Re: Steam Families

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:50:09 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 14:27 this Monday (GMT):

On 3/23/2024 4:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

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Don't buy Sonic 4.

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Nope. Well, it might be free now, but on release it was a paid-for
product. I spent a whopping $2.99 for it.! ;-)

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Not as bad, but again you should be paid for playing S4.

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Honestly, I'd probably pay that for "Sonic 4" on PC, just to complete
the series. It's really hard for me to resist a game once it gets
beneath the $5 mark. But even if it were priced that low, the fact
that I'd have to pay twice that to acquire both episodes kills that
urge.
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Heck, even if each episode were only $2 I'd still hesitate. I'd buy it
as a bundle for $4, but paying twice? That's an added layer of
friction that I don't feel like fighting.
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I am sure that there are times when episodic gaming works (even if I'd
be hard pressed to point to an example). But in "Sonic 4's" case -
even it weren't so reputedly awful - it just seems like greedy
double-dipping. It's a tactic that not only doesn't make me want to
buy the second episode, it prevents me starting the first.
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I'm glad the trend of episodic gaming has largely died out.
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