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Getting Over It: With Bennet Foddy breaks all these rules and was wildly successful. The Witness sold at $40 and people bought it anyway. Good games will sell
by cthor 9y ago
Getting Over It: With Bennet Foddy breaks all these rules and was wildly successful.
The Witness sold at $40 and people bought it anyway.
Good games will sell. But you might not have a good game.
The market doesn't owe you anything.
Also what kind of bogus metric is "price per MB"?
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- sdhgaiojfsa 9y agoI don't think it's necessarily true that good games will sell. Some will, sure, but others may not. There are massive numbers of games that fly under the radar and never really catch on, and some of these are bound to be good. Like anything else, there's an element of luck involved. Simply being good is not enough. Price per MB seems like an attempt to capture the amount of work that goes into a game, but I agree it's not a great metric. You can decrease price per megabyte just by shipping models and textures with higher resolution, even though they don't cost you anything more to create.
- Raph_Koster 9y agoGetting Over It (which is awesome) is exactly the sort of deeply systemic game that the article advocates needs to become more common.