The average is less than 5 bucks. That's simply pathetic. If I remember correctly, it was a couple of bucks higher in the earlier editions.
People haven't started paying $2000 for it yet. It may still grow.
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#13The average is less than 5 bucks. That's simply pathetic. If I remember correctly, it was a couple of bucks higher in the earlier editions.
Pathetic, how so?
The people paying that amount could already own the games, they could already donate to charity. This is pay what you want for a reason, a large portion of people purchase just because it's a donation thing. If someone has a spare $5 why don't they spend it here? It isn't pathetic, it's better than nothing.
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#14These bundles are all great. I keep pointing them out to my non-gaming friends as much as possible. I've dumped my consoles in the last year and moved to finding 'indie' game devs like these because, as the old saying goes, 'It's not about graphics, it's about gameplay'[citation needed] and I don't care how many polygons you can throw at /next big game/ it is almost invariably yet another FPS.
The same can be said for a number of old games as well. GoG's Summer Gems daily sale had a bunch of games that can't possibly compare graphically these days but still surpass modern games in many ways (e.g. Independence War which I would argue is unique in the space shooter genre).
That and my aging single-core computer simply can't keep up with many AAA tiles.
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#15The average is less than 5 bucks. That's simply pathetic. If I remember correctly, it was a couple of bucks higher in the earlier editions.
Pathetic, how so? The people paying that amount could already own the games, they could already donate to charity. This is pay what you want for a reason, a large portion of people purchase just because it's a donation thing. If someone has a spare $5 why don't they spend it here? It isn't pathetic, it's better than nothing.
"It's better than nothing"
Agreed.
Introversion managed to stay alive through selling their four games for $5 on Steam. That's ultimately not too much better than the current average bundle sale (http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?...).
These deals tap into the reservoir of people who aren't invested enough in the games to pay full price (I forget the exact term for that), and these games certainly aren't new, and each has been on sale on Steam at least once so the people who were going to buy for full price likely already have.
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#16Hammerfight is an excellent game, very fun and beautifully rendered.
I hope they make a sequel.
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#17vvvvvvv is awesome by the way. You can try it here (assuming you have flash installed/enabled): http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv-demo
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#18The way that they preselect an amount $1 above average is extremely clever. It appeals to people's need to see themselves as above average without costing them anything substantial. Screenshot: http://screensnapr.com/v/QciSbr.png
Oh, I totally would have fell for that!
I got the scenario that janzer posted, and I opted for $5 since I wasn't too excited about any of the games and just wanted to support the cause. I felt a little cheap because the cheapest example was $10, but felt justified based on the selection of games. If $5.81 was the default option with "above average" label, I would have went with that.
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#19The average is less than 5 bucks. That's simply pathetic. If I remember correctly, it was a couple of bucks higher in the earlier editions.
I already have three out of five of those games on steam, and I bet a lot of other people do too; they've been on sale enough times. It's also very early in the campaign; as I recall there were a number of 'high rollers' that donated very large amounts (IIRC, Notch donated over $10,000). Once they come in the average might go up a bit.
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#20Linux version pays the best average amount. Is there any message?
It might be because all of the games have been released on Windows and Mac before (many over steam), and so Windows/Mac users are more likely to already own a copy. Exclusive linux users, on the other hand, are less likely to have a copy of any of the games already.