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It feels good to support (media.piefed.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 34 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I feel like they cheat by keeping their regular price high.

Back in the day, a game was $60 new and $20 without sale after a few years.

IMO that’s still better than keeping your prices high and doing crazy sales. This way it gets lots of people to buy it out of impulse hence the popularity of the unplayed library meme.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    I remember those days.
    Release at $60, lower to $20 after a few years, $5 on sale with "only" 75% off.
    Though I've noticed that every major steam sale has 10 selected deep discount games that are at least 90% off. The prices for these select 10 feel like steam sales we used to have 15 years ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I'm pretty sure there's actually an EU law that says that you're not allowed to do that. If a product is on discount more or less forever then it's not in fact on discount.

    There is a maximum amount of time a product can be on sale before that becomes just what price is now.

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