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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:07, 25 March 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2" >Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Keep games you are interested in in your wishlist.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Keep games you are interested in in your wishlist.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Don&#039;t buy a game that came out less than two years ago.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Don&#039;t buy a game that came out less than two years ago. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(This is to generate enough historical pricing data in step 4.)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Never buy a game that isn&#039;t on sale.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Never buy a game that isn&#039;t on sale.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># When a game goes on sale, check https://steamdb.info/ to see if the current sale is good relative to previous sales.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># When a game goes on sale, check https://steamdb.info/ to see if the current sale is good relative to previous sales.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot;Here&#039;s the algorithm I currently use for buying games on <a href="/index.php?title=Steam&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Steam (page does not exist)">Steam</a>. I am not a gamer and didn&#039;t even know about any of this until very recently. # Keep games you are interest...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Here&#039;s the algorithm I currently use for buying games on [[Steam]]. I am not a gamer and didn&#039;t even know about any of this until very recently.<br /> <br /> # Keep games you are interested in in your wishlist.<br /> # Don&#039;t buy a game that came out less than two years ago.<br /> # Never buy a game that isn&#039;t on sale.<br /> # When a game goes on sale, check https://steamdb.info/ to see if the current sale is good relative to previous sales.<br /> # If the game is on a good sale and is sufficiently interesting, buy it.<br /> # If I don&#039;t like the game or it doesn&#039;t work, return it (I think Steam allows returning any game for any reason if it has been played for fewer than 2 or so hours).<br /> <br /> [[Category:Learning]]</div>

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