• Blackmist
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, there’s no real costs, because in this case it’s a cost of “lost opportunity” in advertising.

    As a rich westerner, your eyeballs are worth more than some rickshaw driver in deepest darkest India, because you have more money to fritter away on nonsense.

    Never understood how the third world pricing logic holds up for things like video games, since the hardware to play them costs pretty much the same no matter where you are.

    • demonsword@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Never understood how the third world pricing logic holds up for things like video games, since the hardware to play them costs pretty much the same no matter where you are.

      logistics and taxes also play a role