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BonginOnABudget t1_j4vkgas wrote

This is gonna rule. You have a price point yet?

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GideonGriebenow OP t1_j4vltnc wrote

$20 with 10% launch discount. Somewhere in June.

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BonginOnABudget t1_j4vm940 wrote

You ever consider a vr port?

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GideonGriebenow OP t1_j4vmjix wrote

Let me just finish my first game ever first :)

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BonginOnABudget t1_j4vupdl wrote

It was an ambitious question. Honestly looking at your video with no context you’d have know way of knowing this is your first. Looks great

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TheFireOfTheFox1 t1_j4vuw0d wrote

Idk about anybody else, but if I see a game is having a launch discount and it's only 10%, i'd be less likely to buy it. Seems disingenuous

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Austrum t1_j4vwaev wrote

one of the most absurd takes I've read in a while

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TheFireOfTheFox1 t1_j4vwqcv wrote

When somebody says they have a launch discount I don't think of $19.99 to $17.99, I think of games that are 25-30% off

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GideonGriebenow OP t1_j4vvk8j wrote

There are arguments both ways. That's my current thinking.

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Orcwin t1_j4w01fb wrote

I personally don't expect launch discounts at all. Seems like a strange concept. Selling something at full price while it's new and exciting would be logical, right?

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WhiskRy t1_j4yyeza wrote

There are reasons. Short term launch discounts get people to buy or miss out. Capital up front means you can reinvest faster. Discounts mean more net capital when this kind of campaign is suggesting. Plus, more buyers makes more word of mouth and virality. All this gives a publisher momentum

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Orcwin t1_j4zlvgu wrote

Credible ideas, but I wonder if those effects are really strong enough to justify the loss of income the discount represents.

No idea how you'd go about researching something like that. Games are rather different, so it's not like you can really compare one game's sales performance directly against another in that way.

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GideonGriebenow OP t1_j4w5eff wrote

Yes, if you can't sell at at full price at launch, when can you!?

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