1/5/2023 0 Comments Pirate revenge demo game![]() I have a very low opinion of most new games, especially triple A ones, but it seems I'm not alone. People talked a lot about impulse buying games if they were much cheaper. My games were $19-23, but for a lot of people, it was claimed this was far too high. People in Australia were especially annoyed about higher prices there. A lot of anger was directed at the retail $60 games, and console games. Even those who didn't cite cost as their main reason almost always mentioned it at some stage. I got a lot of peoples life stories, and a ton of them were my age. Many were kids with no cash and lots of time to play games, but many were not. ![]() A LOT of people cited the cost of games as a major reason for pirating. The really interesting news was that this was a trivial proportion of the total replies. I'm used to reading all this, and find it completely unconvincing, and to be honest, silly. I got a few people churning out long arguments about whether or not intellectual property is valid, and claiming that it was censorship, or fascism and other variations on this theme. ![]() But that doesn't matter :D It's worth pointing out that the original question was specific to MY games, because I already do the majority of what people complain about (free demos, easy demo hosting, digital distribution, original games, good tech support etc), but the majority of the replies were aimed at games devs in general, not me. ![]() Some people thought my name was chris, or that I developed Braid. It seems a lot of people have waited a long time to tell a game developer the answer to this question. This is what I found:įirstly it's worth pointing out that there were LOTs of responses (and they are still coming in now), hundreds of comments on the sites listed, a ton of comments on the blog (despite it crumbling under the strain) and hundreds of emails made it through to me. I submitted the bog entry to slashdot and the penny arcade forums, and from there it made it to arstechnica, then digg, then bnet and probably a few other places. ![]() It was an honest attempt to get real answers to an important question. A few days ago I posted a simple question on my blog. ![]()
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