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Re:The Humble Indie Game Bundle by benologist on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @05:09PM (#1319336)
Not disputing they're going to make a lot of money from this, obviously when they wake up tomorrow morning they're each going to have tens of thousands more than they had when they woke up this morning. In that sense it "works".

But relative to other models the "pay what you want" is a terrible failure - any of those games could have singlehandedly grossed $30,000 to $60,000 from the number of sales they've had today, and that's going to lose a big chunk to advertising but still make them a lot more than $1.66 a sale.

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Re:The Humble Indie Game Bundle by steveklabnik on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @05:35PM (#1319417)
Could have, assuming that the people who paid $7 would have still payed $20. This just isn't the case.
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Re:The Humble Indie Game Bundle by benologist on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @06:30PM (#1319625)
It's been the case for many, many years and remains the case today as well.

Appstore-like pricing is the exception, not the rule.

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Re:The Humble Indie Game Bundle by steveklabnik on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @06:50PM (#1319696)
I think you misunderstand. It's not true that everyone who paid $7 would pay $20.
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Re:The Humble Indie Game Bundle by benologist on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @07:22PM (#1319783)
No it's you who misunderstand.

That some of the 6000 purchasers today would not pay $20 is irrelevant, others would and others from the remaining millions of game players would too.

You also disregard that I already factored in a 50% - 75% discount - the prices I put assumed a $5 - $10 price on sale.

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Re:The Humble Indie Game Bundle by steveklabnik on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @07:41PM (#1319815)
Okay, we're talking about two totally different things.

Cheers.

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