Posted June 10, 2015
awalterj: How do you guys do it? What sorcery, what's the trick? Please do share!
Here's my final assessment, and OP has been accordingly updated - giveaways will follow:
At least you aren't the only one who passed the $50 limit... I yielded to the temptation and got Majesty 2 and Massive Assault (they had the most decent discounts from my wishlisted stuff that was on discount, and I got the checkout price somewhat lowered by using the 0.10 eurocents regional credit I got by purchasing The Wolf Among Us). I thus got Xenonauts too. (Btw, checking the game's store page and a relevant gogmix -I get the old GOG cover for use in the game cataloging program I use from GOGmixes-, I see that the target audience of Xenonauts creators was mostly precisely those who hadn't played XCOM before, so I'll probably like that game!). Here's my final assessment, and OP has been accordingly updated - giveaways will follow:
Plus, the mean price for each game I just got (including Xenonauts) thus became about 2.5 euros, which seems to my mind much better - I do such mind tricks as calculating mean prices of stuff I get and "transferring" in my mind part of the more expensive game's price to a cheaper one (e.g. if I get a $3.99 and a $1.99 game, I get my mind to think I'd be the same if I had got 2 $2.99 games, but that usually works when one of the games seems like a great deal to me, so that I'd be willing to pay more to get it!) in order to not have buyer's regret.
At least, if the rest of the sale's going to be repeats (as many fear), I can hopefully focus on downloading the stuff I got and actually playing some of them!