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World of Goo Creators Try Pick-Your-Price Experiment

Posted by Soulskill on from the in-for-a-penny-in-for-ten-bucks dept.

2D Boy, the independent game studio behind World of Goo, recently celebrated the game's one-year anniversary by offering it at whatever price buyers cared to pay. They've now released some sales statistics about how people responded to the opportunity. The average price during the sale was $2.03; the game normally retails for $20. According to a survey of why people paid what they did, 22.4% said it was all they could afford at the time, and 12.4% said they already owned World of Goo and were buying it for a different platform. (Yes, there is a Linux version.) Over 57,000 people took advantage of the offer, which was enough for 2D Boy to term it "a huge success." Interestingly, they also saw a significant increase in sales through Steam, and a smaller increase through Wiiware. They've decided to extend the experiment until October 25th.

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  1. Re:So many others could benefit of similar methods by ZXDunny · · Score: 3, Funny

    And, as today's pointless bad analogy, it's like trying and failing to sell the last apples at half the original price after they've started rotting, when they could be sold as fertilizer and use the money to buy more land, even if just a little.

    What, iPhones?

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  2. Re:I see it coming by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 2, Funny

    (..) so that's $50k per person, from a single week (..)

    Are they hiring?

  3. Re:That's very nice, but by genner · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can pay $0.01. There's no minimum.

    Yes there is I tired using negative numbers and it wouldn't work.
    I want them to pay me to buy it.

  4. Re:That's very nice, but by Shrike82 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, I'm not going to read what you wrote in your reply. I'll assume it was something pro-Microsoft, so I'll simply call you an MS fanboi and put some exclamation marks aftewards!!!

    Long-live /.

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  5. Re:That's very nice, but by VGPowerlord · · Score: 2, Funny

    I skimmed your post and saw "pro-Microsoft," so I'm going to assume you're a (Apple... no wait, this is games) Sony fanboi and diss the PS3!

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  6. Nope, you aren't a pirate by Petersko · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Fact is, for me this game wasn't worth buying. I tried the demo and it was pretty enjoyable, but not enjoyable enough that I felt like spending money on it... How exactly am I a pirate? "

    So "pretty enjoyable" is worth 1 cent? So I take it to get you to part with $10 the developer would have to give you a hand job.

    So no, you aren't a pirate. You are, however, a cheapskate.