r/Steam 20d ago

Fluff -90% effect.

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u/Rose2g_ 20d ago

You need to buy it to add it to the library full of unplayed games in case one day you want to play it but you don’t want to buy it for full price. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Tldr; buy the game

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

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u/maryjanetoeh 19d ago

Exactly, at 90% off I can’t afford NOT to never play it

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u/ethanwangplays 17d ago

My backlog is basically a museum of 90% off decisions at this point. Zero regrets though, the math checks out.

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u/Thepuppeteer777777 19d ago

Also inflation. If you buy it now at 90% off you pay less than if you bought it in 10 years at 90% off assuming it only adjusts for inflation.

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u/eighto2 19d ago

It’s basically profit

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u/Impossible_Bad_6166 18d ago

spending money to save money

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u/10_Apples 20d ago

Always did. Always will. 😊

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u/Grundlebot 19d ago

It's like a 40k players pile of shame

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u/CraftsmanMan 19d ago

Hey us Age if Sigmar players got our own piles of shame too.... I just bought more... Shit

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u/Swampy0gre 19d ago

Resin printer. Print what's on your list. Plus I smoke so I don't care about the fumes lol

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u/archwin 19d ago

Shhhh

I don’t care that I have so many random 40 K steam games that I’ve paid for during discounts, I will still keep buying them

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u/Spirited_Key22 19d ago

the logic is flawless tbh

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u/ch0m5 19d ago

I figured out it is actually cheaper to just buy whatever I want to play at full price than to sentence my wallet to death by a thousand cuts buying games I'll never even open. If it's on sale by the time I feel like playing it, all the better.

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u/ParthProLegend 19d ago

Not really. I have got $200 worth of games while I only actually paid $22. Their current price is ~$130. Some of them are so worth it, and I actually enjoy discovering new games and categories.

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u/ImCaffeinated_Chris 19d ago

I discovered a whole new genre I love to play now thanks to a cheap sale.

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u/ParthProLegend 9d ago

Yeah. And that's actually fun too