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What is your opinion on games raising their price ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Vcio@lemmy.world to c/steam@lemmy.ml
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(sorry if it's the wrong place for this kind of discussion)

Yesterday The Riftbreaker raised its price 50% for base game and 65% for dlcs. I know Steam said all devs to adjust prices(in January), but this feel more of trend where once a game gets popular the price skyrocket.

As someone who waits a game go 75% or a stable 50% discount before buying it, if i didnt buy it by then sure i ain't buying that now unless there is a massive discount (not even gonna talk about games that raise price to fake a bigger discount).

I dont want to sound cheap; I grew up with no condition to buy games and spent a lot of my internet in torrents in my youth, now i gladly pay for games but once a game raise its price i unwishlist it.

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[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Patient gamers gang?

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yup.

I'm 40. I've been gaming since opening Super Mario Land one afternoon in 92/93. I've spent money on more games than I can count (literally as I've bought and sold my entire physical collection numerous times over the years).

At this point: Game comes out, I pirate it. Once it's below $20, I'll buy it (assuming it wasn't shit, obviously). If I get tired of it before then, it gets Wishlisted until I can buy it below $20 in the future and I spend the next chunk of time playing one of the millions of games that have come out in the last 40ish years which I've missed instead.

You ever see me spending $70/$80 or more for a game for the rest of my life you best fucking call me a doctor and let my wife know I may not be coming home.