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PC gamers buy way more games that cost less than $30 at launch compared to PlayStation and Xbox players, analysts say, and it's "reshaping the PC market" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] artyom@piefed.social 73 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Games that cost $30 typically don't have:

  • Crazy intensive graphics that no one can run
  • Performance-reducing DRM
  • online-only requirements
  • pop-up ads for microtransactions every 3 minutes
  • required third party accounts and/or launchers
  • Day 1 DLC
[–] quack@lemmy.zip 22 points 6 days ago

Pretty much nailed why I almost exclusively play Indies these days. That and spyware that calls itself anti-cheat rarely working on my OS, thank God.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yea, they may have dlc.