>game on my wishlist is 25% off>still wont buy until it's at least 50%
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>game i wishlisted a long time ago is 50% offoh cool time to b->all of the DLC needed just makes it the price of a regular game
>>732983536digimon time stranger I'm looking at YOU
>>732983448I wont buy until at least 75% off or in a bundle and if it looks like a bundle fodder type game I just wait for the bundleStep your game up lad, dont let the Jews win
>>732983448>buying games
>bought a switch 2>games from 10+ years ago are still full price>still buys them
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>>732983448Nothing wrong with this. I have games I've wanted for literal YEARS that I still haven't bought because I refuse to spend the inflated price. I would rather never play it at all.The full price of a game is the extra tax I'd be paying for the privilege of playing and enjoying it "early" when it releases. I'm not paying 75% of its original price to play it 3 years later, I will wait until a discount proportional to how long I've waited, or I will not play at all.
>>732983875GG.Deals is the best now because it has grey market cooked inISAD is shit now
>>732983448>Game is discounted >The DLC isn't and costs more than the game
>>732983448Kill yourself /an/ poster
>>732983536The amount of times this exact scenario has happened to me is maddening
>>732983536let's spice things up:>finally the complete version of the game is available with all the dlc at a good enough price>about to buy it>see that they will be releasing one more DLC years after the original release>it costs as much as the main game and the older dlc togethermotherfucker
>game I want isn't on sale at the time>go to cdkey site >buy the game>game has dlc>wait until dlc is 50%-75% off or look for dlc cdkeys>mfw I'm saving money
>>732983692is there not a single developer you want to support? besides that, if a game is frequently updated you're gonna have a bitch of a time with a pirated copy.
>>732983573The dlc is ass in Time Strangers. Don't buy it unless you REALLY fucking love omnimon and 30 minute content
>>732984383>fighting game>base game goes on sale for 50% off>season 1 DLC is 29.95>season 2 DLC is 29.95>season 3 DLC is coming out soon and will also cost 29.95No wonder this genre is fucking dead.
>>732984679>game is frequently updated9/10 of those updates are bug fixes for something that happened to one person under some extremely specific circumstances, you can get away with updating once per month or even less
>>732984679No I'm not goycattle
>>732984679>is there not a single developer you want to support?no
>Release Ultimate Complete edition with all DLC>Buy completed game>Release more DLC
>>732987113PAYDAY
>>732984679>I support developers but only after years when their games go on sale for less than 10 dollars
>>732987647>anon learns there is a limit to how much money people are willing to part with for any particular reasonYep, it do be like that.
>>732983448dog
This is why I just buy humble bundles. They usually include DLC.If they didn't, then well that DLC doesn't exist.
>>732983448everytime i see these threads i remember /an/ exists and i go there for a bit
>>732984679>is there not a single developer you want to support?>>732984679>Team Ninja>Fromsoft>SCS software>Owlcat>Larian>Neon Giant>sometimes Capcom>Ritzler
>>732983448>could've bought Balatro any day of the week since it's dirt cheap>refuse to do so because whenever they do a sale of it they only discount it by 2 dollars at mostMy brain works in Jewish ways. I'm not even poor or Jewish.
>>732983448There's barely anything left on my wishlist, games are so shit now I'm actually going to run out of things to play.
>>732983448>game on my wishlist is 25% off>game on my wishlist is 25% off>game on my wishlist is 25% off>game on my wishlist is 25% off>game takes like 5 years to get a 75% and is still overpriced with no DLCs
>>732983448>game on wish list since 2016>multiple expansions>main game constantly drops below 10 bucks>none of the expansions ever drop below 10 bucksstill waiting
>>732984592Xenoverse 2
>>732988986Game?
>>732983448chimps are evil animals and the world would be better off without them
>>732984679>is there not a single developer you want to support?Not anymore
>>732990104don't say that about basketball americans!
>>732983448Even 50% off is shit when base price seems to forever be the launch one. I ain't paying $29.99 for Sekiro, Activision.
>>732983536you act as if most dlc is worth it. also, you buy dlc after you've started playing the game and liked it enough.
>>732990197>playing incomplete games
>>732990224>playing games
>>732988787>>732988986never buy shit unless you intend to immediately play it. you'll see your spending plummet.
>>732987806Instead you end up making sure that game development is not profitable to do, which means no games that you want to be made will be made.All because you're a poorfag cheapskate thirdie.
>game from my wishlist is on sale>remember to actually look at the requirements>Windows 11eww nigga
>40% off>price goes from $69.99 to $41.99T-Thanks
>>732983448Mfw>Game is 5% off( ￣-￣)>Game is 10% off('~`;)>Game is 25% off( ´∀｀ )b>Game is 40% off((o(^∇^)o))>Game is 70% off( ´・_ゝ・)>Game is 90% off(#￣З￣)
old ass games going up in price or having worse sale percentages years after release is retarded and should be illegal, the release is fucking digital and not in limited supply for fuck's sake
>>732983448>little nigga died of salmonella 5 days later
>>732990919Tough shit. You can get what I give you, or you can have nothing at all.
>>732983536Yeah, total war has gone to shit
>>732988986Grim Yawn is on GoG, thus free
25% is not a sale. That's like a new release offer. "Buy now and get 10-25% off." Actual sales start at 50% and even then it might not be worth it.
>>732990919Anon, a solo dev selling even just 10000 copies would be a huge success at 10$
>>732991517Well, have fun, now that nobody is giving YOU what you want. Because why would anyone appeal to you, the customer that doesn't want to spend its money?>>732991586And half of all the money from those sales will be eaten away by taxes and the Valve cut. And this entire thread is literally about that - people only buying games on sales. The bulk of those 10000 solo dev sales would be discounted copies sold at $5 or less. Meaning they won't turn a profit from those at all.
I am very worried for that tortoise
>>732991715do you think the chimps are fattening it up before eating it?
>MH Milds at 50% offcan it get better than this?
>>732983448>game's gameplay is so ass that I don't care for expanding it further past the vanilla campaign thank you for being so infuriating lies of piss. No I won't need more bosses that suck thank you. This game getting a dlc and sekiro getting nothing confirms my suspicion that we're trapped in super hell.
>>732991707it's been proven sales work and they will move more units. at that point it really is a numbers game. for something autistic like factorio it would be counter productive because you know normies aren't interested in even giving it a try and autismos will buy it at full price regardless.
>>732991586>>732991707I also forgot to add regional pricing into the mix. There are more third worlders on Steam (the main platform for PC gaming distribution where a solo dev would be) than there are westerners. And those said third worlders usually pay half of the full price because of their region. So unless literally 100% of your audience is from the West, even without ever going on a single discount, a $10 game wouldn't always sell for the full $10.
>>732991850>it's been proven sales work and they will move more units.But do they generate a profit? Of course sales move more units than the usual non-discounted state of the game but if a $10 game is 50% off, that means for the dev to make back the money made on the game/make a profit off it, they now need to have 2 people buy the game. And as this thread shows, it's easier said than done.
>>732984679nope. Also, updating isn't a hassle at all, you just download the update files and put them in the game folder and it's done. the only difference between this method and let's say steam is that steam puts the update files in the game folder for you. that's it.
this is why I make free to play mobile games, give you a little taste and then after a few weeks (You) beg me for things to sell you. and by you I mean 2% of you.
>>732991276Why are japanese emoticons so cringe?
>>732983536Black Ops III zombie
>>732991917anon. how often do you see sales? I think there's your answer to whether they're profitable or not.
>>732991946I've noticed this trend of people releasing a free game on Steam and then have $10 backer DLC you can buy.
>>732991715I'm more worried for the fingers getting close to that beak.
>>732983448>25% off>still over 60 dollars
>>732984592Diablo 2's new class
>say you don't pirate because you want to support the devs>only buy old games from sales
>>732993145Yeah supporting devs doesnt mean supporting them having free snack bars and pony rides all day while goofing off and napping in their 50000 square foot programming palace
>>732993145is it wong?
>>73298344895~99% is the sweet spot.
>>732993145I don't pirate because I don't want malware, I only want to support indie devs. AAA shit should die.
>>732995089AAA is exactly where it needs to be: placating normies. Keep them out of real games while we eat good, I don't want some normie fucks stinking up the games i like.
Monkes are cute creatures when they aren't killing each other for 2 seconds
>>732983448If you want to wait until the price is so low that the devs won't make it any money with your purchase, why don't you just pirate it, you fucking mongoloid?
>>732983448>game on my wish list is 99% off>”eeeeehhhhhhhh maybe some other time”
>>732996669Zoomers don't know how to pirate games. Most of them don't even know how to open zip files.
>>732996802yeah, well you millennials don't know how to load a mouse driver into high memory
>>732983536>main game goes on sale for less than $10 often>has so much he DLC that never goes on sale and is at least 3 times the price of the main game's full price in total
>>732996669why don't you just self publish your game, dumbass
>>732983448That dude's dog doesn't seem that smart.
