In some ways, I try to acknowledge the original race to the voting on prices was sometimes bad for indies. The Factorio dev even saw the writing on the wall and decided to head it off, declaring “This is the game’s price floor. Buy it or don’t.”
if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for
That’s how I feel when people try to justify $60 gacha skins with “But you also get all of these lovely in-game materials!” Well I don’t want any of those shit. I only wanted the skin. Now sell me the skin by itself without all the other crap.
Remember kids. It’s not a sale until the game is at least 50% off its regular price!
I miss the “flash sales”.
They got rid of them, and the Steam Sales were effectively just the regular discounts you can get anywhere else.
That and people like Rockstar figuring out that you can put “50% off” if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for.
In some ways, I try to acknowledge the original race to the voting on prices was sometimes bad for indies. The Factorio dev even saw the writing on the wall and decided to head it off, declaring “This is the game’s price floor. Buy it or don’t.”
That’s how I feel when people try to justify $60 gacha skins with “But you also get all of these lovely in-game materials!” Well I don’t want any of those shit. I only wanted the skin. Now sell me the skin by itself without all the other crap.
my price point is 20 bucks. maybe this year it’s 5 bucks, times have been hard.