Wow, this made me love unreasonable pricing strategies 🙏
Human-Shirt-5964
We are better at weighing the value of a product than exercising restraint about purchasing something we don’t need or even want when we perceive it to be a good deal.
Common_Dot526
Yes, because spending 80$ on games (see the plural right there?) is much better than spending the same amount of money on a singular game
Signal_Level_3149
Ouch…
This hurt me
Lol
Relevant-Policy244
*cries in steam library*
D3struct_oh
Why wouldn’t I play the bunch of games I purchased for $80?
Why didn’t you put a “play-time” modifier for the $80 game?
iGappedYou
TBF I wouldn’t play the 80 dollar new game either 🤷🏻‍♂️
SilverEncanis13
Why is it strange not to want to spend 80 fuckin dollars on a shitty games that’s under developed by largest AAA studios who buy out smaller studios and then fire everyone? Yeah people sure are strange.
Dramamufu_tricks
nice try [EA/UBISOFT/MICROSOFT/NINTENDO]
LeviAEthan512
Don’t sleep on playing those discounted games. Sometimes I tell myself enough’s enough and finally sit down to play. And it’s a great feeling. I’ve forgotten the spoilers and hype I had while researching, and I go in largely blind, as a clean slate. It brings me back to when I was a kid, just picking up a game and playing it.
Games are good. The graphics might not be technically impressive, the storyline might not be worth telling your literature professor about, but they make me happy for a few hours. And isn’t that the point?
We overthink an $80 purchase because $80 is worthy of consideration. Also, some of us (including me), don’t want people to make undeserved money. So we overanalyse and overthink. We want to make sure the game is worth it and we pay attention to inconsequential details. But that takes away from the experience. I’m stupid enough to not really notice when a movie has BGM, so I can just enjoy the mood it sets without having to critique it from an artistic perspective. When I don’t give someone $80 for the chance to play their game, I can have fun the same unadulterated way.
Boulderdrip
i don’t do either. i buy a games based on my budget when intend to play it
There are people who do buy discounted and used games for 20 bucks and play all of them…
like me 🥰
vengirgirem
Yeah, except spending $80 on one game that you’re never going to play vs spending $80 on a bunch of games you’re never going to play. There is a higher chance I’ll get the use of at least some of those $80 if I ever decide to play some of those games than there is a chance I’m going to play that $80 game
PocketCSNerd
Even better: Spending $80 on a new game that you are never going to play
Bacon-muffin
This is the way
Llarrlaya
I do that and then play the “games I’ll never play”
AnubisIncGaming
I play em eventually get off my nutsack
diofantos
lol.. i can relate ! I’ve got like ~350 games i bought on sales and crap and never ever play
Civil_Beginning_3307
While I don’t think I would ever buy a $80 game unless it’s a game I researched into and enjoyed. I find it funny people here are commenting, “Just don’t buy games you don’t play!” When 90% of the posts in the most popular / top pages are memes or discussion about people having a huge backlog of games they’ve bought that they either don’t play or just ignore for another game that they regularly get on.
Zooooooombie
80 dollars dollars
Rn_Tz
What’s interesting with this reasoning is that it also works with $100, $200, $500 games, if you want to push the intellectual dishonesty any further
Aukadauma
This is a certified big video game company shill post
JFRNDZ106
I will never pay $80 in a single game
Appropriate_Army_780
This guy is from Nintendo and trying to convince us that nothing is wrong and everything is okay.
Chack96
You mean pay 80 on a bunch of games that used to cost 40-80 each and that now i can buy for way less than that with all the dlc and patches ?
scriptedtexture
astroturfing
SifuMittens
If im buying $80 worth of discounted games online, at least some of them are gonna be indie games, so even if I never play them, at least that money goes to a smaller group with passion rather than a giant corporation. I’m sure AAA devs are passionate too, but im highly doubtful that the extra money is going to them. *Checks news* Well, they already got laid off.
Furry_69
I only really play small little indie games. They’re usually cheap in comparison ($20 US is the typical price, though usually really, really small games will be less than $10), usually better (this depends on which type of indie game and how you get your recommendations on games, of course), and you’re supporting the developers directly rather than having most of the profit going towards lining the exec’s pockets.
Krejcimir
Spending 50 on claire obscure and having a total blast.
guinomim
when you’re a stranger,
Photog_DK
* new game I’m never going to play
SynthWendigo
Especially when Steam has a massive sale and you grab an entire Anthology from a publisher you enjoy, such as Rebellion or Eidos for the Soul Reaver or Tomb Raider games.
You bet I will take that.
CaptainMcSlowly
I don’t find it strange that people want to get the most bang for their buck.
I can buy 3-4 excellent games (at minimum) per Steam sale for the price of one current-day disasterpiece
rulugg
Well you get to save money when buying them discounted plus maybe you might want to play them later soo yeah not really a bad idea(buying discounted games)
Bad-Booga
I hate it when you have to spend dollar dollars.
Etherel15
Its Tradition!
Sparkko
Lol, this is such a trash take. Rage bait?
JazzyDK5001
That doesn’t justify it. It’s still 80 bucks. One of them is just 80 bucks spent **reasonably.**
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Wow, this made me love unreasonable pricing strategies 🙏
We are better at weighing the value of a product than exercising restraint about purchasing something we don’t need or even want when we perceive it to be a good deal.
Yes, because spending 80$ on games (see the plural right there?) is much better than spending the same amount of money on a singular game
Ouch…
This hurt me
Lol
*cries in steam library*
Why wouldn’t I play the bunch of games I purchased for $80?
Why didn’t you put a “play-time” modifier for the $80 game?
TBF I wouldn’t play the 80 dollar new game either 🤷🏻‍♂️
Why is it strange not to want to spend 80 fuckin dollars on a shitty games that’s under developed by largest AAA studios who buy out smaller studios and then fire everyone? Yeah people sure are strange.
nice try [EA/UBISOFT/MICROSOFT/NINTENDO]
Don’t sleep on playing those discounted games. Sometimes I tell myself enough’s enough and finally sit down to play. And it’s a great feeling. I’ve forgotten the spoilers and hype I had while researching, and I go in largely blind, as a clean slate. It brings me back to when I was a kid, just picking up a game and playing it.
Games are good. The graphics might not be technically impressive, the storyline might not be worth telling your literature professor about, but they make me happy for a few hours. And isn’t that the point?
We overthink an $80 purchase because $80 is worthy of consideration. Also, some of us (including me), don’t want people to make undeserved money. So we overanalyse and overthink. We want to make sure the game is worth it and we pay attention to inconsequential details. But that takes away from the experience. I’m stupid enough to not really notice when a movie has BGM, so I can just enjoy the mood it sets without having to critique it from an artistic perspective. When I don’t give someone $80 for the chance to play their game, I can have fun the same unadulterated way.
i don’t do either. i buy a games based on my budget when intend to play it
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Although a valid point vs a few people out there.
There are people who do buy discounted and used games for 20 bucks and play all of them…
like me 🥰
Yeah, except spending $80 on one game that you’re never going to play vs spending $80 on a bunch of games you’re never going to play. There is a higher chance I’ll get the use of at least some of those $80 if I ever decide to play some of those games than there is a chance I’m going to play that $80 game
Even better: Spending $80 on a new game that you are never going to play
This is the way
I do that and then play the “games I’ll never play”
I play em eventually get off my nutsack
lol.. i can relate ! I’ve got like ~350 games i bought on sales and crap and never ever play
While I don’t think I would ever buy a $80 game unless it’s a game I researched into and enjoyed. I find it funny people here are commenting, “Just don’t buy games you don’t play!” When 90% of the posts in the most popular / top pages are memes or discussion about people having a huge backlog of games they’ve bought that they either don’t play or just ignore for another game that they regularly get on.
80 dollars dollars
What’s interesting with this reasoning is that it also works with $100, $200, $500 games, if you want to push the intellectual dishonesty any further
This is a certified big video game company shill post
I will never pay $80 in a single game
This guy is from Nintendo and trying to convince us that nothing is wrong and everything is okay.
You mean pay 80 on a bunch of games that used to cost 40-80 each and that now i can buy for way less than that with all the dlc and patches ?
astroturfing
If im buying $80 worth of discounted games online, at least some of them are gonna be indie games, so even if I never play them, at least that money goes to a smaller group with passion rather than a giant corporation. I’m sure AAA devs are passionate too, but im highly doubtful that the extra money is going to them. *Checks news* Well, they already got laid off.
I only really play small little indie games. They’re usually cheap in comparison ($20 US is the typical price, though usually really, really small games will be less than $10), usually better (this depends on which type of indie game and how you get your recommendations on games, of course), and you’re supporting the developers directly rather than having most of the profit going towards lining the exec’s pockets.
Spending 50 on claire obscure and having a total blast.
when you’re a stranger,
* new game I’m never going to play
Especially when Steam has a massive sale and you grab an entire Anthology from a publisher you enjoy, such as Rebellion or Eidos for the Soul Reaver or Tomb Raider games.
You bet I will take that.
I don’t find it strange that people want to get the most bang for their buck.
I can buy 3-4 excellent games (at minimum) per Steam sale for the price of one current-day disasterpiece
Well you get to save money when buying them discounted plus maybe you might want to play them later soo yeah not really a bad idea(buying discounted games)
I hate it when you have to spend dollar dollars.
Its Tradition!
Lol, this is such a trash take. Rage bait?
That doesn’t justify it. It’s still 80 bucks. One of them is just 80 bucks spent **reasonably.**
$80CAD sure. But not $80US.