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There is a huge difference between giving away a year-old product and giving away a brand new, never-been-sold-before one. Let me explain. Radiohead took a -h
by teej 17y ago
There is a huge difference between giving away a year-old product and giving away a brand new, never-been-sold-before one.
Let me explain.
Radiohead took a -huge- risk by releasing an album, out the door, right at the start, with a "pay what you want" pricing model.
2dboy is taking -no- risk by releasing World of Goo with a "pay what you want" pricing model. They are already on the tail end of the demand curve at the $20 price point, they are just using this as a chance to capture more of the market at a smaller price.
Radiohead took a huge swing with their pricing model, 2dboy didn't. It's a completely different situation.
- dangoldin 17y agoI'm not sure why you're getting downvoted - you bring up valid points. This is similar to price discrimination. You can initially offer your product at $20 and sell to whoever is willing to pay at that time. Then you lower it to $10 and sell to whoever is willing to pay at that time. And so forth. The major difference is that the customer is determining the price they are willing to pay rather than the manufacturer. If the customers act honestly and do pay exactly what they would pay if the manufacturer had set the prices, the manufacturer would actually be better of.
- discojesus 17y agoIf the customers act honestly and do pay exactly what they would pay if the manufacturer had set the prices I think you should be more explicit in step two. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/then-a-miracle-occurs-cartoon.png http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/then-a-mira...
- aw3c2 17y agoI agree that the title of this is completely wrong. Still this is excellent marketing. Imagine if more companies would give away their older products like this. It would be received very well from the gamers. *I do NOT mean DRM-infested things like Steam.
- indranil 17y agonot Steam but what gog.com is doing is brilliant...
- aw3c2 17y agoYes! But sadly for US americans only. Plus I do not like to be bound to an account, I want to be more anonymous when I shop online.
- kelnos 17y agoWell, if you pay online with a credit card, you're hardly anonymous. Even if you use PayPal, there's still a trail.
- telemachuszero 17y agoWhat do you mean by US only? They have worldwide distribution rights for all the titles there.
- indranil 17y agoI myself am in India, and I've bought from them.
- aw3c2 17y agoOh nice! That must have changed recently. Yay!
- cdr 17y agoSteam is the most reasonable DRM I've seen. I don't mind it at all.
- raquo 17y agoI agree. About 10 years ago, someone gifted me a complete Half-life:Generation collection - with Counter-strike, Opposing Force, etc. I've recently found a Blue Shift CD from this collection and although it did not work, there was a serial on it, which I used to download the complete series from Steam.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoThis is true, but it is also what we call "looking a gift horse in the mouth".
- raquo 17y ago100% correct. Multi-market economic discrimination based on self-selection by time of purchase - 95% of those who would have ever paid $20 have already purchased the game, others will now pay less than that. They could have as well just dropped the price to $5, but they would have never got any free PR without this stunt.
- sjs 17y agoAnd this promotion is only for a week. It's quite different. The stupid thing is that this has nothing to do with the promotion. Bad title.