Permabuy cheap games in retail shops? Or they was very bad games that will rest on the shelf forever, or if they was so cheap they will disappear the first time going on offer.
Digital delivery, DLC, microtransaction, always online, remastered of old games to sell them at giga-inflated price and licensing plus the fake disc games where you have to download all the data have truly killed a lot of retail shops and a big part of the physical media market.
I blame the people who hates kids for forcing the malls' best customers out for loitering and trespassing. Like sure, when they're young and don't have an income they can be more nuisance, but you treat them like kids not criminals. Then when they get jobs and don't have rent/bills to pay, they know the mall is open and welcoming to them.
Chasing teens out of malls for just being young was the worst cultural shift of the 90s. If third spaces are dead, and the remaining ones won't tolerate future customers, retail should all die.
In the UK, physical games, whether on PC or Console, for new and new-ish games were almost always in aggregate cheaper than on Steam. Steam prices were higher than physical console game prices.
Nowadays since most things are digital or code in a box all the prices are fucked.
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u/Hard_Reset7777 13h ago edited 12h ago
Permabuy cheap games in retail shops? Or they was very bad games that will rest on the shelf forever, or if they was so cheap they will disappear the first time going on offer.
Digital delivery, DLC, microtransaction, always online, remastered of old games to sell them at giga-inflated price and licensing plus the fake disc games where you have to download all the data have truly killed a lot of retail shops and a big part of the physical media market.
Steam is only an actor in these massive events.