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Do Video Games Cost Too Much?
Valve's Gabe Newell gave the keynote address at this year's Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain (DICE) Summit about the cost of games, the effect of piracy, and how to reach new players. Valve undertook an experiment recently to test how price affected the sales of their popular survival-horror FPS, Left 4 Dead. They Reduced the price by 50% on Steam, which "resulted in a 3000% increase in sales of the game, posting overall sales that beat the title's original launch performance." They also tested various other price drops over the holidays, seeing spikes in sales that corresponded well to the size of the discount. This will undoubtedly add to the speculation that game prices have risen too high for the current economic climate. G4TV ran a live blog of Newell's presentation, providing a few more details.
See, see, solid evidence that one download = one lost sale. If he had not been able to evaluate Spore he would have bought it. We got you now TPB.
Mwahahaha, The plaintiffs in the TPB trial
"I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
Until some bastard reveals that Bruce Willis was dead all along.
Feel free to take your own advice.
Really? Well shit, Armageddon makes so much more sense now.
I would never put squid in my beer.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
How do you know what movie he's talking about?