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[–] 147 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (30 children)

60+: Haha, I can't imagine it's worth it.

20-59: Buy if it comes strongly recommended.

10-19: Impulse buy if the description and screenshots look cool.

1-9: Buy if I like the store thumbnail.

0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.

EDIT: YES I know proper - often Open Source - free games exist. :) OpenTTD and good ol' Nethack are my faves

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  • [–] 38 points 9 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Quick question for a game dev:

    How does getting steam deck verified work? Like do you reach out? Or do they just check whenever they get to it?

    Cool looking game! If I wasn't deeply unemployed right now I would buy! Hopefully soon

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    It's an optional part of getting your game on the steam marketplace, but I've had a friend try on steamdeck without messing with it and had no issues. Ymmv, I'm one example and this is my first project.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.

    https://supertuxkart.net/
    https://www.wesnoth.org/
    https://xonotic.org/
    https://freeciv.org/

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Mine is more:

    $0.00: Is it FOSS, or is it on GOG? Is it DRM-free? Cool. (see: Luanti/MineTest, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Beyond All Reason, FreeCiv, FreeOrion, Remnants of the Precursors, Endless Sky, The Ur-Quan Masters, Mindustry, Jill of the Jungle Trilogy, etc)

    $0.01+ - $4.99: Is it in eXo? I'll get it that way.

    $5+: I can't imagine buying it if there's anything either in the FOSS category or in eXo that does the same thing.

    And 99% of the time, if there isn't, straight to torrents.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    For me it's

    1-4 might buy and never play it
    4-12 eh if it's got good reviews and it's my genre it's a potential impulse buy
    12-25 it's got to be very acclaimed and I have to desire it strongly
    25-35 if it's like the sequel of a game I loved A LOT, and has good reviews, and it gets me on a good day
    35+ no way, I'll wait for a discount

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Oh, this is fun, lemme do mine:

    1-5: It's most likely worth the money because I'll likely beat it and have fun even though it won't land in my all-time favorites.

    5-10: I'm hesitant, but it's probably worth the risk or it's niche and I need to support the developer.

    10-15: I either know for sure I'll have a lot of fun with it or I'm desperate to play anything new because my library feels a little stale RN.

    15-20: It better be fantastic and end up an all-time favorite because why would I pay this much for a video game.

    20-60: I'm good. I can wait.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Unless it's free because it's open source!

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    There's been a lot of good games for free on epic, and epic still pays the dev/publisher for it, so it's worth clicking the button even if you don't download it and play it from thier client.

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  • [–] 218 points 9 months ago* (13 children)

    Little different for me:

    $1 - 5 = $5

    $6 - 12 = $10

    $13 - 20 = $20

    $21 - 50 = $50

    $51 - 70 = $100

    >$70 = $1000

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  • [–] 125 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    That's basically right.

    $70?

    I could buy a car for that kinda money.

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  • [–] 56 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    You just reminded me of a time when $70 felt like nearly unlimited opportunities. Now, $70 means that I might get to buy groceries AND restock on spices.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I keep being both entertained and baffled for the past three years or so by USians on Reddit complaining about games costing 60 bucks and simultaneously complaining about food delivery that they order every day. Not buying pizza for a couple days? Unimaginable.

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  • [–] 106 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Am I weird for rounding 8 to 10??

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  • [–] 81 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No. 8 is closer to 10 then it is to 5

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    no, completely valid, but pricing is a psychological question rather than a math question for some.

    reason for example products are priced with X.99

    some people se it as cost X amount, others (like youself) see it as X+1 amount. the 0.99 is the extreme end of the psychology and choosing 8 in the case of peak increases number of people who dont see it at the higher price

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  • [–] 70 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    This feels like a Discworld scene.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It does, but it also makes sense to me.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I mean the best parts of Discworld, no matter how absurd, still made some sense; of course we have to believe in a jolly, present delivering, pig man, otherwise the sun won't rise in the morning, a great big ball of flaming gas would rise instead.

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  • [–] 52 points 9 months ago

    Finally, someone who thinks like me

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  • [–] 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Meanwhile factorio devs being chads and going with a round number for pricing.

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  • [–] 62 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Well it's different when you're selling drugs

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  • [–] 79 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    This is a really basic business concept; business 101 stuff. They definitely didn't make it up, they're just using it.

    It works against the general population, if this particular one doesn't, don't get too busy strutting, there is almost certainly something else that does work on you.

    Buy shit because you need/want it, not because it's a deal.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Same reason that shit on TV is five easy payments of 29.95.

    I'm willing g to spend $29. I'll even spend $29 five times. But not $150.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I had my sewer line backing up into my basement a couple of months ago. My regular plumber was busy so I had to call in a company that I knew was an overpriced scam ("Dream Team" lol) but I had no choice since I had guests in the house for my father's funeral. They came and of course they couldn't clear the line and said they had to dig up and replace the whole thing. The guy had a special tablet that he showed me the three options and the prices on and it initially showed them all in dollars per month with "zero-interest financing". I was like dude just show me the total cost. The three options were $17K, $22K and $36K total but the monthly payments actually decreased with increasing total price (naturally the payment option didn't show how many total payments you would have to make).

    Fortunately I called my regular plumber and he was so outraged at these motherfuckers that he came out that afternoon and cleared my line for me. Total cost $850.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Holy shit. Hold on to that plumber, lol.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    The only time this breaks down for me though is that I still struggle to pay $0.99 for a mobile app I use often sometimes. Really not sure what it is.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It's wild, I released a shareware music creation app for Windows back in 2000 and it was easy to get people to pay $29.95 for it. I now have a vastly superior iOS version and nobody's willing to pay a dollar for it. It's a very depressing situation for an independent developer.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah. I used to have a $20 shareware product back when kagi was a payment processor. Apple introduced $1 pricing as a dick waving contest and fucked the entire indy developer community.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I originally sold my app on Beyond.com (which was originally software.net). They took 10% which didn't seem too bad. One day they contacted me about giving my app a "freebate" -- basically the app was still $29.95 but buyers could fill out a form and send it in and eventually (like months later) get their $29.95 back. Per their data only about half of buyers ever bothered to do this so it was effectively a 50% off deal. Beyond.com was supposed to give me about $10 per copy sold instead of the normal $27 to cover the freebate and they would make $5 per copy instead of their normal $3.

    I said OK and they featured my app on their front page and sales went up like 100X and I was of course pretty happy. The funny part was that their accounting system was all fucked up and I kept getting $27 per copy sold even though the freebate was still in place. I actually tried contacting them multiple times about this to get the situation corrected and I could never get through to anybody who had any clue about what was going on. Eventually they went bankrupt and shut down and years later I got one of those class-action settlement checks in the mail without any explanation of what it was for. Maybe sales of my app were even better than they were telling me, I dunno. I've never once met a person in the real world who has ever even heard of the app so that doesn't seem very likely.

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  • On iOS I have no problem paying 20 euros once or 10 per year for an app I like. Sometimes more if it's really useful and/or the desktop app is included. Monthly is a harder sell though.

    I payed 7 euros for Collections Database and goddamn I wish it had cost more or the developer would add a tip jar.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    It works against the general population, if this particular one doesn’t, don’t get too busy strutting, there is almost certainly something else that does work on you.

    That is very well put! I feel like I've talked to so many people who see one ad that doesn't land and say, "ads don't work on me."

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  • [–] 39 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    i get it but for me 8 is 10

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    The best bang for buck Steam purchase I've done is Halo MCC for 39,99€. Five great games plus Halo 4.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Getting the Orange Box for $10 back in the day has to be my all-time best.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I’m curious now if anyones selling it used that’s such a steal

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That trick with the $ x.99 all over again.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Ugh, sometimes we'll be in the grocery store, and my wife will look at something that clearly says $7.99 and she'll say "oh it's only seven dollars". Every time. I can't believe how well that works on her. If I didn't like her so much, I don't know if I could handle it...

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  • [–] 85 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    First, these jabronies need adderall.

    Second, I need adderall.

    I think we’re the same sort of jabroni.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    For something that makes absolutely no sense at all, this makes a lot of sense.

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