• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      7 months ago

      Maybe not too patient but rn I’m playing Assassin’s creed Origins (2017) I bought for €14. I don’t often have time to play but when I do I’m really enjoying it! Before this I was playing Shadow of Mordor (2014).

  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
    54·
    7 months ago

    Considering the size of my Steam library and the amount of games I want to play but haven’t touched yet… I can wait 10 years

    • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      7 months ago

      I just played through Portal 1 for the first time, which is a game I knew I wanted to play ever since it came out in '07.

      • frunch@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 months ago

        Was it worth the wait? I loved the game, and also came to the party years after its release

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          5·
          7 months ago

          came to the party years after its release

          Was there finally cake? Were all your best friends there instead of just turrets and deadly neurotoxin?

          Haha hope you enjoy(ed) Portal 2 also. It’s an excellent sequel. :D

          • frunch@lemmy.world
            3·
            7 months ago

            Hell yeah, that was a terrific sequel!

            Don’t think I ever actually found the rumored cake… 🤔

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      22·
      7 months ago

      I have to imagine it’s a holdover impulse from the days of physical media where stores had limited copies. Why anyone would preorder a digital download is beyond me, unless there are some perks.

    • starchylemming@lemmy.world
      10·
      7 months ago

      i would preorder games from a studio i like to boost their capital while they are still developing. it seems better than them having a lower budget or getting shady investors. but somehow those who are worthy are the same folk who dont do preorders😂

    • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
      91·
      7 months ago

      The last time I preordered a game, I had played a leaked alpha build for a while before release, for like 40 hours. It was pretty broken, but it was a lot of fun, so I figured it was fair to pay for the game already.

      I’d say there are very exceptional cases where it isn’t absurd to preorder, but those are less than 1% of all preorders that actually take place.

    • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      The only game I preordered was Monster Hunter Rise. They offered a demo that I played longer than most games currently in my library and it was polished and showed no performance issues. It showed me that it was the game I wanted it to be. So I nabbed it for a preorder discount deal from a 3rd party, legit storefront to save some cash. And it was my favorite of the series and my most played individual title. Maybe that’s all rationalization of something I still shouldn’t have done, but if you are discerning, it works.

    • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 months ago

      Depends on if it’s a series I’m heavily invested in or a dev I really want to support. I’m massively into the trails of series and if I could preorder those I would.

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
      31·
      7 months ago

      I preorder the next expansion for FFXIV. But I have played the game for 8 to 9 years. Other than that I wait to see what happens when a title drops

      • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        Same. I haven’t played as long as you as I think but I’m not really an mmo person as I get bored after a few weeks with most but FFXIV has kept me interested for years. And I’m really attached to my WoL at this point and I want to see where the journey goes.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      If I want to play on release day, I would preorder to preinstall the game while I am working so I can play it when I get home. Also, preorders usually have bonus items, like physical stuff.

      I preordered the collectors edition of Elden Ring, and White Snow edition of NieR Automata, for example. Both came with a wide variety of various physical goods that were exclusive to those preorder editions.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
    211·
    7 months ago

    not only that, waiting means you can actually run the damn thing on your hardware, you’re not effectively playing an early access release, and there’s a matured community around it for mods and whatnot.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    19·
    7 months ago

    Where are you all getting GTA V for free? I want to get in on that.

    Oops never mind, I have it on the Epic store. Probably nabbed it for free when it was available.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
    14·
    7 months ago

    How you get it for free 10 yrs later?
    I mean if you pirating you can do that at least a few yrs earlier.

    • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      I got half life for free when steam did the 25 year anniversary promotion for it. So you can actually get free games if you wait long enough lol.

      I also got little nightmares for free as well, but I don’t remember the occasion.

      • Deello@lemm.ee
        3·
        7 months ago

        If I remember correctly I think they gave it away for free as part of a promo for the sequel.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      2·
      7 months ago

      Sometimes you can get a game for free on steam, or something like $5. GTAV is still around $20 when steam does their discounts.

  • Hupf@feddit.de
    14·
    7 months ago

    It’s also much easier on your budget to meet the game’s hardware requirements then.

  • Zewu@lemmy.world
    13·
    7 months ago

    Meanwhile Nintendo: almost wait a decade to pay 2x the original price on the used market

    • kevincox
      3·
      7 months ago

      More like re-purchase it for twice the price on the next console’s eShop

  • joneskind@lemmy.world
    13·
    7 months ago

    IMHO, there’s a card missing saying

    “Waiting a few years that every bug get fixed”

    Another one should be

    “Waiting a few years so that my $100 bucks GPU can run it flawlessly”

    And last but not least.

    “Waiting a few years so that my $2000 MacBook can play it at 30FPS”

    Been playing Cyberpunk 2077 lately, that game is dope. I use Game Porting ToolKit BTW

    • SugarSnack@lemm.ee
      3·
      7 months ago

      As someone with a 1060 in a Proxmox rig and a discounted M2 MacBook air, I felt all of this

      • joneskind@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        Gotta keep that PC to play some Windows games right?

        I did something dumb that I don’t regret yet, put my PC budget into a more powerful Mac when GPTK came out. I surely can’t play all games but so far I’m really satisfied.

        Running Mixtral-7x8B_Q4 on a laptop wasn’t something I was expecting to be able to do :)

        So I can’t say I got the best gaming rig for sure, but professionally speaking this has been an absolute blast.

        If I remember correctly M1 was about as powerful as a 1050 when it came out (at least on native games). Are you happy with your M2 Air? I managed to play CP77 on my wife’s one, but since it only has 8Gb of RAM it crashed just after the meeting with Jackie Welles.

        TBH, I miss a good macgaming sub on Lemmy. At a least I have an occasion to laugh of myself from time to time

        • SugarSnack@lemm.ee
          2·
          7 months ago

          I’m about 2 weeks in with the MacBook so probably too early to comment! But happy so far so the basic needs are met. Gaming will be mostly emulation and moonlight via Proxmox on my TV. Huge stream backlog so I’m not rushing with modern games 😅

    • Stern@lemmy.world
      271·
      7 months ago

      Wait a year post release, get it on sale, put it in the backlog with all the others, play your one comfort game and doomscroll your preferred social media feeds instead of ever playing it