• Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    “games are ridiculously expensive at full price”

    A board game with paper and plastic pieces can range from 12-45 dollars

    People will go spend $20 at the movies for 1 night

    Hell I’ll pay 100 if it’s a good game

    I have 1200 hours in Overwatch. $60 (free now). I have paid 5 cents per hour to play it. I am completely happy with my purchase even though it’s free now.

    If the game isn’t worth it, don’t get it. But to complain about it is ridiculous.

    Some N64 games were $50-$60 dollars back in the 90’s

    I feel like we are fortunate

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      9 hours ago

      Yea, I don’t generally disagree. Especially if you‘re someone who plays games for hundreds of hours, instead of dozens.

      But $100 is still a lot of money for a lot of people. I‘d have to save up for months for that (I’m a trainee and have less than 1000€ per month for rent, food, internet, gas, etc.), so I rather wait until I can get games cheaper.

    • Devmapall@lemm.ee
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      11 hours ago

      I agree with this. I have quite a few games I paid 60 dollars for that per hour entertainment makes it insanely cheap. Smaller cheaper indie games are even cheaper per hour.

      It does suck though paying full price for something that will not fulfill that. I bought star wars outlaws or whatever for half price. I knew it wasn’t good but man it was worse than I expected. Not with the price to me even though I probably played 10 hours or so. I read some reviews but I should’ve read more.