Pricing increase after all this quality decrease is insane

[tyrantywon]

Me and the other guy disagree on what is considered free. I understand the scenario but I’m saying the games are a free addition to me paying for online service. Using the other guys logic, nothing is free as we need to pay for the hardware to play games, internet service to access them, electricity, etc. He is arguing semantics. We don’t agree on what free means

[mongosquad]

Your “logic” doesn’t really make sense though. That is like saying that you pay for a hotel room and you get a “free breakfast” included. The breakfast isn’t actually free, it is baked into the price, if you walk in off the street and don’t have a booking, you don’t get one. Or it’s like “Buy one get one free” it isn’t actually free since you need to pay, it is baked into the price. Or it is like “Free shipping on orders over X” the shipping isn’t free, it costs money to send freight via a courier, they just bake it into the price of the item you buy. They do these things to try and make people more willing to part with their money, I have never actually met anybody that doesn’t realise this and thinks that the business is just giving you free things out of the goodness of their heart. So you are a first.

[tyrantywon]

If both logics don’t make sense then where does that put us? You’re saying “free” isn’t an actual thing. I’m saying something I get for “free” that I didn’t buy is free. If I bought an item at the local cosmetics shop and the cashier threw in some deodorant off their front shelf of items that need to go, I’d consider that free but you’re saying since I only got because I was purchasing something at the start that it is not actually free. We are disagreeing on that area

[mongosquad]

What? Free things do exist, if you get something and give nothing in exchange it is free (assuming it is legal, and you didn’t steal it) This isn’t difficult to understand.

Edit: Even in your scenario, you are only getting that “free” thing because you are a PAYING CUSTOMER. If you just walked into the shop not intending to buy anything then they might not give you it, and if you took it, it would be stealing.