Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Anything ubisoft. They told us to get comfortable not owning their games and I am happy to oblige.

the RDR's, because, yeah, fuck launchers.

'deathloop' love arkane, looks like kinda my shit, but will not tolerate denuvo on my fucking machine, especially because I don't have particularly high end hardware. I'd love to give them my money, but they don't seem to want it.

Wanted to try Hogwarts Legacy since it's on a big discount, but found out by a review that the game has a disclaimer that it will sell your personal information. Fuck that!

Anything with DRM. I refuse to put up with it anymore.

I'm not giving America any of my money right now.

I mean pretty much anything from EA, Ubisoft, 2K, Blizzard/Microsoft, Xbox, Rockstar, etc.

I did actually end up buying a Sony game after they dropped the account-linking requirement.

I got caught out by RDR2, tried playing it a few evenings ago, even signed up for a crappy Rockstar account only to be greeted by the "this game is registered to another account" message. Screw them

I've wanted to try out NFS Unbound for a while now, it regularly goes down to single digit prices but I'd rather eat shit than install an EA launcher on my machine.

I won't buy any paradox games because they invariably end up with 100 DLCs each

The assassin's creed games because of Uplay being a pain on linux.

I got fed up with Rockstar Launcher so I got myself a cracked version of Red Dead 2 a few days ago and I can't believe I put up with that goddamn launcher for as long as I did.

Next up I'll be trying the Red Dead Redemption remake/remaster.

A couple of Sony games because they don't want to sell them in my country 🤷 They leave no other choice but to pirate them.

Red Dead Redemption 2

RDR2 went on sale for $20 a couple of months back which was about what I was willing to pay for it, so I grabbed it then. I tried playing it and it's just boring. WAY too much riding around on horses just getting to the next bit of action or story. I dropped it and doubt I'll ever get back to it.

Prince of Persia The Lost Crown looks like a banger, but I am unwilling to spend any amount money on it until Ubi gets the memo and strips Denuvo from it (at least outside of the launch window).

They're all still too expensive for me. Like Flight Simulator 2020. I do believe the effort they put into it is probably worth 35 €. But I wouldn't play enough for it to be worth 35 € for me. And I'm still salty about the time when they accidentally discounted it by 85 % instead of 15 % and snatched it right out of my cart when I was about to pay.

I really got impatient last year and just decided to pirate games left and right.

I got Balatro, Iron Meat, Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection, MMPR: Rita's Rewind, Sea of Stars, Scott Pilgrim, Shadows of Doubt, Bit Trip ReRunner, Xenotilt and Castlevania Advance Collection.

I mean, it just feels like I'm seeing the same prices, every. damn. year. I'm sorry but I thought the point was mind-staggeringly good deals, not stagnated deals. And most of the games that are on sale, are games I don't particularly care for. While everything on my wishlist, stagnates, regardless of how old the game becomes.

I was gonna buy the foundation game, so I checked out the pirated version (fitgirl repack) first. Seems like it doesn't run quite as well on my laptop. Had to play in low settings to be bearable.

saved some money, ig. There's always next sale.

I only bought games that cost 1.99 like portals 2 and undertale

1: I didnt even notice the sale is happening (too many sales... Spring, Easter, Summer, Fall, Halloween (same as fall?), Winter/X-Mas, publisher sales).
2: Yakuza series.
3: Any other game because I spent most of my time on YT (sadly) or on Jellyfin (still TV but linux ISOs).

Also most modern games arent worth the effort.
Multiplayer games would require friends I don't have and those that I have (currently seem to) prefer games like Valorant (which I would play even less than CS2) or ZZZ (hoyo) which I don't really like either.
Single player games are interesting but I don't feel like gaming anymore.
But I did enjoy playing smaller ges like Exit 8. Fun game :)

Ubisoft and ea games; I do not want to deal with the launcher and ubisoft games are just so incredibly bad. They're like marvel movies but less entertaining

a few weeks ago I have seen watchdogs legion in a few streams an liked it. Recently it had a sale (maybe now again) but saw that it uses denuvo, the ubisoft launcher and that it needs a ubisoft account. no thank you. I'll rather pirate it and be reassured that it'll have less malware in it

I don't think I'll buy Stellaris DLC unless it's 90% off

Ghost of Tsushima amd ff7 remake because I'm waiting for steeper discounts

Ubisoft games. Too unreliable.

The latest Indiana Jones game, because it’s too damn expensive. It’s normally $120 AUD and has been discounted to $95 AUD. When it’s below $50, then I’ll consider it.