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How often do you buy games?
- Thread starter MrDawn
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I've noticed I bought less games over the years, but come when I get taxes I wanna get some games I've been meaning to pick up during the last year or so. I'd have to say I buy games every month or two currently, sometimes 3 months.
Not at $60-$70 for sure!
Yep, exactly! Even with Steam sales or bargain bins they're out of my league at the moment. Just a luxury I can't afford
It depends how often games come out that I want really, but even if a lot come out that I want they'll share very close release dates or be a few months apart, so the shortest time I've gone without buying a game has been probably 6-ish months. As for longest, I think I went a year or so without buying a new game when the PS5 launched and any new titles I wanted were ones I wanted to play on PS5, but I didn't have one at launch so just held off on buying a lot of the launch year titles and got them at a huge discount instead.
I do game shoppings every 3 months. I ensure that I have made plans of the games that I will want to buy before giving it a try.
Sadly, it's been very little lately. I did get a PS5 and was able to play FFVII Intermission/DLC and Crisis Core, but I haven't really been playing lately due to exhaustion and burnout. I think this year will offer some more options.
It depend on what game I want to play or what is my interest. Since last year I try to buy games that are on sale, I think the pricing of 80$ for a new game is just too much, I know it take alot of work to release and create a game but seriously? Sometimes you gotta buy the game and then pay for a membership to play online, this is a joke in my opinion. I do pay a membership to play Runescape but the game is free first of all, you choose if you want the membership or not. Now that I'm playing on PC it's really a problem anymore but when I used to play on Xbox, I had to pay the Xbox Live subscription to play online.
Especially for a game that you can beat in like 6 hours.
I don't buy games as often as I used to now since there are now quite a lot of free-to-play games. I would say on average I tend to buy one or two video games a year if there are games that I am interested in. I probably buy more in-game items than buying new video games per year if I am honest.
I've purposefully started to cut back on the amount of games I buy. I was previously the type of person who was always buying stuff during the sales, pre-ordering games, just stacking up a collection. But it got to the point where I'll never play the insane amount of games I have, I was looking through my digital collection on PS5 and it was just insane. So I've started trying to only buy games I have an immediate need to buy. For example, I really want to play Resident Evil 4 but I just know I'm not going to play it right this second, so I'm better off waiting. The worst feeling ever was buying a game, putting off playing it, and then seeing the price slashed months later meanwhile it's still sitting untouched in my collection.
I can relate to that, I have SOOOO many games I haven't played yet. Feel bad because my partner bought them for me and they are just collecting dust.
Online or in the store?
