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[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I usually look at it from cost per hour perspective. Tears of the Kingdom was 70 but I played it for ~140 hours, so 0.5 per hour. I’m ok with 1 per hour too but anything higher I start to ask myself “is the developer / publisher worth my support?”. Not all games can be judged by this metric though (eg outer wilds, unpacking)

So far, nothing beats the value of factorio. Mindustry (being so cheap) is a close second.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago

This is just this scene from The Jerk in written form.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 144 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (30 children)

60+: Haha, I can't imagine it's worth it.

20-59: Buy if it comes strongly recommended.

10-19: Impulse buy if the description and screenshots look cool.

1-9: Buy if I like the store thumbnail.

0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.

EDIT: YES I know proper - often Open Source - free games exist. :) OpenTTD and good ol' Nethack are my faves

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 0 points 5 days ago

There's been a lot of good games for free on epic, and epic still pays the dev/publisher for it, so it's worth clicking the button even if you don't download it and play it from thier client.

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[–] exu@feditown.com 108 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Am I weird for rounding 8 to 10??

[–] Camille_Jamal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

As a Canadian, $8 is $10, $5 is $8

Yeah uhh that’s pretty normal. Megabonk: $22.99 which is really $27

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 81 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No. 8 is closer to 10 then it is to 5

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (3 children)

First, these jabronies need adderall.

Second, I need adderall.

I think we’re the same sort of jabroni.

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