Don't take this the wrong way but get the hell outta here with that.
Again, I mean no offense.
The 14 day refund system is a much more ideal situation then the possibility that someone might pirate the game instead.
Don't take this the wrong way but get the hell outta here with that.
Again, I mean no offense.
Don't take this the wrong way but get the hell outta here with that.
Again, I mean no offense.
Let's say a sale is going on where you can buy The Mass Effect series for $5. Well if you didn't have a PC, you would have not bought it. You decide to buy it and maybe you play it all and enjoy it, or maybe it goes into your backlog of steam games because you took advantage of a lot of sales. But you didn't save money. You spent it. You spent money that you could not have spent on a current gen console because that series was not available for you to buy and play.
Similar to how people laughed at a user who posted that they saved $200 on Black Friday by buying $200 worth of electronics. No you spent money. For a lower price. But you spent money that you would have not if it was not discounted.
also, this is complete and utter horseshit
pc gaming not being "cheaper" because there's more games to buy??? it reads entirely like drivel
To your second point, how it the act of doing nothing not considered saving? Just in real life, a person can save up for retirement by not spending money or doing anything else. Cost comparison between buying a game, buying a game on sale, or not buying a game at all.
I am not sure if he is implying that, or if he rather means, he is refunding games he would usually feel bad about having bought after the fact and be sitting with a certain sunk cost on console.
I am not sure if he is implying that, or if he rather means, he is refunding games he would usually feel bad about having bought after the fact and be sitting with a certain sunk cost on console.
The 14 day refund system is a much more ideal situation then the possibility that someone might pirate the game instead.
Yep, seems like I had the wrong of it. My badI was talking about games that I thought would be good but turned out bad.
Trust me, I'm no cheater of a system. lol
Best Buy Game Club 4 life, fuck yo PC games
Sticking with consoles
Don't take this the wrong way but get the hell outta here with that.
Again, I mean no offense.
Edit: I hate to break chronological order of quotes (this quote I'm adding is from a few posts down) but wanted to tackle this right away:
If this is what you were talking about, Nyoro SF, then I am entirely out of line and I genuinely apologize for thinking the worst and responding out of turn. My bad
For people having to normally buy games in other currency I know that by being a PC gamer you are able to avoid getting screwed by faulty conversions.
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It's less of you save money and more that you have the opportunity to save money? There is no doubt that third party resellers will discount games to attract consumers (thank you guys for providing information on this), but this is also a marketing plan for them. I did not buy Batman for my PS4. But if I went to a site that sold me The Witcher 3 for 50% and also had Batman for 50%, I didn't really save money. I bought a game I would have not bought if the sales weren't good. But this is situational and not the default for everyone. Ending up to: it depends.
Where did I say PC gaming isn't cheaper? I argued that you do not save money if you buy more games because your spending habits changed to take advantage of sales that were never offered to you before. Please point out where I said it isn't cheaper per game purchased.
For people having to normally buy games in other currency I know that by being a PC gamer you are able to avoid getting screwed by faulty conversions.
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It's less of you save money and more that you have the opportunity to save money? There is no doubt that third party resellers will discount games to attract consumers (thank you guys for providing information on this), but this is also a marketing plan for them. I did not buy Batman for my PS4. But if I went to a site that sold me The Witcher 3 for 50% and also had Batman for 50%, I didn't really save money. I bought a game I would have not bought if the sales weren't good. But this is situational and not the default for everyone. Ending up to: it depends.
Where did I say PC gaming isn't cheaper? I argued that you do not save money if you buy more games because your spending habits changed to take advantage of sales. Please point out where I said it isn't cheaper.
Generally a selling point to counter the cost of a high end PC vs a console is money you save on games and subscription fees.since when is pc gaming supposed to be cheaper lmao
For people having to normally buy games in other currency I know that by being a PC gamer you are able to avoid getting screwed by faulty conversions.
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It's less of you save money and more that you have the opportunity to save money? There is no doubt that third party resellers will discount games to attract consumers (thank you guys for providing information on this), but this is also a marketing plan for them. I did not buy Batman for my PS4. But if I went to a site that sold me The Witcher 3 for 50% and also had Batman for 50%, I didn't really save money. I bought a game I would have not bought if the sales weren't good. But this is situational and not the default for everyone. Ending up to: it depends.
Where did I say PC gaming isn't cheaper? I argued that you do not save money if you buy more games because your spending habits changed to take advantage of sales that were never offered to you before. Please point out where I said it isn't cheaper per game purchased.
since when is pc gaming supposed to be cheaper lmao
Can buy PC games at BB too ya know.
I did not buy Batman for my PS4. But if I went to a site that sold me The Witcher 3 for 50% and also had Batman for 50%, I didn't really save money. I bought a game I would have not bought if the sales weren't good. But this is situational and not the default for everyone. Ending up to: it depends.
the entire implication of spending habits lies solely on the person, not the platform. you DO save money compared to buying them on another platform, anyways.
and in terms of "please point out where i said it isn't cheaper"... the entire followup line is speaking about a comparison to purchasing electronics on black friday for $200, insinuating that the option to spend extra somehow makes it more expensive in general
The selection is anemic to say the least, though.
For people having to normally buy games in other currency I know that by being a PC gamer you are able to avoid getting screwed by faulty conversions.
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It's less of you save money and more that you have the opportunity to save money? There is no doubt that third party resellers will discount games to attract consumers (thank you guys for providing information on this), but this is also a marketing plan for them. I did not buy Batman for my PS4. But if I went to a site that sold me The Witcher 3 for 50% and also had Batman for 50%, I didn't really save money. I bought a game I would have not bought if the sales weren't good. But this is situational and not the default for everyone. Ending up to: it depends.
also, this is complete and utter horseshit
pc gaming not being "cheaper" because there's more games to buy??? it reads entirely like drivel
Since Steam allowed third parties to generate their own product keys. Seriously how is this debatable? It's a fact, it's been this way for over 6 years now.
I'm having a hard time seeing your logic flow.
A person spending habits is also influenced by what they can buy (the platform).
There is no insinuating or implying. I state that if you purchase an item that is discounted with the intention of buying it solely because it was cheaper then you do not save money if you end up spending more money than you would have if not given the sale to push you over.
games yeah
the cost of a decent pc is still 2x the consoles this gen though lol
since when is pc gaming supposed to be cheaper lmao
games yeah
the cost of a decent pc is still 2x the consoles this gen though lol
since when is pc gaming supposed to be cheaper lmao
since when is pc gaming supposed to be cheaper lmao
You lost me here. Your argument is much too specific.
If Batman on PS4 was $60, and Batman on PC was $30, then that's the end of that debate. Bringing The Witcher 3 into the conversation is a different comparison.
Instead of buying both on consoles and spending $120, you'd buy them both on PC and spend $60.
You're making some weird-ass semantic point that because it is possible to not save money buying games for PC, "PC gaming saves money" is false. I mean, sure, congrats. Of course it is possible to not save money.
games yeah
the cost of a decent pc is still 2x the consoles this gen though lol
For people having to normally buy games in other currency I know that by being a PC gamer you are able to avoid getting screwed by faulty conversions.
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It's less of you save money and more that you have the opportunity to save money? There is no doubt that third party resellers will discount games to attract consumers (thank you guys for providing information on this), but this is also a marketing plan for them. I did not buy Batman for my PS4. But if I went to a site that sold me The Witcher 3 for 50% and also had Batman for 50%, I didn't really save money. I bought a game I would have not bought if the sales weren't good. But this is situational and not the default for everyone. Ending up to: it depends.
Saving money is always relative but choosing to spend money is a personal choice that is managed by an individual's impulse control (among a variety of other factors) and if that's the crux of your argument there's no way we're going to get a consensus on what's better for impulse control.For people having to normally buy games in other currency I know that by being a PC gamer you are able to avoid getting screwed by faulty conversions.
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It's less of you save money and more that you have the opportunity to save money? There is no doubt that third party resellers will discount games to attract consumers (thank you guys for providing information on this), but this is also a marketing plan for them. I did not buy Batman for my PS4. But if I went to a site that sold me The Witcher 3 for 50% and also had Batman for 50%, I didn't really save money. I bought a game I would have not bought if the sales weren't good. But this is situational and not the default for everyone. Ending up to: it depends.
Where did I say PC gaming isn't cheaper? I argued that you do not save money if you buy more games because your spending habits changed to take advantage of sales that were never offered to you before. Please point out where I said it isn't cheaper per game purchased.
I responded to someone that mentioned Batman and brought in my point-of-view. Saying if I buy Game A because it is on sale, I now feel comfortable to buy Game B because it is also on sale. This is with the assumption that your spending habits would be influenced by sales. Now if a person is comfortable with Title A and only Title A then there is no question. But if a person has interests in Title B but only would buy it if it is on sale then do they save money if they would have not bought it prior to a sale.
(1) Then do people "save" money on Black Friday when they buy electronics that they would not have bought if they weren't on sale?(1)So you think that because you wouldn't buy a game if it wasn't on sale that you aren't "saving" by ending up buying that game? That's a pretty dumb argument. That would be the issue of the person if they bought a game simply because it was cheap.
(2) As far as the PC plaform, by definition you'd be "saving" money as it is money you otherwise would have to spend to buy that game.
(3) Additionally the fact that you can get AAA games on the low ~a year after it comes out and have it scale more and more as time goes on is a benefit that is really only utilized on PC.
I haven't seen such drastic sales a year after they come out on any other console.
The only reason I bought/buy console games is for exclusives, to play with people I know, and if a PC port is shitty. Otherwise, when it comes down purely to price, PC simply wins in that category.
I'm having a hard time seeing your logic flow.
A person spending habits is also influenced by what they can buy (the platform).
There is no insinuating or implying. I state that if you purchase an item that is discounted with the intention of buying it solely because it was cheaper then you do not save money if you end up spending more money than you would have if not given the sale to push you over.
PC gaming can be cheaper if you know how to shop smart, but the lack of standardization is what keeps turning me away. Everyone I know who games on PC seems to spend more time trying to get games to run on their rig than, y'know, actually playing them. Besides, a lot of the games I'm interested in simply aren't on PC (Uncharted, most of Halo, anything Nintendo, etc) and PC exclusives tend to be technical sims and RTSs which I've never cared for.
Man your x360 game prices are way too high lol
Portal 2 $60?
Haven't spent more than $48 on a new release since Best Buy started their discount program.