Am I the only one here who can only afford like 1-2 AAA games a year?

Intelligent people buy things when they go on sale, or used from a game store.

Get SR4.. It's awesome.

Cant afford any

Exactly, if you can afford only 1-2 AAA games a year, why don't you wait for Steam winter(summer) sales? You can get more games for the same price as 2 new AAA games.. do you really need to play them just when they get released? I have like.. 3 years buffer, where I buy games 3 years after their release (or when they are cheap)... that way I can have way more games.

 1. one new AAA game a year
 2. ca 30 euro for ca 7 one year old AAA games games
 3. 238576250972457 AAA and Indies through Humble Bundle
 4. ???
 5. Profit

I almost never pay more than $20 for a game, and you can usually get any game for $20 within its first year of release. Prices have been falling faster than ever and its glorious! Of course, it also means that my backlog has been outpacing my completion rate for quite some time.

I pre-ordered a AAA game for $37.50 but only paid $35 yeye

Batman Arkham Origins. 25% voucher. Wrote some reviews for some GMG credit. wrote 10 reviews for $2.50 credit yeyeeeee

CoD fan getting sick of CoD? :p Congratulations on attaining unsurpassed, supreme Enlightenment.

Well if game doesn't have region lock then I conatact my good friend Russian. But mostly I wait for sales.

Set your profile pic as a girl and put a wish list up for the boyz!

Hey dizzee,

I haven't got too much money either since I'm still attending university. Whenever a really really awesome game like GTA V comes around there is no way for me to not get it on the first day of its release which isn't as pricey as it seems.

After I paid the usual 60 € back when Mafia 2 came out and felt cheated like I never did in my entire life! That 'game' is a real good graphic demo which is really loosely tied to the first Mafia since there are cars in both. The 'game' itself was so crappy that I swore to never ever buy full priced games again. Then I found out about some sites from the uk where for some reasons games cost around 50% of what german retailers would charge and their not even mutilated like german releases!!!

If you think getting Batman Arkham City with the Blurays of the good Nolan Batman movies on the day of its release for 34€ including shipping is a nice deal as well, ask dr. google about the sites and save big time.

are you talking buying them on release at full price? cause with the steam sale and other sales you can easily afford more than 2 a year on the same budget. You just wont play them on release day, but it will save you any of the bugs and server fails that games usually launch with.

recently i bought a game on GMG using a 25% voucher and got the game for 22 instead of 30 and earned 12 in credit, so i then used a 25% voucher and the 12 in credit to preorder another game for 48 instead of 60 and this also gave me another 12 credit that i used to order another game and a 20% voucher which got me batman origins for 28 instead of 50. while not everyone can buy many games even at discount i went ahead and did it while i could make use of the vouchers and credit to get a better deal on games i knew i would buy later on anyway.

I always wait for complete packages to go on sale, I'm still waiting for Skyrim Legendary at 75% and Borderlands 2 complete :P
Anyway my PC is outdated so buying brand new games right now is pretty pointless for me.

I prefer to be patient and get them cheaper. Anyone can afford $120 a year, but why only get two games when you can get 24 with that kind of money?

I never buy games when they are released, if the price is over $20. I wait for the price to drop or they go on sale. I could probably afford to buy more than 1-2, but it's just not worth that much in value for me anymore, I already have more games than I can play anyway. Especially since 90% of them these days come with some stupid DLCs. I'd rather wait until there is a GOTY or complete package and get the whole thing together.

I can't even buy a single AAA title a year. Have to wait 2+ years.

Exactly what I did for Portal 2. About to do the same for infinite.

Steam sales are just great for this, got Skyrim LE for 24€ :p

Same here but these last 2 or 3 years I have been only buying AA games that are old so I can get them cheaper.

I just wait until the prices comes down to under 5 euros. I rarely buy any game above that :(.

I wish I had enough time to play the games I allready paid for.
Looking at my recent games-I-bought-at-launch, I'd say it would take a sequel from a dev I trust.

Will probably preorder whatever CDPR releas next.

I would have great difficulty affording many full priced games on release but I take advantage of Russian traders and good promotions like the AMD bioshock / tomb raider deal that I got for like 20 eur pre release. Its usually a lot cheaper this way.

I could probably afforcd more but that would mean cutting back on some other expenses. My kids, you know, they expect to be fed every single day, can you believe it? Anyway, I've got plenty of games to play with so I juts wait for sales. I don't have a single game in my library that was bought at full price. And only a very small number of them were bought with less than 50% off.

yes

you can afford a lot of AAA games per year.. if you buy them 5 months after they come out.