How often does this go on sale?

[Digby]

I'm interested in buying rimworld but not at that price. How often does it go on sale does anyone know?

[liosalpha]

probably just a frequent as you used the search option.

[TC]

You may want to take a look at this topic:
RimWorld mythbusting, and what's been important to us recently

It's a pinned one. You can't miss it.

Currently it has not been on sale.
However it will be, some day in the future. But when? We don't know.

So you will have to wait until you see the price you are willing to buy.


Good luck!

Please note there are sides that defend the price, and there are sides that find it too much. This is mostly personal, depending on the games you like, and things in the game you value.
Neither side will ever be 100% right.

[ElDuderino]

OP, I had this game on my wishlist for a couple of years just waiting for a sale. It never happened and I finally pulled the trigger anyway. I have no regrets.

Sure, maybe you'll save $10-15 if you wait another year or two, but you won't have the entertainment of the game to enjoy.

This has been one of those, "Is the sun coming up? What time is it? I better get a couple hours of sleep before work." kind of games for me.

"I'll just do one more day real quick first..."

[kevinshow]

Originally posted by Jet:

I'm interested in buying rimworld but not at that price. How often does it go on sale does anyone know?

if the price prohibits you from buying it, then it may be a while.

you may want to check out other games in the mean time and stop thinking about this one so you won't obsess about not having it yet.

[John the Warlock]

750ish hours on record here. The game is made by one guy, so I think he's less likely to do sales and stuff to promote sales like EA or something. The game is worth every penny, and then a few thousand more. Not to mention all the mods you can get that change the mods in about a million different ways. I think you should pull the trigger and just do it, if you don't like the game within an hour, just return it. Steam is good about that. But I have a feeling you will.

[Nuggs]

probably either not for a long time or never lol. Rimworld is the only game i know of thats continued to go up in price on steam and has only been on sale possibly one time in the time its been on steam. And thats would have been just recently when 1.1 and royalty came out. But my memory may be serving me wrong. It was honestly probably just the dlc that was on a small discount for a short time. Prior to 1.1 im almost positive the game was 30 dollars. i bought it for like 15 or 20 bucks when it initially came out on steam. didnt start playing it til november of last year tho so i havent kept up with how the price varied between that time and now.

What i do know though, is again, since ive owned it, it may have only been on sale once but again it may have been the dlc that i saw as on sale and not the base game.

But, rimworld most certainly pays for its self at its price at some point if you dont wind up getting frustrated at not understanding the game first.

But theres also been a billion other people who have asked if rimworld ever goes on sale. In which im pretty positive the dev pinned a pretty vague thread on in the steam forums :D

[TerrorZaaier]

i downloaded this for free, after trying it bought it at full price. Never regretted it.

[Comestibles]

It will never be on sale, the dev said himself that he doesn't believe in sales. He's got a big ego and think's his game is too good to go on sale, I recommend not buying this game.

[Cormac]

Originally posted by Comestibles:

It will never be on sale, the dev said himself that he doesn't believe in sales. He's got a big ego and think's his game is too good to go on sale, I recommend not buying this game.

only that it isn't true. he never said there will be no sale at all, only that there won't be one soon (i think that statement still stands, even though it is not that recent)

[Comestibles]

Originally posted by Cormac:

Originally posted by Comestibles:

It will never be on sale, the dev said himself that he doesn't believe in sales. He's got a big ego and think's his game is too good to go on sale, I recommend not buying this game.

only that it isn't true. he never said there will be no sale at all, only that there won't be one soon (i think that statement still stands, even though it is not that recent)

"soon" to him means 7 - 12 years.

[Yaldabaoth]

Originally posted by Comestibles:

It will never be on sale, the dev said himself that he doesn't believe in sales. He's got a big ego and think's his game is too good to go on sale, I recommend not buying this game.

But you bought it and played 226 hours.

[Blitz4]

What I found is games go on sale about 2 years after release. But not always.

https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app&q=rimworld

[ZZZZZ]

Originally posted by Yaldabaoth:

Originally posted by Comestibles:

It will never be on sale, the dev said himself that he doesn't believe in sales. He's got a big ego and think's his game is too good to go on sale, I recommend not buying this game.

But you bought it and played 226 hours.

that comment doesnt make sense, you never saw someone doing something bad?

[TC]

Originally posted by Comestibles:

It will never be on sale, the dev said himself that he doesn't believe in sales. He's got a big ego and think's his game is too good to go on sale, I recommend not buying this game.

This is misinformation. And a little bit bashing at the dev.

A pinned topic says it will. Ever.
At the other side of the coin, it's a game in an open market. Tomorrow it can be 60,50,20? The price is free to choose. By the company.

If you put 3(?) years of development, you archieved something.
I think, personally, that the dev is free to choose the price of his game. As anyone can buy it yes or no.

Remember that you are free to gues how many you would like to spend on this game. And decide if you want it.


Some info regarding 1.1/dlc:
I made a game back in 2008-2010. It was a browser game. I really loved it. And I had a decent small private userbase. It was amazing to see all players play and enjoy it.

One time I added some new content in the game. Splitting the userbase in two groups. Those who liked it, those who don't.
In the end I made two servers for them.

And I kept making new content for the game. But I never released it. Afraid of splitting more of my userbase. So it died end of 2012. Never got a penny for it,as browser games are free. But it landed me a nice job. :)

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by Yaldabaoth:

Originally posted by Comestibles:

It will never be on sale, the dev said himself that he doesn't believe in sales. He's got a big ego and think's his game is too good to go on sale, I recommend not buying this game.

But you bought it and played 226 hours.

the time someone played a game has no relevance to their enjoyment of said game.
who ever sold you on this fallacious line of reasoning?

it also doesn't determine if someone should suggest the game for others to buy.

it also doesn't determine product, price, placement - the 3 basics p's of marketing and if the target consumer is a likely 'target consumer'


in fact, the only thing playtime does is show that you had the game running and steam recognized it to be true, for at least 226 hours.