Also, gamers are notoriously cheap. Consider WoW players who whine about the servers being down, and their justification: "I pay 15 bucks a month, and they can't even keep the goddamned servers online!? WTF!"
Frustrating, to say the least. $15/mo for (in many cases) 60-80 hours of entertainment per month, if not more for the extremely hardcore.
I don't agree that gamers are cheap as a group. Most gamers I know not only own several consoles and a graphics card that cost more than many peoples computers, they also happily buy $60+ games on the day of release several times a month. If you try to tell them that by waiting 6 month they can get the same games for half the price, they'll look at you as if that was the stupidest thing they've heard in their entire life.
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Also, gamers are notoriously cheap. Consider WoW players who whine about the servers being down, and their justification: "I pay 15 bucks a month, and they can't even keep the goddamned servers online!? WTF!"
Frustrating, to say the least. $15/mo for (in many cases) 60-80 hours of entertainment per month, if not more for the extremely hardcore.
I don't agree that gamers are cheap as a group. Most gamers I know not only own several consoles and a graphics card that cost more than many peoples computers, they also happily buy $60+ games on the day of release several times a month. If you try to tell them that by waiting 6 month they can get the same games for half the price, they'll look at you as if that was the stupidest thing they've heard in their entire life.