Quote Originally Posted by Hamada View Post
You are just assuming that to suit your narrative, but fine ill play along. I dislike you ignored my other points but I can play with this I suppose. The biggest problem with your statement is that assumes an isolated environment. On its own, yes your assessment is valid. However it completely ignores the impact of the MP3 cost. That alone will impact the sales at 5 dollars. Why pay 5 dollars for an item that is resisted in game when I can DL on MP3 and get to hear it wherever and whenever I want, including while in my house? Because of that it is more like getting 2000 sales at 5 dollars or 30000 sales at 2 dollars (even higher if they make it account wide which they should) Outside factors impact a lot, and the same reason how my friend was able talk down all those different industries down in price. They do not want you going somewhere else or have word of mouth do not buy from x company because they do x,y,z. (Also the fact they know they can be easily reported to government bodies to further backlash) Now thinking about it, i suspect gaming industry feels more immune due to monopoly. I can't go to a different company to service FFXIV play for example. In the end of the day I am confused why every other industry it is easy to talk to companies with pricing and get customer service while gaming industry thinks they are the exception on how everyone else acts, just because laws are lagging behind with such concepts. This only shows gaming industry are unable to self regulate and try to push the greed line as much as possible. How they act now may turn high profits, but they are shooting themselves in the foot as far as their future outlook
The MP3s aren't going anywhere man, so I fail to see how they're relevant to the scenario? It's a vanity item in a video game, why would I be upset if it doesn't have the portability or accessibility of a different form of digital media?

If you want to hear the song in-game and play it in your virtual house, you can't do that with a digital mp3, so it's weird that people argue one shouldn't exist because the other one does.