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Is it possible to offer extras to people who pay a certain amount?

A topic by After Midnight Games created Jun 15, 2023 Views: 669 Replies: 5
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Hey there, not even close to selling my game yet but I am going to have it free to download, optional payment. I was wondering if it was possible to have a certain amount that people can pay in order to gain access to some extra content. In particular, some DLC, the soundtrack, etc.

I'm just wondering because I'm still trying to exactly decide what my monetization model will be, and this is important info for me to have in order to decide that. If that isn't possible I might have to make a "Gold" edition of the game that requires payment or something, for instance.

Thanks!

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yeah you can set individual price tag for each downloadable file, so upload multiple versions of your game and set a different price for each

For example if you want to offer the sound track along with the base game for an extra $3, set the base game price to $4 and the soundtrack price to $7, so when someone pays $7 they get both the soundtrack and the base game.

Now if you want to offer these DLC separately (for example both DLCs are $2 but you want it so players have to choose which DLC they get from paying just $2), then it is not possible in Itch.io in the same game page.

What you can do in this case, is to create a new game page for each DLC of your game (make sure these pages are unlisted so it doesn’t spam the itch.io search index), and in the main game page, you add the links to your DLC pages so players can go over there and purchase them separately.

you can set individual price tag for each downloadable file

So this is not actually true in the sense that I understand the sentence?

I know you can have tiered payment, like 0 for demo, 5 for game and 10 for extra.

But if you ahve 0 demo 5 game 10 extra 15 super extra, it is not possible to upgrade your payment tier. There is a thread somewhere asking for that feature, as it would make that possible. Another way would be to implement what the quoted sentence means (at least how i undrestand it)

Is this separate from the “rewards” option?

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Rewards is just an extended feature of what I mentioned, you can set a limited number of rewards and such.

ok thanks!

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