Exactly. People act as if "Retail price at launch for major AAA flagship game" is the ONLY price. That's absurd.
That *USED* to the case. Just look at any catalog or whatever from the 80s and early 90s and you'll see that virtually all games were 35-70 dollars. Anything other than that was piracy. Of course, this was because the market was in its infancy.
"Just wait 6 months or a year and it'll be at least 50% off" is the norm these days for *MOST* games. In the past that was incomprehensible.
Math isn't opinion-based. OVERALL... as a hobby... gaming has never been cheaper.
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u/smallfried 22h ago
PC games are so extremely cheap nowadays, that most gamers have too many games.
The meme during a steam sale is always that everyone's backlog is overflowing but they still buy new games because they're so cheap.