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Even free games have an opportunity cost, or do you have unlimited time and energy to spend on playing games? Not that I'm saying Moonring isn't worth it, but j
by Sakos 2y ago
Even free games have an opportunity cost, or do you have unlimited time and energy to spend on playing games? Not that I'm saying Moonring isn't worth it, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's free of critique or evaluation of quality.
- jszymborski 2y agoI just have a hard time reconciling how one could describe a game as "decent" but also hold the opinion that it isn't worth the time spent playing it, but I guess we just use that word differently.
- Waterluvian 2y agoYeah. But I’ve got to admit: they nailed the problem with videogame review subjectivity in record few words.
- Dalewyn 2y agoTime is money. It's fairly easy to attribute a dollar value too, like minimum wage or your own wage/salary. If you spend an hour playing a free game but it wasn't worth your while, that doesn't mean the game being free beer excuses it.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoTime is not money, unless you were going to be paid for that time otherwise.
- Dalewyn 2y agoIf you are working for someone, you are selling your time for money. Time is money. If you use your time to make and sell something, you made money. Time is money. If you have money, you can spend it to buy someone's time and have him do something for you. Time is money. You can spend money to buy more time now, you can spend time to get money for buying time tomorrow. Time is money, money is time.
- serf 2y agookay, but now plot it out when the example human has greater than 0% idle time. strive as we might , none of us are 100% effective at converting time into money. I agree with the greater point that money is important and that time is even more so. I don't agree on them being of equal 'value' by a long shot. A human doesn't need money to be happy, but time..
- jszymborski 2y agoFine, but then by what measure is the game "decent" if it wasn't worth your while?
- Sakos 2y agoI mean, I wasn't the guy who you replied to initially. I don't know. I'm just saying that just because it's free doesn't mean it's worth the time and energy. There are countless excellent games that one could be playing, at any number of price points. There are a lot of games I wouldn't even play for free when I could be playing those games.
- Lerc 2y agoI had a review for an Android game that was something along the lines of "It's a great game, but not worth $1"
- TeaBrain 2y agoThere in an opportunity cost in playing free games, but I wouldn't consider any considerable opportunity cost to have been incurred at the time of "admission".
- Sakos 2y agoThe opportunity cost is when playing the game. I'm just saying that free doesn't make up for a bad (or necessarily even a decent) game, if it is one. There's an incredible number of amazing games out there. I personally find it difficult to justify using my time on even decent games regardless of price when there are better games out there.
- TeaBrain 2y agoI completely understand the point of your comment. My comment was on how yours was only tangential to the wording of the parent comment, which used the wording price of "admission". No-one is obliged to finish a game that they started, and the admission price to this particular game is nothing given that it's free, so there will not necessarily need to be any opportunity cost.