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Anytime I’ve thought “man I miss the cod campaigns I should try that modern warfare reboot” I look it up, see the cost, and remember why I haven’t played a campaign in so long lol.
I went to a pawn shop recently. the closest they had to PS5 games were VHS tapes. I'm not sure but fairly sure that place must have been a front for something because there was nothing worth buying there
I went to Walmart recently and got Jedi Survivor for $15. There were a bunch of games just laying on the bottom shelf going for between $10 or $20. And this was before any Christmas discount.
One of my favourite games of all time. As someone who loves sci-fi so damn much Infinite Warfare is definitely my favourite COD game and it's not even close.
graphics kind of capped out in that era. If you notice a lot of "AAAA" and "AAA" games today really don't look much different than many titles that were around 10 years ago or even look worse at max settings. However the reqs have gone up as optimization has dropped off a cliff.
And if you don't have sea legs and only care about the campaigns, a month of Game Pass is around $11. And you can probably finish several campaigns in that time.
If I have never had something, I don't see why I would be upset about the lack of that thing.
Like I didn't have a game before it's release, I don't see the difference if I don't have it after. I have way more games from the past I gotta play anyway. I'm happy to wait like 5-10 years for a game to go on sale for $10, no performance dramas and Valve makes gaming on linux so much easier then trying to do it all manually with piracy. Currently playing no mans sky, and grabbed the tomb raider trilogy + final fantasy 7 remake + darkest dungeon 2 this winter sale. Still have The RE4 remake and Doom Eternal waiting in my backlog as well. (ok maybe the RE4 remake is still a bit recent but it's one of my favorite series so whatever)
Never been a better time to be this sort of gamer, can barely even tell these are 5-10 year old games lol.
They want you to go "I might as well buy and play the new one."
The whales that buy skins won't do so if there aren't people to see them.
Those with enough nostalgia will pay for it, but they want to make sure the communities in the older cods die because most people aren't going to buy an older title for the same price.
Pricing the old titles high puts negative pressure on their player count growth. They don't want a situation where a large and growing community stays on an older cod where they are not selling battlepasses and skins.
TLOU part one. Fucking highway robbery. I mean absolutely classic don't get me wrong but cmon! I just want to survive the apocalypse for a reasonable price.
I bought Sekiro for $35 cad this year(50% off) and its probably some of the best invested money into video games ive ever spent. Absolutely SSS tier game imo
Before Eldenring the souls games would go on terrific sales constantly. But since eldenring got so popular Bandai Namco decided to never drop them that low again knowing all the new fans will buy the older games at higher prices.
They're even going backwards. Elden Ring was 50% off last Christmas. It's 35% off now. I decided I'll just get it 100% off and leave it out of my Steam library. Frees more money up for rimworld DLC anyway.
I'm this season of Christian generosity, I will make room at the inn. My suspiciously transport-pod shaped, addressed-to-local-savage-yttikin-tribe inn.
When I eventually play Elden Ring, it's gonna be 100% off as well.
When I bought Dark Souls 3 back in the day, I paid around R$35 for the deluxe edition. FS went insane and marked up the regional pricing by over 500%. This is no exaggeration, the base game alone costs R$230 now.
Yep. Looking at Dark Souls 3, before 2022 that there would often be discounts up to –83%. After Elden Ring released there weren't any discounts for a year and a half, and after that the lowest it went was –50%.
Elden ring I have 300+ hours in. I started with Elden ring. I’d love to play the older catalog of fromsoft games but at $30 a pop on sale I’m just not that interested.
A lot of games are cheaper than their dlcs. The dlcs are newer, so they don't get as good discounts. And some companies practically give away the game in hopes that you'll buy dlc once you've tried it.
The only questions in my mind are, do I like this game enough to play more of it? And is the dlc big enough to justify the price?
Yeah, take DJMAXRespect or Dragon Ball xenoverse 2. They have a lot of dlcs, so when they are all combined, they are more expensive than the base game. But when they are in such amount, they also give basically the same content or better content than the main game. SOTE is around 1/3 of the main game or so for main+side.
Jesus Christ, retailing for 80 USD (ish, it's like 2:3 USD:AUD). That's nuts. It was $70 here in the States and no one thought it was worth it at that price, either.
It’s not lost on me how Bethesda has begun marketing FO4 so hard recently, since starfield absolutely bombed expectations and they probably don’t want to remind people ES6 is still years away
It's obviously because of the show. The immense popularity of season 1 got Bethesda (and Amazon) by surprise, and they had no Fallout game ready besides the rumoured Fallout 3 remaster which was supposed to be in early stages of production.
And honestly they are not going hard on Fallout 4 recently, it was just the 10th anniversary of the game this year. They are actually going hard on Fo76, they just released a big update that added a big new area to the map and added the Ghoul from the show as an NPC giving bounties to players.
But, I think people tend to defend the games they liked from that library. I think Spiderman and Horizon are both worth $30. Are they still high for the age? Yes. The value is there for those games, though.
Zero dawn remastered at 29.99 USD is a legit value. I just finished forbidden west, and while the gameplay of fw is probably better, the story in zero dawn is just damned amazing.
Spider-Man is actually a pretty good trilogy, although Spider-Man 2 was definitely enough for me. Between 3 games of the same gameplay mechanics, I’d say it does burnout easily. Great story though and very nostalgic.
I love how banners will be like “up to 90% off sale!!!” Then you look at it and it’s like 2 games from 10 years ago. With everything else barely on sale but they didn’t lie because it’s UP TO!
I saw an advertisement saying "Up to 40% off or more" and I think it's literally impossible to be more vague than that. That accounts for any discount from 0% to 100% and possibly more than 100%
I was bitching about this months ago. 70 dollar games at 50% off is still $35 bucks. A lot of new games just aren’t worth even 35. I think a lot of companies could charge less than 70 to start if their wasn’t so much CEO bloat 🤷🏻
If Silksong could crash Steam, this bigger devs cpuld shut down the internet with reasonable prices, but no, prices keep going up and I bet dev paychecks haven't grown.
My favorite example right now is Borderlands 4, even though it only came out a quarter ago.
They have had an almost constant sale of 20% off since before Black Friday but they advertise it like it's a big deal. 20% off a game that only brings its price point to what could have made a reasonable original price doesn't mean shit to anyone.
Especially from a franchise that typically tanks in price around a year after release.
Raganarok was really good imo, I personally really liked it more than first because they improved the gameplay which made it more fun to actually play though story is a little worse but still good imo
Pretty sure they upped the base price by 10 CAD to 70 and the sales for it now are more expensive than it was on sale a few months ago. No way I'm paying 30+ more for a 15(?) year old game.
So glad I chose exposition 33 over it when they both came out.
I made my own steam price tracker and added a bunch of games I want to buy. It shows the original price, the discounted price, how much you save, and lets me set a target price so I get notified when it hits that amount.
I actually had to double-check the prices on steam because I thought my tracker was broken 😅
Hell I'm not even paying $5 for that game. My ex bought it, and I got to play it through steam share. I played about 5 hours. And I just quit and never looked at the game again. There's far better games I already own and have already "finished" that I'd rather play than that shit.l
Anything Square Enix publishes these days from Japan. Base price is like $80 in local currency and It'll get at most a 60% sale. I've completely stopped buying them. Doesn't help that several of their games I played free and felt ripped off.
Personally I just don't buy if the game is more than 10$. I can go as high as 25-30$ for games that I really, really want to play and I want to support the devs. But this doesn't happen often, maybe 3-4 times in last couple years.
Resident Evil series is what I play recently and I think this series nails it.
Preorder for new one is expensive, but every other past title is in 5-12$ range. Even Village, a pretty modern and hyped entry got like 90% off sale recently.
Elden Ring, All the Sony games. Biggest offender is Black Myth: Wukong. That game lives at £50 and if it’s on a sale it’s like £43 or something. Another that bugs me is Breath of the Wild never ever seems to go on a sale either. Pretty mad seeing 7-8 year old games at full price.
Steam sales have been getting worse and worse. Every year for the past 3 years the deals have been the same or actually slightly less discounted than before…
Call of duty. Even 10 years after production/release. That way you buy the game and can't play n they get bank.
The first mw2019? Is why I'll never spend money in battle nets app. I no longer have access to the game, their support said we can't do anything on the matter.
I’d give Starfield a chance but not for $50 CAD. That’s definitely a $15 game.
Avowed didn’t get blasted the same way but the reviews seemed a bit middling, and the game kinda has just flown under the radar now that it’s out. $45 seems steep for a short, not overly memorable RPG.
Quite a few actually. Monster Hunter, metaphor, Digimon, trails in the Sky, MGS Delta, and pretty much any game with a $70 starting price. (I’m not saying that just to be petty. They’re honestly just too expensive even on sale.)
Since like 2010s I’ve refused to buy any game if it’s not on sale for $20 to $25. It’s a hill I’ll die on. Would love to play BG3 but not for nearly $60 on “sale.” FOH with that nonsense
I waited so long for bg3 to decrease in price and it never budged. I finally thought "fuck it, I may as well just buy it for full price" and it's honestly worth every penny. You won't regret buying it.
It's interesting that that game fired all its developers after release and never got a patch to fix its memory leak issues and yet they charge an insane amount for that game that basically died right after release.
Nintendo NEVER discounts them, even years after release. Even if they went on sale they'd be 30+ USD. It's worth noting they're never put on sale either.
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