The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.
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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!
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Well it's different when you're selling drugs
Surprised Factorio 1 isn't free so they can hook you before Factorio 2 comes out.
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Yeah, but what about $7.99?
As a Canadian, that’s 10 bucks cause of tax
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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 faves0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.
https://supertuxkart.net/
https://www.wesnoth.org/
https://xonotic.org/
https://freeciv.org/ -
Been quite a long time since I spent over £35 in a game
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For me, it goes:
0 - hell no
1 to 5 - sure why not, that's about as much as a bottled drink.
6 to 10 - maybe once a month.
11 to 15 - better be a pretty damn good game, or I'm refunding.
16 to 20 - I'm waiting for a discount, not worth it.
21 to 60 - hell no
61+ - I'm blacklisting your company from my recommendations.
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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
It's an optional part of getting your game on the steam marketplace, but I've had a friend try on steamdeck without messing with it and had no issues. Ymmv, I'm one example and this is my first project.
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Not the one you asked, but I do like the art. Though I'm not a fan of beat em ups.
Thanks! My partner worked hard on all the art.
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I’ll probably never play it, but the game looks cool and I can appreciate someone else’s hard work, so Imma buy it.
Good speed on your journey!
Thanks, the support is appreciated!
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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.
The only time this breaks down for me though is that I still struggle to pay $0.99 for a mobile app I use often sometimes. Really not sure what it is.
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I just today bought all civilization games with all DLCs for 15 euros on humble. Pretty good deal if you ask me, and I even dragged the slider all to the right for the charity, so 2k doesn't get any money.
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0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.
https://supertuxkart.net/
https://www.wesnoth.org/
https://xonotic.org/
https://freeciv.org/Super Tux Kart is very underrated, super fun game actually
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For me, it goes:
0 - hell no
1 to 5 - sure why not, that's about as much as a bottled drink.
6 to 10 - maybe once a month.
11 to 15 - better be a pretty damn good game, or I'm refunding.
16 to 20 - I'm waiting for a discount, not worth it.
21 to 60 - hell no
61+ - I'm blacklisting your company from my recommendations.
What do you have against OpenTTD and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead? \s
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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.
I had my sewer line backing up into my basement a couple of months ago. My regular plumber was busy so I had to call in a company that I knew was an overpriced scam ("Dream Team" lol) but I had no choice since I had guests in the house for my father's funeral. They came and of course they couldn't clear the line and said they had to dig up and replace the whole thing. The guy had a special tablet that he showed me the three options and the prices on and it initially showed them all in dollars per month with "zero-interest financing". I was like dude just show me the total cost. The three options were $17K, $22K and $36K total but the monthly payments actually decreased with increasing total price (naturally the payment option didn't show how many total payments you would have to make).
Fortunately I called my regular plumber and he was so outraged at these motherfuckers that he came out that afternoon and cleared my line for me. Total cost $850.
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The only time this breaks down for me though is that I still struggle to pay $0.99 for a mobile app I use often sometimes. Really not sure what it is.
It's wild, I released a shareware music creation app for Windows back in 2000 and it was easy to get people to pay $29.95 for it. I now have a vastly superior iOS version and nobody's willing to pay a dollar for it. It's a very depressing situation for an independent developer.
