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bouzane on 23 January 2012
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Pineapple said:
bouzane said:
''Or some anecdotal evidence of that, here's the games I've bought on Steam. The Orange Box (30-40 dollars), Left 4 Dead 2 (30 dollars), Skyrim (60 dollars?) Portal 2 (20 dollars), Oblivion GOTY edition (40 dollars). ''

Yikes, you're paying far more than me. Why not just wait 6-12 months?


I don't enjoy playing games alone. A very major part of enjoyment with games for me is playing together with other people in the same room (which is what I always do on all my consoles) or talking to a friend of mine about the game over Steam while playing it (which is what I do when playing on my laptop) . As it's more fun to talk about the game if we're both playing it, my enjoyment of PC games is far higher if I play it when a lot of my friends are playing it too.

And as I live in Norway, they're a steal at that price anyway. Mostly everything here is 50-100% pricier than in USA, and our salaries are a bit more than that, so it's not a major problem. Gaming is really a very cheap hobby to me compared to how much fun I get out of it, and thus it's not really important to shave off 20%.

It's just not worth the effort to save the money. I mean, I've played The Orange Box 1500 hours, L4D2 100-200 hours, Skyrim 100 hours (and probably going to play over 200 hours) and Oblivion 100 hours, so I'm at somewhere around 0.1 dollars an hour in costs of games.

I'll use the effort to save money elsewhere. In fact, I'd happily have paid a hundred dollars for either of those games.


I guess price is not much of an issue when you sink that many hours into each game. Personally though, I save a lot more than 20% (Oblivion GOTY and Left4Dead 2 both cost $4.99 if I'm not mistaken).