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I barely follow the subject of this thread but really...

... if it comes to fetish work, really... Steam games is the LAST thing you want to bring up.

Really, citing Steam prices when discussing the value of anything is actually unofficially codeword for "Entitled gamer" in a lot of circles. There's a certain amount of developers who're themselves asking how long the PC gaming industry will be able to continue with these before something will have to give and break, especially when discussing Steam sales and the pressure they put on developers to price their games lower than the worth of the resources spent making them.

Beside, last I recall we're talking fetish content, not video games. Yes there -will- be pricing differences.

One is the work of an entire studio, who can expect economy of scales when pricing things being able to expect an audience not in the dozens or hundreds, but in the ten of thousands at the minimum -and- will have access to the retail and sales services to reach those numbers, potentially with a marketing department to boot or advertisers to help further spread knowledge of their game.

And to counter the "classic" game argument, with digital distribution they can even re-release old games who have long since been more than paid for even after the original development team has disbanded, and still make money from it no matter how low the price because the whole "expenses" part has already been fully been repaid and pretty much null now because there's likely not even any development team they have to pay anymore!

The other is generally the work of independents working from their own houses with limited resources, word-of-mouth advertising at the best, reaching only dozens or hundred at best, ontop of having to tiptoe careful with most payment services who, like Paypal, might be ready to ban them for life for producing content of any remotely pornographic nature by often claiming "it's the credit card companies who want us to".

And, you know, often have as a result to actually produces such work while already working somewhere else, thus having to literally make it out of what little free time they have left after a day's work. And that's without mentioning how even a ton of recording content will still take more time to produces than the length of the actual recording due to editing or having to repeat segments of their show or recording due to mistakes made during the productions forcing them to do over.

Seriously, 5$ for 10 minutes of recorded content with no visuals is actually a pittance considering the work and category. Especially fetish work anything.

So yeah you could get a "classic" game for less, but you're also literally comparing orange and apple. Or specifically... the work of an independent working from their house to produce a niche product with word of mouth marketing on niche internet forums to the production of a likely long-disbanded studio which a multiple-millions publishers just finally decided to dust off to chuck it into a millions-users online store likely to the reporting of dozen of thousands-users game sites to boot likely to be read by the thousand of gamers who were likely just waiting for an excuse to buy a new copy of a game they'd likely already completed in the past anyway.


Also, fun fact? I've never downloaded or gotten any of the recording voiced here because I just never even tried audio books in the first place. So I can really say I'm not even a fanboy of these things.

So really, if you want to bring the price of dusty old games on a multiple millions users sale platform... sure, go ahead. Go and buy that classic game if that's what really make you happy or what you enjoy doing.
But please don't compared them to a totally different thing as if you were assuming they could even be comparable.

As while you're right to enjoy the type of gaming you get on Steam, others are indeed right to enjoy the type of fetish works they sure as hell could expect to never show up on Steam.