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Indie Game Music Bundle (Pay what you want)

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Re: Indie Game Music Bundle (Pay what you want)

#6
The marketing leaves me with many questions. I suspect this could be a very successful drive if it answered some of those questions. Here are some that spring to my mind:

What are the stats on what other people have been paying, or am I the only person who is going to go for this? Also, why is it a "holiday sale"? Have you been offering this bundle before? If not, that doesn't make sense. Of course you don't need a reason to have a sale, but currently you aren't marketing your sale. You are just saying "sale". You also basically fix a price in the minds of most customers, 10 albums for $1 and 17 albums for $10. The second looks like bad value against the first. Why even suggest a price? Is there any reason for a limit of $1? Do you trust your customers that little? Or is that the PayPal minimum or something. And what is a "game album"? I've never heard of such a thing before. I don't know if I want to buy such a thing or not. And where can I get a sample? And what is the license on these? Also, a little bit of information on where exactly these game albums come from or what technology was used to create them, or something about their provenance would help. How do we even know that you aren't selling someone else's albums that can be found for free on the web somewhere else? Why are we paying you for them?

Re: Indie Game Music Bundle (Pay what you want)

#7

Been enjoying this since last night. Really surprised at the quality. The C418 "72 Minutes of Fame" is essentially a full, high quality instrumental electronic dance album (some of the tracks are very Underworld ).

I just bought it, and I don't see C418 there. What is the name of the game?

edit: Nevermind, it's Minecraft.

Re: Indie Game Music Bundle (Pay what you want)

#8
Nice, some new music to hack to for the rest of the day. :)

    - $1 - $9.99 gets you 10 albums.
    - $10+ gets you 17 albums.
    - Each album must downloaded separately as a zip file.
    - Four simultaneous downloads allowed, max.
    - I'm averaging ~100KB/s per download.
    - I've seen file sizes between 60MB - 400MB.

Re: Indie Game Music Bundle (Pay what you want)

#10

Just purchased and look forward to listening but requiring me to only download 4 albums at a time is rather poor. "Please only download 4 files at a time or you may be disconnected from the file servers."

Also, you can only download each album 20 times and it shows you a visible count. Not exactly a repressive restriction or anything, just thought I might throw it out there.
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