| crissindahouse said: So you had to do a lot to have money for an expensive hobby in the 80s. How does this counter anything I've said? I've mentioned rich white kids because they didn't have to wash cars as much. I never had to wash cars to get a game as kid. I just asked my father. That was my point (not that my family was rich but definitely above German average) I'm also not saying that the industry didn't have a nice revenue in the 80s. But they reached that with higher prices. Now we have lower prices but more players. We can go back to less players but higher prices. That's what this argument was about after all. It's like comparing Nike with Luis Vuitton (exaggerated). Both have nice revenue numbers but more people can enjoy Nike lol. Doesn't mean that only one way works to sell your products. Just the amount of people who can enjoy it will be different. |
I'm just having trouble finding where you found the information that gaming in the 80s was just for rich white kids. I don't remember it being like that. Most of my friends and relatives I grew up with, gamed (some were more well off than others). I don't remember skin color even being a thing between us, or it being the determining factor if they had money or not. I would borrow games from them, and they from me. I never asked them how they got their games.
...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.
