What are you buying?

  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    The thing about sales, are that if they happen every month is no longer a big event.

    I feel like an old man yelling at a cloud here, but it really seems like everything is on sale all the time, but the sales aren’t actually sales they’re just the price a thing should be

    • SloganLessons@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I remember in the past these event sales being much, much better. I remember the discounts being higher, at least 50%. And 90% and 80% were a lot more common.

      I think that’s the actual crux of the matter. These weekly sales throughout the year always existed, it’s the events that don’t feature as big discounts as they used to

    • Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org
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      21 hours ago

      I think sales have lost their luster when they’re almost the same prices we’ve seen all year around. The golden age of sales was from 2010 - 2018 I would say and it was THE time to wheel and deal on getting games you sought for the most for crazy prices.

      Nowadays, things remain stagnant. You’ll find games released 5 years ago get an eh -15% off. You’ll find games even 10 years ago get an eh -30% off. Most of the games you see go 65 - 90% off are either games you already had gotten long ago with better prices or games you couldn’t give a shit about.

      I understand that it’d be dumb to expect one or even two year games to be more than -50% at least. But the older the game gets, come on, you can do better.