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I'm okay with this. Same deal with Costco's founders and CEOs. It'd be nice if billionaires didn't exist, but they do, and most of them made their profits while pissing everyone off.
I'll praise the ones that at least try to do some "good" for people. Even if their "good" is "Let's make obscene amounts of money by charging affordable prices and being the 'good guy' in the industry".
I'm not okay with this because it incentivizes companies and influencers to work together to lower people's standards.
People are proud to accept garbage these days.
I ask genuinely -- what alternative do we have?
I mean, in this case, yarrrr. but in other cases, i think, probably also yarrrr. but like, physically.
Steam won our over piracy, as did Netflix when it first came around. And even Uber -- people stopped downloading cars for years when Uber was in its heyday!
The last game I bought on Steam was less than $2 after tax.
Most games I buy on Steam are less than $20. The most expensive game I've ever bought on Steam was probably about $40. And I've done that maybe once.
And even at $70, games are cheaper now than they've ever been, adjusting for inflation. They're also generally much more expensive to produce.
I provided numerous reasons why I don't think I've been overcharged.
I really don't understand what your point is. What do you mean by "overcharged"?
So your definition of overcharged is that we're being charged more than what we would in an alternate reality where billionaires don't exist?
I don't think imagination is a good basis of comparison. If one store is selling the game for $20 and another is selling it for $70 with nothing different between the two, then the one selling it for $70 is overcharging.
But if one real store is selling it for $70, and an imaginary store is selling it for $20, then I don't think the real store is overcharging...lol
Why did you go through my comment history? Lol
Lmao..."you guys"?
Great reason to go hunting through my comments to find something that you seem to have not quite understood, given its context.
Look, the imaginary world without billionaires that you're talking about sounds great, but we live in the real world. In the real world, we aren't going to change anything for the better by whining about rich people on the internet, nor would pirating change anything for the better.
But anyways, since you went through my comments, you might've seen my complaints about Steam, and the fact that I prefer to buy most of my games on GOG because they're DRM-free. But considering that you've said a $2 game is overpriced, I don't imagine that you're looking for alternatives...lol
Lol...Where do you buy your games from, then? Or your groceries for that matter?