Don't like the price, don't buy it. Don't feed the hype. Play through your games. Mod it. Try a diferent path, a new class, a diferent character. Try indie games.
Corporations feed on the needs they create on you. Starve them.
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You think Steam games won't follow console prices?
I can currently get AC Shadows (just an example of a new game, I don't want it) on PS5 (physical) for a few £ less than it is on Steam. They've gone from like £40 a few years ago to £60. As standard.
If you don’t need the latest and greatest games and can wait a bit, you get a shit-ton of games on PC (including AAA Games) for la few bucks. Have a look at Humble Choice for example, Steam Sales, Bundles, other legit/official key retailers etc. I mean, fuck Epic but one could solely feed his gaming needs with all the free games they give away constantly.
Nintendo on the other hand: I remember that I bought a switch with Zelda BotK … sold it later on … years later I bought a second hand switch … a lot of time has passed … I wanted to play Zelda again … Zelda BotK did cost the same everywhere as on launch day … only good thing is the cartridge resale value was also always good for first-party Nintendo games.
Yeah, if you're the sort of gamer who sells their games when they're done with them, you can basically rent Nintendo games for the cost of postage and eBay fees... Second hand they're only a few quid less than in the shops.
gg.deals
New steam games may have $80 price tags at some point, but most of them will end up on that site for a fraction of the price after some time. Nintendo titles might go down to $70 after a decade.
Ah c'mon man, that's just not true.
Nintendo games will be $90 after a decade.
Steam games do go on sale eventually, but the best deals are often not even on Steam any more. I've got like >1000 games on Steam but most are from Humble Bundle before they went to complete shit.
That's true. I should've specified i use gg.deals to look for sales from 3rd party websites. Green man gaming is a pretty good one that often has $5-$10 off of new titles.
Chuckles in Steam Deck
Hardly kicking and screaming when you can just turn away.
My game purchases this year have all been under £10. Last year the most expensive was Factorio: Space Age which I bought directly from their site. Most of my playtime this year has been in FOSS games and a few small indies like Soldak games.
You got any good tips for foss games?
Beyond all reason
Been playing Veloren lately. Lot of time in CDDA too.
I haven't owned a Nintendo console since the halcyon days of the SNES and shit like this doesn't encourage me to break that habit.
Held off on the switch at Christmas in anticipation of switch 2, mostly for the kids, think I'll try them with PC gaming and see how they get on. I'll get a lot more bang for buck upgrading my graphics card.
I haven’t paid full price for a game since I bought my Steam Deck.
Sorry Nintendo - it’s going to be a hard pass for me. I think I can live without Mario Cart for $80
*$90
No thanks.
Unpopular opinion: Nintendo is overrated and is no longer innovation.
Never was. Nintendo 64 was developed at SGI and sold to Nintendo after turned down by others.
Quite a popular opinion actually.
There's even websites like https://www.suedbynintendo.com/
Huh. I guess it's not as unpopular as it once was. I'm glad to see that.
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Can't remember the last time i payed full price for a game.
But i don't buy into the Nintendo ecosystem anyway, so
The steam deck is way better anyways!
I'm dancing happily into the €20 game era with my Steam Deck.
I paid like $70 for FF 7 remake pack (two titles) on Steam. Even then I felt like they could optimize the graphics algorithm a tiny bit (I don't want them to swap the texture frequently to a poorer resolution one just because the GPUs from 7 years ago (on PlayStation?) had less VRAM.
You're paying double digits for your games?
For some of them, they're worth it.
I'm done buying games from these corporate fux.
Only indie games for me from now on.
I'm happy that I bought Baldurs Gate 3, but otherwise I didn't buy anything and I am happy about that too.
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Bringing you, maybe. I'm out ✌️ I'm not giving into the inevitable pre-planned reduction from 80/90 to 70/80, either.
I'll start by saying I loved Nintendo games. But I think I'm done. They can offer the games at $80, but I will pass. Oh well.
Same boat. I love my switch. Their direct said all the right things. New Mario kart looks great. I have faith meteoid and that new dk game will be fun. But the pricing makes it a no go. There's just no way I'm going to pony up that much for one game.
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