Do you pay full price for games or wait for the sales ?

[nigelcrouch123]

Ok, so everyone likes to get stuff for cheaper, but do you pay the full price on games ?, I will give on example, I got firepro wrestling a few days ago and I decided to go and pay the full price , because I saw the developer has done a great job at responding to the community and so wish to support the developers as much as I can.How often do you pay the full price, or do you just wait for sales and discounts ?

[[wan-clan.org] Gordy Freeman]

Most of the time I wait for sales.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Sales or price drops.

My general rule is to spend no more then $20 on a game. If it is one with a history of a lot of DLC, I will wait until all the DLC is released and in a single package and under $20.

Rare is the game that I am willing to pay more for. Even then, unless I can get the base game + season pass for the same price as the base game released for, I will still hold off.

[Black Blade]

For the most part I only buy on sales or bundles, I only really pay full price if its games I want to kind of give extra support on the developer or I liked the past games enough to do it, as kind of trust thing, not always find that these games where worth it, but that just means that on the next game they will not get me on day 1, but overall these games are pretty rare
But il say that around 99/98% of my library is sales and bundles

[shiel]

Depends on the game. Sometimes I even preorder. That being said, 80% of my games have been bought at >50% off.

[Blargo]

If it's indie and I like the developer(s) enough, I'll pay the full price as long as it's under $20.
Otherwise I'll wait for a sale.

If it's tripple-A, I'll always wait for a sale regardless.

[SpunkyJones]

I do a little of both, with some pre ordering on specific titles.

[Darren]

I do a mix of both probably around 15-20 full prices games a year, filling in the rest with those on sale, or already cheap indie games.

[Cassidy]

I wait for sales unless it's a game I really want to play as soon as possible.

[ca$h. ♛]

I buy Games, i don‘t look at the price. If i like to play a Game with Friends so i buy it.
I searching in the internet if i can get it cheaper but normaly i pay every price, if i see fun in one Game.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Historically I've been willing to buy at between 50% and bundle prices (which are approximately -90% or deeper if you factor in all the games, though given that I'm often not interested in all the games in a bundle, it's effectively less, probably around -30% to -80% depending on the game). The result is that my games on average cost about US$5 or less, depending on which games you count.

(This applies to games I want, of course -- games I don't want are basically worth nothing to me and I might take them if they're a freebie. Maybe.)

When I'm tight on money I'm less willing to buy games so I wait for bigger discounts.

Additionally, now that I have a pretty substantial collection of games, the fact that I haven't played the games I have yet is actually causing me to wait for bigger discounts. There's diminishing marginal value for every new game I acquire, on par.

On the other hand, I've occasionally been more generous for some games I really like, and I'm also aware that these rock-bottom prices I typically pay tend to not do much for the dev -- and it's a bit unfair for devs whose work I actually like, so maybe I should pay more.

So maybe I should instead be more selective -- be more willing to give money to things, but also buy fewer games.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Riedy:

I mostly wait for any sale unless the game is really cheap anyway. It's not that I don't want to support developers, but I really can't spend $60 on a single AAA game and I don't really need to buy a new indie game either. Honestly, I don't even remember the last time I bought a game because I really wanted to play it and not because it was under $2, over 75% off or in a bundle.

I think publishers are onto us these days. They know we're expecting these deep, deep discounts, and so we're waiting for them to drop the prices, and so they're not dropping the prices quite as much as they used to since they know what we're thinking.

So now there's a bit of a staring contest: who's going to blink first?

[AbedsBrother]

I wait for sales (or bundles).

Originally posted by Quint, Queen of the Giant Rabbit:

Additionally, now that I have a pretty substantial collection of games, the fact that I haven't played the games I have yet is actually causing me to wait for bigger discounts. There's diminishing marginal value for every new game I acquire, on par.

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[ナルゴ]

I consider discounted values of games as their real value.
Paying full price just so you can play a game sooner doesn't make sense imo.
A game will be just as enjoyable next year as it is today. Might even be more enjoyable even with patches, balance changes, and bugfixes occuring.

[Kargor]

I always go with sales.

In fact, given the backlog of games that I bought because I actually wanted to play them some day, but some day hasn't arrived yet, I can even ignore bread-and-butter "good" sales, and only go with "excellent" sales.

As far as I'm concerned, there's just no point in paying a full price today, and then have it sit in my library for a few years before I actually play it. If it happens at all.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Mad max ( 2015) was $60 when it came out, few days ago it was $ 6.49, same goes to Shadow of Mordor 2014 ($4.99), Batman Arkham knight 2015($7.49), etc.

Yes I can wait 2 years to get a $60 game for $5, Actually I am not waiting at all.., I am always playing good games all the time, but 2 years previous to me.