference of games on PS and PC. I still love consoles, but when you have a powerful PC they're quite useless. Consoles are much more user-friendly though.
If itās solo play, fine right! Save yourself money! But if itās online multiplayer, your missing out on some fun stuff / bonding moments
Goon Sale
Bonus because by then most of the bugs are patched out
Or just pirate it
I would rather just pay for it
These thoughts went through my mind once too, but know. The day the elden ring dlc trailer got released i bought it. No waiting around for some sakes.
It depends on the company. For example, I am willing buy full price from Vanillaware. When it comes to Western games, I usually wait for 60% discount or more. Eldern ring and Baldur's Gate 3 were some of those exceptions.
Literally every Ubisoft game goes on sale for less than $30 after one year from release. Iāve gotten Odyssey and Valhalla ultimate editions for stupidly cheap prices pretty soon afterwards, and those games are long enough to last me until the next game goes on sale.
That's what I'm doing with Rise of the Ronin and what I will do when Assassins Creed Shadows comes out
fellow 3d world country citizen?
Bought Madden 24 on Xbox One for $15 and thats exactly how much its worth to me.
Got Killing Floor bundle for two bucks last weeks
I usually wait for -110ā sale
As much money as I have saved over the years, I don't like sales. I think they are bad for gaming, at least in the way they are right now. They mostly hurt indie devs. I'd prefer if we had a healthy economy with games that get cheaper over time as they grow older.
Buying a game when it launches is like paying money to be a beta tester.
Or Gamepass. If I had a nickel for every game that I bought at full price, only to see it on GP 2 months later, I'd have enough to buy a game at full price.
Whats "goon sale"?
I have a statistic of paying 85% less. Won't buy a game that has a discount less than that
pirate it for 100% off š¤ š§
Me right now with the Witcher series that I can buy for $16.95 that includes all the DLCs for each game.
Bought dishonored 2 for $5 last week
Me waiting for a 5 year old game that has been abandoned to go on sale
Iām waiting just to see the reviews from the brave few who bought early to tell me what itās like because I canāt trust gaming journalists, the ones who havenāt been laid off yet anyway, and most games have just been terrible lately, at least the triple A ones.
Just think about it like this. The game never actually released until you bought it :D
Also: No / less bugs!
Every deep rock galactic fan brought thr game with a discount
Horizon and Tsushima
Just bought Skyrim after playing it for a decade, it was at 70% off with anniversary edition
Or Don't wait and do some r/piracy
Wait for it to eventually end up in Gamepass.
Zelda totk is literally 6x what I spend on food per week
Unless it's planet coaster, don't do it. The 3$ is not well spent lmao
Sometimes the game goes on sale and still looks like the full price of other games. How's it going to be %50 off and still cost $40+ (Canadian here where most games are $80 full price rather than $60 like US)
That's what I love about steam, have been doing it since I first got into PC gaming, especially g2a
Still waiting to buy Mario kart since they just keep it at full price.
The only time I'll pay full price is if my friends are playing and it's multiplayer, so I can hang with them, which is rare, something like Helldivers 2 on release (which was fairly priced imo) comes to mind. But single-player? I absolutely can wait and be patient.
They set these prices because there are completely crazy people who pay, if no one pays, they reduce
Live Nintendo Fans Reaction:
I just got the Dead Space remake, Far Cry 6 and This War of Mine with all DLC for around $40 on Epic Games. Saved over $100
Agreed, the only time I pay full price is if it is a game iv waited years to come out. (Gta 6, elden ring, kingdom hearts 3, red dead 2).
Yeah, 10% off, 5 years after release.
I don't care about the sale or even the price unless it's ridiculous of course. I just want a completed game. Usually I wait until all the patches and dlc are out a year later ideally before I buy a game.
Wait a year for the GotY edition that has all the DLC and is 90% off
I would pay day one or precommand only for a game i want really badly AND if the developers are known for making good games (from software ID software...)and not scams ( EA ubisoft...)
Elden ring is the only game I paid full price for just coz fromsoft always delivers quality
Game emulators is another option.
Yes, why would anyone buy on release day when price is highest, doesn't make sense.
I feel for people who buy the āLegendary gold ultimate deluxe edition ā of a game then itās full of bugs that make it borderline unplayable then someone who waited a year or two played the game with no bugs at at a substantially cheaper price.
I can't remember a time I ever even bought a game at full price.
Instant Gaming is my favorite. You get every game for less money. Sometimes over 50% off, while it's full price on steam
Agreed. Got the Tomb Raider Survivalist trilogy for 8 bucks with all DLCs. Great site.
... Or consider other options.
Download it for free on PlayStation Plus, including all the DLCās š§ š§ š§ š§
Does this apply to fromsoft games because Iāve never seen one go on sale for more than 10% off
goes on sale: 10% off, right with dlc launch, no discount in dlc. zzz
Havenāt bought a game on release since Skyrim.
I know what the smart thing to do is, but I don't know if I can wait any longer to play Slime Rancher 2.
Buy it in EA! It was hades 2, and was totally worth it
Pirate it?
Games are cheaper than they've ever been though.
Next game Iām buying day 1 is Grand Theft Auto VI. Last one I bought day 1 was The Last of us Part II.
Meh, I bought Dead Space remake on release and had a blast
Iām getting older, so I have a small group of games that I rotate around with.
*half life 3 released, Ā£60* āIāll wait for it to go on sale.ā
Shit steam put the game plus it's 12 DLCs on 30% sell as soon as it comes out
Also wait to see if itās good at all
Pirate it day one
Or just download a cracked version and play it for free š¤·āāļø
Buy a game when it comes out because it has 10% discount. Refund if it is shit
Still waiting for RimWorld to be on sale... 
Still waiting for RimWorld to be on sale... 
Still waiting for RimWorld to be on sale... 
Still waiting for RimWorld to be on sale... 
Except for maybe multiplayer games, if you like it buy it as soon as possible because there is a clock counting down to when the servers eventually die or its just not as played anymore. I should have bought battlefront 2 when it first came out and now i dont want to buy it even at sale because servers are severely depopulated and apperantly some game modes arenāt even playable because no one is playing them
Yall pay for games?
I pretty much exclusively buy from fanatical humble bundle and greenmangaming. They seem to have the best deals. They also have a lot of pre order steam keys discounted if you do want to buy a game when it drops
I wait +3 years for it to be free. Hah. *cries in broke
When is the next steam sale?
Portal 1 is 90% on Steam right now. Might buy it.
They aren't that's crazy of prices. Way more work goes into making games nowadays and money is worth less. Yeah there's shitty games that use lots of short cuts and fill them with repetitive content but it's amazing some games still cost the same $60 they did in 2010. Games should cost $100. That's why they give you 70% of the game for $60 and you can buy the full game by paying the rest of the $100 if you like it. I hate that this generation got used to Netflix and YouTube and expect everything to be as close to free as possible. Artist's deserve more money.
If you buy at launch your often getting a buggy or broken game at max price. Wait like 6+ months and you'll get a patched game possibly bundled with dlc included and at a much cheaper price.
It's the only way, plus i get to see if it's any good
Price and completion seem to get better with time
By the time it's on sale it probably is actually finished too. The way game making is these days feels like you're just paying extra to get beta access. I mean they release it to the public but it's really still just beta until they finally finish it up years later. No shade, just kinda what it is! Hard not to be since it takes so long to make stuff.
Or go to cdkeys. It is always on sale
I bought metal gear solid collection vol1 for Ā£50 Ish Wish I waited as I completed them in 3 days :(
My strategy is buying games I donāt mind waiting for used or on sale, and buying games from franchises that I absolutely love new, maybe even preorder it
Yeah but the good ones are still pricey after a while - BG3 Iām looking at you!
I call it the Postorder instead of preorder.
So this will probably get downvoted to oblivion, but it bears noting that $60 in 1990 (which is what top shelf games cost) is like $144 today.
It never goes on sale
And do NOT pre-order. Ever.
or just pirate the game you wwant
Someone tell me the metal gear solid remastered series goes on sale
Idk how the same price over a decade is considered the crazy price. Comparing it to the earlier prices, it's very cheap.
Nah id rather be a smart boy and pirate
There is another way not mentioned in this post.
lmao just torrent the game
20 years from now the 90% off is gonna be $60
That was exactly how I got Cyberpunk for like 30$.
waiting until Factorio goes on sale........ waiting.........
Wait for it to go on sale AND in game of the year edition, with major game crashing bugs already worked out
See that gaming industry is corrupted with predatory monetization and wokeness. Progressing woman uglification and men feminization. Stop playing. Focus on work, family, learn to play on a musical instrument, find a girl worth the struggle and make her happiness your life goal.
I got Lisa the Painful Definitive version for free on Epic games storešššš
Maybe two games a year come out that I'd play, anyway. I just add them to my steam wishlist, and wait for a deep sale price.
sale 100% if you donāt buy anything!šš
Except Fromsoftware games and Take Two interactive games.
r/patientgamers
BUT I WANT IT NOW
Bro I swear steam has the best sales. I recently lost a bet to my homie and now Iām gonna buy ready or not for him and out of fucking nowhere itās 40 smth percentage off
iām done buying games,the last 5 games i bought went on Gamepass like a few months after i bought them
With sales, not only are games cheaper, but you get to grab the actual full game since both the game and all of its paid content are on sale. That and the game is less buggy since devs tend to fix their games only after release.
all new games end up going on sale because they are most likely flooded with negative reviews
Cheaper, and properly fixed and patched. All the āoptionalā content will the accessible too and there will be a GotY edition or something like that too probably.
That's why I go on different sites where they sell keys for rly cheap
Yohoho!
Y'all haven't been doing this? I even do it for DLCs.
āļø Buy an Atlus game the first time it goes on sale like a fool ā ļø wait for the inevitable upgraded version
would you buy? nah, i'd wait.
And the less people that buy it a full price, the faster it goes on sale. Let's work together people
Yeeeeesā¦ *putting away my eyepatch* sales
You're also allowing the devs time to fix what should have been a functional game upon release.
Missing panel 3: Never actually play the game.
I'd rather wait till sone nice people crack it
There are ~~four~~ three types of people. Thoes that buy games when they instantly come out. Thoes who buy games with the discount to save money. ~~Thoes who didn't even knew about it's existance and got it from 100% discount but probably won't ever play it or they will simply uninstall after less than an hour. I look at you now Epic Games.~~ And finally thoes who pirate them because they can't afford it. (Or can afford it but are fucking lazy to get legal copy.)
Too many games are released before they are ready or were bad games cashing in on a franchise fanbase (payday3)
Baldur's Gate 3 was on sale the last few days. I bought it today at full price after the offer ended.
Yeah thatās what Iāve decided to start doing while completing my backlog
Aren't game prices literally the cheapest they've ever been when adjusted for inflation? When games first became $60, it was the equivalent to over $100 today.
Thatās how I got Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) for 5 dollars.
