What are you buying?

  • tomkatt@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.



    Edit - okay, found some good stuff. A lot of the tables for Pinball FX were on deep sales, and with the Legacy packs I got them even cheaper (some I owned for PFX3 already, and some I bought legacy for both).

    New Heretic+Hexen remaster

    Some DLC for Across the Obelisk as my wife and I play that one together.

    Still an underwhelming sale, but at least not a total bust.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 month ago

      They’ve been pretty underwhelming for a while now.

      You used to get crazy deals on games only a few months old. Now it’s just the same 50% off a five year old game before being ramped back up to full price between sales.

      There’s a few bargains of stuff you may have missed, but likely they’ve been an Epic freebie, or on PSPlus or in a Humble Bundle by now.

      • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 month ago

        Part of the sale issue for me, is that I sometimes already own these deep discount games. It makes it feel like there are less good deals.

        Also some new games have what I consider to be really high base prices, so a 60% discount is still not near the impulse buy range.

        • BigPotato@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 month ago

          Like, I’m sure Spider-Man is good but it’s still $60 and ‘only’ on a 50% sale? You can get it for $15 at GameStop.

      • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        No, not trolling. I’d never heard that they had a policy against it until I looked it up just now.

        Somehow I was under the impression that devs didn’t even get a say as to if or when Steam would put their games on sale. I thought I had heard that as a major gripe of devs who list games on Steam.

        Now I’ll have to decide when I feel like it’s worth the remainder of my life and $35.

    • Unlearned9545@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      26 days ago

      Factorio never goes on sale, but Shapez and shapez 2 are on sale and they are in the same genre but more beginner friendly.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        8 days ago

        Shapez 2 was great. I got into last night. Lovely and relaxing. No stress, no resource management, no time limits, no enemies. Just cozy thinking about production and how to optimize. Right up my alley.