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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Back in my day it was called an arcade video game.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

Except you didn't have to buy your own arcade machine before you started shoveling quarters into it.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, back in my day the games came on a cassette tape. Sometimes the tapes got tangled up or broke, but when you bought it, you owned it.

Oh, and you'd get those magazines with pages of code for a game - you'd spend a day typing it in and never be able to figure out the tiny error you'd made.

Actually, games are so much better these days. It's just unfortunate that capitalism.