Technically... (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, March 07, 2018, 13:13 (2250 days ago) @ Claude Errera

...plus whatever cost the manufacturer feels like adding to discourage you from ordering replacements. I've had to buy $20 bits of plastic for my refridgerator - pieces that I can now have made for me in a 3D printer for a buck (and THAT allows for a profit margin), but for which there were no alternatives 20 years ago. That's not a 'replacement value', that's a 'we don't feel like dealing with your shit' value.

I don't think that would fly if you had just paid thousands of dollars for AutoCAD. Maybe people just think 60 bucks is not enough to worry about then? Clearly it is since nobody seems to want to pay more for games.

Even so, physical replacement parts for machinery is very different… the Disc is only for transport of the data, not for a functioning use in the contraption.