I wonder how the Mac App Store and any upcoming App Stores for Windows will impact these various software bundles. Does the Mac App Store allow bundling? If not, this would be a nice add-on feature.
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#62The 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
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the A/B test, but I still think something a wee closer to http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/deep-disc... would kill both the A/B tested options. Bringing in people's psychological need to be above average is great, but I might do that by putting a nice 37Signals style yellow highlight on one of the expensive options (for some value of expensive which would pay for…
Personally, "Tired of overpriced games from soul-crushing megacorps laden with spyware and DRM?" really puts me off.
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#63This is always absolutely awesome. I chipped in over average this year but I'm dismayed by the people throwing in less than a buck, you're just making the developers pay the CC companies!
Surely they wouldn't put the transaction through unless they were getting money from it though?
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#64This is always absolutely awesome. I chipped in over average this year but I'm dismayed by the people throwing in less than a buck, you're just making the developers pay the CC companies!
I recall hearing that's the reason Proun requires at least a $2 payment
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#65Linux version pays the best average amount. Is there any message?
Yes, Windows and MacOS users spend more money on buying software so their budget is already stretched, while Linux users have money to spent. Or Linux users cannot assess the worth of software as they are not used to buy software. Both probably not what you wanted to hear, and probably not the real reason. I just wanted to point out that we can project everything into the fact that Linux version pays best average amo…
Or more likely because linux has very few games, where as windows has vast amounts. I have bought every humble bundle but never played a single game, I just give them $10 each time to support the idea. I typically spend ~20 hours a week playing games.
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#66The 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
And it will gradually increase the average every time someone chooses that option.
I thought the same when I saw it.
Weirdly enough, though, the average was at about $4.40 when I saw it earlier today, and it is $4.27 now.
Wonder if this technique might be driving some people to pay more (I will do it as soon as I get home), but not enough to offset all the people that just want lots of games for no money at all.
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#67This is always absolutely awesome. I chipped in over average this year but I'm dismayed by the people throwing in less than a buck, you're just making the developers pay the CC companies!
As sad as it may sound, I know some... let's call them pathetic individuals... who pay 0.01$ exactly because of this fact. But oh well, they are usually pretty laughable with their feeble attempts at trolling, anyways, so I stopped bothering quite some time ago.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're missing out too - and I say this as someone who used to only play DF. DF is amazing, but there are tons of other games that are just as amazing or nearly so (Minecraft, Fallout, Terraria, Portal, Spacechem ... dear deity, Spacechem. If you buy one game this year, buy it). None of them really compare to DF in learning curve or sheer complexity, but they're all really good.
Who's got the time though?
I view it similarly to any other varied hobby. If you like to cook you can either choose to cook American food all the time or you can branch out and try different styles.
Although, the difference is that hunger and food are pretty constant in relation to each other where as there are just masses of video games. But I think the principle is close enough :)
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#69As awesome as this is, I'm quite bothered with the payment options. As it stands, I can't pay even if I wanted. I don't have a CC and all of Paypal, Amazon and Google are utter no-gos for me. It makes me a sad panda that options like PaySafeCard aren't as widespread as I would like them to be.
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#70This is always absolutely awesome. I chipped in over average this year but I'm dismayed by the people throwing in less than a buck, you're just making the developers pay the CC companies!
Surely they wouldn't put the transaction through unless they were getting money from it though?
That's a good point! If they're not going to make any money, there's no sense in even taking it. Though, it might be illegal to sell something and then not accept payment. (Fraud? Money laundering? I don't know, but it seems potentially sketchy.)