zgillet

zgillet

Avid PC enthusiast with a Switch.

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Re: Upset By Zelda Being $70? We've Arguably Never Had It So Good

zgillet

This is no apples-to-apples comparison. Back then, you could rent games fairly easily and on the cheap. Today, we download our games, and for PC that's really the ONLY option. In the 90's, production costs were passed on to the consumer, but now, there is absolutely no production cost on the majority of sales.

I consider myself to have played a LOT of SNES games back in the day, yet I only owned a handful. Today, I own closed to 700 PC games across all services, because that is the only way to play them - own them. This is why the pricing is irking.