Do you buy games' soundtracks on Steam?

[Jerychon]

If you do, why? You want to support developers or you can't listen the music on yt? Or do you have other reason?

[Rio]

Not really. I did buy some music for crypt of the necrodancer because it actually lets me play them in game. And doing so actually added to the game as well.

The music tracks are usually too over priced. When they kind of should already be free for buying the game. Or a dollar or two at most.

5+ dollars per soundtrack per game is just no, when I've already paid X dollars for the game itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPtvBxmXa2E

It doesn't help that most game soundtracks only have 1 or 2 songs I'd like. And theres often better fan versions if the song is really good.

Plus I could buy say music else where and I have the right to use it in my own projects, like rpgmaker.

[We are in the Beam]

Depends on the price.

[Jej]

Depends on the price. If it's something like 1 euro then sure, why not?

If it's something like 5 or 10€ then no.

[Phirestar]

I will buy soundtracks for games whose music I love listening to, and yes, it's for the sake of supporting the developers. (Why not, considering the games are so cheap?)

Although it's a bit annoying when some soundtracks are broken/incomplete. For instance, on the Starbound soundtrack, "Glitch" and "Lava Exploration 2" are the same track (the one used while deployin your mech into space). And I really wish that the DLC music was added into the Hollow Knight OST; Grimm's two themes are great.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

If the soundtrack is great or has extra music that is not in the games then yeah sometime I consider to buy them.

[sajuuk]

When it goes on sale i'd usually buy as much soundtracks as possible, it helps the dev too!

[Nitro]

Or just go on youtube or spotify what are yall talking about bro

[Devsman]

I don't, but mostly because I don't know what to expect. Do you have to listen to it in the Steam client, for example?

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

Originally posted by Devsman:

Do you have to listen to it in the Steam client, for example?

You can listen to them through Steam, but you get them as MP3 or MP3+FLAC, so you can pretty much play them wherever you like.

[Alaskan Catfish Hike]

I play with the music off. It wrecks the immersion. Then I get the soundtrack and listen to it independently.
No I didn’t scare myself when I worked overnight listening to the Outlast soundtrack off a speaker.

[Blargo]

I bought one soundtrack, and yes, it was because I wanted to support the devs.
Steam gave me the game for free, and I felt they deserved it.

[м]

Tbh, sometimes I buy them, but I never listen to the soundtracks on Steam or on PC / Mac.

If I wanna hear some of them I always just go to YouTube instead.

[nullpo]

No, the one I have is bundled with something else.

[AustrAlien2010]

IT had to be brought up again?

If you have to listen to music there, then you don't know for sure if the music is still there if you want to listen to it in the future. Because that is dependant on more factors that are out of your control. Or you may find it an uncomfortable idea that someone else might know what music is being listened to.

Or maybe you can't use YouTube or Spotify, because you have to work with music in a different way or need a different interface for the various tests and experiments that you're running for your games and stuff.

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No i don't buy any.