Why would you pay $30/month to play AAA releases when there’s only ever 4-6 AAA releases in a given year, and you probably only care about maybe 2 of them at $60 a piece? Why would you pay $30/month to rent indy games that cost $20 to own forever?

no joke. i know there are doofuses out there that will happy keep adding to their subscriptions of various services/products, because $8, $10, $15, $30 a month “isn’t much”, and maybe im showing my age, but video games were generally a cheap proposition. systems were expensive, so you only got one and you buy a game a year, it ends up being pennies per hour.

i think most people who play video games are doing so on a pretty limited budget, because its a hobby that lends itself to people on a budget. you get a game a year and play the shit out if it. it ends up being far cheaper per hour than going to the movies or paying for cable tv, even back when movies were a few bucks and cable wasn’t like more than $40/mo.