Since Amazon predicts a Week for this to get to me, I think it's time to start watching the recent anime while I wait! I don't really care about spoilers from the game; Every different style of media offers a different experience, and in a way, the spoilers will just make me want to see the best illustrated moments in their proper form more.
For anything competitive / with online play modes / a limited "hot topic" life, I find it hard to worry about future sales. By the time a sale comes, I'll usually have 10s of hours in a title like this, and got to watch the game grow first-person, with all the new players.
Once something has been out for a while, people have made up their minds on the game, macro-like gameplay sets in for a large amount of the remaining online players, and any discussion or discoveries are old hat.
Most of Namco's sales for me aren't too annoying, because they only happen for a small amount of time (a week?) and then they rarely ever repeat, until possibly during late-year holidays. Less annoying than the Atlus style "Game on sale every 2 weeks!" PSN deals, by far.
Also have to consider what you'll have time for, when the game finally goes on sale. I purchased Xillia when it released, and my brother and I were able to go through it pretty cleanly, even though we got Dragon's Crown at the same time. Yet if I got the game during some big PSN PS+ relevant sales week, during the release of the new consoles, or during some big Vita / XBLA releases, I could have seen it being forgotten after purchase.
I love supporting niche games with Day 1 purchases. It's an easy choice for me, because I generally get so much more time and fun out of them, than many of the big AAA releases. Plus I feel like "1 out of 150k sales" matters so much more than "1 out of 1,200,000 sales", y'know?
For anything competitive / with online play modes / a limited "hot topic" life, I find it hard to worry about future sales. By the time a sale comes, I'll usually have 10s of hours in a title like this, and got to watch the game grow first-person, with all the new players.
Once something has been out for a while, people have made up their minds on the game, macro-like gameplay sets in for a large amount of the remaining online players, and any discussion or discoveries are old hat.
Most of Namco's sales for me aren't too annoying, because they only happen for a small amount of time (a week?) and then they rarely ever repeat, until possibly during late-year holidays. Less annoying than the Atlus style "Game on sale every 2 weeks!" PSN deals, by far.
Also have to consider what you'll have time for, when the game finally goes on sale. I purchased Xillia when it released, and my brother and I were able to go through it pretty cleanly, even though we got Dragon's Crown at the same time. Yet if I got the game during some big PSN PS+ relevant sales week, during the release of the new consoles, or during some big Vita / XBLA releases, I could have seen it being forgotten after purchase.
I love supporting niche games with Day 1 purchases. It's an easy choice for me, because I generally get so much more time and fun out of them, than many of the big AAA releases. Plus I feel like "1 out of 150k sales" matters so much more than "1 out of 1,200,000 sales", y'know?
