Comment on 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'

• InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The $60 was based on 55%+ going to distribution channels, +physical media costs, so it could be down from there.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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• Dontfearthereaper123@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fr tho people seem to forget abt inflation a lot when talking abt the old days

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  • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is a really interesting chart. A lot of N64 games were $70 and even $80 at launch which is upwards of $150 today. Just crazy.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People keep saying SNES/N64/etc games were super expensive…and i just wanna ask where they were buying them?

      Cause everytime I went into the stores to get one they were 49.99.

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      • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People seem to forget that just moderately decent games sell magnitudes more today than they did 20 years ago, too, thus continuing to bring in insane cash (as long as you arent sony or rockstar and being obscenely wasteful…) despite inflation, this making them a good entertainment investment for people whose minimum wage hasnt changed in like 15 years

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