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The Price is Wrong, Bob: Only a third of PC gamers pay full price (www.techspot.com)
submitted 11 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 53 points 11 months ago (3 children)

PC gamers already often have to wait for games to come to PC, so it’s no big thing to wait a little longer to get those games for cheaper. We’re already not getting it day one a lot of the time, so there’s no FOMO.

I want to play FF16, but since I’ve already gotta wait a year to get it, I’m fine waiting until it’s on sale. Same with Horizon Forbidden West. I’ve waited this long to be able to play the DLC (I have the game on PS4, but the dlc was PS5 only), I don’t mind waiting longer.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Buggy unoptimized releases has also trained more people to wait, and enough people have been burned by supposed publishers that can be trusted.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah that's huge, why pay full price for a buggy game when i can buy the patched/optimized version of the game for half price a year later??

[–] adept@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

Often even when its on sale i have already lost interest.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I think most PC games are just PC games. The ones that are ported from consoles are a minority. Even though they are high profile because there's a lot of marketing behind them.

OTOH, there's now PC games getting poorly ported to consoles, which I think is only fair.