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PSA: Two of my favorite games, Limbo and Inside, are on sale now for a bundle deal of $3. That’s a great value.
by christophilus 3y ago
PSA: Two of my favorite games, Limbo and Inside, are on sale now for a bundle deal of $3. That’s a great value.
- ekianjo 3y agoamazing value indeed. You'll get a good 5 very high quality hours on each of them.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoEvery time I compare the values of video games to movies, even the small indie ones come out on top. Cinema is so expensive nowadays.
- ekianjo 3y ago> Cinema is so expensive nowadays. and that's not even taking in account the overpriced pop-corn
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoI actually don't mind the popcorn price, as that goes directly to the theater. If you choose your theater wisely, you're helping a local business.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoNor the fact they still show ads before the movie you paid for.
- dietr1ch 3y agoI kind of wouldn't mind too much, but they start the movie around 30 minutes late just to show ads and trailers.
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoThen also arrive at the cinema late so you can skip the ads. I always arrive about 10 min late to skip the ads.
- dietr1ch 3y agoYeah, but I'd have to learn the timing like it's a train that's regularly late roughly the same amount. It's easier to learn to watch movies home.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoDoesn't work at the drive-in, though thankfully ours only shows one preview before the feature. But the drive-in is an edge case.
- ChuckNorris89 3y ago> the drive-in Tell me you live in the US :D
- jhbadger 3y agoEven in the US drive-ins are a relic of another time and most of them have closed. They were most popular from the 1950s to the 1970s.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoEveryone should make the effort to support the ones that are left. Going to them is an event, and affordable.
- DropInIn 3y ago"Going to them is an event, and affordable." Hmmm.... So is bull fighting but most of us refuse for various ethical and moral reasons... Maybe we should treat a giant parking lot that goes unused for 99% of the time, and requires people to use polluting transportation when they could use public transit to go to a theatre, as the giant unethical mess it is, eh?
- jokethrowaway 3y agoThat's why actors are celebrities spending millions on drugs while game developers constantly question whether they should get a real job
- chrisweekly 3y agoYet, cultural footprint aside, in economic terms the video game industry is significantly larger than film. (Sorry, citation needed, but I clearly recall reading this from a reputable source.)
- maroonblazer 3y ago"Gaming is Five Times Bigger Than Movies Now" https://gameranx.com/updates/id/416500/article/gaming-is-five-times-bigger-than-movies-now https://gameranx.com/updates/id/416500/article/gaming-is-fiv...
- ffgjgf1 3y agoUnfortunately a lot of that is ad filled P2W shovelware
- yCombLinks 3y agoNot much different than Hallmark shovelware
- johnnyanmac 3y agoMany people only play free phone games. It tracks. I know people on the internet constantly discount it, but mobile is much too big a platform to ignore in discussions like these
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoI think the market is confusing gambling with gaming. The two markets don't overlap (or not directly, I'm sure there are people who enjoy both). We pretend they do, but the only thing they share is the technical aspects in producing something. Diablo Immortal clearly highlighted this. It's equivalent to saying that soccer and basketball are the same game because played both with a ball. "core gamers" (the gamers that play videogames) are actually "videogamers". Mobile gamers are gamblers. Of course there are also some videogames in the mobile world, so you can find some core gamers playing videogames on mobile
- hotcoffeebear 3y agoI’ve bought it, even if i have them on Epic Store… and I don’t even have a steamdeck yet.
- pmarreck 3y agoAbout a year or 2 ago I started to mainly buy games on Steam (and even wait if they start out exclusive to something like Epic) just so I can get the "free" Steam Proton compatibility for my Linux machines (NixOS), my Mac, and my Steam Deck
- lgl 3y agoAgreed, these are two brilliant games from Playdead. Apparently they've been hard at work and are hiring for their 3rd title, which I personally can't wait! Definitely worth a buy/play.
- kelvinjps 3y agoHow they can offer games for so low?
- jonny_eh 3y agoThe cost per unit is 0. Once they’ve sold a game at full price to anyone that will pay, they can lower the price to near 0 to capture any remaining demand along the curve.
- 33W 3y agoYup! The term is marginal cost: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost
- causality0 3y agoNice to see at least somebody is actually putting their games on sale. The last few Steam sales have been pretty sad. Back in the day you could look at your wishlist and the average game would be 50% off, with lots of 75%s and 90%s. These days they act like giving you 20% off a five year old game is some big sale.
- nouveaux 3y agoIt's probably a matter of tastes but the games I'm interested in are on deep discounts. I only picked up a few because I already have a big backlog. The sales are there but it depends on the game.
- wlesieutre 3y agoI picked up Forza Horizon 5 for 50% off and Doom Eternal for 67% off. Cyberpunk is 50% off, Back 4 Blood is 80% off, Control is 75% off. It’s not everything that’s on huge sales, but there’s plenty of deals on big games.
- Falkon1313 3y agoI just opened my wishlist and everything is 50-90% off except for two items one of which is a relatively new DLC expansion (other DLCs for the same game are 50% off). I really shouldn't buy more games now though, when I have so many that I haven't even played yet or barely played.
- neurostimulant 3y agoThat depends on what on your wishlist though. I just bought Halo collection (90% off, includes 6 games) and Sleeping Dogs (also 90% off) for a grand total of $5 (localized pricing).
- DropInIn 3y agoHeres the thing though: I got sleeping dogs for the same price several months ago and could have also done so twice a month ever since... It's effectively just the going price and the discount is pulled just as an incentive to push immediate purchase when people do happen to log in.... I've stopped buying things on sale and am now waiting until I'm ready to play a specific game before buying it... Nearly 100 unplayed games on my gig with most never going to get played (I played Baldur's Gate enough as a kid, I don't need to play EE).
- robotnikman 3y agoInside was an amazing game. The feeling of the environments you go through is just indescribable, like a combination of megalophobia/submechanophobia and mystery.