On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011, Shlomi Fish wrote about "The Humble Indie Bundle No. > 3 - Pay What You Want for Seven Cross-platform games": > > there are two days left to buy the Humble Indie Bundle No. 3: > > http://www.humblebundle.com/ > > Interesting. Never heard of these games, so I can't comment on the product > itself, but it's definitely an interesting business model. > > The page tries to tell you that this package is normally sold for $50 > (a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_price) but lets people choose the > price. Do you think people chose something around $50? Not really ;-) > According to them, the average price people chose to pay was around $5 ;-) > And interestingly, Linux users were the most generous ($12) and Windows > users were cheapest ($4.7) - probably the opposite of the normal > expectation. > > Of course, these averages may be misleading, as their "top contributors" > list show that some billionaire's kid ( :-)) paid $4000 , and probably > many others also paid hundreds of dollars. > > Their statistics is very interesting. However, I does not have to be "some billionaire's kid". It can also be an institution, installing it on many machines, feeling it would be fair to pay more. A boarding school, a community center, etc. > In any case these guys made almost $2 million from over 300,000 customers. > Assuming (I *don't* know if that is a safe assumption) that the vast > majority > of these customers would never buy these games for their normal prices, > it's not bad. > > That being said, something smells a bit fishy. These companies normally > demand $10-$20 for *each* of these bundled games, and now they settle for > less than $5 for seven of them? If they thought this was enough (like > iPhone game developers have come to think), why isn't this the normal > price? > Where's the catch? > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Aug 7 2011, 7 Av > 5771 > [email protected] > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Early bird gets the worm, but the > second > http://nadav.harel.org.il |mouse gets the cheese. > _______________________________________________ > Discussions mailing list > [email protected] > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions >
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