How often do you buy video games in a year?

[bioject]

I dont buy video games at all.

Minesweeper fan I presume?

 

[Comrade55]

I used to buy 10-15 games a year. I would spend hours playing them. But now I don't have the time anymore... If I do have a spare evening, I play the old games or go to friends to try some of the new ones.

 

[MikJiner]

Always in different ways, when a lot of interesting games for me come out, I buy often. But in most cases, I don't buy games often. I try to complete all my games to 100% and often I like to replay them.

 

[Steven Mal]

I usually buy my games on sale, so I typically buy my games during the Steam Summer and Winter sales. Of course, I'll buy a game any time of the year if the discount is large enough.

 

[Colif]

2020 - Torchlight 3

1 game. Broke my drought lol. Shame it wasn't as good as its predecessor. I only played it about a month.

 

[memydidydo]

1-2 games per year max.

I buy Fifa religiously and then maybe a shooter in there some years. Big fan of battlefield. So if there is a battlefield released I am getting that.

 

[xrobwx71]

4 maybe.

 

[Venti]

One every 2 months.

 

[syfari]

I only make large game purchases during sales, so with steam around 3 times a year.

 

[Bassman999]

I buy from Instant Gaming GOG and steam mainly
I get games whenever I see something I wanted at a good enough sale.
I waited to get CP 2077 at $15

 

[Colif]

I used to be a mod on a PlayStation forum, we had people who would buy a new game every week, complete it in that week and repeat again.

Bought 1 game this year so far.

 

[revodo]

There's almost no incentive to buy games for me anymore. I'm older. Almost all games concepts have already been done. I've seen it all. Games now are just hollow shells that are trying to capture the magic of the originals in their genre or field. Everyone follows proven formulas now. Almost no risk taking. If you're older like me, you remember looking at new games thinking to yourself "Is that a giant worm in a spacesuit with an automatic pistol jumping on tires and killing aliens?"

Even the content in game was uncensored. Voice lines were so unbelievably politically incorrect that it had everyone dying laughing. You could have a female space marines in ridiculous revealing outfits and no one cried about objectifying women. It was juts a bunch of dorky guys taking chances, making wild and ridiculous games that everyone enjoyed. Even the "serious games" were leaps and bounds more in-depth and fleshed out than any modern game. Remember the original Half-Life? Quake? Unreal Tournament? Counter-Strike? Thief? Tribes? Modern games look better, but for most, that's it.

Another aspect is patches. Back in the day, most people either didn't have internet, or it was slow dial-up. Even single CDs were an average of 650MB. Do you think game developers were patching minor issues and then releasing 650MB patches, and telling their customers to go download it? Every week or every month? No. Most games were released pretty stable. If, for whatever reason, a patch was released, it was usually not for game breaking bugs that missed the QA testing, it was small refinements and optional to install in most cases. Not required to play or finish the game. Nowadays games aren't even done by the time they are getting released. And companies don't care about releasing 50GB patches every two weeks because they're too lazy to make a patch that patches their game, instead they just upload the entire game and expect you to download the whole thing again.

Then there is the soulless identity of the game industry itself that has manifested in the last 10 years. From expansion packs, to subscriptions, to DLC, to season passes, to lootboxes, and beyond. It's worse than playing the slots in a casino at this point. Imagine paying to watch a movie, but you can only see the ending if you paid double the original price to unlock it. That's where the game industry is at now.

I honestly didn't mean to type all that.

Anyway, the few current games I really like are Rust, Dead By Daylight, Alien Isolation, A Plague Tale, Dishonored, Prey, This War of Mine, Titanfall 2, and Valheim.

 

[Bassman999]

I never pay retail price for games. I buy titles I want when the sale feels good enough to me
Could be like 5-6 a year or more

 

[TangoDown87]

Not including humble bundel I end up buying 50+ games a year. Its sad to look at all the games i have across all the platforms. But I usully stick to steam when I buy something unless Its absolutly not avilable on Steam.

There are games I want to get but I'll wait til they go on sale like Evil Genus 2.

 

[Bassman999]

Not including humble bundel I end up buying 50+ games a year. Its sad to look at all the games i have across all the platforms. But I usully stick to steam when I buy something unless Its absolutly not avilable on Steam.

There are games I want to get but I'll wait til they go on sale like Evil Genus 2.

GOG and Instant Gaming have some good deals sometimes

 

[minnin90]

As a gamer, are you the type that likes to buy lots of games per year or are you the more conservative one who is dedicated to only a few games and only moves to newer titles once you've exhausted all resources out of your old games? Or are you in-between?

the only games I "buy" are subs or cheap currencies like cartel coins in SWTOR...so just MMO stuff primarly...which is why I usually play PC for more free games.

 

[xrobwx71]

3x/year

 

[minnin90]

i only play free games or sub for no more then 15 bucks a month...and yes I do play MMO's.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I buy a few here and there. The steam winter and summer sales are usually a good time to stock up.

 

[Colif]

Well, just bought only game I was after this year

not exactly new, more a repeat buy but you know, there is a 20 year gap between purchases

 

[greenbeng]

Once a year. I noticed that just in a year I was starting to get bored with the bought game, and I was ready to buy a new one.

 

[computerguppie]

Don't judge but basically every sims expansion as it comes out, and all the kits. I play leauge but its free so I get off lightly.

 

[Eximo]

Well, just bought only game I was after this year

not exactly new, more a repeat buy but you know, there is a 20 year gap between purchases

I did too. Nice to be able to alt-tab without the massive resolution jump. Kind of miss Pluggy, but they added stash sharing anyway, so that is cool.

 

[Eximo]

Battlefield is next on the list, about the only games I've looked at this year.

 

[Colif]

I did too. Nice to be able to alt-tab without the massive resolution jump. Kind of miss Pluggy, but they added stash sharing anyway, so that is cool.

You can see old graphics by pressing G
I like pressing F which is zoom and then G, blurry mess.
you can hold F and scroll mouse wheel to control levels of zoom
I still need more space but I starting to think I need no limits to make it work. I never want to throw anything away or sell things another class might use.