▲ 792 ▼ 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) submitted 4 days ago by eicker@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 209 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago (2 children) Back in my day it was called an arcade video game. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago Except you didn't have to buy your own arcade machine before you started shoveling quarters into it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago Except you didn't have to buy your own arcade machine before you started shoveling quarters into it. permalink fedilink source parent