Gaming for Cheap Bastard's

Stop paying $`70 for broken launch builds.
They want you stupid, impatient, and subscribed. The gaming industry runs on your impulse buys, your forgotten subscriptions, and your fear of missing out — and it's costing the average gamer hundreds a year.
Gaming for Cheap Bastards is the no-BS playbook for beating the system:
The 24-Hour Rule — kill impulse buys forever
Content-to-Cost tiers — know what a game's actually worth before you pay (a 10-hour game is never worth `$70)
Kill auto-renew — stop the $252-a-year subscription drain
Spot the dark patterns — dodge day-one traps, deluxe-edition bait, and FOMO marketing like a pro
The One-In-Two-Out backlog mandate — build a backlog you're proud of
This isn't a 300-page lecture. It's 69 pages of pure tactics — every chapter pays for itself the first time you don't buy a game at launch. If this book saves you from one bad $70 purchase, it's paid for itself seven times over.
Stop feeding the machine. Start playing it.