The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.
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Remind me to never play any games by these assholes. Wtf kind of psychological mind-game bullshit is this.
Edit: y'all really like being manipulated, huh. Wild world we live in.
Then I'd have to also tell you to never play a game or buy a product ending in 99 cents. Getting into the mind of the consumer is business 101 and is literally the difference between a game/product having any success or not.
And this has been proven, JCPenney tried to get rid of 99 cent pricing and led to losing 30% profits and bankruptcy. The people who want fair and square pricing won't be there to actually buy it.
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For me, the price listed is the price listed. If it's $5, it's $5. $8 is $8, etc.
This kind of ratio would just confuse me otherwise.
Basically everyone thinks that, and yet the data shows that basically everyone falls for it anyway. No matter how aware of it you are, you are not immune to manipulation
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Does my game's thumbnail please you, m'lord?
Quick question for a game dev:
How does getting steam deck verified work? Like do you reach out? Or do they just check whenever they get to it?
Cool looking game! If I wasn't deeply unemployed right now I would buy! Hopefully soon
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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
No way $6 is $10 to you and not $5 this is how I know you’re lying.
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Yeah, but what about $7.99?
That's 8, so also 10
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This feels like a Discworld scene.
It's almost Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler type math, but it does actually make sense to me.
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... Dibbler was an extremely good hot sausage salesman. He had to be, given the nature of his sausages
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No way $6 is $10 to you and not $5 this is how I know you’re lying.
I'm not saying it's rational, it just feels like more money.
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This is a really basic business concept; business 101 stuff. They definitely didn't make it up, they're just using it.
It works against the general population, if this particular one doesn't, don't get too busy strutting, there is almost certainly something else that does work on you.
Buy shit because you need/want it, not because it's a deal.
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Does my game's thumbnail please you, m'lord?
Not the one you asked, but I do like the art. Though I'm not a fan of beat em ups.
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That seems very subjective. Personally I always round prices correctly (yes I'm pedantic), and every 2.5€ block counts. So 7.99 ≈ 7.50 to me.
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Meanwhile factorio devs being chads and going with a round number for pricing.
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Little different for me:
$1 - 5 = $5
$6 - 12 = $10
$13 - 20 = $20
$21 - 50 = $50
$51 - 70 = $100
>$70 = $1000
Been quite a long time since I spent over £35 in a game
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Does my game's thumbnail please you, m'lord?
Not necessarily my cup of tea, but at two bucks it's basically free, so...
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Still waiting for ANNO 1800 with all extensions to fall to the 5$ category. Until then, I'm enjoying me some ANNO 2070.
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Meanwhile factorio devs being chads and going with a round number for pricing.
Well it's different when you're selling drugs
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This is a really basic business concept; business 101 stuff. They definitely didn't make it up, they're just using it.
It works against the general population, if this particular one doesn't, don't get too busy strutting, there is almost certainly something else that does work on you.
Buy shit because you need/want it, not because it's a deal.
Same reason that shit on TV is five easy payments of 29.95.
I'm willing g to spend $29. I'll even spend $29 five times. But not $150.
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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.
The 99 pricing messes with me the other way...
I see like 399, and think it's 400. Then when I think about whether I want it later, I remember the 4 and the 99 and believe it costs 500
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No, I don't buy AAA games.
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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 favesUnless it's free because it's open source!
