Glad that the mostly negative reception wasn’t just on lemmy, because the idea is shit. Discoverability my ass, if you want to help them be discovered, you offer a fucking marketing campaign
i am trying to get rid of subscriptions. why would I add one more? and an even further point, why would I do that for indie games when indie games are usually far more affordable than AAAs?
For the $80 games I kinda get it, it’s cheaper to rent the service, finish it in less than a month and then cancel. With indie games though? Most of them are priced around the $10-$30 mark. Renting them is criminal, they’re not asking for a lot.
I don’t like subscriptions too much but I did really enjoy game pass in the past. I think that $6.99 isnt bad but we all know it’ll most likely just go up and up
Well, you have to go with loss leader for a long time… then progressively bullying your own customers to arise the price until reach parity.
…from then you finally earn by continuing bullying the remaining customers as some sort of whales (people keep paying for shitty service due to constant spending habit).
I don’t see why this would work with the simple concept: pay & get value that come with indie.
You need a big plan to screw your customers and, like Google Stadia, carelessly drop millions in the trashbin just to buy that only lucky ticked that made Netflix win (but you did lose)
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Glad that the mostly negative reception wasn’t just on lemmy, because the idea is shit. Discoverability my ass, if you want to help them be discovered, you offer a fucking marketing campaign
i am trying to get rid of subscriptions. why would I add one more? and an even further point, why would I do that for indie games when indie games are usually far more affordable than AAAs?
I have no interest in rental nor subscriptions
For the $80 games I kinda get it, it’s cheaper to rent the service, finish it in less than a month and then cancel. With indie games though? Most of them are priced around the $10-$30 mark. Renting them is criminal, they’re not asking for a lot.
I don’t like subscriptions too much but I did really enjoy game pass in the past. I think that $6.99 isnt bad but we all know it’ll most likely just go up and up
Well, you have to go with loss leader for a long time… then progressively bullying your own customers to arise the price until reach parity.
…from then you finally earn by continuing bullying the remaining customers as some sort of whales (people keep paying for shitty service due to constant spending habit).
I don’t see why this would work with the simple concept: pay & get value that come with indie.
You need a big plan to screw your customers and, like Google Stadia, carelessly drop millions in the trashbin just to buy that only lucky ticked that made Netflix win (but you did lose)