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[+] 82 points 1 year ago (21 children)
  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    During a good sale Steam can sell you so much more games drugs. $80 a game hit are you kidding me? I have a Steam library full of hundreds of games drugs I've scored for pennies.

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Many switch games get deep discounts too, and you can get free 1st party titles if you borrow a physical copy. That's a pretty weak argument.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    many games on the switch get big discounts, absolutely

    games published by nintendo? not so much

    and by the thing you mean about getting free games with borrowing a physical copy. im assuming you’re talking about the gold points, which have been removed some time ago now

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I've never seen the Zelda from 2017 go lower than 50€, USED. Great deep discount for an 8 years old game!

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Maybe not as deep a cut, but certainly cheaper than the above comment's claim that the game has never been below €50.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They didn't say it was never below €50, they said they had never personally seen it below €50.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I may have worded my comment poorly and in an exaggerated tone since used copies can be found on vinted/ebay in between 35-45 (I was thinking about typical mall retail stores), but that's still an incredibly steep price for what's probably one of the most sold - thus widely available - games on the platform. The "all time low" isn't really a good indicator, either, as others comments pointed out: just because a product gets a deep discount, once, doesn't mean everyone is ready at that exact moment in time and space to hop on it and buy it.

    A used price from reputable sellers (meaning, stores who can provide some sort of warranty) of 50-60 is just batshit crazy for a used ten years old game.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Not sure if that's the right link (lol) but the prices you quoted here are way off. All of them are €58+.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh yeah.... my mistake, I looked again and found one /s

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Scroll down to price history, not just current prices. Just because it isn't on sale right now doesn't mean it never has been.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    These results may depend on your region, looks like you are both seeing different prices

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Do you want to play it or do you collect games? If you want to play it then you can sell it afterwards. No rush because it’s not getting any discounts so it holds value quite well.

    I’ve bought my copy for €37:

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    can Nintendo just stop sucking ass for one goddamn second

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    People keep buying their games no matter what, surprisingly.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Because the vast majority of people don't have any idea about Nintendo's litigious nature.

    It's easy to assume that the general population has the same knowledge you do, but just by being on Lemmy you're likely way more informed than 99% of people.

    I see this mindset in the IT world all the time.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    unsurprisingly you mean. gamers are the least principled, and an even less disciplined customer base, barely ahead of hard drug addicts.

    edit: the downvotes made me realize i was wrong. i take it back.

    wait lol no i don't

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Chill the fuck out Nintendo. Money hungry weirdos

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I don't know why Nintendo feel the need to get so overly protective over displays of their games (streaming, competitions, so on). There's been so many games I have bought because I saw someone play it on a stream or something and thought it was neat. What are they even losing out on? They are just shooting themselves in the foot here.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Yo ho, yo ho...

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