What happened to purchasing cheap keys for Steam? You could easily buy a game for less than 10 bucks after 2 years release, this is no longer the case. I tried to buy several games, they are all 40-60€, I even can find console games cheaper on the second hand market or online shops.
Example: Sekiro - Shadows die twice
Are we back to consoles being the overall cheaper alternative again? Ricing hardware prices, no longer cheaper keys, 99% of the games are unoptimized trash. This is coming from an older guy but PC gaming nowadays seems like a complete hassle.
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Greedy publishers, pretty much. Triple A are no longer worth it in most cases, let them rot with their 80€ prices.
80? next year its 90 and the year after that 100, until gamers stop buying it then they will decrease again.
>Buy our new Triple-A Game for just 100 bucks
>What do you mean you don't wanna pay $110?
>It's not too much to ask for $120, is it?
>Give us your $130, now!
Between this and games coming out usually unfinished, I wait for sales or bundles with the added benefit of the games being patched by then. Until then, I have a large enough library to keep me entertained.
should have stuck with physical
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Additionally, I think many people don't realize the situation we're going to find ourselves in (console players that is) when everything goes completely digital.
Game publishers used to be pressured to do good sales and price drops because.
A. PC players had standards
B. They can just torrent your game
C. And after a while used physical game prices tank the value of your game
Because Zoomers are more tech illiterate than any other generation that pressure isn't there on the PC side anymore.
Physical game sales have started to evaporate so used games aren't flooding the market 3 months after a big game releases tanking the value.
All those pressures just don't exist for current and future generations of consoles. You won't be able to just torrent an overpriced game on PS6 while it's relevant. You'll just be stuck with shitty 10% sale every once in a blue moon.
Are you moronic or painfully unaware where to look for cheap steam keys
>painfully unaware where to look for cheap steam keys
why don't you enlighten us then
>This is coming from an older guy
Then you should know the heavy Steam discounting was just a minor event in PC gaming history that only lasted for about 5 or 6 years. Now that the PC market is relatively successful and long tails are the norm there's no need to cut prices anymore.
Who talked about Steam discounts? Learn to read Black person.
Same level moron as
This board truly is overrun by Zoomers and losers who never made it in life
>losers who never made it in life
what counts as making it in life?
Why did anon lie to us guys?
what's the lie? 40 yuros for a 4 year old game that had a -50% sale a month ago is stupid. Sales used to be way stickier where the lowest price would stick for months
Kinguin has Sekiro Asian CD key for $22 or so.
That site used to (and still is?) selling keys with credit card frauds.
Most key sites are a shot in the dark unless you goto places like Fanatical or GMG. If you want lowball prices be prepared to either wait for the big sales or take risks.
But that isn't how it used to be.
???
It's always been that way.
You either take the gamble and buy from a key reseller hoping your key wont get revoked in the future or you buy from an official retailer.
No the point of the OP is that Steam keys (legit ones) used to go cheaper.
Sekiro is published by Activision so expect shit sales and no price reduction ever. Those israelites still sell decade old CoDs for full price. If you don't mind asian keys those tend to be cheaper.
It is once again becoming easier and more convenient to pirate than to legally own games. I think we need to put the fear back into publishers that simple instant downloads aren't enough, you can't charge us consoleBlack person prices that are jacked up to inflate the worth of a branded computer box.
After the g2g stolen credit card scandal, that sort of thing just left consumer minds. It's a gamble in more ways than one.
I think it used to be gray market would buy BR keys for like a peso and then relist them for dollar amounts.
Valve clamped down on buying the dirt-cheap games in regions where they sold for nothing because the average workers earned nothing there.
Use cdkeys.com
also I got Sekiro for 10 quid so you must be looking in the wrong places or you're too lazy
>credit card frauds
reddit is over there
ConsoleBlack person baiting. Steam is consistently cheaper. Or take literally 5 minutes and learn to pirate. Consoles are and always will be trash comparatively.
It's called inflation. If you are older like you claim then you should realize this.
Lurk more homosexual
>buying
Is this a humble key dumping thread?
Does anyone got an extra key for pathfinder wrath of the righteous?x
post your fricking breasts you bawd
Didn't they fix the argie exploit?
Because I'll wait the 2 years until Denuvo runs out so I can play Sonic Forces, but 80% of people won't.
You forget PC was an afterthought market, we got scraps at best. But now everyone has seen the potential of the market. Upside. We get all the games. Downside. Normies opened the floodgate to shit prices
>You could easily buy a game for less than 10 bucks after 2 years release, this is no longer the case.
This was only the case for deeply discounted games. These are still retail keys that these people buy, they just buy them at the lowest possible price.
>Example: Sekiro - Shadows die twice
Fromsoft/activision games have always been an exception because they're incredibly israeli with discounts and almost never discount shit. If you look at the price history for sekiro it only gets a -50% discount every few months despite being 4 years old
it's still the case
>random keys are so often loaded with shovelware they're not worth bothering with
>torrenting a cracked copy of a game is unironically more ethical than buying a key more often than not obtained through fraud
>publishers increasingly israelitey with their prices even during sales, big sales are no-longer the big events they used to be since flash sales are no-longer a thing really
the whole "they steal keys" thing must be a meme
if it were true my entire steam account would be wiped
What happened with Steam is basically what happens with everything, once it starts go get popular to the point every fricking idiot knows what it is, sooner or later it goes to shit. We needed to gatekeep Steam. We failed.
>refuse to downgrade to slop10
>money stolen
its not like you own anything with steam anyway