That's a lame excuse too. You know full well sales still urge and tempt people into buying apps they weren't planning on buying even without the need for a gun.
That is so true. Im a patient man. I don't have much money on hand and i don't buy new releases game. I might only break this buy new releases game when Modern Combat: Sandstorm come out...The rest, it can wait...
I just take that to mean you're more of a causal gamer than some. You say you'd break it for MC:S, presumably because you think it's going to be great... well, those of us who are into gaming more than you feel that way about a lot of games.
Yup, i said... I MIGHT break it bec. I'm a COD fans. I love COD:MW and already pre-ordered MW2. Hoping, Sandstorm would be like MW style.
Yeah I loved MW too, didn't get into WaW though. Pre-ordered the Prestige Edition of MW2, I'm sure those NVG's aren't going to be very effective, but as a display of game memorabilia they're awesome.
I'm sort of because I'm a sucker early adopter but if the sales happens like holidays or special occasion like first released then yea I don't have any problems.
I was tempted to buy Prestige Ed. but my marriage is coming early next year. I already passed a couple of games that i really liked. But i can't ignore MW2. Believe it or not. My last game thati bought was Gears of War 2... Anyway, off topic now... I think people should realize that games will go on sale eventually, you just don't know when. So, before you buy a game you really need to think a couple times if you really need it now or later. It's just like clothings, shoes... after a couple of days/weeks/months... it go on sale. Just like what happened to me recently... I just bought a sandal, it was on sale 30 bucks. I thought, it was a steal from regular price 65 dollars. After 2 weeks, it dropped to 14.99... So WTF... But bec. i want it so badly... that's happened... LOL! I should have been a little more patience... LOL!
This is my beef right here. I don't mind when developers make make thier apps go on sale. They have the ability to do so, and will utilize that ability. Simple psychology will show that impulse purchases are even more tempting when it goes on a sale, especially drastic ones. I have ton's of games that I probably would not have gotten had they have not been for .99 cents. Ask me when the last time I played HALF of those games? lol My thing is, why would developers want to do it so low? When you drop a game from 6.99 to .99 cents, you will probably get more sales, but the profit? Probably not as much if you would have kept it at 6.99 and then dropped it to maybe 5.99 or 4.99. Im not saying I am a marketing expert here or anything, I know little about it. It does however piss me off when I buy a game *cough* Wolfenstein RPG *cough* at full price when it has only been released for a week, and then they drop it the next day. Why? It is a great game at 4.99 and I had no problem paying for it. But why drop it? It was a great deal at 4.99. You are only losing profit there... I know it's not like developers will straight up say "Hold off buying _____ because it will be on sale on the 13th!". No, but the iDevice community is so used to constant sale after sale after sale, that now a game that would be great priced at 4.99, get's shouted down by cheap-asses saying "That's too much. I'll wait for a sale". Inevitably, the developer will see sh!tty sales, and be forced to drop the price JUST SO people will buy it. Thus is the reason .99 cent games are ruling the App store, and great games like Doom Res will slowly but surely see less and less the light of day. Stay Strong Firemint, keep Real Racing at $9.99. lmao
everyone wins with sales, developer gets money (impulse buys or not, thats the nature of sales!). the profile of the game is raised, this is important with dozens of new titles each day, you want it to stand out! the end user ofc gets a game they clearly would like but wasnt sure about, saves money in doing so and can maybe grab another couple of sale items .. more games! as mentioned elsewhere on the forum, games are a luxury, if you cannot afford your habit/hobby then you have to do without. that rule applies to everything in life im afraid.
wow why do we need a thread about this? if you want it first you pay full price and if you want to wait for a sale then thats your choice. Who cares?
See my previous post. We need a thread cause this forum is for game discussion and this... is a discussion... about games.
WTF is wrong with you!? "I hate sales" what?! You're saying you WANT to pay more for things on the app store? You are wierd :|
