From: red sox 777 | #007
No. The hours spent playing it are a bigger deterrent to buying than the money.
I can SORT OF see this. Time is definitely the limiting factor in how many games I play rather than money. But I already buy more games than I have time to play, so that doesn't really limit my purchasing. What it DOES do is make me less willing to buy games at higher prices, because I know I probably won't get a good value for my money based on how little I play each individual game.
Interestingly, this also makes me reluctant to extensively play the full-price games I do buy, because I feel compelled to commit more time to them to get my money's worth. A $10 game feels more like something that can be experienced in scattered 20-minute sessions than a $60 game, and since that's more the kind of time I have, I'm more likely to play the $10 game. So games being cheaper would reduce the feeling of not having time for them for me.
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