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Post by zagibu on Oct 18, 2024 14:33:15 GMT
I actually have no problem with cost of things. It's time I lack... If I had more time then maybe the cost would be an issue  What you don't buy 10 new games each month that you're never gonna play? |
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Post by zisssou on Oct 18, 2024 14:35:07 GMT
I actually have no problem with cost of things. It's time I lack... If I had more time then maybe the cost would be an issue What you don't buy 10 new games each month that you're never gonna play?  |
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Post by 😎 on Oct 18, 2024 14:46:33 GMT
I'm only 52 games away from 3k in my Steam library. Best find some bundles.
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Post by JuniorFE on Oct 18, 2024 14:52:47 GMT
I'm only 52 games away from 3k in my Steam library. Best find some bundles. Black Friday is only a month and change away, you'll smash that goal before the end of the year I'd imagine  |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 18, 2024 14:54:44 GMT
But once you get to 3000 you won't be able to buy any more games ever again, because it'll mess up the nice round number.
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Post by rftp on Oct 18, 2024 14:57:17 GMT
I have a grand total of 11 games in my Steam Library.
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Post by zagibu on Oct 18, 2024 14:59:47 GMT
3k? Wow, I thought I had a lot, but I'm barely over 500 with steam and GOG combined. Plus probably about 100 physical copies somewhere on the attic of my parent's house.
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Post by JuniorFE on Oct 18, 2024 15:00:50 GMT
But once you get to 3000 you won't be able to buy any more games ever again, because it'll mess up the nice round number. That's when you start aiming for 4000!  |
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Post by JuniorFE on Oct 18, 2024 15:01:31 GMT
I have a grand total of 11 games in my Steam Library. That's no library, that's not even a shelf... You gotta get those numbers up, those are rookie numbers! |
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Post by rftp on Oct 18, 2024 15:05:25 GMT
I have a grand total of 11 games in my Steam Library. That's no library, that's not even a shelf... You gotta get those numbers up, those are rookie numbers! Since 2005. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 18, 2024 15:08:16 GMT
*checks*
ooh. Exactly 500.
Shit... that means I can't buy any more because it's a nice round number.
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Post by quadfather on Oct 18, 2024 15:09:12 GMT
That's no library, that's not even a shelf... You gotta get those numbers up, those are rookie numbers! Since 2005. I regularly have a clear out in steam, and I'm similar to you - about 20 odd at the moment. 10 of those are old fps shooters and rpgs that never get deleted because of playthroughs, so it's a cycle of about 10 other games now and again. I like it uncluttered |
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Post by rftp on Oct 18, 2024 15:15:13 GMT
Tbh, it's mostly that I'm a Linux/Mac user and options for Steam games (that I wanted to play) back then were pretty limited. I never really got out of the habit of that sort of thinking
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Post by quadfather on Oct 18, 2024 15:18:59 GMT
Fair do's. I just get choice paralysis if I have too many
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 18, 2024 15:19:38 GMT
A pitiful 257 in my library. I haven't included my Ubisoft, Origin, GOG and Epic accounts though.
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Post by quadfather on Oct 18, 2024 15:30:24 GMT
Saying that, you've just reminded me Jambo, I have steam set to only show installed games. So, er, there might be a lot more under the hood. And I've probably got about 80 gog games too ffs!
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Post by Aunty Treats on Oct 18, 2024 16:23:29 GMT
Plus probably about 100 physical copies somewhere on the attic of my parent's house. Of what game? |
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Post by 😎 on Oct 18, 2024 16:42:52 GMT
Yaoi Princess Body Swap 3
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Post by JuniorFE on Oct 18, 2024 16:59:35 GMT
Plus probably about 100 physical copies somewhere on the attic of my parent's house. Of what game? E.T. on the Atari obvs |
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Post by zagibu on Oct 18, 2024 17:28:40 GMT
Custer's Revenge.
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Post by JuniorFE on Oct 18, 2024 17:36:28 GMT
I hate that I know what this is (thanks to the Angry Video Game Nerd) |
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Post by retro74 on Oct 18, 2024 19:50:20 GMT
I went into WH Smith today and there were only 3 games magazines on the shelves. There must have been at least 20 different magazines available at points in the past so the era that most of us grew up in is almost completely over. I bet there will be none in a couple of years
There were about 50 Taylor Swift magazines though so swings and roundabouts
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 18, 2024 20:02:57 GMT
I'm always amazed that WHSmiths is still in business. Even when i worked there as an 18 year old 23 years ago I was amazed that it was still in business.
"Hey guys look at our great deal of spend 50 quid on stationery and get Toy Story 2 for 10 quid."
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Post by Vandelay on Oct 18, 2024 20:04:27 GMT
Playnite says I have 1728 games... It also says I haven't played 1086 of them*. Better get going on that backlog!
*I definitely have played some of the games it lists, but wouldn't be surprised if half or more I hadn't.
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Post by skalpadda on Oct 19, 2024 2:40:57 GMT
The development was nowhere near the size it is now either. I haven't got so exact figures but I'm pretty sure more people work on, I dunno, FIFA '25 then worked on FIFA '96 (was there a 96?) Games have largely gotten much, much bigger, and often requires large amounts of shitty crunch time in development. If you look at games that are comparable in size to the flagship games of the '90s you'll be looking at indie games, and those *are* cheaper. Of course there was no micro transactions back in the day. Generally speaking I'm not too bothered by game prices as I rarely buy anything at launch The market has grown enormously as well. Digital distribution takes a much smaller cut than retail used to (or no cut when a publisher has their own). And yeah, add in DLC and for most AAA games micro transactions on top. You can probably expect £100 or more on average from enthusiasts who buy at release.
Don't know how it compares to budget increases (which have been massive). It does seem like big publishers have copied the blockbuster movie model.
I don't really get the complaints about game pricing. It's stood basically still for 35 years, and more than halved with inflation.The first NES cartridge I bought (Zelda 2 in 1989) was 749SEK (~£70) - I remember because I had saved for a whole year. There was the option of trading physical copies and buying used back then of course. PC games have been £55-60ish since the early 2000s, only recently have they started creeping up towards £70.
Doesn't feel expensive to me given the sheer amount of time you can get out of games. Add the constant sales and deep discounts and it can be very cheap. Cheaper than buying computer magazines with floppy disks and playing the first two levels of shareware games (90% of which were shite) over and over. It's better now.
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Post by hedben on Oct 19, 2024 8:03:27 GMT
I have 545 digitally owned games on Xbox (although 194 of them are Games With Gold that technically I could lose access to).
Agree with a point on the last page- digital games are poor value most of the time, but can be heavily discounted on sale. Out of those 300 odd games I bought myself, I reckon less than 10 of them were full price day 1 purchases. And a good chunk of the rest were full price AAA games bought for £5-£15 on sale. Yearly churn franchises like AssCreed and Far Cry get crazy cheap if you’re prepared to wait a bit.
Of course, that does mean my backlog is full of “bargains” I never got around to playing. Surely one day I’ll get around to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (£5.74), eventually
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Post by Vandelay on Oct 19, 2024 8:11:00 GMT
PC games have been £55-60ish since the early 2000s, only recently have they started creeping up towards £70. Definitely not true for UK prices. Early 2000s PC games would have been around £30-35 for a new release. Once you got later into the 2000s and when digital really started to kick off, sites like GamerGate and Green Man Gaming would also regularly have had discounts on pre-orders, so you could often pre-order a game for £20-25. I was thinking maybe StarCraft might have been one of the first PC games to creep up the price and, sure enough, I see it had an RRP of £45. However, you could still buy it for about £35 from Asda and Currys and slightly cheaper from online stores - www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/money/2010/aug/05/starcraft-2-wings-of-libertyPC in the UK only really started charging £50+ somewhere between 5-10 years ago, with it now getting towards £60 for a lot of big new releases. It has been a fairly rapid change of pricing, but, as others have said, isn't really that surprising when you consider the price being quite static for a good 20 or so years. |
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Post by zagibu on Oct 19, 2024 8:49:50 GMT
Maybe it's also a currency thing? The pound has lost a lot of value in the last 10 years compared to other currencies.
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Post by deez on Oct 19, 2024 9:07:18 GMT
Tbf, they do. They don’t give them away, sure, but a lot of them regularly go down to like 33 quid or something. But, to my point, I’ve actually bought more Nintendo games on release recently because they are generally still below 50 quid. Currys have been fairly decent with releasing new Switch games at below £40. Prett much my go to and makes buying Switch games on release a no brainer - I have no desire to keep games so I often make a profit selling on eBay after I'm done. |
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Post by skalpadda on Oct 19, 2024 9:26:06 GMT
Currency is about the same (if anything the SEK has dropped a bit to the pound, but that's only significant in the last two-three years). Games should be 5% more expensive here though, as we have 25% VAT and I think it's 20% in the UK? It seems like the UK is mostly just catching up with the prices we've been having in the rest of western/northern Europe (for PC at least, haven't had a console since the mid-90s).
PC in the UK only really started charging £50+ somewhere between 5-10 years ago, with it now getting towards £60 for a lot of big new releases. It has been a fairly rapid change of pricing, but, as others have said, isn't really that surprising when you consider the price being quite static for a good 20 or so years. Yeah, I remember the Brits sounding a bit whingy when complaining about games reaching £50 back in the RPS days. 
I'm also pretty sure countries like Poland and Estonia have similar game prices to ours now, despite significantly lower incomes.
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