Wait 3-6 months after release and get it on sale.
Wait a year post release, get it on sale, put it in the backlog with all the others, play your one comfort game and doomscroll your preferred social media feeds instead of ever playing it
Was not expecting personal attacks like this :'(
Ouch. Damn, dude. Stop looking over my shoulder.
I really don’t understand the (clearly faulty) logic that OP is going by here. Games becoming officially free is not common at all. I’m sitting here trying to understand how this image and post were made, and the only conclusion I can come to is pure idiocy and ignorance. Either you pirate the game, which is possible on the day of release for 99% of games, or it’s given away in some way which doesn’t happen at all for 99% of games. There’s just nothing that this is based on, it’s so weird.
You’re absolutely right, I don’t understand either.
Or if its from Ubisoft never get a Chance to play it because they shut the Servers down after 10 Years
If a game requires a connection to a server to run I just don’t bother.
Unless the server software is available so anyone can set one up.
I have a massive steam wishlist. When I need a new gawe I order the list by rating and search for discounts.
Same. I usually get about 5 at a time when they’re at 60% or so. I’m trying to whittle it down as there’s probably a couple hundred on mine.
It’s also much easier on your budget to meet the game’s hardware requirements then.
Skyrim is not free yet
Well that’s because they just released it a few years ago!
Just looked it up and it came out 2.5 years ago. I swear it just came out. Stop making me feel old.
Neither is BioShock infinite
Pirate It
Only pirating ubisoft and nintendo games.
And EA
No crowns required
They aren’t required per se, but everyone likes a fancy hat now and again
Anybody ever play the game “Ocarina of Time”? Is it any good?
The New one with the 3d Graphics? I will stick to my snes.
Secret of Mana was good
Ship of harkinian? Never heard of it
not only that, waiting means you can actually run the damn thing on your hardware, you’re not effectively playing an early access release, and there’s a matured community around it for mods and whatnot.
Back when 2013 was the future. Damn
most of the games I’m interested in are never given away for free. But after a while, they become very cheap.
But if you should never pirate anything, that would be immoral!
iVPN! Mullvad! Proton! Kaspersky! QBITTORRENT!
Sorry I blacked out, did I say anything bad?
Meanwhile Nintendo: almost wait a decade to pay 2x the original price on the used market
More like re-purchase it for twice the price on the next console’s eShop
Why does anyone preorder games?
The only game I preordered was Monster Hunter Rise. They offered a demo that I played longer than most games currently in my library and it was polished and showed no performance issues. It showed me that it was the game I wanted it to be. So I nabbed it for a preorder discount deal from a 3rd party, legit storefront to save some cash. And it was my favorite of the series and my most played individual title. Maybe that’s all rationalization of something I still shouldn’t have done, but if you are discerning, it works.
The last time I preordered a game, I had played a leaked alpha build for a while before release, for like 40 hours. It was pretty broken, but it was a lot of fun, so I figured it was fair to pay for the game already.
I’d say there are very exceptional cases where it isn’t absurd to preorder, but those are less than 1% of all preorders that actually take place.
Depends on if it’s a series I’m heavily invested in or a dev I really want to support. I’m massively into the trails of series and if I could preorder those I would.
i would preorder games from a studio i like to boost their capital while they are still developing. it seems better than them having a lower budget or getting shady investors. but somehow those who are worthy are the same folk who dont do preorders😂
I have to imagine it’s a holdover impulse from the days of physical media where stores had limited copies. Why anyone would preorder a digital download is beyond me, unless there are some perks.
I preorder the next expansion for FFXIV. But I have played the game for 8 to 9 years. Other than that I wait to see what happens when a title drops
Same. I haven’t played as long as you as I think but I’m not really an mmo person as I get bored after a few weeks with most but FFXIV has kept me interested for years. And I’m really attached to my WoL at this point and I want to see where the journey goes.
If I want to play on release day, I would preorder to preinstall the game while I am working so I can play it when I get home. Also, preorders usually have bonus items, like physical stuff.
I preordered the collectors edition of Elden Ring, and White Snow edition of NieR Automata, for example. Both came with a wide variety of various physical goods that were exclusive to those preorder editions.
how??
How what?
Step 1: Be poor / be busy / forget
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
Considering the size of my Steam library and the amount of games I want to play but haven’t touched yet… I can wait 10 years
I just played through Portal 1 for the first time, which is a game I knew I wanted to play ever since it came out in '07.
Was it worth the wait? I loved the game, and also came to the party years after its release
came to the party years after its release
Was there finally cake? Were all your best friends there instead of just turrets and deadly neurotoxin?
Haha hope you enjoy(ed) Portal 2 also. It’s an excellent sequel. :D
Hell yeah, that was a terrific sequel!
Don’t think I ever actually found the rumored cake… 🤔
Almost a decade
Over a decade
GTA V turned 10 years old last September. I’ll let that sink in
