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Best deal you ever got?

What’s the best game deal you ever got?

For me it was the original Subnautica. Was a free give away before it got popular and I had no expectations when I played it. Really enjoyed the exploration and the pacing.

Second was Axiom Verge - I got it for free before it became popular but I don’t remember how. I bought it when it went to Steam because I wanted to support the creator.

Both are fun exploration sorts of games if you haven’t played them. Axiom Verge is a metroidvania. Kinda a weird game, but in a good way.

Bosht ,

Back in the day when game bundles werent a super common thing, Humble Bundle was the absolute GOAT when it came to acquiring a massive amount of titles for cheap as dirt. The best part too was you could choose how much of your donation went to different places. I realize its like that now as well but theyre a mere shadow of what they once were. There were so many times I would see 1 or 2 titles I wanted, pick up an entire bundle, then later find 1 or 2 indie diamonds in the pack I wasnt expecting.

Timecircleline ,

I got xcom 2(200 ish hours) and slay the Spire (500+ hours) from humble bundle.

steeznson ,

Picked up Conker’s Bad Fur Day on N64 for £20 when I was 12 in 2004. I thought it was a bit pricey for an “old” game at the time. However in the years since it’s become a rare game (in addition to being a Rare game) and it’s now worth 5-6 times as much 2nd hand.

hitmyspot ,

Psvr (original) as an amazon prime day deal about baby ear after launch. It was about AUS150, so US100 by today’s exchange.

Ashtear ,

First one that comes to mind was getting a used PS3 for $75 in late 2017.

I’d become a big Persona fan after liking P3 and with P4 becoming an all-time favorite soon after, but I’m mostly a PC gamer. I don’t always pick up current-gen consoles. Eventually I got sick of hearing the heaps of praise for P5 that I figured I’d take the risk on a used PS3 (getting a PS4 was way out of my budget). That’s not why it ended up being a great deal, though.

Now that I had a PS3, I figured I’d try all the games I’d been missing out on that didn’t have PC ports. I had a remarkably high hit rate with these: Demon’s Souls, Dragon Quest Builders, Journey, The Last of Us, NieR, and of course Persona 5 itself. Ended up playing through (almost) all of FromSoft’s following games and NieR: Automata because of this pickup. Still never got that PS4, though, so I’m still waiting on Bloodborne and TLOU2.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I bought Factorio and Minecraft in Beta/Alpha, and still use the same keys to this day. So something like 15 years of entertainment.

Those definitely weren’t patient gaming buys, but they were good buys.

That said, I’m not a patient gamer because of cost, I’m patient because I don’t have much time and don’t want to waste it on buggy games. So I wait until bugs to be ironed out and the content to be complete before I buy.

jemikwa ,

I bought Minecraft a month before Beta came out and man what a deal that was. Only something like $10. I got thousands of hours out of that over the following 5ish years. I don’t play it as often any more, but I still think it was worth it

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, I don’t play anymore, but my kids do. I ended up buying a second license so my two boys could play at the same time with MS accounts, but that original licence has gotten a ton of use.

Starb3an ,

I’m not sure if it was the first time they ever did a free weekend for a game or not, but I played Day of Defeat: source and it never left my library. I think I lost that steam account at some point though.

zeekaran ,

Jet Set Radio Future, $2 Xbox disc.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Mine came with my Xbox. That game rocks.

hubobes ,

Portal 2, bought it a month ago for 1.-

gibmiser OP ,

Ooo nice

specialseaweed ,

Decades ago I bought a sealed copy of Dragon Warrior off a guy for $30. While exchanging info he said he’d throw in a sealed copy of Dragon Warrior 2 for $20 more. I wasn’t really a collector (I wanted to play them) so I said sure what the hell, nice boxes and inserts are always cool. I never got around to playing them so they sat in a plastic shell.

They’re perfect, they’re unopened, and I still got em.

drasglaf , (edited )
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I got Copy of Maniac Mansion for NES for free at a second hand games store . According to the store owner the game didn’t work and asked me if I wanted it because the box still looks good in a shelf anyway. I put it in my NES and it worked without issues. This was around 10-12 years ago.

Edit: Typo.

gibmiser OP ,

Reading the title was enough to start the soundtrack in my head. Good shit.

ivanafterall ,
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Best full-price video game deal in history, in my opinion, was NFL 2K5 selling for $19.99 at launch. I still consider it the best football game ever and I miss it dearly.

It was such a good deal that EA shit themselves, bought the exclusive NFL license, and ruined football gaming for future generations.

CryptoKitten ,

Free, many times…

tal ,
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Axiom Verge

Yeah, that’s decent. Still haven’t gotten through it, though.

I think that the price of a game matters a lot less than the gameplay time, in terms of value. You can have enormous differences in the amount of time you play a game, much more than the price typically varies from game to game.

looks at Steam

My top-played games by hours of playtime are:

  1. Oxygen Not Included
  2. Fallout 4 (the game itself is decent-sized, plus there are expansions, but this is really due heavily to mods)
  3. Wargame: Red Dragon
  4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (also improved by mods)
  5. Sid Meier’s Civilization V
  6. Caves of Qud
  7. Fallout 76
  8. Rimworld (mods, though honestly the base game is pretty good on its own)
  9. X3: Reunion
  10. Mount & Blade: Warband (again, mods add a lot to this)

So those are probably the best deals, as I’ve gotten the most time out of them.

The bad deals are games that I get and then don’t like and so don’t play.

BastingChemina ,

I don’t see Factorio on this list! Why is the factory not growing?

tal ,
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I played it for a while, but never got that into it. Ditto for Mindcraft and Satisfactory. They’re all fine, but…I dunno. Oxygen Not Included just has more stuff going on.

dezvous ,

GTA V for free.

A customer left a seller review on G2A stating that their provided key didn’t work. They posted the key in the review and I claimed it on steam without any issue.

graymess ,

Kind of weird to admit to stealing someone’s purchase. Dick move, really, regardless of how dumb that was of the buyer.

dezvous ,

They publicly posted a key that “didnt work”. How is that stealing? It would be like me leaving a piece of equipment in my front yard with a sign that says “free, doesn’t work” but a mechanic picks it up and fixes it in a matter of minutes.

graymess ,

Was it the buyer giving it up to anyone who wanted it or were they under the impression G2A customer support would be refunding it?

dezvous ,

lemmy.world/comment/9435388

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