Only a third of PC gamers pay full price

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[–]HiddenFox 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, you can thank EA for me not buying games day one. I really wanted to buy Diablo 4 but I held strong, thank god!

TBO, I'm finding I'm playing way more indie games. BattleBit is insanely good, Hallowed Knight, Rimworld, FTL, Into the breach, Factorio and Satisfactory to name a few.

The last AAA game I bought was Borderlands 3 which I play with friends. (Got the whole bundle with DLC on sale a year ago.) I also play Halo but it was free.

This article claims that the pendulum has swung in favor of game makers but I disagree, at least for PC players. I paid $30 to Borderlands 3 with all the DLC. Also it had been patched and worked perfect. I call that a win. You just need patience.

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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I only buy games once a year, black Friday.

And i make sure the games im buying are at their lowest they have ever been.

I refuse to buy new games, unless they are "must haves" for me.

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You probably know about these already, but https://isthereanydeal.com and https://gg.deals are great tools for tracking the sale price of games and you can set a notification once a game reaches a certain price.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I did not know about that. Thank you. I was using steam db . Org or whatever its called.

Much appreciated.

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s okay triple a game devs are gonna put pop up ads in pc games Ubisoft is already starting

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The last game I remember paying more than $20 for was Duke Nukem Forever, because I preordered it. There have only been a couple games I bought at full price since then, and they have all been indy games, $20 or less.