• gnygnygny@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    For final fantasy V the cartridge cost was $15 each, total cost $37 millions for the SNES. They did a version for PS1 the CD Roms disk coast was 2$ for each. It was so that expensive that Sierra did phantasmagoria with 7 cdroms. Woldfenatein and Doom didn’t rise the success because of steam. Second hand market was killed by Steam, it even gone to court. And it is illegal to resale games due to their business model.

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      4 days ago

      Lol yeah I’m sure indie devs could afford to front millions for carts and CDs.

      Also you still haven’t answered my question, show me a indie game that had success pre-steam