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I wait until it costs 20 € or less. No need to hurry, if it’s a game is good now, it will be good in 2 years.

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*it will be better

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Same. Especially since every game basically barely runs on release day, I don’t get why people don’t wait for a sale to get it.

If you pay $80 (or whatever) for a game that’s full of bugs on release day, you’re just a sucker.

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It hasn’t. I’ve only bought ~4 games at full price the last decade, now I just wait for them to be around $20. The $70 price seems to be more focused on cashing in on people that buy on release, but prices go down all the same only like one year after release.

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Games that have fallen to $20 also have the nice advantage of having most of their bugs worked out and the vast majority of the balance passes complete. It’s easily the best time to buy and play a game.

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4 points

Depending on the game though the online scene may have died out by the time the game is discounted.

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6 points

Depending on the game the modding scene may be much better than at release

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2 points

20€ mark is a common one for me also. Another benefit from waiting is that you can avoid newest hardware purchase

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I installed Wabbajack and coughed up the $5 or whatever for Premium Nexus Mods access.

Turns out you can turn your old games into new games.

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I’m underutilizing my rig tbh. I’ve been playing primarily Factorio for the past few years. My monthly game spending is low. Tempted to get a steam deck for mobile Factorio with mods, though.

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Just started playing Starsector. My rig isn’t some obnoxious beast…but like Starsector doesn’t even have a recommended cpu. You only need like 1gb of ram and a gfx card from over a decade ago.

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It’s fine, last game I bought was Minecraft, 9 years ago

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