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darkknight109 posted...

Rockies brings up another great point. The reams-of-low-cost-titles-flooding-the-market thing has been done before. Back in the early 80s. It predicated a crash that nearly wiped out the industry. That sort of wipe-out is unlikely today, but destroying a large portion of the market is much more feasible.

I can *kinda* see it but the problem is that Steam is really fringe compared to the mainstream gaming market. I assume that PC gamers on average tend to be reasonably well-informed consumers since there's less of a parent/child market. And, in general, pc games have gotten away with glitchy issues for a pretty long time already.

Rockies posted...

darkknight109 posted...

Rockies brings up another great point. The reams-of-low-cost-titles-flooding-the-market thing has been done before. Back in the early 80s. It predicated a crash that nearly wiped out the industry. That sort of wipe-out is unlikely today, but destroying a large portion of the market is much more feasible.

Err, low cost or low price? My understanding is that the 80's was a bunch of low cost games sold for a standard or high price. Now it's high cost games that are being charged at the same prices as 20 years ago, often lower (at least for the base price).

I think a lot of it was just flooding the market with poor quality titles which led to market oversaturation and consumer fatigue.
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