It seems like one takeaway is that a significant portion of people will just pay the default as stated, even if given a choice. I think people just have a hard time deciding what something is actually worth, so they'll take whatever advice is given. So, when pricing your products, if you're wondering if you should charge more, the default answer should be "Yes"
Cards Against Humanity: Results of "pay what you want"
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#32Hey guys, I developed this site. I'll be around for a little while if you have any tech questions. Edit: Please note that this pay what you can was just for the holiday-related expansion set, not the full game.
Edit: Please note that this pay what you can was just for the holiday-related expansion set, not the full game That's good to know. Did you offer any suggested pricing for the expansion pack? i.e $10, like the other packs? Or did you only list the cost price?
That's interesting. I assumed that the purpose of the sale was to increase the game's publicity/popularity, an attempt to get it into more peoples hands and make it into a household name. But if it's just an expansion pack, then you're really only selling to existing customers, not expanding the customer base.
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#33Hey guys, I developed this site. I'll be around for a little while if you have any tech questions. Edit: Please note that this pay what you can was just for the holiday-related expansion set, not the full game.
Nice of you to donate to Wikipedia.
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#34Cards Against Humanity did something pretty amazing for Humanity.
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#35You know I never thought too much about Cards Against Humanity before this, it always popped up as a best seller on Amazon but I didn't feel like giving it a whirl. This story alone, is making me very intrigued on what the game is like to play.
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#36I am surprised there were jerks that paid 0. Really? You can't afford give them five bucks? You spend more on beer OR lunch OR coffee in Starbucks if you feel kinky. At least humble bundle not allow you to pay 0 :)
I wonder if this has anything to do with the selected audience for this card game...
i.e. Are the type of people who find these cards hilarious more prone to acting with "jerk" behavior?
Only a hypothesis, but worth a look, since my primary assumption is that this is a selective (and interested) audience given that it's an expansion pack.
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#37I am surprised there were jerks that paid 0. Really? You can't afford give them five bucks? You spend more on beer OR lunch OR coffee in Starbucks if you feel kinky. At least humble bundle not allow you to pay 0 :)
Starbucks is kinky? I think I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter ;)
It's a reference to the movie Idiocracy, which is set in a future where (among other changes) Starbucks is an erotic massage parlor: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fmUAFjqIPc4/T8aZMNekMfI/AAAAAAAAFB...
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#38I ordered this pack and paid the default $5 by mistake (with a bit of laziness), and would bet quite a few others had the same experience. When ordering, you had to enter your amount before adding it to the cart, with $5 as the default. There wasn't an option to change it later that I could find. By the time I realized it couldn't be changed, I was through most of the ordering process and didn't feel like starting ov…
Developer for the site here. We definitely talked about this in the post mortem. Do you have any specific changes that you would have made to make the process more clear?
I don't remember having any trouble with actually ordering the pack.
I do remember trying to bump the payment to $10 and not being able to. Adding an option to change the amount paid during checkout or making it much more obvious if there was one may have helped your "haul".
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#39I really enjoy the flow and layout of this site. Is is a bootstrap derivative?
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#40I really enjoy the flow and layout of this site. Is is a bootstrap derivative?
Nope, I made it by hand!