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Sony faces class action over expensive digital game and DLC prices — ‘Sony tax’ means digital games cost ‘an average of 47% more’ than those on disc, group alleges
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I agree that people glaze up Gabe way too much (the dude has a fuckin mega yacht for Christ’s sake), but in the specific area of games pricing I don’t think Steam is much of a problem from a consumer standpoint. I still think they should give more of the sale share to the actual devs though.To correct you, he has many mega yachts.
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“But not steam cause that’s MY corporation and Gabe is MY billionaire” They’re all taking advantage of youJust want to say fuck yeah for saying this. Fuck steam/gabe. They may have been at the forefront of popularizing Pc gaming but they also were and are actively influential in the worst parts of the hobby. Gabe made billions off teaching children to gamble and loot boxes. Gabe made billions ensuring people are ok not owning their games. It’s crap that steam has a positive reputation at all.
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How often do consoles get the kind of deep discounts that games get on PC, though? Or even the price drops over time? It's not really a great deal when a $60 title drops to $30 on PSN, but the same game costs $30 as its _base price_ on Steam and is currently discounted to $8.Honestly most multi platform games I look at end up massively cheaper on sale on PlayStation than Steam. They have big(many games) weekly sales and even bigger “event” sales. Like your 60/30 example isn’t Sonys doing that’s the publisher. But the same thing happens the other way some games stay high priced way longer than you’d expect on Steam. Frankly Steam quit being the biggest discounts and such years ago just riding on the coattails of their reputation on how great their big sales used to be.
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Baby steps. My main point was that Sony shouldn’t get special treatment.
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To correct you, he has many mega yachts.Truly a man of the people
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Truly a man of the peopleYeah. It’s definitely a net good to introduce children to gambling to fund your mega yacht hobby.
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This post did not contain any content.Countless times I can buy an older game on Steam for like $5 on sale and like $40 on Playstation sale. Fucking idiotic.
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This post did not contain any content.Companies charging what they can to make a profit is how the ayawten is supposed to work,.ideally folks would juat move away, especailly with a want and not a need. The tech soace in particular ia rife with this, it's why I stoped uaing; Sony, Nintendo, Apple, Microsoft and Adobe etal products.
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