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[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 87 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

I am a fan of Valve, but this is just way exaggerated. For example, encourages you to save money by having sales? Isn't that about manipulating you into buying more games than you would otherwise, because you perceive the value as being better?

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 36 points 19 hours ago

I fall for it every time and I couldn't be more proud

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 20 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, Valve are certainly one of the best options for buying games other than sometimes GoG or directly from the developer. But this level of simping for Valve is odd.

[–] Bababasti@feddit.org 7 points 18 hours ago

Right? The best method of saving money is not to spend it in the first place, no matter how good the deal is. I mean, good deals are nice and all if you really need a thing.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Where I am, games in Steam cost about five to ten bucks normally, and two or three bucks on sale. Ten bucks goes quite far here, and without sales many wouldn't buy games at all. Now, is it good value to buy games instead of not buying any?

[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

They don't set the prices. Developers and Publishers of the game are the ones that do that.

PlayStation has been known to straight up limit and even DENY developers and publishers of indie games on their platform but its strange I never see hate for them very much. And they also have crazy sales on AAA games too.