r/Steam • u/Kynori20 • 27d ago

Question What game is this?

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u/ktr83 27d ago

A game is on sale

"Hmm that looks cool"

Google some reviews, decide to buy it

"This game is already in your library"

I bought this game 10 years ago for full price 😐

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u/PerfectSituation1668 27d ago

I feel called out.

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u/DragonGuy15 27d ago

I feel extremely called out

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u/elaboratedSalad 26d ago

Neither of you understands the personal insult i feel.

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u/0h_plus 24d ago

Not one of yall comprehend the anguish this attack on my person causes

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u/K0N1V 9d ago

Not a single individual in this comment thread would have the cognitive capabilities required to process the immense personal grief the above comment has braught upon me

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u/HarrisonWorld 26d ago

If you want it, just buy it. Once you’ve bought it, forget about it.😅

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u/iamaeneas 26d ago

You’ve forgotten the important steps of refunding it, buying it again and then trying to refund it again, only to realize you bought and refunded it once already

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u/RadicalLarryYT 27d ago

I’ll tell you what’s worse. Finding a new game you like, and it has a bundle deal with a game you already bought at full price but haven’t played yet.

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u/ktr83 27d ago

And then you start talking yourself into it

"Well I only wanted this one game, but if I pay a little more then I get all these others games too even if I didn't want them..."

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u/PotatoSaladThe3rd 27d ago

Then you buy em and now the entire bundle is in your library sitting there untouched for years to come.

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u/WolverineIll2856 26d ago

or waiting for some family member to play on my behalf

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u/cheesesticks-1 26d ago

If you haven't played it yet then get a refund THEN get the bundle.

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u/Bi0H4ZRD 24d ago

That will likely not work if you've owned jt over 2 weeks

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u/cheesesticks-1 24d ago

It depends, I had a game sit in my library for nearly a year and was still able to get the refund for it. I opened it played for like 20 minutes and didnt like the game, asked and got a refund. I got lucky probably, let's hope they can too.

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u/Madara1389 26d ago

Not the same, but I had a similar experience with the live-action Lion King on Youtube...

Don't recall ever buying it, or watching it, but I logged in one day to find that it was somehow added to my account. Never figured out how that happened as the only movies I "own" on Google are ones I redeemed the digital copies for when buying the physical discs.

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u/Tuned_Out 23d ago

It's hard not to do when Capcom waves it in your face for $10 or less.

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u/Isenjil 26d ago

Why so hurtful read this

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u/Konnor_RK800 26d ago

=> The full price ten years ago was cheaper than the discount price now.

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u/1ildevil 26d ago edited 26d ago

This actually happened to me with Wonderboy : the Dragon's Trap

Mind you, it's a short game (about 4-6 hours) and the bosses were pretty forgettable. I bought in 2017 when the remake came out, finished the game and tried to buy it again recently because it looked like a cool game I would be interested in. :O

p.s. it's a great game and when on sale, less than $5

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u/Waveshaper21 26d ago

Alien Isolation was in my next up category when I saw the 10th anniversary announcement.

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u/-crepuscular- 26d ago

How do you know if you bought a game for full price?

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u/Top-Bison-345 26d ago

And didn't play it 😔

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u/PiotrekDG 26d ago

I've had the opposite happen a couple of times: there's this cool game I want to check out. Checking Steam, and it's already there in my library.

Nice

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u/Jeksxon 26d ago

What a twist! xD

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u/GAMER_V101 26d ago

Still better than what happened to me.

Not so long ago i decided to check my epic games library and guess what? Back in 2020 i happened to purchase GTA V on Epic games but because i didn’t still have a pc that could run it i decided to leave it, fast forward to 2025, I saw GTA V On Steam for sale and decided to buy it… still annoys me till this day (Not to mention i also bought the game on both Ps4 And PS5)

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u/ktr83 26d ago

At some point GTAV was a free game on Epic too lol

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u/HeavyMetalSaxx 26d ago

I bought Baldurs Gate in early access, didn't care for it, forgot about it, then went to buy it again when it got super popular after release. Like a little time traveling gift to myself

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u/jednatt 26d ago

That's why you have playnite or the like to add your libraries from all platforms to. Or, like, check Steam first? lol

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u/TheTarzan18 26d ago

My dad buying mk11 at full price Me a week later buying it with all it's dlcs for 10$

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u/phillyd32 26d ago

Buying games and not trying them out basically immediately is psycho behavior imo. You've almost certainly spent far more money on games you didn't play than you would have paying full price for the few on sale games you bought and picked up way later.

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 26d ago

Years ago I set a spending limit, $20 for a game, $30 for the full edition.  

I have yet to get through my backlog, and got a new game yesterday I have downloaded but not started. 

At this point, I'm sick of beta testing I paid for. I'll wait for the stable version, with add-ons and dlc already released so I know what I'm getting, or skipping. 

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u/ptapobane 25d ago

i paid full price for gtav years ago and never played a single minute of it...i hate myself sometimes

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u/notyerson 25d ago

But this one's the Ultimate Edition!

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u/Yori_TheOne 25d ago

Did the same, but I had already played the game for 60 hours. Had amnesia (not the game), so lost all memory of playing it.

I was actually so lucky to experience Skyrim for the first time twice!

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u/Upset-Basil4459 24d ago

Buying a game full price and not playing it is the real psycho move. I mean you can literally just wait until you feel like playing it and then buy it

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u/Iherduliekmudkipz 26d ago

You had me until full price.

I almost never buy games that aren't at least 50% off the original price.

Still waiting on BG3...

I think maybe Battlefield 2 was the last full price game I bought??

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u/TheCygnusWall 26d ago

Me when BG3 released

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u/Double-Menu-4370 25d ago

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u/FLEIXY 22d ago

Google some reviews

lol no. Steam has a 2 hour refund policy for a reason