Why companies aren't selling videogames any more

Rohan is musing about a Penny Arcade comic on Free2Play models, where the punchline is "I think I liked it better when companies sold videogames". But that is the one-sided point of view from the gamer's side. Interestingly it is easy enough to imagine a game company CEO stating exactly the same: "I think I liked it better when customers bought videogames". The simple fact is that the business model in which companies sold videogames to customers was undermined by people who were neither the c

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