What’re you buying?

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    9 hours ago

    Why is Persona 3 Portable more expensive than Persona 4 Golden? Why is SEGA being so stingy with only a 20% discount. Another 5% (on the SALE price) if we use the Persona bundle. Why SEGA…? It’s the oldest and ugliest one. Why…

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      11 hours ago

      Iirc the creators said they’ll never put it on sale because that’s unfair to people who paid the full price. The price is the price for Factorio.

    • Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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      12 hours ago

      I don’t think it goes on sale, at least not for any significant amount. To be fair, it’s easily worth the full price, which is not something I often say.

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        11 hours ago

        Yeah, they took a shot at doing their pricing strategy backwards from everyone else. The game was cheapest when it was in early access and the cost has only gone up as they make the game bigger and better. I don’t think it has ever gone on sale, but is easily worth the full price.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Summer Stale.

    I miss the old sales, when games had deep discounts and the deals cycled like every 2/4/6/8 hours.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      consumerism is a disease. i can’t believe I’m still seeing people asking for gamified fomo bullshit.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        27 seconds ago

        “WAH, WAH, HOW DARE PEOPLE LAMENT THE FACT THAT THEY USED TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE ONLY ESCAPE FROM THE HELL THAT IS REALITY!”

      • EddoWagt@feddit.nl
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        36 minutes ago

        The periodic sale is already driving up the consumerism enough for me, I really don’t need to buy more games, but I want to

    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      Yeah idk if its nostalgia or wut.

      In my head, the sales were much deeper like you say, but I could be wrong.

      I also miss when the sale would start and there’d be a minigame or some type of event. They’ve really been streamlining a lot of stuff though I think to reduce network traffic maybe, or maybe they haven’t had the time for events when they are redesigning their whole client and steamos and stuff.

        • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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          6 hours ago

          Well, the refund policy has only existed 10 years now. Well in it’s current form. Previously refunds were much harder to get.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        I’ve only had 3 refunds.

        2 on the old system, 1 on the new system.

        All were accepted and refunded, because all were for technical issues that made them literally, factually unplayable… and probably because in 10 years of steam I’ve only had 3 refunds.

        So Yes, because it wouldnt change anything for me.

      • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        Yes because by the time I actually get passed the character creator or the introduction I’ve usually already used up my time

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Alright already have it but for my VR bros, Into the Radius is half price at 15 right now. It’s has its own story but it’s heavily inspired by stalker. Probably the best shooter/scavenger game on VR period.

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    19 hours ago

    One of my favorite games of all time, The Talos Principle, is on sale for $5. There’s a remastered version but honestly the original holds up really well. It’s a first person puzzle platformer game similar to Portal but the main point is the story, which is a really thought provoking philosophical exploration of humanity, machine consciousness, and self determination. It is legitimately the most interesting game I’ve played in the past 5 years and it has really caused me to think about these topics in ways I hadn’t before.

    Myself I am buying Persona 5, Pizza tower, and the Phoenix Wright trilogy. I have been wanting to play Persona 5 basically since it came out, and I got to try Pizza Tower a few weeks ago at a friend’s house and really loved it as a fan of the Wario Land games. Phoenix Wright is just nostalgic for me and there really aren’t similar games out there.

    • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      WARNING : Playing excellent, well told, thought provoking puzzle games about AI will make you so much madder about the silly folk that say “I turned AI sentient” folk. 🙄

      Great game, solid sequel too.

    • Habitforming@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Gris is a fun afternoon jaunt. I just picked up Outer Wilds finally, too. Looking forward to it quite a bit after reading a lot of reviews.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 hours ago

    Picked up: Supreme Commander Collection, Rider’s Republic, Rakugaki, The Stone of Madness, Look Outside, and Sol Cesto.

    Not a bad sale imo…

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    17 hours ago

    All these have been on my wishlist for ever. Finally made the purchases today.

    • Stardew Valley
    • Disco Elysium
    • Kerbal Space Program

    Edit to add Disco Elysium has been refunded. Thanks everyone for the advice.

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    22 hours ago

    I think I’m going to get the Dead Space remake (90% off currently), Granny: Escape Together (I like horror), and Escape the Mad Empire to start.

    Might pick up more later in the sale, but this will keep me busy.

    Remember you can get things refunded if you don’t end up liking a game.

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      15 hours ago

      I enjoyed the remake well enough. It’s nice that they added in some of the quality of life improvements from the later games and an updated zero gravity system (you can fly in 3 dimensions like you can in DS2).

    • picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      uh, I was just about to buy the dead space based on your message here but then I saw it has denuvo, so no buy :(

  • eezeebee@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    Didn’t go too overboard since I have a lot of other unplayed games and money is tight. But I picked these up:

    • Sapo 3D (3D Platformer)
    • ATLYSS (Action RPG)
    • Lunacid (Dungeon Crawler)
    • Kaze and the Wild Masks (2D Platformer)
    • Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (3D Platformer)
    • Anodyne (Action Adventure)