One way to get out of the video-game industry funk is to recognize that players aren’t spending $70 on most games

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    10 hours ago

    Become a patient gamer. This winter sale, I bought probably 25 games totaling around 30 dollars. It’s enough to keep me busy for the next 5 years.

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      8 hours ago

      This… Put games on your wishlist, set your wishlist to only show sales, and sort by price. Then only buy games from that list when they go on a significant sale. Plenty of decent games out there regularly go for $5-10 or less. With very few exceptions I refuse to pay more than $20-30 for a game and, even then, only if they’re like 50% off and not likely to come down.

      Also… stop pre-ordering games. They’ll still be there when they do go on sale. You don’t need to play them as soon as they come out. Conquer that FOMO shit and develop some integrity.

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        4 hours ago

        stop pre-ordering games. They’ll still be there when they do go on sale.

        Yeah but then I wouldn’t get the sick Cardi B Wet Ass Pussy character skin 😮‍💨

    • mhz (ex lemm.ee)@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      I set a rule not to buy any game util i finish what I already have. I have not bought anything for the last two years. Any game that interest me is going to my wishlist for now.

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      9 hours ago

      You don’t even have to be that patient these days. I got Arc Raiders 3 weeks after release for 60% off, it was like $18.