It’s beyond insane to me that a $70 “AAAA” game (kidding, it’s AAA) dips down to the absurd price of $5. I’ve never seen anything like it. Wish the entire Sims 4 “collection” if you can call it that was $5 total, would be incredible, or Starfield.

  • Chaotic Entropy
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    Because it’s badly reviewed and sales have dried up…?

    Also because it is loaded with microtransactions, so they can make that back and more if they get you hooked.

  • @[email protected]
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    256 days ago

    Because recent AAA games are so trash noadays and also the main thing is that the price of the game isn’t their main source of income anymore.

    Sell game cheap get em hooked on spending more money in game on used condom hats or whatever garbage they sell in their games

  • @_sideffect
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    These are old games

    The price regularly seen is just there to make them seem that they have more value than they actually do

  • GHiLA
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    427 days ago

    They’re showing their true value.

  • @Soleos
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    There are people willing to pay $80 for your game, $60, $40, $20, $10, and $5. You might be able get someone willing to pay $10 to pay $15 with good marketing, but you will never get them to pay $60. So when you’ve gone through most people willing to pay $60 and $40, you might as well go through the rest of the market. It doesn’t cost you that much more than you’re already spending on servers, so why not make that extra money.

  • @[email protected]
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    407 days ago

    I pirated the game and it included all the DLC. Then I played it for a few hours and was glad I didn’t spend 5 dollars on it.

  • @badbytes
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    187 days ago

    Also, some Steam sales are amazing. 90% off, is great, but not that rare.

  • @CheeseNoodle
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    127 days ago

    Unbound was basically dead on arrival, its practically just heat with re-shade and barely any actual new content.

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      With the same shitty unoptimization I might add. These games were horribly optimized for what they are. My 8750 and 1060 should not be struggling with this game at 1080p

  • @Strider
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    It’s called idiot tax. (hint: not the discounted price)

  • bruhSoulz
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    77 days ago

    Because broke niggas like me can’t afford 20$ for a legitimate skyrim copy even tho I got 1800 hrs in that game

  • alphacyberranger
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    I played that game for free… Glad I didn’t pay a single dime for it… It was ass

  • @[email protected]
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    Unbound is an exception because 1. it’s not super new, and 2. it did quite poorly iirc

    Personally got it at £30 and even then it ran poorly on my Steamdeck at lowest settings so I wasn’t interested :(

  • @Kyouki
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    37 days ago

    Is this a complaint? I see nothing wrong.

    Most AAA’s are arse and barely sell so easy decision to make them cheaper to get them sold.