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Re:Coursera shuts access to old platform courses by Illniyar on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:38AM (#11882367)
Well the "humble indie bundle" is doing well with this pricing strategy.

Not sure if it's applicable outside that market, but it might.

http://humblebundle.com/

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Re:Coursera shuts access to old platform courses by draven on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:57AM (#11882418)
I think it works well because there are incentives: pay more than the average to unlock a few additional games, and pay more than X to unlock everything.

I don't know if unlocking everything by default would work that well.

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Re:Coursera shuts access to old platform courses by TeMPOraL on Saturday June 11, 2016 @04:02AM (#11882588)
AFAIR it used to work well that way. I.e. I don't recall the first bundles to have "pay more than average" and "pay more than X"; as far as I can tell, it was clean "pay what you want". I don't know why they decided to include those tiers.

Also, funny thing, looking at payment logs you can clearly tell the average is often purposefully inflated by some people (I guess the dev studios).

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