Topic: Gaming's pet peeves

@Fight_Teza_Fight The sales are pretty ridiculous at times. Some games are discounted more often than they’re at regular price. I think they are deploying psychological warfare against us with the sale prices. Retail stores have been doing it for ages and now digital stores too, if it’s on sale then we are more likely to buy it. I know I’m certainly guilty of it. I always hate it when I get an urge to buy something and I check and find it’s full price when I know I just saw it for 50% less the week before.

It’s partly why I do like the option to play physical games because if the game isn’t on sale on PSN when I want to buy it, there’s a good chance the disc is on a discount somewhere. And GameStop will price match typically if the sale price is a major outlet like Best Buy or Walmart.

It always worth a check on psprices.com too when I get an inkling to buy. It’ll give me a rough idea if the sale price is likely to come around again before I want to play/buy it.

@JohnnyShoulder That’s good to know, but I don’t believe that’s an option on PS4.
I have turned off all notifications from the PS mobile app now anyways, as I check the site daily & am mostly aware when sales are on.

@Th3solution It’s insane, but they must have some sort of metric that they’re able to sell more games this way.
If I go into a retail clothing store & see that everything was on sale I’d just go straight to the things that I know. I wouldn’t waste my time browsing the store.

The PS store (& probably other store fronts) is just littered with shovel ware or different versions of the same game. We need to have some curation.
For example the ‘Critics’ Choice’ sale has 350+ items- really?
There are 350+ games that are being recommended by critics that you pick up this month.
I don’t even scroll past the top 10 recommendations on Netflix & that is ‘free’.

Polished off the The Pathless which I really, really liked. Exceeding expectations. But after beating the final boss, it has the dreaded unskippable credits. I know it will let me back in the game to mop up collectibles eventually, but…. Waiting through the credits to get the trophy for beating the game and be given access go back in.

@Th3solution Ah yeah that's also one of those annoying little things. I understand that they want to credit everyone who worked on the game and i guess there are people who are interested in it. But give people the choice to skip the end credits if they don't want to see it. I just want to mop up trophies as you say. If I don't plan on continuing the game I'll just force quit the game nowadays so the game doesn't waste my time