Ryuji Goda
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The Last of us 2. I almost exclusively buy discounted games.
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When was the last time you paid full price for a new release? How do you feel about the prices of upcoming games?
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FinalBossWithTheMostPower
Member
If I'm on the fence about something then I'll wait, but cost isn't the driving factor as much as having the time to allocate towards playing games.
FF16 was 70 and played for 45+ hours so that's about $1.50/hr.
ToTK was 130, played 100+ hours and haven't completed it yet; $1.30/hr. Plus all of the CE content/goods.
We all pay vastly more for things that don't give us a quarter of the enjoyment or return on investment.
As a rule:
Waited for Days of Play sale since I never wanted these games but they reviewed well:
FF16 was 70 and played for 45+ hours so that's about $1.50/hr.
ToTK was 130, played 100+ hours and haven't completed it yet; $1.30/hr. Plus all of the CE content/goods.
We all pay vastly more for things that don't give us a quarter of the enjoyment or return on investment.
As a rule:
- Don't trade games in
- No collector's editions, unless the value is there
- No pre-order; only hardware or the game bonuses are of value
- I never buy things I already have/had
Waited for Days of Play sale since I never wanted these games but they reviewed well:
- Ghosts of Tsushima
- Returnal
- Death Stranding
- Armored Core
- Baldur's Gate 3
BlackTron
Member
He did say "for good games". I have no issue paying for a fine product.
No wonder publishers are feeling so confident in raising these prices.
captainpat
Member
Still pay full price for switch games cause don't really have a choice but if it's a pc/current gen console game I'm going with the pc version and buying it at discount from a keyshop.
scoobidoo112
Member
The ones I remember are Devil May Cry 4 and Ninja Gaiden 2 for the Xbox 360.
Pretty much have been sticking to second hand console games and Steam/Epic/Ubi PC sales ever since.
Spend on average maybe €100 a year on games and I never run out of interesting things to play.
Pretty much have been sticking to second hand console games and Steam/Epic/Ubi PC sales ever since.
Spend on average maybe €100 a year on games and I never run out of interesting things to play.
ipukespiders
Member
I don't think I have bought one game in the last 10 years at full price.
MALpractice311
Member
Elden Ring was the last. Armored Core 6 will be the next. In my opinion, only Fromsoft games are worth getting day one for full price. Everything else I wait until there are sales, which there inevitably are 4 to 6 weeks after release.
The Alien
Banned
Just bought Remnant 2 (Ultimate) this week for $75 with tax, etc.
Prior to that it had actually been a couple years. Thanks to both GamePass and an extensive backlog of games. This 2 things help hold me off until the 'new hit bangers' take a nice sale price. Usually buying 'the newest' games at about 50% off.
Prior to that it had actually been a couple years. Thanks to both GamePass and an extensive backlog of games. This 2 things help hold me off until the 'new hit bangers' take a nice sale price. Usually buying 'the newest' games at about 50% off.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
Because I want to play games I’m excited about as soon as possible?
poodaddy
Member
I simply don't purchase games full price in general, just kind of as a rule. I don't see why anyone does to be frank, same with preordering. The game's gonna drop price eventually, and it will be a better game when it does as it will be properly patched. You're always rewarded for waiting, paying full price gets you a worse game, ....but sooner I guess? I don't know, that's not enough incentive for me. I'm a patient guy.
Edit: Just remembered I did preorder Spider Man 2.......they got me with that goddamn Venom statue lol. Don't you goddamn judge me! There are always exceptions, and Venom statues have been known to cause them.
Edit: Just remembered I did preorder Spider Man 2.......they got me with that goddamn Venom statue lol. Don't you goddamn judge me! There are always exceptions, and Venom statues have been known to cause them.
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Salty Popsicle
Banned
My brother and I game share. The last two games purchased, Diablo IV: Ultimate Edition ($100) and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor ($70) were acquired through my brother's huge accumulation of Microsoft/Bing points. In essence we spent nothing out of pocket for those two games.
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
I just can't bring myself to jump on games right out the door for £70, I can easily afford it but it simply doesn't sit right with me, once it hits £40 then I snap it up but it is a pain in the hole having to wait tbf
Unknown Soldier
Member
FFXVI, and I like paying for only games I want.
When MS controls gaming, you'll be paying a subscription to pay games for the rest of human civilization like the people who pay a sub to use Office. Have fun with that!
When MS controls gaming, you'll be paying a subscription to pay games for the rest of human civilization like the people who pay a sub to use Office. Have fun with that!
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Baldurs Gate 3
FF 16
Advance Wars 1&2
Zelda TOTK
Diablo 4
FF 16
Advance Wars 1&2
Zelda TOTK
Diablo 4
akaFullmetal
Member
FF16, however since pricing has gone up I'm more selective and don't just buy games on a whim.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Digital games should be a tad cheaper than physical...since it behooves the storefront and the publisher to sell digital copies since there is no manufacturing costs, shipping and 3rd party seller fees. If they want consumers to move in that direction they should do something like a 20% off digital pre-order sale.I've been scrolling through the pre-order section on PSN to check out some of the games that have been recently announced on SGF, and some of those prices genuinely leave me speechless with how ridiculous they're getting.
Especially the Ubisoft games, like Avatar. I dunno what's the situation over at the land of the free, but on my side of the globe the prices for this game are as follows (after conversion):
Standard: 84 USD
Gold: 121 USD
Ultimate: 143 fuck-mothering US dollars
I literally don't know what to say. It almost feels offensive that they would have the balls to ask that much for this shit.
I bought a grant total of 3 games on release this year. One of them at a significant discount because I was able to snatch some free PSN cards that covered about a third of the price for Resi 4. The other two were Dead Space and Jedi Survivor. But for the rest of it I usually just wait for a discount, the size of which will depend on how badly I want to play something.
But with these obnoxious prices being what they are, it gets progressively more difficult to convince myself that it's at all worth spending 80+ dollars on a single game, even if it's something that I'm really excited about. And it's not even that I can't afford it, because I can. But at this point it really feels like getting buttfucked without so much as a reacharound.
Krathoon
Member
Yeah. I try to find cheap ways of getting games now, like using third party keys.
Disco Dave
Member
The only full price games I've purchased this year have been Zelda TOTK and Final Fantasy 16. Normally I would wait for games to come down in price but I had to buy these day one to avoid having the story spoiled.
Most purchases have been PSN sales or games from PS Extra.
Most purchases have been PSN sales or games from PS Extra.
SkylineRKR
Member
FFXVI. And before it SFVI but I used Stars for 20 bucks off. These were my first 2 purchases since Forspoken in Jan.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
This year alone I've paid full price for: Octopath Traveler 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE and Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key. 
Efren is G.O.A.T.
Member
FFXVI
Diablo IV
TotK
RE4 Remake
Diablo IV
TotK
RE4 Remake
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Preordered Pikmin 4 yesterday
Drizzlehell
Banned
Agreed. In fact, many digital releases these days do offer a discount as a pre-order incentive, but the problem with that is that you have to pre-order, and pre-ordering comes with its own potential setbacks.
It's also pretty ridiculous that in many cases, physical editions are actually cheaper than digital ones. Because fuck logic, lol.
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