In a big city called New York in the eastern United States, a programmer is bored scrolling through the forums.

The company he works for is not a technology company. His department in this enterprise is the logistics department, and his task is to maintain the normal operation of the office system, in other words, to repair computers.

Although he would like to say that programmers are not computer repairers, the job is not only leisurely, but the salary is not low. Therefore, he is also willing to work here, and when he has nothing to do, he can also open an online water forum, which is not many good jobs like this in the world.

On this day, after playing the game for a long time last night, he clicked on the forum he often went to a little bored, and he clicked on a post at random and read it.

"As a video game player for over a decade, I've lived through the Atari era and I've lived through the time of myself.

I've played I don't know how many games, and I'm getting tired of games that look and feel similar, but today I found a brand new game, and I recommend everyone to play it.

The name of this game is "The Sims", and when you see this name, you will think of the "Sims" series on the GG handheld.

But the "Sims" I'm talking about, although it is also released by 10,000 households, is not the game series on the GG handheld.

This is a game released for personal computers, and the gameplay of this game is like The Sims as its name suggests.

It's really in The Sims, and when I play this game, I feel like I'm seeing myself.

I have seen me grow up little by little, study a little bit, work a little bit, and grow old a little bit since I was a child.

In this game, there is the helplessness of life, the sadness of life, and the happiness of life.

I feel like this game is life.

I recommend everyone who can't find a good game to play and try this game.

I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised!

It's a game unlike anything that's been done before!"

The replies below this post are also varied.

However, no one said that the landlord was a trust.

In this era, people who can afford to go online, or have access to the Internet, are basically considered "elite" class.

Don't look at the person who is reading the post now, it's just a computer repair from a big company.

But if he doesn't have a strong professional quality, it won't be his turn to repair the computer.

You know, although it is a computer repairer, this well-known large company is not easy to enter.

Because everyone is an "elite", they speak with a purpose, although sometimes there are times when they scold. But that's also a well-founded scolding, not messing around, and scolding you when you're unhappy.

Some people questioned whether the game was really fun.

Some people are talking about how they feel after playing the game.

If you let the people who are mixed with the Internet later, how big can they see this simple forum?

You will find that under this simple interface, the quality of the replies is very high.

Exporters of goods called "dry goods" abound, and parallel goods, which are very watery in their own right, have become rare creatures here. It can be described as rare.

This "computer repairman", seeing the generally positive reviews above, also began to care about this game called "The Sims".

However, unlike others who have to queue up to buy games, he is a related person.

He picked up the phone, dialed a number, and asked his old classmate to leave him a copy of The Sims.

"You're going to play The Sims, right? I recommend you buy a graphics card, an optical mouse, and a membrane keyboard so you can get the best gaming experience." ”

"Are you all bundled like this now? You don't have to use your kind of words to trick me, it's absolutely impossible to get me to buy more useless things!"

"I'm not playing tricks on you, I'm telling the truth.

The Sims is a game that really needs the things I mentioned to get the best gaming experience. The voice on the other end of the phone was very helpless.

"How much do those things cost?"

"One hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy cents. ”

"It's not expensive, so buy me a set." ”

He hung up the phone and continued to read the post.

In the ninety-two years when the "big game" has sold for more than $60, the veteran gamer really thinks that the price of three peripherals is less than $120 is cheap.

You must know that it is the 90s, and the purchasing power of the US dollar per unit is much higher than that of later generations.

In later generations, the highest selling price of some was $60.

Compared to the most expensive games of this era, the price on paper is even lower.

Of course, this is partly due to the fact that cassettes and even discs are no longer used, but that digital media is used to reduce costs.

On the other hand, it is because once a video game exceeds a certain price, sales will decrease. Most players will not be able to accept this price.

Therefore, in order to "make small profits and make quick turnover", publishers have opted for a maximum of $60 and the conventional selling price.

However, such a price is becoming more and more unsustainable under the increasing production cost.

At the beginning, some manufacturers choose to launch more content packs and expansion packs to provide more game content and charge a little more money.

Players are still accepting it.

However, later on, the appearance of the manufacturers became more and more ugly.

At the beginning, it was a good idea to launch excess game content to charge, and then it simply developed into a complete game, dismantling it into a semi-finished body, and selling it with multiple expansion packs and data packs.

Such a DLC expansion package strategy naturally caused players to complain.

But as a game developer, it's also quite helpless, who makes the production cost almost infinitely rising?

The maintenance man was off work, and the big city of New York was the busiest city on the planet.

However, no matter how prosperous New York is, it has nothing to do with him, and there is not a single building that belongs to him.

He took a slight detour to get the game and the accessories, got back to the rental house, and started installing them on his computer.

He originally thought that the graphics card was something like a sound card, but when he got his hands on it, he found that it was much larger than the sound card.

Although electronics can't be worth it in terms of weight and size, he looked at the dense circuitry and capacitors on it, and thought that this thing might not be bad.

And the mouse and keyboard, his first impression of them is lightness.

Something that costs nine and nine dollars a piece is light, cheap, and almost deserved.

However, when he turned on the computer, he found that this cheap mouse and keyboard were so easy to use!

He wanted to throw away all the original mice and keyboards!