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With 2700 games + 100% DLC purchased on Steam alone, im doing far better job in supporting gaming developers than you.
That statement got me curious; in your library you have clocked in playtime on Steam for roughly ~300 titles. Have you purchased the rest of the titles elsewhere and activated them on Steam, or have you compulsively bought all these titles on Steam? Is this why you're fiending for a larger discount?
I have a golden rule of only buying a game 75%-99% off, because i found that eventually every single game will hit that price at a one-day flash sale, mainly because the gaming industry is so saturated with 5000 quality games the last 30 years, that they are all competing for whatever dollars the customer has.
Because of this, a developer/publisher needs to make an incredible game and list at an incredible low price to maximize profits in this 2020's era.
The reason is because customers only have so many dollars to spend on games, so logically they will spend the money on the BEST games only. So to combat this a dev/publisher should list their game uber-cheap $2-$5 and everybody on the planet will buy the game - even if they will never have the realistic time to play all the games they bought at cheap prices within their short lifetime.
The best strategy a dev/publisher can do is make the game so cheap everyone buys it and extract those customer dollars before they are invested in a competitor's game instead.
To answer your question more directly, i will only buy a game 75%-99% off and from any digital store that is willing to sell at that pricepoint. Which usually happens when sales have completely slowed down after all the rich people & streamers have p!ssed-away all their money paying full price near launch day.
If you don't mind me running on, being able to have multiple digital stores selling games is a huge advantage as it creates competition for lower pricing where the customer gets to enjoy the huge discounts. BUT, if a company is trying to make the PC an exclusive console/platform where you can only buy & play games on PC only using their site, it will not only keep prices high, but since they control the market they will push the prices HIGHER in the future. And this company trying to do this is called 'EpicGames'.
Epic wants to make the future of PC gaming their exclusive privilege using free money from the stock market investors & tax-writeoffs.
If you have people willing to pay $50 for your product, why sell it for $5? Electronic games are a unique commodity in the sense that they're both a work of art that is resistant to technical obsolescence (some people are still buying repackaged copies of the original DOOM today, just like people buy half a century old music), and as a digital medium the games do not wear down or perish if left "on the shelf" for years.
This means that if your game has any potential to become a classic, you'll practically have years if not decades to work income out of it. But one rule remains: if you've sold your product to a gamer for $1, it's very difficult to sell it to him again for even $2, with the exception of "remastered" versions or collections that contain all the DLCs for instance. This is why I believe your logic is flawed.
It's a bit odd that in the next paragraph you acknowledge the existence of early adopters in the form of rich people and streamers; why sell your game for five bucks to these people, if they're willing to shell out $50 for the privilege of playing it first?
Still, I hope you've made your purchases from stores that sell legal copies; there are marketplaces online that sell keys obtained through dubious means.
I have a habit of going on long tangents myself, so I will not fault you for being thorough. :)
I'm still fuzzy on your logic though, are you saying that developers should sell their games as cheaply as possible, but not so cheap that they'll obtain a monopoly status over their competitors? I admit I'm probably mixing the roles of the developer and distributor platform here. :S
I do not trust Epic Games because I've read that their client software is intrusive and likely collecting customer data beyond what it necessary to fulfill their service. Ironically though, I just recalled that Into the Breach was free on their platform last September, so they went beyond your -99% optimal discount...
So, you proclaim to be more supportive to game developers than others, yet here you are with a long horsecrap excuse for only buying games at a 75% discount. XD
Not only should you find a job. You also need a therapist. FY bro.
You still $200,000 behind me in supporting developers. Come talk to me when you've done that & you're making REAL money scrub!
Time. Developers are competing for the customer's time. Having limited time to play, I won't play one game over another just because it is cheaper, personally.
True, but you WILL buy a game because it's so cheap you can't say 'no' to the sale...lol ;)
Meanwhile, i just finished playing Res. Evil 1 for the first time in 26 years on release.
The backlog is a struggle yo!