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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • For reference, that business model is called the loss leader pricing scheme. It’s the one where you sell a product for cheap with the expectation that the customer will buy something else that’s more expensive alongside it. It’s more common than you would expect.

    For instance, eggs and milk are placed at the back of the store because there’s a higher chance of you picking up other things to buy on the way to the back.

    IKEA does something similar with their food court.

    The Steam deck is sold at a loss, because Valve makes their money back via game sales. The same is true for all gaming consoles

    All F2P games operate on the same principle

    My understanding is that Costco gasoline is so cheap because it’s offset by product purchases in-store. Also, Costco food court




  • Everyone has different preferences, so it can be difficult to judge what you may like or dislike. Even in gaming, there are such disparate subcommunities that one subcommunity may not even know of the existence of another. I personally prefer slow paced, artistic, single player games and I can’t stand multi-player games, much less competitive ones.

    So my answer is there’s likely something for you somewhere, but without more information, I wouldn’t know how you would begin finding that something