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The Price is Wrong, Bob: Only a third of PC gamers pay full price (www.techspot.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Just a friendly reminder from an old fart that used to save their allowance to buy catridges:

Gaming is insanely cheap and accessible right now. You kids have no idea how good you have it, we used to go get our games twenty miles away, uphill both ways.

But no, seriously, that piece is a terrible take from somebody that either doesn't understand how games are made and sold or is too young to understand why they're so fundamentally wrong. Probably both. This comes to mind: https://indieweb.social/@emilygorcenski/111533761630028005

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I dunno man, I started gaming with the Atari, C64 and NES, and I never paid full price back then either. Rentals, used games, piracy... that was a good 95%+ of my gaming experience.

The only time I got full price games was maybe a birthday or Christmas, but even that was rare for a major AAA release like Mario 3 or E.T.

Maybe your memory is just one person's experience and not an absolute truth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No, you and I are saying the same thing. The article (not just the headline) is a screed about how people buying on sales is a result of games becoming more expensive and game publishers becoming greedy. Except it's not, people always dug for sales because games used to be way more expensive than they are now.

I may misremember many things about last century, but I don't misremember the way I spent 90% of my spare time or how I acquired the games I played during that time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While I agree with your statement about the cost of games, I think the link you provided is incorrect.

While it's often true that young people will be wrong on a topic they are passionate about, that is true of everybody. It's also true that the human memory is extremely fallible so just because we experienced something doesn't mean we have the facts of the event correct in our own head.

The reason I agree with you on the first of game cartridges, though is that info is verifiable. Cartridges didn't provide consistency in manufacturing costs because they were all different inside. Many SNES games were over 60 dollars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm not here to defend the meme link I provided, but in its defense, it explicitly refers to verifiable facts.

Like, you know, the price of games adjusted for inflation.