The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.
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i get it but for me 8 is 10
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I just round up to the nearest multiple of 5. Who the hell rounds down when looking at prices?
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8 is 10 but 7.99 is 5
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Yeah, but what about $7.99?
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Nothing new tbh. How we subconsciously round off numbers is a big part of super market pricing. Everything with a zero at the end seems bigger. Not only does 19.99 seem much smaller then 20, but even 21.99 seems smaller then 20 at a glance.
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they could've just said they smoked weed
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8 is 10 but 7.99 is 5
7.99 is 9
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That's basically right.
$70?
I could buy a car for that kinda money.
You just reminded me of a time when $70 felt like nearly unlimited opportunities. Now, $70 means that I might get to buy groceries AND restock on spices.
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Little different for me:
$1 - 5 = $5
$6 - 12 = $10
$13 - 20 = $20
$21 - 50 = $50
$51 - 70 = $100
>$70 = $1000
Same, quite a bit of difference to me.
$1 - 7 = how many of these are they going to charge? 100+ dollars
$8 - 60 = round to nearest $5
$61+ = irrelevant collector’s edition
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no, completely valid, but pricing is a psychological question rather than a math question for some.
reason for example products are priced with X.99
some people se it as cost X amount, others (like youself) see it as X+1 amount. the 0.99 is the extreme end of the psychology and choosing 8 in the case of peak increases number of people who dont see it at the higher price
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For me:
Under 100₴ - free
100₴ - 300₴ - it must be worth it for me to buy it.
More than 300₴ - i will never finacially recover from this purschase.
I have never seen that symbol before. What currency is that!?
Edit: it’s the Ukrainian hryvnia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hryvnia_sign
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There's Math, then there's Math By Marketers
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You just reminded me of a time when $70 felt like nearly unlimited opportunities. Now, $70 means that I might get to buy groceries AND restock on spices.
Bruh a single bag of groceries is like 110 rn
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No way. 7.99 is 10
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You just reminded me of a time when $70 felt like nearly unlimited opportunities. Now, $70 means that I might get to buy groceries AND restock on spices.
God, I wish I could get groceries for 70...
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We supposedly evolved to perceive values logarithmically. The difference between 1 to 3 should feel bigger than 3 to 5. Yet, the difference between $5 and $10 feels to me way more than the difference between $1 and $5.
Maybe I'm just broke as shit and think $10 is a lot of money
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8 bucks is definitely 10 bucks in my book. 6.99 is 5 but above that and I start thinking 10.
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60+: Haha, I can't imagine it's worth it.
20-59: Buy if it comes strongly recommended.
10-19: Impulse buy if the description and screenshots look cool.
1-9: Buy if I like the store thumbnail.
0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.
EDIT: YES I know proper - often Open Source - free games exist.
OpenTTD and good ol' Nethack are my faves -
Nah. But I think the difference in this specific case is that if you're already kinda wanting to buy something and it's 8 dollars, you might convince yourself that it's basically just 5 dollars to justify the purchase.
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8 is 10 but 7.99 is 5
Nah it's still ten, especially if you grew up in a place that doesn't include tax in the price. That's easily getting to mid 8 after tax, and that might as well be ten.
