PC Gaming

I wonder how much they really will get. As per Steam's policy, they won't receive the payments until January 30th. By then, tons of people have time to request for a refund. They are also apparently more generous on the refund window. (more than 2 hours)

So I'm a "patient gamer." Neat, I didn't know there was a name for it.

Not playing bad games is super easy. I don't do it all the time.

I didn't even LEARN about the patient gamer lifestyle, just fell into it. There's too many games and not enough time.

Also discovered my local library system, which has pretty much every game. Just borrow and played resident evil 4 remake from the library and I already have a hold placed on Mario rpg, so even new games I can get there

I'm in the same boat, and I have been for a loooong time. It's awesome, because, half the time, I see a game get super cheap, and I'm like, I've been waiting for this moment for 5 years (eg, Skyrim.) Then, the other half the time, some amazing game will just fly by my head and I won't even notice, like, huh, wtf is this, $5 and like 50,000 YouTube videos about it..? (Eg, Just Cause 2.)

I put hundreds of hours into both Skyrim and JC2, for a total of like $10.

Master of Orion 3, AKA Spreadsheets in Space, is where I learned to wait. I bought it on release day and tried so hard to enjoy the game.

I’m playing Yakuza series at the moment and never even knew this game existed until I heard how shit it was.

I’m not always a patient gamer, but I’m never disappointed when I am one

The problem is many multiplayer games are fun on release and for a few months and then die off. If I get my moneys worth during that time im willing to pay full price. But I usually buy the game after a few days/weeks. But for single player games I also go the patient route.

I have that Spider-Man game on my steam wish list, have seen it. 30, 40 % off but it's not getting off my list until it's 70% off. I am patient. I have other things to play.

The game was not funded by a Kickstarter as far as I'm aware.

There is never any reason to pre-order a game. Like, ever. It's always stupid and reinforces terrible incentives that drive the enshittification of gaming. Even when the devs aren't straight up scammers, preorders mean they can be profitable before they've even released anything so they're incentivized to put out whatever half-baked garbage they can.

I remember this marketing. What was the game again?

Killzone 2?

That one's not really a red flag. If they keep all of the same assets and lighting settings, UE5 will look damn close if not identical. Updated code doesn't mean it magically updates the graphics, though I bet plenty of UE-sourced assets have easy upgrade paths.

For an example of a game that doesn't suck that did this, see Satisfactory. It looks nearly the same. Though I think some things have improved slightly, since they at least enabled a few things.