this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
166 points (94.6% liked)
Games
16845 readers
966 users here now
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
- News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
- Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
- No humor/memes etc..
- No affiliate links
- No advertising.
- No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
- No self promotion.
- No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
- No politics.
Comments.
- No personal attacks.
- Obey instance rules.
- No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
- Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Nope. I spent $250 last year and played every single new game I wanted. Rentals and reselling is far far more valuable and cheaper. I would have spent well over $1500 in games alone before you even start taking about hardware.
Digital only is a scam ushered in by valve.
$250 can land you one hell of a budget gaming pc pair this with copious amounts of free games from the epic game launcher and no paying for subscriptions and you'll be saving alot in the long run
And if you're that stretched for money, you can always pirate games much easier on a PC than a console. Legally grey but morally pirating because you can't afford is fine.
If you want to play every new AAA release on release, sure, something like gamepass/ps plus is cheaper. You can also get gamepass on PC fwiw, so it's not really a good argument for consoles. I usually just wait for games to go on sale for $10-20, plus it gives time for the games to actually get patched and function properly. I've also been dumping thousands of hours into the same 3 or 4 games for the last decade, so really I could have spent nothing on PC gaming other than a few hundo on a new GPU a couple years ago.
And for most people, you need to have a PC anyway. Consoles are not good at doing your taxes or editing documents. So the alternative to a gaming PC isn't just a console, it's a console and a weaker PC bundled together. The price difference between a budget laptop and a kickass gaming rig is going to be less than the price of console.
I like when I wait a month and get 25-40% off the release price that was already cheaper than the console release price.
I like even more when the game ends up being shit and I just don't buy it at all. I've saved so much money because of this it's actually a bit nuts.