The worst Winter sale I've seen in a long time

[Kag]

Here's hoping what goes on sale changes because what a boring and not really discounted list of games

[crunchyfrog]

Oprindeligt skrevet af peppermint hollows:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Tito Shivan:

Doom Eternal is 75% off, Metro exodus is 80%, Horizon: Zero Down is also 75% off.
There's AAA titles on a deep discount. What some expect is a game that's just released, like Baldur's Gate 3 to be deeply discounted on sale. Things don't go that fast (unless the game's a flop... Wich isn't the case here)
There's bad sales (cough, cough, Activision) and there's badly managed expectations. And the two usually blend in different percentages.

That's why I mentioned brand new ones, yeah. If you can wait a year or two triple A games will start to get discounts like that, most of the time. But some companies (like Activision as you mentioned) just don't put their old titles on sale (or if they do, it's 10-20% at most), but usually they've always been like that anyway.

I've banged on about this many times.

My buying habits have ALWAYS been cheapskate. I play on as many platforms as I can, and I NEVER buy games anywhere near release. I always read reviews after release, and gauge what I value that game at TO ME and wait for it to reach that. Doesn't matter whether it takes years.

And when comapnies like Activision don't reduce I simply don't buy them because they don't offer anything different to anyone else.

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Oprindeligt skrevet af crunchyfrog:

1. I NEVER buy games anywhere near release.

2. I always read reviews after release

3. ... and gauge what I value that game at TO ME and wait for it to reach that.

4. Doesn't matter whether it takes years.

5. And when comapnies like Activision don't reduce I simply don't buy them because they don't offer anything different to anyone else.

1. Ditto. Price-gouging the people who can't wait.

2. Ditto. Wouldn't even think about buying a game without reading reviews.

3. Ditto.

4. Ditto. Patience is a virtue.

5. Ditto. There's always another company with a very similar game. Just give it a little time.

[crunchyfrog]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

Oprindeligt skrevet af crunchyfrog:

1. I NEVER buy games anywhere near release.

2. I always read reviews after release

3. ... and gauge what I value that game at TO ME and wait for it to reach that.

4. Doesn't matter whether it takes years.

5. And when comapnies like Activision don't reduce I simply don't buy them because they don't offer anything different to anyone else.

1. Ditto

2. Ditto

3. Ditto

4. Ditto.

5. Ditto

Glad to hear it. It's really not difficult to do.

I would also add one caveat to the final point.

Regarding people like Activision. If there IS something Iwant as I game on as many platofrms as I can, I don't limit myself.

For example, I wanted COD Black Ops to play zombies with my daighter as she kept begging me. I wasn't going to pay for it on PC as you rightly say, it never gets reduced.

So I simply weent to CEX and bought a copy on PS3 (well two) for £6 a pop.

When you don't put your eggs in one basket, it gives you options :)

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Oprindeligt skrevet af crunchyfrog:

Regarding people like Activision. If there IS something Iwant as I game on as many platofrms as I can, I don't limit myself.

I didn't join Steam until summer of 2021 because I was against the idea of Steam. I hate that a corporation makes me have to log in to play a game, constantly monitors what I play, how long I play, and who I talk to while I'm playing. But eventually I got tired of playing the same old 17 games on CD, and it became impossible to buy physical copies of new games I could just install and play without needing to "activate" it on Steam.

Once I finally got here, and saw how there are tens and tens of thousands of games, I became like a kid in a candy store. There was no need to even ask if another game place existed besides Steam. In just over 2.5 years on Steam, I've already collected almost 800 games. I'm already entering my late 50's, so realistically that's more games than I will probably ever have time to play in my lifetime.

But yet I want more games. And I certainly want more options now. At some point earlier this year I heard of GoG, but didn't care at the time. However, I don't like the big update Steam did in August, or where Steam seems headed, so since August I've hardly spent anything on Steam. I'm giving Gog the 99% majority of my money now. And I just heard of another place called Humble Bundle, so I'm investigating what they have to offer too.

Oprindeligt skrevet af crunchyfrog:

So I simply weent to CEX and bought a copy on PS3 (well two) for £6 a pop.

So is CEX a name or an abbreviaton? Do they have PC games, or just console games?

[Axe]

Oprindeligt skrevet af crunchyfrog:

Yet another case of not understanding how dimishing returns works.

When you first see a sale on steam it's keys to the candy shop - everything you want quite literally.

But as you buy more, the games you want recede.

That's just how stuff works.

I've collected games for decades. I've collected rare records for decades. I can give you long boring tales about going to track down the last few rarities for a group or label or something and how that goes.

Give us all a present and don't...

[crunchyfrog]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

Oprindeligt skrevet af crunchyfrog:

Regarding people like Activision. If there IS something Iwant as I game on as many platofrms as I can, I don't limit myself.

I didn't join Steam until summer of 2021 because I was against the idea of Steam. I hate that a corporation makes me have to log in to play a game, constantly monitors what I play, how long I play, and who I talk to while I'm playing. But eventually I got tired of playing the same old 17 games on CD, and it became impossible to buy physical copies of new games I could just install and play without needing to "activate" it on Steam.

Once I finally got here, and saw how there are tens and tens of thousands of games, I became like a kid in a candy store. There was no need to even ask if another game place existed besides Steam. In just over 2.5 years on Steam, I've already collected almost 800 games. I'm already entering my late 50's, so realistically that's more games than I will probably ever have time to play in my lifetime.

But yet I want more games. And I certainly want more options now. At some point earlier this year I heard of GoG, but didn't care at the time. However, I don't like the big update Steam did in August, or where Steam seems headed, so since August I've hardly spent anything on Steam. I'm giving Gog the 99% majority of my money now. And I just heard of another place called Humble Bundle, so I'm investigating what they have to offer too.

Oprindeligt skrevet af crunchyfrog:

So I simply weent to CEX and bought a copy on PS3 (well two) for £6 a pop.

So is CEX a name or an abbreviaton? Do they have PC games, or just console games?

I love that - and it mirrors so much of how it was for me too.

As for CEX it's a store across Britain (though I've heard they've popped up in other places too - think there's one in New York). It stands for Computer and Msuic Exchange (or something like that, I can't quite remember).

They used to be a record shop mostly but they expanded and grew. Now they're mostly a game shop and second hand electronics goods.

I doubt they'd do PC games or if they do, much, for the obvious reason that keys can only be activated once.

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Oprindeligt skrevet af crunchyfrog:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

So is CEX a name or an abbreviaton? Do they have PC games, or just console games?

As for CEX it's a store across Britain (though I've heard they've popped up in other places too - think there's one in New York). It stands for Computer and Msuic Exchange (or something like that, I can't quite remember).

Ahh, a physical brick & mortar store. The way you said it, I got the impression it was another online place to buy games. Oh well. Thanks for the info.

[Garou]

Every year is the new "worst sale ever". Next year will be the same

[Axe]

I'm absolutely certain it will.

[Dura_Ace]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Pscht:

And next year will be worse, and the year after, and the one after that...

Maybe you should take up a different hobby.

Just get older and you will naturally stop playing and move onto other things. I was an addict gamer from my 20's till about 45. After that i did not care anymore. I stopped buying games as much and i stopped playing as much as well. I just stopped caring.

This sale i got a single campaign addon for DCS and that is it. I started it up and saw that i would have to figure out where in the cockpit the damn navigation lights were and could not be arsed to find out. I fly during the day for %99 of the time so cant be arsed. Il do it tomorrow. WHo knows.

[crunchyfrog]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

Oprindeligt skrevet af crunchyfrog:

As for CEX it's a store across Britain (though I've heard they've popped up in other places too - think there's one in New York). It stands for Computer and Msuic Exchange (or something like that, I can't quite remember).

Ahh, a physical brick & mortar store. The way you said it, I got the impression it was another online place to buy games. Oh well. Thanks for the info.

Well it IS online too.

I'm disabled and I think I've visited therir brick and mortar stores less than 6 times. But I order online all the time.

I'm not sure they ship outside the UK though. By all means look into it. If they do have stores in places like New York, they MAY ship.

[crunchyfrog]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dura_Ace:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Pscht:

And next year will be worse, and the year after, and the one after that...

Maybe you should take up a different hobby.

Just get older and you will naturally stop playing and move onto other things. I was an addict gamer from my 20's till about 45. After that i did not care anymore. I stopped buying games as much and i stopped playing as much as well. I just stopped caring.

This sale i got a single campaign addon for DCS and that is it. I started it up and saw that i would have to figure out where in the cockpit the damn navigation lights were and could not be arsed to find out. I fly during the day for %99 of the time so cant be arsed. Il do it tomorrow. WHo knows.

Not necessarily.

I didn't and I know of many many others who didn't that are older than me.

I've said many times I started out right at the beginning. Built my first computer as a kid (I obviously had help) in the 1970s. Got bitten hard and was lucky in having a close friend who was well off open a computer store. So I had access to LOADS of computers and games as we'd sit in there after hours, drinking and playing.

I'd even come home from work, wait for the parents to go to bed, so I could pinch the main TV and play games like Jet Set Willy on the ZX SPectrum until the sun came up, then grab a couple of hours sleep before work again.

Besides a blip a few years later where I didn't like where Sega games were taking things (beat em ups and so on), but once the PS1 came along I was back in hard, ending up working for magazines.

And nothing's changed to this day. I still buy a few hundred games every year, play continuously.

So no that's not necessarily true at all.

Though I would underline what I always say - be honest with yourself. If you go whole hog into it, you NEED to not stagnate. If you're getting bored or in a rut, go and do something else until you want to come back. Doesn't matter how long it takes. It keeps the hobby fresh.

[ruhe]

I also wish there were more interesting games on sale this year maybe they get on sale in the next few days.

[Darzai]

There used to be a bigger difference between the big event sales and rest of the year. There would be more extreme price reductions during those. Like those timed flash sales. But now it is just the same as any other sale through the year.

This has been for years already though.

Only other difference I can imagine is not having actual events anymore where you might win a game or something.
Also, most AAA games seem to be 70euro now, so even with 50% off it still feels expensive compared to Indie games.

[Etny2k]

I just spent $220 on train sim 4 dlcs. I have a year of trains ahead of me.