this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
658 points (100.0% liked)

Gaming

31290 readers
514 users here now

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

based


image:

screenshot of a Tweet from Running With Scissors reading

"We've been told our games are too expensive in some countries but we've been using Steam's recommended pricing for a while. We trust Valve enough to not change this. If our games are still too expensive for you, you can pirate them until you have enough to support us."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] interolivary@beehaw.org 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah it's a shame demos died out. Now studios (or publishers, more likely) just expect everyone to pay for a game they don't even know they'll like, and tough shit if you don't like it.

[โ€“] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

They want people to buy before they know what is like so they don't have a chance to reconsider or regret it. This is why they hype preorders.