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Steam is the classical rebuke to this. It's a store for pay-once products, with minimal (trivially by passable) drm, and it's immensely popular.
by andrepd 2y ago
Steam is the classical rebuke to this. It's a store for pay-once products, with minimal (trivially by passable) drm, and it's immensely popular.
- netdevphoenix 2y agoSteam is the exception that confirms the rule. Mainstream movies and music are fast food. Made fast and consumed fast. They have a very short shelf life and new songs/movies come out every 2 weeks or so which is an order of magnitude faster than games. Games take longer to play and many have a high replayability factor so you can justify a one off pay. Essentially you are buying hundreds of hours of experience vs 2 hours of experience watching a movie or 3 minutes listening to a song. And unlike games, movies and songs are literally the same no matter how many times you play them. If you look at games that can be completed in a few hours by casual players, you will see that the pay is extremely low.