I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

  • DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Video games, there’s thousands for free online at itch.io and even on steam.

    You can always buy games discounted if you wait, and paying for microtransation games is a recipe for wasting money.

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      Okay, and some are really good, like DF or CDDA or OpenTTD… But you’re never going to find a free Dark Souls, a free Baldur’s Gate 3 or a free Return to the Obra Dinn.

      So I think it absolutely makes sense paying for quality games like those.

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        To be fair, they did say you can buy it discounted if you wait. To me, as far as the original question goes, pre-ordering the game or buying a marked up “deluxe” version isn’t worth it when you can get it a year later for 50% or more off. If you’re willing to wait a few years, you can easily get them often 80% off or more, and they’re often less buggy because they’ve been patched already. Dark Souls 3 has already gone on sale for 50% off a few times, as has Return of the Obra Dinn(never heard of this, btw), and Baldur’s Gate 3 has already gone on sale for 10% off despite having been released August 3rd.

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          I don’t know how my brain skipped over that part, but you’re totally correct!

          Well, to add to the OP then, don’t buy always-online games either.

          I love Hitman, but fuck IOI for their business model, honestly. They don’t even say they’re going to patch the games to fully work offline in the future, so I don’t expect that to happen.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      Yeah I agree.

      At this point you should never be in a situation where you cannot buy games that are in the genres you enjoy that are 1+ years old, as a result patched up, and on a 30%-70% sale if you’re willing to wait at most a few weeks for the next sale.

      And since there’ll be more than 1 such game, you can always have one on backlog while waiting for the next one to go on sale. There’s 0 reason to buy the buggy full-price on-release version.