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feddit.org

Steam being a US-based company kinda put a damper on my willingness to shell out the moolah for games I might not even play ...

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GOG is my go to. Still have a huge steam library from before but my future purchases are going there.

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Einarreply
lemmy.zip

...and which you don't actually own.

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TBH for me, between the sales and the Linux compatibility it's still worth it even if I'm effectively renting the games.

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Dagnetreply
lemmy.world

What about the time they tried to implement paid mods with Bethesda?

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dubyakayreply
lemmy.ca

They've tried, they've listened, they've not gone forward with the implementation, apologized and refunded and everyone else moved on.

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That's not great, but it's not 'company thriving under a very literally fascist regime'-bad.

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Boshtreply

Oh nooooo just in time for me to go back to work. What a load of shit, lmao

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owl
infosec.pub

What is that third representation of money? Paper bills, credit card and [???]. Is it a ring?

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owlreply

Thanks, now I feel silly for not recognizing it.

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Sibboreply
sopuli.xyz

That's a wallet containing 50โ‚ฌ notes

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owlreply

Thank you, don't know how I didn't recognize it.

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sh.itjust.works

My rule is I can't buy a game unless I am going to play it that same day.

Even in cases where the rule causes me to miss a sale and end up buying the game later, I'm sure it still saves me money, and - more importantly - saves a tremendous amount of regret and stress caused by buying games that would just sit my library unplayed.

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I've adopted this same strategy. I've bought maybe 2 games in the last couple years. I haven't been hyped for a Steam sale in over 5 years

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shayana
lemmy.ca

Jokes on you I have no money left and huge backlog!

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But this indie game is only 50p and so is this one and this one and this one...

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I've got like... 3 games I'll get at the moment, one's not even going to be on pc for like 6 months, another isn't out to next month and the other just came out so probably won't be on sale :l

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I've been making a huge dent in my library since last year. I've fully completed over half of my 200+ library. I shouldn't, but will probably get some new games to add to the decreasing backlog so that I can have more backlog to play! :P

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I just realized it says "no memes" in the side bar.

Sorry about that. Will be more careful next time.

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sopuli.xyz

Steam sale IS NOT A REAL SALE.

Consumers have associated the experience as a sale, but the last few steam sales I have only found very very niche stuff actually on sale, everything else isn't really on sale it just has meaningless percents next to them.

Edit wow so I am really not in the majority here with my opinion haha, ok, maybe I am seeing this wrong? Honestly, the last couple steam sales I have compared the sales going on to previous sales <1 month previous or less away and the sales just didn't look that good from that perspective.

I am not saying games aren't going on sale in the Steam sale, I am arguing the sales are mediocre compared to random sales throughout the year, but again... I probably just have a warped vision of this because clearly people think otherwise.

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Kitreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Use SteamDB to check price histories. Steam Sales often present the lowest historical price on any game.

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If you're okay with buying from key resellers, the stores on Isthereanydeal.com beat Steam a lot of the time.

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domreply
lemmy.ca

As in, there aren't discounts? I only ever look st my wishlist during steam sales and I see plenty of discounts and I dont see the msrp having been raised or anything

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supersquirrelreply
sopuli.xyz

Meh I don't typically see pricecuts that are that meaningful, on isthereanydeal the steam sales often just don't impress me in how they compare.

I don't mean to rain on the parade, the deals aren't bad and I love steam so shrugs

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just because the things you want aren't on sale... doesn't mean the sale doesn't exist

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Bo7areply

Meaningful to whom?

I've gotten at least 50% off compared to the day I wishlist something on every game that I've waited on a sale for. I know this because I only buy wishlist stuff when it is at least 50% off

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