• Pycorax@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    More of the latter. A triple A costs 70-80 USD now on release and it’s hard to justify that cost when game pass let’s me play that plus a bunch of other stuff for a month for a fraction of that price. Even if I take 3 months to finish it, I’m still spending less than I would’ve from buying it out right. Plus if I do lose interest past the first month, I can just stop right there.

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      4 days ago

      And if you play it over the course of 2 months and reaalllllyyyy like it and wanna buy, then you paid even more?

      I rarely buy AAA on release. If they aren’t crap they’re unoptimized. I usually just wait a year or longer and buy when it’s fixed or don’t if they didn’t care. Been burnt too many times 😁

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        4 days ago

        And if you play it over the course of 2 months and reaalllllyyyy like it and wanna buy, then you paid even more?

        Well if I go with this method, these are usually singleplayer games that I’m fairly confident I can finish within a few months and won’t really play more than that so it hasn’t ever reached that point for me at least.

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          4 days ago

          Oh I just assume single-player, because renting multiplayer might seem a bit silly, as people tend to play them very long or loose interest quickly.