Do on-line and Used check-ins mark the end of gaming?

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Zkuq said:

The thing is, games cost a lot already and gamers have only so much money to spend on games. Trying to monetize the market won't suddenly increase that amount of money. I'm sure it'll increase that amount a bit but not I'm also sure it won't be very much, at least compared to the current situation. If games cost more, people will buy less games.

This isn't an issue of gamers not spending enough on games, this is an issue of publishers spending too much on developing and marketing games. Those marketing budgets are huge, even bigger than development budgets and even those are huge.

No they don't.. games are historicly at their cheapest



Games back then cost a lot less to develop than they do now, but they cost a lot more for the consumer..  creating more healthy income for the developer then nowadays with this consumers are spending less cause inflation didn't kick in and budgets are up.. something has to be done right now or we will be playing facebook games for the rest of our lives.. and this is one way.. sure it's not the second hand games fault.. but they have to try to monetize that because the final option would be 100 dollar new games..