In order of importance, people admit that the factors that influence their game purchases are genre interest, then graphics, and finally storyline. Good news for publishers! On the bad news side, 34% of gamers don’t buy more games because the games they already own are keeping them busy, 30% say they just play free stuff, and 24% of you cheapskates are waiting for better prices.
I’m both in the “cheapskate” and “backlog from Hell” camps. The former principally because of the latter. Case in point, I’ve been wanting to try out Spintires for a while, but even $7.50 was “eh, I can wait” territory because I’ve got so much else to play. Finally bought it on Bundlestars today for 4 bucks.
xx.xx% waiting for DRM to be removed before purchase :-)
Oh yea, a huge backlog or F2P like Warframe/LOTRO kinda makes it difficult to buy anything at launc for full price, since you’ll probably not be playing them “at the price they were sold at”.
That said, I had no problem throwing down 100$ or whatever it was for Galciv 3 ‘founder pack’ for example, as Stardock hasn’t treated their customers like shit like so many other companies have done over the years.
