• Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Competition. Look at the PC market place, and how cheap keys go for. Also, prices aside, monopolies are just bad for customers.

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      2 days ago

      Nope. Not really. Someone pointed out yesterday that sonys sales were actually cheaper than PC, but thats neither here nor there.

      Sony can lock the licenses into what ever price they want. Or even not have them work on their devices. This isn’t as simple as you think it is.

      And if you are looking at PC prices, why would you bother having a sony hardware in the first place?

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        Can you provide an example where the Sony key was cheaper than a PC key when both were on sale, because that has not been my experience. Discs? Sure, but not keys.

        Also, I’m looking at PC prices because that is the example given of a disc-less ecosystem, but it isn’t actually a good comparison, because there is competition, which is what I was pointing out.

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          I saw a post where the person was saying this, but of course being international the money was in a currency I don’t track which did make me wonder if there are regional variants.

          Looking now I see the steam and PSN sales about equal. They cited some cheaper games, but I don’t recall what.

          I always assume that eventually steam will be much less, certainly Humble is.

          Of course I would never buy a game that only worked on a single device. Physical or not, buying for Sony seems stupid.

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          Nah. I don’t care. Thats not kowtowing because Sony has been dead to me for years. Twice the Linux rug pull and I was done.

          I don’t need government getting involved, just don’t buy it. Easy easy.