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>Ehhhh I don't think DRM is why Steam is succeeding. I never claimed that DRM was the only reason. >making things easily obtainable is more important than ma
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>Ehhhh I don't think DRM is why Steam is succeeding.
I never claimed that DRM was the only reason.
>making things easily obtainable is more important than making them free
No, it's because of competition. The PC being so open and not locked down to a single entity who can engage in rent-seeking like the console vendors, means not just piracy but an unlimited ways and sources you can get media on the device which means competition, which drives down prices.
- robertlagrant 3y agoRent-seeking seems a silly term here. If you just mean "charging a fortune" then there are other consoles to buy. And consoles are luxury goods, so if they get too expensive people just won't buy them in the first place.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI beg to differ. Piracy and mod-chips on earlier consoles was rampant (in my country). Anyone I knew with a PS2 had it 'chipped' and only had pirated games because the price of the console (which was also a DVD player) was more easily digestible than the price of original games which came at huge mark-ups to compensate for the console HW which were sold at a loss in the eerier stages.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI don't understand; how is selling a console at a loss "rent-seeking"?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI never said that nor was that my point. You're connecting unrelated dots from my arguments.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI'm trying to make what you're saying make sense. I said I don't think rent-seeking is a good term for this. You begged to differ.