Posts by grommile 4 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Nov 2011
This 36-year-old thinks telephone calls are a terrible substitute for both face-to-face voice communication (where you can use body language and props and point to elements of your surroundings and all that good stuff) and text-based remote communication (where you are not under the synchronization pressures of voice communication).
Steam isn't all that comparable to this, because games on Steam are often cheap.
Even games with a £30 list price will end up on 75%-discount sale at some point - at which point they're £7.50, making them cheaper than three pints of beer while (hopefully) providing more entertainment than three pints of beer would.
Console games at first-hand retail, on the other hand, are ludicrously expensive.
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