The landscape around sales seems to be changing. Specifically Square Enix and From Software are putting their games on sale extremely late or only lightly discounted. Final Fantasy 7 and 8 (21+ years old) are still 13€, Sekiro (1.5 Years old) is 40€. I waited 3 years for Dark Souls 3 (mainly because I didn't care enough) to be on sale for ~20€.

I remember I got Dark Souls 1 for 3€.

Just some anecdata. I think publishers are aware that their games are valueable longer longer, and they don't need those $5 buyers really. Perhaps this only applies to very popular games.

TLDR: I wouldn't bet on this being on sale for $5 ever

Just play at your own pace. Once you get past adolescence, life will happen and you'll fall behind recent releases. Launch bugs will cease to matter.

Hey speaking of, I just found this cool new game called Borderlands - it's a shame that the intro music is so classical, because the setting seems like a cool sort of dystopian punk sci-fi. I wonder if that'll catch on, because it sort of reminds me of some books that I read a few years ago...

See? It's fun!

It certainly was for Witcher 3; best $15 I ever spent, 4 years after release with both DLCs. Highly recommend Witcher 3; I loved it!

Less bugs, all DLCs, runnable on mediocre hardware, and even more amenable to Wine/Proton. It's an insane marshmallow test.

Even 1 year from now. Witcher 3 was also a buggy mess on launch.