It’s beyond insane to me that a $70 “AAAA” game (kidding, it’s AAA) dips down to the absurd price of $5. I’ve never seen anything like it. Wish the entire Sims 4 “collection” if you can call it that was $5 total, would be incredible, or Starfield.
They’re showing their true value.
Unbound was basically dead on arrival, its practically just heat with re-shade and barely any actual new content.
I played that game for free… Glad I didn’t pay a single dime for it… It was ass
Is this a complaint? I see nothing wrong.
Most AAA’s are arse and barely sell so easy decision to make them cheaper to get them sold.
Because broke niggas like me can’t afford 20$ for a legitimate skyrim copy even tho I got 1800 hrs in that game
I pirated the game and it included all the DLC. Then I played it for a few hours and was glad I didn’t spend 5 dollars on it.
Also, some Steam sales are amazing. 90% off, is great, but not that rare.
$70 price is for people who are really impatient and then sales are to capture price sensitive people over time. Not unusual. It’s why I wasn’t bothered by the $70 retail price, since I knew I’d never have to pay it. It’s just a tax on the impatient.
Instead of lowering their prices over time and so sales are less significant of a percentage, they keep the original price indefinitely and just have lots of sales. This makes the percentage off much higher than if they had depreciated the regular price as it should. Pretty common these days.
Luckily I started to only buy games after comparing on isthereanydeal.
This also pleases the Steam Store algorithm god. A big spike will bump the game up in the charts, then the algo will serve it to more people in the store and more people will buy it. The more sales momentum a game has the more the algo will show it in the recommended sections.
Lol, still too expensive for that garbage…
boots up some real NFS
“TO THE WINDOOOOOOOO-”
Bro, it’s the Autumn Steam sale…it says so in giant letters on top of the steam store page.
but 80% is a lot more than the usual 10-20%
Yeah, but the 10-20% sales are for good games.
These sales always have crazy deals like this. It’s nothing new. Some are better than others.
Pirate triple a and buy indie.
Its what both of em deserve.Nah, just don’t play the AAA bullshit. It is not worth your time to pirate
that one depends on ones opinion tho.
personally? all the ones i did try where dogshit.
But one womans trash is another man or womans treasure as they say.
This is the way
This is the way
It happens all the time on Steam and physical retail. Especially when the game is critically panned or is old enough that it’s not selling at the original price anymore.
Pretty funny to see the big budget “AAAA” games going from $70 to $5 in just a few months, while seeing an independent game like RimWorld never go on sale and have multiple DLCs that aren’t much cheaper than the base game because the former loses interest hella fast, while the latter seems to keep gaining popularity.
Just fyi, Ludeon Studios changed their stance on sales some time ago, in fact it’s on sale right now! Never more than a 20% discount though. Factorio however has still never been on sale. But your point still stands
Both are pennies on the hour investments though. Factorio Space Age has drawn me back in like the OG did years ago.
No. Don’t. Don’t tell me this, don’t do it to me, I’m trying to complete Satisfactory playthrough
But he right tho… the basics have been cleaned up a bit so the early game isn’t as slow, and every planet actually made me feel like new again
On the contrary, IME they significantly slowed down the early game, but they removed the early-mid-game dip right after you unlock fluids and oil processing
Yeah the green to blue transition seemed like a smaller hurdle than I remembered.
Bruh… :(
I just bought Biotech and Anamoly for regular price like 2 weeks ago. I hate not being able to predict the future. This way of perceiving time sucks ass.
Never buy games prior to a holiday, there’s always a sale coming up that might save you some money.
I hate you not being able to tell me the future too. I need those damn lotto numbers!!!
Factorio has only ever gone up in price, and the new expansion costs more than the base game did.
I think part of this has to be related to the idea that you cant do good, creative, interesting things on e the number of cooks in the kitchen gets above a certain size, which might actually be quite small. I mean look at terraria and stardew valley. Microscopic dev teams with impact the size of asteroids in terms of total effect and the long term impact on gaming.
I think “good” in media is an extension of having a singular vision for what you are trying to do. Focus too much on crowd pleasing and you lose the plot.
I completely agree with that. Even the games that made the big companies big back in the day started off being like 3-5 people, tops. Now they have hundreds of people, tons of ideas, along with limited time and tons of bureaucracy. Even if there’s just one person making the decisions, it can’t be easy frequently hearing good suggestions from other people working on the thing under you and not wanting to try and incorporate them.
or any nintendo game, I swear they’re never on sale.
They’re on sale right now
oh jeez! finally!
Literally on sale right now.
“The Callisto protocol” went from release @$60 to free on Epic, in less than two years. That’s the fastest I’ve ever seen a game depreciate.
Exhibit A:
nfs games up to and including MW 2012
These are solid, enjoyable entries in the series. Peaked with Underground 2 and MW 2005, but the takeover/acquisition of Criterion pumped new life into HP 2010 and MW 2012.
Exhibit B:
nfs games released after MW 2012
These are dogshit. Heavy dlc, meh progression, horrible to play on a keyboard, stupid upgrade systems (cards? cards? are you retarded, EA?), always-online, shitty online servers, horrendous physics, so arcadey that they make actual arcade racing games look desirable.
You’ll note that this game is in the second group.
I got it as a gift a couple weeks ago, they paid $10 for it, which I was holding out for >$5 to buy myself; it’s actually better than the last iteration, but not by much. That game - heat - I thrashed on at launch and 6mo later, and when the premium or whatever edition dropped to like $1.25, I finally bought it (10h demo before) and honestly, I want my $1.25 back. Here, $5 for unbound is about right, near the upper limit.
If they hadn’t killed Criterion (the reboot is in name only, the talent jumped ship with the forced merge), nfs might be awesome still. They have to do a metric fuck-load to save this series. I have almost every game, I’m a massive fan of the series… But for the past decade, it’s fucking dogshit.
The steam fall sale is going on right now.
