• Lfrith@lemmy.ca
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      17 hours ago

      2 hour movies are also competing with streaming services like Netflix where people can see many more hours of TV shows and movies for less. Some just stick to youtube which requires no money and has some free movies there too.

      Its like how people can drop hundreds and thousands of hours on f2p games without spending any money. $/hr valuation is outdated.

      To be convinced to spend, consumer has to be convinced what a game is offering is unique to other cheaper and sometimes free alternatives. $/hr is something they will have a hard time competing with.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 hours ago

        I don’t strictly adhere to it or anything, but I think it’s a good reminder sometimes when I balk at the price of a new game that I’m liable to spend hundreds of hours playing.

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      1 day ago

      Not to mention that not all gaming hours are equally fungible.

      There can be shorter narrative games where a given hour is worth more (to me), so the higher per hour cost is justified.

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      1 day ago

      To you perhaps. Cinema is less than half that cost here and even then I go less than once a year because I don’t really feel like most films that come out are worth bothering to see given the combined effort and cost.