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MikePlaysNZ Mar 19 @ 5:31pm

Would play but...

I missed it when the promotion was for free. I dont mind paying for games but if developer wants more people to play its not worth its current price point, You don't have it free and then expect people to pay what it is now. Game is worth maybe half of its current retail price. Will try when games price is much better than 20% off

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AngryChair has Party Club

Mar 19 @ 7:35pm

Don't be a cheapskate, the game was free for a whole day and now it's 20% off. Sure, it could use a bit of polish, but don't expect the developers to give away their hard work (although they did lol).

MikePlaysNZ Mar 19 @ 8:07pm

Mate, its a top down game. For a game that is an official release and not an early access, based on the number of issues people are reporting, no one in their right mind would pay for a buggy game that's in its official release. Sure, they can fix these things, but don't charge until its in a fixed state otherwise it looks like a rip off/scam. If they weren't sure about bugs they should have stated into early access and release it when its been fully tested. But for a top down game, under my current exchange rate, i would not pay that much for a game that's top down and should be in early access. nothing about being a cheapskate, just wanting to get what i pay for.

[兵器] - Yuhiko has Party Club

Mar 21 @ 2:58am

Originally posted by MikePlaysNZ:
Mate, its a top down game. For a game that is an official release and not an early access, based on the number of issues people are reporting, no one in their right mind would pay for a buggy game that's in its official release.

I don't think the view should limit the pricing capabilities of a game, whether top down, 3rd person, first person, or similar - Since, just because a game is top down doesn't make it a bad game, or worth less. Though it is an acceptable point in regards to personal preference, so in that regard, it is fine, Just not an overall indicator for price ranges.
As for bugs, sadly it is much easier nowadays to provide patches to sold games than it was when games were sold physically and thus made it quite "normal" to have buggy releases - though of course would be much much better without a lot of those (but is, sadly, normal nowadays).

Originally posted by MikePlaysNZ:
i would not pay that much for a game that's top down and should be in early access.

Early Access is usually just an indicator of still missing planned features and potential heavy changes, rather than bugs, sadly. So while I do agree that I would prefer it that way, it is not the standard, sadly, so it would be weird to really expect that - or rather be disappointed by that expectation, as it is (again, sadly) custom for new releases to be buggy nowadays, regardless of early access or not.

So while I haven't tried out the game myself yet and can't comment on it's buggy state, or how impactful those are, I'm fairly certain that this game, like many many others as well, will, somewhere in the future, have a bigger discount at some point in time - and hopefully squashed most bugs by then. So my recommendation would be, especially if your personal preference is not aligned with the top down view, to wait a while before purchase. (Not all games need to be purchased on release, or close to it, after all)
As for the pricing (from just description an images seen, as I haven't given it a try myself yet) it seems to be in the average range honestly - atleast where I live. So I doubt a direct price change will occur and at most just discounts.

Worst case, if the bugs are more the point of being against the purchase, rather than the pricing, then I believe steam still has the time range and playtime range requirements for automatically accepted refunds (haven't kept up to date, so I may be wrong) but if that is the case, you could still purchase and give it a try. If it were too buggy for you, in its current state, a refund would still be a possibility. Just ensure you do not break out of the requirements to be eligible and hope to have seen enough by that time.