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stormtasty1 year ago(+3)(-2)

I'm glad you brought this up because I've been curious about videogame pricing lately. Let's dive into it! 

So a McDonalds Team Member makes $8.00 an hour by average, this means that currently you would have to fill chicken tendy orders for half an hour to afford this game, whereas in your proposal one would only have to fill tendy orders for fifteen minutes. I understand your side of this scenario because it cuts your required tendy production time in half, which is clearly desirable. However, how many minutes of tendy order fulfillment at McDonalds is this game really worth? 

I'm reticent in my belief that you took the current game price valued in tendy production time and merely cut that number in half as this seems arbitrary given the lack of accompanying rigorous scientific data and no mention of tendies at all.

I do look forward to hearing a more detailed breakdown of your proposal and will consider it with half a tendy boxing hour worth of dedication. 

Kindest regards

(legal team disclaimer: If poor-shaming is a thing we at Stormtasty do not support poor-shaming in any way and any representation of such is merely coincidence and non-intentional.)

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Ponydragon1 year ago

While demanding to have a lower price is rather needy and also insulting to the hard work put into the game, I do also get the point. There is tons of free stuff around, so the average price of indie games is rather low.

For those people a simple line in the description might do, that the price is basically a one time payment instead of subscribing for one month on patreon.

As for me,   a demo version would be good for customers like me. I do not know your stuff and not having a demo version  discourages me from buying, because I wonder why this is so.   This is not Steam where I can read tons of reviews and can give back a game shortly after purchase, if I have buyers remorse.

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stormtasty1 year ago

Very good points. I should probably do a lot of the things you mentioned I've just been focusing on improving as a game dev and haven't gotten to that side of things yet. Very good points for me to consider though and I appreciate the thought you put into it. I'll think about it and probably add some of the things you said when I can get to it. Thanks

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Patrick Baarer1 year ago(+1)

I'm not the developer, nor am I a developer in any way.  However, I have been following this game since its first release.  The hours and months put into this game to get it to this point, when all previouse versions where free.  I do believe he is offer a more than fair price for this game.  Heck, using his own refrence, a 10 piece nuggy with fries and a soft drink cost more than twice the price of this game.

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Crow271 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

Wasn't gonna buy it because not my type of jam, BUT that reply?.. that's worth the $4. I will look forward to your future endeavors.

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Mokali1 year ago

I think it's less about the $4 dollars and more about the fact that you're charging money for a game that should be free with the quality seen here. 

I spent $4 dollars that I will never get back on something that is effectively jpgs of shittily drawn imps and catgirls with the occasional animated jpg. 

On top of that, the idea is not even close to original and there are atleast 2 or 3 other games, namely Cloud Meadow or Breeding Season, that are they themselves not finished, and yet look and play 10x better. 

The fact that you call this heap of code complete makes me laugh. $4 is robbery for this "product".

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