r/explainitpeter • u/IAmABoss37 • 10d ago

I need your help. Explain it Peter.

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Is the implication that PC gamers pirate their games?

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u/Mysterious-Pack-5608 10d ago

Like Steam Sales don't exist...

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u/Alertcircuit 10d ago edited 10d ago

Also ngl as someone who used to buy $60 games in the 2000s, seeing this huge uproar about $70 for a game in 2026 is kinda insane. Games are probably cheaper than they've ever been in the history of video games. Well, maybe 5 years ago they were.

But still. If 10 year old me could save up for months to buy a game that's like $100 in today's money, us adults with jobs can pay $70 instead of $60. Or just wait a year or two for the game to be like $30 and probably come with the DLC too. Or play any of the $5 or less classics from the past 10, 20, 30 years. A lot of those are better than the games coming out nowadays anyway.

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u/gaypornhard69 10d ago

See I've always had this argument too and half the time I get called a Boot licker. Lol People we're paying like $70, $80 in the '80s and with inflation, that's like a hundred and some dollars.

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u/MateoWarhol 9d ago

The same 80’s when the video game industry collapsed and nearly went extinct entirely…?

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u/gaypornhard69 9d ago

No, 1985 when the NES was released, bringing the industry out of collapse.