Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

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Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'
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Fr tho people seem to forget abt inflation a lot when talking abt the old days

This is a really interesting chart. A lot of N64 games were $70 and even $80 at launch which is upwards of $150 today. Just crazy.

People keep saying SNES/N64/etc games were super expensive...and i just wanna ask where they were buying them?

Cause everytime I went into the stores to get one they were 49.99.

Why compare oranges and apples? Console and PC games were never the same from a price perspective.

People seem to forget that just moderately decent games sell magnitudes more today than they did 20 years ago, too, thus continuing to bring in insane cash (as long as you arent sony or other companies that are obscenely wasteful..) despite inflation, this stable pricing making them a good entertainment investment for people whose minimum wage hasnt changed in like 15 years