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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Pay what? A physical copy? A digital license for streaming on a platform? A digital rental? A month of streaming service that includes it? Taking free access and public libraries (like public broadcasting libraries), temporary or time-limited into account? There’s way too much variance to make any reasonable assessment on this.

    To get an idea of price variance, even without monthly services, which make individual consumption cheaper still, let’s look at the value of digital products on Steam.

    Comparing my Steam account value calculated by SteamDB, the “lowest value” is 23% of the “value today”. Taking into account that prices reduce significantly over time, you could put it much lower.

    How do you expect people to calculate “if you had to pay for every item”?