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I’ll spend 6 hours researching whether I really wanna spend $1.99 on a Steam game that’s 90% off for the first time after I nearly bought it 4 times before at 50% off.
Then when my cell phone bill comes and I’m like “Yeah, I’m definitely overpaying by like $70 here…” I go “Well, too late for this one, I’ll handle it sometime in the next 30 days.”
A switch to per minute, per megabyte plan made me a lot more concious about spending money on my phone. If I want something to watch/listen to during a trip, I download it beforehand. I almost never use any minutes, only communicating via the mobile data. With autodownloading of pictures disabled in all my chat apps, it runs about 50 MB per month, which charges me less than 50 cents.
Is this a recent thing because I will absolutely get you whatever 2 buck game you want on steam like right now. With zero hesitation. Heck make it five bucks. PM me.
That’s very kind, thank you.
How about this: You hold onto that five bucks for me and pick a charity you like. I’ll PM you when I finally take care of that phone bill and you can donate it then. I’ll end up with even more cash for Steam games, and you’ll have helped me and a charity.
Too late! $15 just went to Child's Play and another $15 will go to Doctors Without Borders when you PM me and I will place it in your name.
Just sent you a PM! Thank you so much!
Any reason why you did not pirate the game the first time you wanted it?
Generally more convenient (automatic updates and easy downloading on anything that has steam) and more than that, he probably wants to support the devs
I was a game developer for a while. I’ll sometimes buy a game just because I want to see the devs keep making cool stuff, with no intention of actually playing it.
If it’s a corpo AAA title where private equity has already demolished the dev team and there’s no chance my $50 will make it past the publisher and financiers’ cut, I have no compunctions about pirating.
But that’s pretty rare for me. Indie games are where it’s at. Maybe a F2P live service game here and there.
I mean, you can do both. Pirate it for trying if you're not sure if you want to play it or unsure if it's a worthwhile investment and then spend the money on a legit copy. Helped me get like three copies of Slay the Spire back in the day lol
I think that might worsen my problem lol
Too much sneaky malware out there man, even in once trusted cracking circles.