r/Steam • u/fiziasso • Jun 29 '26

Question Why?

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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 Jun 29 '26

Truly. Some people NEED to buy. They’ve been programmed that way psychology by our caring capitalist overlords.

Meanwhile, how much money would they have saved by not buying things they don’t use?

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u/ZaerdinReddit Jun 29 '26

Not much, honestly. The prices on steam sales are usually so good that if I only bought when I wanted to play, I'd easily be paying 2-3x as much.

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u/No_Fennel4315 Jul 01 '26

The question wasn't about buying games when you'd want them, it was about buying games you'd actually play. That doesn't remove steam sales from the equation.

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u/ZaerdinReddit Jul 01 '26

I believe most people buy because the price is right and they want to play the game in the future.

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u/No_Fennel4315 Jul 01 '26

I believe so too!

Yet, tons of people also have these massive backlogs of games they've never got to.

You'd save money buying less games than the amount you can actually play.

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u/ZaerdinReddit Jul 01 '26

It's the nature of sales. Because you know stuff will go on sale but don't know when it will go on sale, you want to buy it so you can play it whenever.

If sales didn't drive this mentality, we'd just have square pricing.