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At that time computer were awfully expensive (my dad had to be helped by my grand father to buy one). Magazine's (at least in my country) were expensive too. An

by wiz21c 8y ago

At that time computer were awfully expensive (my dad had to be helped by my grand father to buy one). Magazine's (at least in my country) were expensive too. And games, that was just out of question. So piracy had some legitimacy when you were a teenager. Nowadays, everything is much more affordable and piracy is much harder (on consoles at least). Those were the days...

mschuster91 8y ago
> Nowadays, everything is much more affordable AAA titles are still 50-60€ upon release, so nothing new there... the real difference that has cropped up over the last 3,4 years is that free-to-play crap model. A 0.50€ powerup is cheap, but one a day... 15€ a month. Don't get me started on loot boxes. 5 years ago the only way to get poor due to gaming was gambling, now? Have a little kid and make the mistake of attaching a credit card to the app store account. It seems affordable but it's a total rip off.
- IronBacon 8y ago
  You are forgetting "game pass", incomplete/bugged games at release date, DLCs, "special" version games tied to a seller (usually special equipment), timed exclusives... I'm surprised the industry hasn't collapsed as it did once in the eighties.
  - mschuster91 8y ago
    > I'm surprised the industry hasn't collapsed as it did once in the eighties. These days you have a massive inertial mass of 16 year old kids dragging their parents to Gamestop or to their credit cards and begging them to get them their latest CoD or whatever fix. Parents don't care and the kids don't as long as they can get their fix (and streaming to Twitch isn't broken).
- gh02t 8y ago
  > Have a little kid and make the mistake of attaching a credit card to the app store account. iOS and Android have parental controls where you can lock out/limit IAPs for an account or device to counteract this. I agree the whole practice is shady, but there are at least tools to prevent some of the worst scenarios. Which was not always the case.

by wiz21c 8y ago

mschuster91 8y ago

> Nowadays, everything is much more affordable AAA titles are still 50-60€ upon release, so nothing new there... the real difference that has cropped up over the last 3,4 years is that free-to-play crap model. A 0.50€ powerup is cheap, but one a day... 15€ a month. Don't get me started on loot boxes. 5 years ago the only way to get poor due to gaming was gambling, now? Have a little kid and make the mistake of attaching a credit card to the app store account. It seems affordable but it's a total rip off.

IronBacon 8y ago
You are forgetting "game pass", incomplete/bugged games at release date, DLCs, "special" version games tied to a seller (usually special equipment), timed exclusives... I'm surprised the industry hasn't collapsed as it did once in the eighties.
- mschuster91 8y ago
  > I'm surprised the industry hasn't collapsed as it did once in the eighties. These days you have a massive inertial mass of 16 year old kids dragging their parents to Gamestop or to their credit cards and begging them to get them their latest CoD or whatever fix. Parents don't care and the kids don't as long as they can get their fix (and streaming to Twitch isn't broken).
gh02t 8y ago
> Have a little kid and make the mistake of attaching a credit card to the app store account. iOS and Android have parental controls where you can lock out/limit IAPs for an account or device to counteract this. I agree the whole practice is shady, but there are at least tools to prevent some of the worst scenarios. Which was not always the case.