my scientific approach to current day sales uses 3 deciding factors:
- money (or lackthere of)
- bundle inclusion probability, especially humble monthly
- and "will I play this before its cheaper next sale"
My 3 purchases so far were actually all with card money (I sold about 4€ worth of cards earlier before the sale started)
- Inexistance, cool looking metroidvania 90% off, even if its bundled it was .59 cents
- Magatama Earrings, chibi jrpg, looks kinda cool, also 90% off, seems too niche to be bundled (I never heard about it) and even if it is, agin, it was .69cents
- Adventure Time The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom 50% off, looks like 2d zelda, licensed games usually arent bundled, was only 1,49€
things in my cart atm:
- Paladins Founder Pack, 50% off 9.99€. Wont be bundled, I liked what I played, includes every future hero.
- Final Fantasy VI 50% off, like I said the other day Ive been wanting to play it bad, and it should run fine on my laptop so I can play at work.
- Final Fantasy III 50% off, same reasons as 6.
- Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII 50% off, I want to complete the trilogy, I wont play this on the laptop but an added reason is that FF games apparently never go bellow 50% these days so next sale will probably be the same price. I still havent finished XIII tho so this one is a easy cut for now.
things im looking at:
- Ray Gigant 70% off, good price, high profile vita ports of jrpgs usually arent bundled.
- Stories The Path of Destinies 50% off, discount isnt as deep as I would like, but it looks great and its niche and unknown enough to not be bundled I think. I would have to play it imediatly to be "worth" buying it now tho.
- Lego Marvel Avengers 75% off, wont go cheaper than that on any sale I guess, and those Lego games re fun. But I still have a bunch of LEgo games to play so meh.
- Mighty No. 9 66% off, good price, it doesnt look THAT bad, probably wont get bundled (maybe in a monthly? maybe...)
- Resident Evil Revelations 2, 50% off because it never fucking goes lower than 50% off, but I really want it bastards.
- Naruto 4 and Ninja Rev, 75% off, mostly for completion sake. 12,50€ for 4 is a bit out of completion sake buy tho.
- Saint Seiya 75% because I was a Saint Seiya fanboy when I was a kid and I want to see the pretty special moves. Again, 12.50% might be too much for shallow reasons.
- Tales of Zestiria 75%, but I just bought Symphonia and havent played it so...
- Any NepNep game I dont own that is 75% off, but it would only be for completion sake because I havent played the others >_>
things that have good discounts, but im SURE will be bundled, especially in humble monthly, aka, bundles have ruined sales:
(also feel free to use the following list as cheap games that are most certainly worth it at their prices if you are not fickle like me)
- Invisible Inc 70%
- Abzu 70%
- Chronicles of Teddy 63%
- Convoy 70%
- Darkmaus 50%
- Dex 75% (I said the same thing the last 2 sales and it still hasnt been bundled but im sticking with my convictions damn it lol)
- Evoland 2 75%
- Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers 75%
- Holy Potatoes a Weapon Shop 67%
- Jotun 67%
- LA Cops 75%
- Lakeview Cbin Collection 80% actually you know what, its 1.99€ fuck it im buying it
- Legend of Kay Anniversary 75%
- Neon Struct 75%
- Offworld Trading Company 66%
- Planet of the Eyes 75%
- Pony Island 67% (actually im most likely buying this one)
- Road Not Taken 75%
- Rollers of the Realm 80% (will probably buy this one tho)
- Seraph 66%
- Shadwen 75%
- Shardlight 70%
- Skyhill 50%
- Slain 50%
- So Long Earth 75%
- Stealth Inc 2 80% (in fact this HAS been bundled before)
- Steamworld Heist 50%
- The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 75% (the first was bundled 467 times)
- The Deadly Tower of Monsters 66%
- The Swindle 75%
- Toybox Turbo 75%
- Traverser 80%
- Tri: Of Friendship and Madness 80%
- Underail 50% (sorry Gaf)
have I mentioned tht bundles ruined sales?
things that didnt low enough because they never go deep enough stop being stingy fucks you fuckers
- all the anime fighters
The first regularly goes to $10 but SC hasn't gone below $19.49.
. Icewind Dale is also on sale at Bundlestars for 1c over its historical lowest price if you can/want that too. Great game, and underrated IMO. The combat is really good. Apparently the colde WINTERSALE10 gives 10% off too. Not sure if it'll work but it's worth a shot.
