• ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    My initial thoughts are these sales are somehow getting even less exciting every time. It is clear that games should only be purchased on sale now as prices don’t seem to drop otherwise.

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        13 days ago

        Epic still does good giveaways sometimes, and usually awesome ones over Xmas. Hogwarts was free up to yesterday, and a game called Hordes of Hell is free till tomorrow morning when the next mystery free game is revealed.

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      13 days ago

      I think part of it is a lot of stuff goes on deep discount repeatedly. Like Overcooked is $2. That’s a steal. But I already have it. If this was my first steam sale, I’d be super excited about that.

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        13 days ago

        I think it’s also that there aren’t crazy discounts on anything remotely new. There used to be 1-2 games that made headlines.

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    13 days ago

    After 16 years of sales, my library is filled to the brim with almost everything that goes 75%+ off that I would want. It’s like 3 games a year now that I don’t already have finally hitting the impulse buy range for me. Outside of that, fanatical and humble bundles round out my let’s buy a game id never otherwise buy and try

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      13 days ago

      same. I looked at the under $12 for example and I own most of it.

      there’s nothing there that makes me want to pull out my wallet. MAYBE Jurassic World Evolution 2. maybe. I’m just not seeing anything that I really want.

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    13 days ago

    I still find these exciting. I gifted my friend Portal 2 since she just got into gaming. Slay the Spire for like $2.50 is a steal.

    Like a lot of you… I have many of these but its exciting for gamers that have to ration or haven’t picked these up before and you never know what you may find.

    Last sale I picked up Skyrim for $3. Never played and I had a blast!

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    13 days ago

    Baldurs Gate 3 is 25% off. I’ve been waiting for bigger sale but don’t think it’s coming soon.

  • Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I clicked on the link and it opened my steam app on the “enter payment details” page, because I added a load of shit to my basket earlier and aborted because I got a new bank card who’s number I don’t know by heart yet. Something about clicking a lemmy link about steam and it opening the credit card entry page just made me laugh a lot.

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    13 days ago

    Just a heads up that you can browse and set filters on steamdb to see new historical lows for games(obviously based on steam pricing only).

    Some notable historical lows are Silksong, KCD2, Arc Raiders, Hades II, Megabonk…

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    13 days ago

    Honestly, the only one I’m really looking at is Ranch Sim because it’s down to like 2.50, none of the other ones really look all that attractive, to be honest.

    Kicking myself for buying Icarus when it was $20 because it’s now 3.50