It doesn’t even have to be a big upfront cost, it would only be expensive if you want moderately high end games. You could play pretty much anything over 10 years old on very cheap hardware, and it would also be able to run a fair few more modern games too. Obviously more modern games its going to vary more. Some that require high specs even for minimum settings obviously won’t run.
Ahh so software can cross borders for free. Then presumably they can just rent a shed somewhere to write data to what ever storage media they use these days.
Well does it cost them more or less than the tariff. That is pretty much the only question, its not that much work if it results in a lot of savings.
They probably will. It is kinda amusing to watch tbh
They will only change if they start losing a lot of money. With any luck we are starting to see that a bit from some of the big publishers.
Can always play super tux kart instead
PC gaming seems so cheap in comparison at this point doesn’t it. I guess we have better options which means there is more competition in price. Why would I spend £90 for something EA shat out when I can just not do that.
But you don’t need either. Plenty of great games are cheaper and have none of that bullshit. Rimworld, Factorio?
I grew up mostly playing games that were not the latest release. Like I got Dawn of War for less than £10 around 2008 or so. It released in 2004. Think that was the last game I got the CD for, don’t have it anymore.
Then sometime in the 2010s when it was on sale I got all the expansions to it and got it on steam instead.
You have always been able to smuggle goods across borders. It’s also always been illegal if you get caught.
People still do it, typically fags and booze as they have high taxes on them.
I would say it’s more that some studios are spending even more to make them, games don’t have to cost more to make as you can now make a lot more with a smaller team than you could 20 years ago.
Would tariffs apply to the games as well?
Couldn’t they move it to another country first to reduce it a bit?
I like lemmy more and decided to get my accounts banned in reddit after I started using lemmy.
Is there an aspect of privacy through throwing loads of bullshit data though? Instead of blocking the tracking you flood it with crap
At this point I think it’s better to poison the well.
Don’t care. At this point I will take being actively malicious toward them.
I filter to the front on my leg powered bike, most traffic light setups here have a region for bikes at the front of the cars.
If you have a product that cost 500 with a markup of 50, but tariffs are pushing it to 750, it could easily be worth spending 50 to reduce tariffs to 650 and sell it at 700. You make just as much profit on each unit and you reduce the per unit cost which likely means more sales.