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> Most people will buy the game if they can, but the world economics are such that for 90% of your potential user base, 60$ represent an insurmountable financia

> Most people will buy the game if they can, but the world economics are such that for 90% of your potential user base, 60$ represent an insurmountable financial investment. Bulllllllshiiiiiiiiit. > As just one example - consider game rentals. Consoles have incredibly low piracy rates, but a healthy (or at least used to be) game rental scene. If someone can only give me 5$ for my game, why should I snub that money? There's no game rental scene. Like zero. And consoles have incredibly low piracy rates because they have very effective DRM and closed platforms, which a certain contingent of Hacker News likes to pretend is the cause of piracy.

pennaMan 9y ago
Back when I was a teen 60$ was about 25% of my household income. Since then and present day I still don't know a single console owning person that has not hardware modded it to work with pirated games.
Dudenoso 9y ago
>Most people will buy the game if they can, but the world economics are such that for 90% of your potential user base, 60$ represent an insurmountable financial investment. >Bulllllllshiiiiiiiiit. The third world is numerically bigger than the first world. 60$ is a lot for places without a strong currency. Have you ever lived in a third world country with a wage that wasn't above the richest 5%? Yeah, I'm a long time lurker and created an account just for that.
davchana 9y ago
$60 in my local currency Indian Rupees is about ₹3800, my one person, single's monthly food groceries bill.