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(sorry if it's the wrong place for this kind of discussion)

Yesterday The Riftbreaker raised its price 50% for base game and 65% for dlcs. I know Steam said all devs to adjust prices(in January), but this feel more of trend where once a game gets popular the price skyrocket.

As someone who waits a game go 75% or a stable 50% discount before buying it, if i didnt buy it by then sure i ain't buying that now unless there is a massive discount (not even gonna talk about games that raise price to fake a bigger discount).

I dont want to sound cheap; I grew up with no condition to buy games and spent a lot of my internet in torrents in my youth, now i gladly pay for games but once a game raise its price i unwishlist it.

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[–] Gargleblaster@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Abandon the FOMO completely. I do not reward shitty behavior. Destiny 2's launch was the end of that. Let other people pay top dollar to playtest it and work all the wrinkles out. Let all the DLC come out and the game GOTY edition if it's that good. Let others buy that. THEN, when they are going to launch the sequel, all of that pap will be sold at basement-level prices. Maybe wait a bit longer if it was really popular.

I'm playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 right now. ;-)

[–] NOSin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

While you're overall right, DOS 2 is a terrible exemple for that.

[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of us learned with Destiny 1 and it saddens me they got so many more ~~victims~~ customers with Destiny 2

[–] limeaide@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I got that lesson with call of duty ghost and assassin's creed 3 back in 2013. I was extremely hyped for the games and they both ended up sucking.

After that I will just buy a game after it's been out for a couple months

[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meh AC3 was a complete game you didn’t enjoy (valid reason not to pre-order still!) so I’d say it’s less flagrant than destiny et al which nickel and dime you as they manufacture FOMO. Bungie’s list of sins is much longer lol