PC gamers are stingy bastards

[DieGrootHammer]

They do have second hand sales though. Which I'm sure they dislike.

True. I'll admit, it's not like console games NEVER go on special, it's just not as frequent as on PC. Like the article said, we assume something will go on special only a few weeks after launch. On console, you can expect game prices to depreciate as per normal, but you are not guaranteed a special, nor second hand availability of that particular game. So reluctantly, you have to buy the game at full price.

[Fivel]

We live in a world where pretty much everything is being commodiitsed, so it means great value for the consumer but is not sustainable over the long run.

[Ike_009]

I see kevin is stepping on master race toes again.

However I'm sure if consoles had steam summer sales then they would follow the same trend.

[BeoTeK]

One look over at the MyG Steam Community Give-away thread and I beg to differ.

[HavocXphere]

The latest NDP Group survey of US PC gamers has revealed that half of all the Master Race wait for a game to go on special before buying it.

They forgot about the part where you get all the billion 1.99$ DLCs in a GOTY edition.

[Kwaai]

Buying games as they're released just to sit in my backlog? No thanks. By the time I will get to them they'll be on special and I'll be able to get even more games for the price of one on release .

[smokey]

I honestly don't see a problem with all these specials - if anything, they are brilliant for the industry. Most of the games that go for stpid special prices a la Summer Sale/Humble Bundle are old games that aren't going to sell at basically any price. I remember reading an article on how gaming was tougher than books, movies, music and comics in that the vast majority of the profit is made in the first week/month of the game - as the game gets older, it get proportionally less attractive simple becuase so much new stuff is coming out and (in the case of single player games) it's already finished.

There are few games that I would play a second and third time - but there are a heck of a lot of movies, books, songs (esp. music) and comics that I will re-read/watch from time to time.

I actually love how gaming has embraced online distribution and created whole new ways of getting cash from consumers (particularly Humble Bundle - that is awesome) - an most importantly, keeping those same consumers happy.

One of the best studios that does this is Paradox - I will waited for EU4 to go on sale and got it for around 6 dollars. Once my hectic work period finishes in the next month or so, I'm plumping down at least 20-30 dollars for DLC that will actually improve the game experience far beyond a "new weapon skin" or something like that. Hell - I get a lot of the DLC changes in EU4 anyway.

tl;dr finance people talking out their asses. Gaming is being brought to gamers by gamers and Steam, Humble bundle and Paradox (that's for me personally though) are leading the way.

[kachan64]

My local game store does the summer sale and stuff like that for console. But sadly they are not new as in sealed.

[AlphaJohn]

Its not that I am stingy.... its about the backlog.

Back in the day with good games being few and far in-between I paid full price to have something to play. Forward to today where I have over 200 games in my Steam/Origin/Uplay inventory that I have not even installed let alone play. This did not stop me from buying games, for this the industry can be glad as we could just stop buying and they will see 0 income from people like me.

So what ends up happening is that I see games on sales that I might like to play someday and I pick up the deal if I have the cash that in turn extends the list of games I have to get to.

edit: On that note: I just added DMC, Remember Me and Lost planet to my list..... Thanx Gabe, because of you I recon I need a gap year or three just so I can stop being "stingy"

[FarligOpptreden]

Yeah, Steam is both a blessigg and a curse for developers and publishers. GabeN will soon rule the PC gaming market, if he doesn't secretly do already. Games in my backlog often only get played for a couple of minutes to test them out - even good games like the Metro series.