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[Oddball]

I find the image out of place too. If you make something 'pay what you want' then let people pay what they want to pay. If you want people to pay at least a $1 then make it a $1+ sale. This 'pay what you want but we'll guilt trip you if we don't like the amount' stance doesn't sit right with me.

[s0]

As I said before, guilt tripping is sort of implicit in the "pay what you want" model. Wolfire are just pushing it a bit further than most with the statistics and that image. And it's working too, so well in fact that people on forums and blog comment sections are trying to guilt trip each other into paying more.

[Christoffer]

Really! Really!? Lighten up people it's a joke!

There's too little love in this community these days.

[dEnamed]

Oh dear, and all thbat because I had a laugh when I read "you've got no heart, prove you're no robot".

[capn.lee]

gotta make a mountain out of one of these molehills.

[TeeGee]

Oh, I got a laugh from "It appears you've got no heart, prove you're no robot" too. Just saying I know why the starving indie pic may seem a bit out of place for some people.

[dEnamed]

I don't know, I haven't really seen people comment about it, outside of this place. Seems like some sort of pre-emptive defense to me.
But thinking about it, ye it does ring the guilt-trip bell. But so does showing averages based on platforms, to invoke good old platform wars or showing the top 10 contributors by a chosen name, or the entire principle of it. For example, it starts with the sentence "it would cost around $50, but we're letting you set the price!" which to my sarcastic and cynic mind translates into: "ye, you know it would be 50 bucks but go ahead, rip us off, think you can do better? set your price then, eh? but know it should be 50 bucks. Ye and here's what others thing you should pay, so pay what you want but really, do know what others pay...".
Yes my mind does wander off like that, now to go and fucking catch it again.

Anyways, I think it's fine and within the scope of the project.
If anything though, I'd love more detailed statistics concerning the average. I really want to know how many people actually did pay less than 1$ and saw that image. If possible i'd also love to see how many saw the image and decided to not purchase the bundle during that visit.


/edit: preemptive post button accident... editing
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[s0]

guys i'm not just talking about that one picture, i'm talking about stuff like this: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/15/humble-frozenbyte-bundle-success/#comments

[Theophilus]

Steel Storm is now on the bundle.

[Nikica]

Steel Storm is now on the bundle.

Yes, Episode 2. Episode 1 can be downloaded free here.
EDIT: The game is gonna be activated on Steam shortly.

[BlueSweatshirt]

I find this strange. Last I remember it didn't have radio buttons and was just a textbox.. Huh.
Why did they even give the $100 option explicitly? That doesn't seem very humble.

[Nix]

Why is everyone whining about the opportunity to get a pack of great games for a ridiculously low price. Who cares if they pull at your heartstrings. If you feel guilty, then you should probably be paying more

[Christoffer]

Obviously they should encourage people to pay as little as possible. Anything else can hardly be called humble...

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

I kinda understand phubans in this. If you are starving, or indie game development is "like a concentration camp" for you, just get a damn job. If not - and in fact you are doing well - stop complaining.

I get that the pic isn't to be taken very seriously, but it does look kinda awkward next to the million dollar sales stats.

yeah but you say 'get a job' like it's easy. remember that we're in a global recession, with like 9% unemployment in the US (more in some countries)

that said, anyone who gets into the humble indie game bundle will never need to have a job ever again, because based on past bundles they're likely to make hundreds of thousands of dollars each, so it's a bit disingenuous to use that pic there. the actually poor indies are not the ones who get into the humble bundle

[Tumetsu]

I take it as a joke of the indie-scene and therefore find it funny. For someone who isn't familiar with indie-games and poor developers associated to it may find it a bit strange though with all those statistic displayed.

[moi]

that said, anyone who gets into the humble indie game bundle will never need to have a job ever again, because based on past bundles they're likely to make hundreds of thousands of dollars each

"hundreds of thousands of dollars" is not enough nowadays for "never need to have a job ever again".

[s0]

Why is everyone whining about the opportunity to get a pack of great games for a ridiculously low price. Who cares if they pull at your heartstrings. If you feel guilty, then you should probably be paying more

All I'm saying is I find guilt tripping kind of questionable as a marketing tactic.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

that said, anyone who gets into the humble indie game bundle will never need to have a job ever again, because based on past bundles they're likely to make hundreds of thousands of dollars each

"hundreds of thousands of dollars" is not enough nowadays for "never need to have a job ever again".

sure it is. let's say it's 500,000 and you invest it in mutual funds or something. the interest for that per year at ~5% is $25,000 a year, which you can live off of relatively easily for a single person.

[Zecks]

i thought the pic was joking about how a lot of indiegam sales used to come from other more or less known indiegam developers and "indie gamers" at one point who are all obviously in the 9% unemployment poorclub

dunno

[s0]

that said, anyone who gets into the humble indie game bundle will never need to have a job ever again, because based on past bundles they're likely to make hundreds of thousands of dollars each

"hundreds of thousands of dollars" is not enough nowadays for "never need to have a job ever again".

sure it is. let's say it's 500,000 and you invest it in mutual funds or something. the interest for that per year at ~5% is $25,000 a year, which you can live off of relatively easily for a single person.

Unless you're MC Hammer.