| Wyrdness said: Just because you can turn to piracy it doesn't negate the value of a game. I even used your own logic to highlight the point I made. Hosting digital content is also not free and never was. Many 10 year old AAA games like COD and such get newer versions frequently that aren't different from the previous hence they drop in price heavily. If you're arguing age in correlation to price and quality you're misguided as value is heavily determined by the perceived quality of the product with many that people consider more timeless retaining higher prices over time and some even increasing. It's no one else's problem if you choose to continue buying them begrudgingly that's on your own head. |
It actually does. The market place isn't blind to wrong doing. It's the whole reason streaming and subscription platforms like Spotify and Netflix exist, thrive, and have largely replaced their predecessors in the first place. They're a direct market reaction to piracy. People can get all of this stuff for free now, and it's so rampant that it can't be policed or ignored. The marketplace changed, and companies have adjusted to accommedate that. Just because you don't like piracy, and you shouldn't, doesn't mean it hasn't tremendously depreciated the value of literally every form of media including games, and especially old games that also have to deal with being old. Not to state the obvious, but most people pirate old games as a means to avoid buying them. So the percieved value of these games to most people is a wopping $0.
This entire Switch subscription is an admission by Nintendo that these games aren't worth what they've charged and that they can't get away with charging what they have if they want to make money. If they were and if they could, this wouldn't exist.
I don't buy anything begrudgingly and I never said it was a problem, let alone someone elses. Consider it a joyous donation. I'm not mad that Nintendo overcharges for VC games. I'm not Jim Sterling. I'm just not oblivious to the fact that they absolutely do and have.
