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Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

regular reminder that digital distribution was sold to us under the false promise that games would be cheaper, because they wouldnt have to pay for printing boxes, CDs, manuals, greebles, Wouldnt have to pay for shipping or storage, or any other burden addition of physical media.

That we'd be able to buy games for 30 dollars, and that that the developers and everyone involved would make more money than they would have paying 50 for a physical game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is the original sin, they just banked the cost the whole time until they could cry that they need to charge more because of inflation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

and now, they are wanting to sell games for 70-80 bucks for AAA titles.

Its not cause the games are 50 dollars that they arent making enough hundreds of millions. The only reason these AAA games arent making bank is because they're shit

Can anyone honestly remember the last AAA title that wasnt an absolute dog pile?