Pricing is weird
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Pricing is weird
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#2No, pricing is fine, it's just that the anti-piracy brigade get more airtime than the validity of their arguments merit... as has been demonstrated ad nauseum by experiments such as this.
It's almost as if they know damned well that their reasoning is wrong, and are just trying to milk as much as they can before the rest of the world catches up. Hey, wait a minute...
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#3They should have also made a higher tier price. Some people would have paid that because they love the game, and what is the big difference between $5.99 and $9.99 if you are in a wealthy country and have a full-time job?
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#4Interesting.
This kind of "differential pricing by gentle emotional blackmail" approach seems to work for those who can establish more of a convincingly personal relationship with the customer. Or which at least on a broad economic scale feels like a relationship of equals.
As he points out, bigger orgs tend to fall back on the more traditional and distanced means of differential pricing (sales, selectively-targetted vouchers, student discounts etc)
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#5I've considered this as well for pricing our product. We have users from all over the world, all of which have a drastically different spending ability. Additionally, we have a strong connection with our users, so I think the emotional appeal would be successful.
It's just so hard to bet potentially thousands of dollars on it!
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#6For heaven's sake. This is every bad bit of pricing psychology I can think of wrapped into a tiny package of poverty wages for the developer.
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#7For heaven's sake. This is every bad bit of pricing psychology I can think of wrapped into a tiny package of poverty wages for the developer.
How so? He's selling twice as many at full price as the discount price according to his real time stats.
To my mind, that seems like this isn't a failure at all.
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#8Wait a minute? This looks like the best bits of Master of Orion 2, upgraded to modern graphics standards. I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. Now if only this workday could end so I can run the demo... :-)
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#9Interesting nudge - the background image for the "discount edition" button is a pile of maggots.
Aside from that, patio11 is right - there's nothing good about this idea. If you can't immediately identify half a dozen horrible mistakes in this scheme, your first priority should be to do some reading on pricing.
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#10Wait a minute? This looks like the best bits of Master of Orion 2, upgraded to modern graphics standards. I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. Now if only this workday could end so I can run the demo... :-)
I wish will make a new version of Master of Orion (the first part). The slider system was brilliant, as was having no `buildings' in your `cities'.
MoO II, while itself a fine game, left that legacy, and feels much closer to Civilization than to MoO.