The annual Steam Summer Sale has officially begun, and the event will last until July 9th. At this time every year, countless players will open the store page with the mentality of “just looking”, and then inexplicably buy more than a dozen games and take them home. Kotaku recently compiled a special list of 40 games priced under $10. From classic masterpieces to independent masterpieces, everything is on the list. It can be called the most easily lost wallet killer of this year’s summer sale.
The prices of a bunch of masterpieces dropped directly to lunch prices
According to Kotaku’s review, many well-established masterpieces are experiencing exaggerated discounts! For example, “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” and “Batman: Arkham Knight” are only US$3.99 (approximately NT$118, HK$31, RM17); “Sid Meier’s Civilization VI” is down to US$5.99.
In addition, long-term chart-topping titles such as “Assetto Corsa”, “Terraria” and “Garry’s Mod” have also entered the range of less than 10 US dollars. To a certain extent, buying a game now is even cheaper than a cup of coffee and cake.
Players say they won’t buy it, but their bodies are honest!
The scariest thing about the Steam Summer Sale is never the price, but the psychology. Many players will tell themselves “I only buy what I want to play”, but after seeing a 90% discount, they immediately change to “buy now and then talk about it”. Especially for a work like “The Witcher 3” that has been recommended by countless media for more than ten years, a group of new players appear in the summer sale every year and say: “It’s really time to play it this time.” As for whether they have opened the game in the end, that is another matter. After all, one of the most famous ways of playing games on Steam is never to play games, but to collect games.
The real enemy is not price, but inventory
Interestingly, in recent years, more and more players have begun to realize a cruel reality: the number of unplayed games in the Steam library is often more than the remaining time in their lives. But even so, people will continue to buy every time the summer sales start. Because for many PC players, the moment they see a masterpiece drop to a few dollars, their brains will automatically lose their mind. So the question has never been “should I buy it or not?” but “this year there will be a few more games that will never be installed.”