sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoQuote of the day by Gabe Newell: "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue" — Sony just proved why digital storefronts are brokenwww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square123linkfedilinkarrow-up1892arrow-down120
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minus-squareGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-27 days agoI buy games from steam here and there once it’s on sale but I don’t see it as a purchase tbh. You can’t own digital media that way. I see it as paying for access. I am paying for them to give me access from any steam computer with the benefits of having my saves in the cloud. That’s not worth $60-$100, but it’s worth <$10 for certain games.
minus-squareforkDestroyer@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days agoWe used to pay full price for something to have it forever. Now we’re trained to pay full price to “pay for access.” We’ve been trained to pay more for less guaranteed. :(
I buy games from steam here and there once it’s on sale but I don’t see it as a purchase tbh. You can’t own digital media that way.
I see it as paying for access. I am paying for them to give me access from any steam computer with the benefits of having my saves in the cloud.
That’s not worth $60-$100, but it’s worth <$10 for certain games.
We used to pay full price for something to have it forever. Now we’re trained to pay full price to “pay for access.”
We’ve been trained to pay more for less guaranteed. :(