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[PATV] Monday, July 22, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 6: The Peripherals
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[PATV] Monday, July 22, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 6: The Peripherals
There is now an entire documentary about a video game peripheral from the 1980s. We've arrived.
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Warframe: TheBaconDwarf
1) It's not that it's limited or scarce - it's on SALE. Money-driven people will flock to this because it's cheaper than full price, therefore, worthwhile to invest in.
2) The cards to gain levels on Steam are also silly. Every game that gave me cards, I turned around and sold it on the market. I essentially got Rogue Legacy for free this way, thanks to the 20% discount it had for the entirety of the sale period. The "gacha" effect didn't even hit me.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
Seriously though, it really feels like 99% of retro gaming culture is focused on Nintendo. Which is odd because I know more than 1% of us had Sega when we were kids.
Isn't that the dictionary definition of Steam?
What I do with the Steam sales are whenever there is a game I am interested throughout the year is I put it on my Wishlist. Then when these games go on deep discount, whether during something like the Summer Sale or just a weekend or midweek sale, I buy it. That way I don't buy games I have no interest in just because it's on sale for $1.99
I chose the least appealing game. Or chose one at random. Since a game I would buy never came up.
It's fortunate having 0 money and being unemployed and with a rubbish laptop, you save money on the Sales. Somehow you can't justify spending £8 on the HD 'remake' of Age of Empires 2. Or spending £20 on Dishonoured who won't run on your PC. Or Darksiders 2 because your PC still hasn't been able to play Darksiders 1 without dying.
FIRST!
@twilightdusk Oh yeah. The stuff that could be done with a SNES HD movement would be epic. Or at least amazingly lucrative as nostalgia purchasing goes.
You've earned the: "You're kidding yourself" badge!
Having studied it extensively myself, I can tell you that, while these methods make you more likely to buy, they are not the only reasons you do. Advanced cognitive processes can over-ride or play a role in low level decision making just as easily as low-level processes influence higher ones. You can, indeed, decide not to buy or to buy for different reasons. You'll feel more pleasurable ABOUT buying if you do, but that's not the same thing.
So, no, there's no badge to win here. Think about it: Why don't you just buy everything all the time? Most marketers use these same tricks; Steam is just really good at it.
Scary thought here: Maybe people buy things for different reasons. The psychological impulses described can be effective at predicting the behavior of SOME of the population, but not all.
For example, Skyrim was about 40% off for a limited time. I do not own Skyrim and it looked interesting to me. Did I buy it? No. But oh! According to the universal marketing psychology I should have eaten it up, right? It was on sale, with all it's implied scarcity right in my face. I had the money to do so, so why didn't I?
The human brain is pretty lousy at being perfectly rational.
But it's super great at tricking itself into believing it's perfectly rational.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
In this Steam hath become it's own nemesis.
Also the point wasn't to say that everyone behaves like X. It was to say that the Steam sale is designed to encourage you to purchase, obviously this doesn't mean everyone buys everything.
Sorry folks, but that may have slightly exceeded my recommended daily allowance for snark.
Virtual Boy the drama the movie.