PlayStation 4
Ironically, on the most popular of modern platforms - PlayStation 4 - least of all opportunities for savings.
Discounts and sales
IN PlayStation Store Every seven days there "Offer of the week"- discounts on 1-2 games. In addition, the store holds regular sales. Sometimes they are confined to the important dates: Halloween, New Year, birthday and so on PlayStation. The average sales are about once a month. However, to find a discount greater than 30% is quite difficult in the PlayStation Store.
Check for special offers on PlayStation Store you can, for example, thematic page "In contact with".
PlayStation Plus
PlayStation Plus - podpisochny is a service that allows owners of PlayStation 4, access to the online component of the game, but also allows you to receive free of charge a number of projects once a month. Basically give independent and AA-games, but sometimes come across and blockbusters like Destiny 2 and Mad Max. More Plus subscribers can buy some games digitally store at a discounted price.
The subscription price for one month is 499 rubles for three months - 1599 rubles, and 12 months - 3899 rubles.
Secondary market
Some owners of the PlayStation 4 buy games on discs. This approach allows good saving. You can sell them immediately after passage, discouraging part of the price, and buy any projects much cheaper. And even new: from dealers and websites advertisements Latest releases appear after only a couple of weeks, and they are sometimes a thousand and a half less than sealed.
However, there is this approach and cons. If you want to go to sell the game again, you will have to buy it again. There is also a small chance to buy broken disk, so it is better to verify the purchase.
Xbox One
Discounts and sales
It's all about the same as in the PlayStation Store: thematic and holidays sellout about once a month, once a week discounts. The only difference is that in the Microsoft Store, you can often find discounts of 70% or even 85%.
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Xbox Live Gold
Xbox Live Gold - an analog of PlayStation Plus. It gives the opportunity to once a month get few games for free, as well as buy individual projects with discounts up to 75%. Subscribe it costs 599 rubles per month, or 3599 rubles for 12 months.
Xbox Game Pass
Xbox Game Pass - a service that for a monthly fee gives you access to a huge catalog of games. Microsoft is making it a great stop - yet it is one of the most lucrative offers for owners of Xbox One.
In Game Pass is available more than 100 games, and every couple of weeks, this list is updated, including projects from previous versions Xbox (E.g., Gears of War 2 and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic). More addition, Microsoft exclusives appear in the directory service on the day of release.
The subscription price of 599 rubles per month. The first two weeks of service can be used free of charge.
EA Access
Another podpisochny serviceThis time from EA. Subscribers receive access to many games publisher, including designs with Xbox 360 (Dead Space 3, for example). New items like Battlefield V appear in EA Access for a few days before the official release. Also, the service gives a 10% discount on all games Electronic Arts.
Cost EA Access - 299 rubles per month, or 1799 rubles for 12 months.
Secondary market
As is the case with the PlayStation 4 if you do not fundamentally matter if on account of the digital store, you can buy CDs with it. So out much cheaper. However, to get a fresh game, will have to wait 2-3 weeks after the release.
PC
If you want to spend on the game as little as possible, there is no better platform PC. Even if you buy projects solely on the release and official stores still get 1.5-2 times cheaper. For example, the base price of the blockbuster on Steam and Uplay - 1999 rubles against 3999 on consoles.
Discounts and sales
Steam
For gaming community Steam words and "discounts" have long since become synonymous. IN digital store always reduced prices on some games. There are regular discounts: "The action in the middle of the week", "Action on the weekends", "Offer of the day." Each year there are at least two big sales: Christmas and year - in December and June, respectively.
Periodically any publishers or developers arrange a mini-sales of their games, to draw attention to new projects. Sometimes they even distribute them free of charge - as was the case with shooters Insurgency and Metro 2033.
If you play on a PC, then Steam - your main source of cheap licensed games. Keep track of all the shares can store, for example, on thematic page "In contact with".
Origin and Uplay
Origin - EA Store is your own, and Uplay - Platform Ubisoft. They only play these publishers are sold with a few exceptions. Significant discounts in these stores is not so frequent, but for them, too, it makes sense to follow. If only because these platforms sometimes handing out free games like Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Dead Space.
Pro shares Origin can learn from the posts official community in "VKontakte", a bargain in Uplay can be monitored by subscribing to the Twitter-Account shop.
GOG
GOG - a shop, originally created by the developers of "Witcher"For the distribution of the old games. But now on the site, and many modern projects, especially indie. Overstock in GOG are often - at least once a month. Who is the best shop for classics lovers.
Track discounted in GOG can, for example, in Twitter.
Epic Games Store
In the digital shop Epic Games - the authors Fortnite - yet so a lot of games, and not all of them favorable regional prices are set. Interestingly it is the fact that during the entire 2019 will be giving away one free project every two weeks.
bundles
Bundle - a set of games that are often sold on a "pay as you want." There are bundles levels: to get certain games you need to pay more than the designated amount. For example, for $ 1 issued only three games for $ 4 offers access to two more projects, and for $ 12 you can get the whole bundle as a whole.
Buy bundles can be in the shops Humble Bundle, IndieGala and Fanatical. At these sites, as are sales of games, but they rarely benefit the residents of the CIS: Regional prices of these sellers are rare.
Mainly engaged in the bundle of indie games, but there are exceptions. Thus, in the Humble Bundle sometimes appear and blockbusters.
Learn about new promotions can be through Twitter-account platforms: Humble Bundle, IndieGala, Fanatical.
Origin Access
Origin Access - it podpisochny service, analogue EA Access to Xbox One. It only works within the store Origin. Subscribers receive a 10% discount on all EA projects and access to a catalog of over 140 games.
There are two types of Origin Access - Basic and Premier. Differences between them slightly. Basic subscribers are available on a six-game behind in the basic membership does not include seasonal additions and omissions. More Premier subscribers can play full versions of new projects for a few days before the release. In Basic only available 10-hour trial version of recent games.
Basic subscription price is 299 rubles per month, or 1799 rubles a year, and Premier - 999 rubles per month, or 3999 rubles per year. Layfhaker recommends Basic: it is more profitable than buying individual games. Moreover, the basic subscription of Premier is much cheaper, and the differences between them are very small.
Sellers keys
Another way to save when buying PC games - websites like Steambuy or SteampayThat sell keys for Steam, Origin and other platforms. They work like a conventional online shopping: add up the products in the shopping cart, pay off and get the keys.
At these sites are often promotions and sales, and many projects, even without discounts are cheaper than on Steam. However, when buying on such sites should be careful: there is always a chance of stumbling on the scam. It should also be borne in mind that the game so purchased, not acting return policy Steam and Origin.
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