Buying brand new is just way to expensive.
You pretty much have to accept you won’t be able to buy a brand new game at launch.

But that’s ok as PS4 is close to the end of its lifespan so most of the games are already out.

- get second hand from shops.
- borrow from friends
- ps+ is pretty worth it. You can consider getting it during a promotion.
- during sales, AAA games can go below RM50.
- online streaming is not that worth it. 3rd party game seller via account sharing is also too risky imo.

There're sales everyday
https://store.playstation.com/en-my/grid/ST...=asc&sort=price

PS+ is a subscription which gives you online play/multiplayer and 3 free games.
- there are promotion on this subscription occasionally
- free games will only remain Free while you're subscribed.
- some games might be discounted further.

Hacking your PS4 is really not worth it.
Why?
By the time they fully hack it, PS5 would be out and PS4 games would be dirt cheap. Just like PS3 games today. They’re like rm10-20 today ?

Also hacking your PS4 would mean
- no online capability
- you might brick your console
- Sony will brick your console
- any accounts used will have all its purchased forfeited. Those 100+ PS+ games you have will be gone. Those games you bought during a sale will be gone.
Sure, you can sign in with a “new account”. But who’s to say they won’t ban any account with a history of being logged in to the hacked PS4 ?

Too many things to lose for too little a benefit.

US releasing a lot of great exclusives under the hit series for 20USD.
This includes the last of us.

That’s the wrong way to look at things.
Just because one earns 10-20k a month or even a week doesn’t mean we should just all buy games at full price without looking for alternatives.

Sure, it might not be straineous at all to the bank account, however it doesn’t mean one will feel comfortable to spend RM300 on a brand new premium game several times a month only to play 1-4 hours on it.

This is the same mindset as micro transaction. Just because some can afford it doesn’t mean they should support it.

Value is a subjective matter. But cost is not.
If I can get something for way lesser, why not ?

For those who can’t afford them. Requesting to increase their income is a captain obvious statement. Pretty sure almost everyone is working to do that. But that depends on their situation and it’s quite an insensitive statement.

Do take note there are students in this thread as well. Telling them to work harder will not do anything for them.

In the end, if you can afford to spend 200 k on your gaming centric mancave - Great. But to say making more money is the only way and looking for other options to get game cheaper is weird - that’s not right.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Jun 22 2018, 10:04 AM

On the first point.
Again it’s how you value it.
What’s the point of buying a semi interesting game on launch when you’re not even bothered to play it within the next few months.

Good for you if you always want to get all games at their full price. But some of us don’t like to waste money.

On the second point.
Making more money =\= games are cheaper.
I’m sure this might be an alien concept to you.
But just because when your income level go up, that doesn’t mean your expenditure must go up proportionally as well.

Anyway, we are deviating from this thread.
This thread is about sharing ways to obtain games at a lower price to which you offer nothing in advice.
This is not a self-help/career thread/kopitiam.