| prayformojo said: Netflix doesn't bother me because most of the movies on there are movies I wouldn't buy. As far as everything else? It's a scam. Do you honestly think these companies haven't hired mathematicians to figure all this out ahead of time? The majorty of people don't spend $120.00 a year on music. Yet, they think it's totally acceptable to subscribe to Spotify because...omg, only $9.99 a month? I am not ignorant enough to fall for something like that. If I were ever to do something like this, I'd crunch the numbers first and figure out if it's cheaper in the long run. And even if it was, I would still take pause because I actually, you know, want to be able to see, hold and OWN things I pay for. With music and movies, it's about quality (Blu-Ray looks and sounds better, CD's are well over 1,000 KB which murders legal downloads and streaming services), stability (streaming doesn't always work when you need it to), they are collectable and last but certainly not least, they're resaleable should you need to do so. If you want to over pay for virtual goods which are inferior, never truely yours and have the shelf life of an open container of milk, then so be it. But not everyone shares that desire. When the servers go down, I'll have my game. You won't have yours. Buy cheap, buy twice? |
Interesting that you brought up the music subscription service. One of the things I have found with having a music sub is that I actually download or stream way more music then if I was actually purchasing it. Co-wokers will be listening to a song or talk about an artish and because I have a music sub, I just stream the album, song or listen to various music from that artish which I would never do if I had to purchase the music. If I were to meaure how much music I have download or listened to in a year compared to how much music I actually bought, it would be way over the sub price.
I believe the same would have for subs for games. There are plenty of games most gamers would not play if they had to purchase it even if it was cheap, used and discounted. If the game come under your sub, the chance you would play it is probably a lot higher. When friends say this was a good game and you get to play it because its part of the sub gives you more incentive to try it out.
My belief is that subs definitely have their place and value and if the price is right, there is nothing wrong with it. I am sure a lot of PS+ users have played many games they would never have purchased but it became avaliable on Plus so you downloaded it and played it then found out you actually liked it more then you thought.
