Comment on Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 5 months agoYou are confusing my argument. You listed me 10+ games. If you paid $2/mo for 3 years and got to own a game for it, that would be enough for a couple of them at most. I'm not saying old games are not worth playing. I'm saying that if you had to pick between buying all the games you like or paying for a subscription, most likely the subscription would be more affordable.
Remmock@kbin.social 5 months ago
Where’s the confusion?
anguo@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
In your example, you are not playing only one game for 3 years without playing any other games.
Remmock@kbin.social 5 months ago
Yes. I am explaining that the opposite value of that statement doesn’t go far enough.
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 5 months ago
It can go however far you want. Even if you say you'll play these games for the rest of your life, at $2/mo buying it only becomes more economically worthwhile if you entirely quit getting games entirely. I emphasize, economically. Now, if we take Game Pass, depending on where you live buying might be more worthwhile if you get 2 or less full-priced games a year. In my country Game Pass is cheaper than 2 games
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 5 months ago
The confusion is that the implied conclusion is
rather than
The former complements the following argument regarding how costly buying vs subscribing would be. The latter doesn't work with the following paragraph that lists the unreliability of subscription libraries as a downside.
Remmock@kbin.social 5 months ago
I never mentioned age. I mentioned games that are played for thousands of hours. Meaning that the value of those games far exceeds the value of the subscription. Furthermore, then the subscription ends (including when pulling games that are too old) and you are left without the game you have been sinking an incredible amount of time into just because some suits determined that not enough people play X game to warrant providing server space.
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 5 months ago
You really seem to want to argue with me but I don't think you understood what I was saying to begin with. I'm not saying subscriptions are better, I'm saying they are more economical but unreliable, and I am saying that you, who listed 10+ great games you played a lot, didn't get only a single one. It also doesn't mean there won't ever be any new game you like.
You know, 10 games × $60 > $2 × 12mo × 3y
Though Ubisoft is $18/mo and games are $70 now. Ubisoft Club is a bad deal but Game Pass is still ends up cheaper at $10/mo. But I digress,
Remmock@kbin.social 5 months ago
I think you’re almost there.