Bars.

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, February 28, 2013, 09:40 (4068 days ago) @ Malagate

Q: It's New Year's Eve. Everybody wants to have fun. Bars are great places to hang out with your friends. Let's go to a bar.

Would you like to hang out at the swank bar; the one that's great for all the right reasons, but has kind of a steep cover? You can drink all you want from 6-10, and then you have to pay the cover again, but it's only a third of the price if you already have your hand stamped. They come around again at 2am and 6am, same deal.

Or, you can hang out at the bar that has no cover; serves free soda, juice, and coffee, but only sells liquor and keeps reminding you every five minutes that there are other people waiting so could you please either hurry up and leave or buy more liquor. But the prices are pretty great.

A: It depends on what kind of experience you want to have.

Yes, because bars and video games are the same thing. Really dude? What a bad analogy. Seriously.

A more apt analogy is an art gallery that lets you in for free and shows you part of the paintings, but if you pay you get to see all of the painting.

How can you really enjoy the painting when you can only see a little bit of it? How could the artist not be furious that people are only seeing half the work? Game developers doing this are doing just this, and they don't care because, well, they don't care.