The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.

[tommysoda@lemmy.world]

Yeah, but what about $7.99?

[grimy@lemmy.world]

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.

[firmdistribution@lemmy.world]

they could've just said they smoked weed

[panda_abyss@lemmy.ca]

7.99 is 9

[fartographer@lemmy.world]

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.

[gullible@sh.itjust.works]

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

[dudewitbow@lemmy.zip]

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

[tyler@programming.dev]

I have never seen that symbol before. What currency is that!?

Edit: it’s the Ukrainian hryvnia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hryvnia_sign

[voidsignal@lemmy.world]

There's Math, then there's Math By Marketers

[tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world]

Bruh a single bag of groceries is like 110 rn

[sirence@feddit.org]

No way. 7.99 is 10

[very_well_lost@lemmy.world]

God, I wish I could get groceries for 70...

[shinkantrain@lemmy.ml]

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

[bdonvr@thelemmy.club]

8 bucks is definitely 10 bucks in my book. 6.99 is 5 but above that and I start thinking 10.

[deestan@lemmy.world]

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

[stronghorseweakneigh@piefed.social]

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.

[iamthetot@piefed.ca]

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.

[encephalotrocity@feddit.online]

a ** premium rate line which cost** £2.

New rage unlocked.

[whitebrow@lemmy.world]

Unfortunately up here the Benjamins to beaver bucks conversion rate sucks. And then we have to pay 15% tax on top.

So anything that’s trying to follow that logic breaks apart real quick, even when there’s 10% off on launch, still comes out to more than the full price would be..

[jjjalljs@ttrpg.network]

I found a pizza place near me that still has like 2010 prices. It's like a large pie with 5 toppings for $20. Most places are more like $30 now, here (NYC)