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$6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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I, and the vast majority of the gaming community, will play a game once and never pick it up again. Most don't even finish.
For the one of two games I might actually want to play again, I'm happy to toss an additional $10 at the 10 year discounted rate.
I'm still $55 ahead of you purchasing on release.
Same with gamefly. $15 a month and I've saved thousands and thousands of dollars renting for 2 weeks and sending it back.
Doing some napkin math:
I spend $210 annually on gamefly + gamepass. I have played no less than 30 games this year (it's higher but I'm not keeping track). That's $1800 USD I've saved. I'm more than happy to eat into that and purchase a game if need be.
Ownership of video games, is VASTLY over rated and valve has you by the genitals.
I'm very skeptical that you're describing the majority, let alone vast.
That's a fair assesment. But what's the ratio games that you actually go back to compared to the amount of games you own in total? Unless you only play very few games, the amount of games a person owns vastly outnumbers the games they actually go back and play multiple times. Just looking at my steam library, I own hundreds of games I've completed once and have never touched again along with about 2 dozen I actually go back and play occasionally.
But you're still playing all the games you had as a kid? 10 games a year adds up pretty fast when we're talking about still wanting to play them all years later.