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I don't understand this. As a consumer buying a video game, I'm trying to maximize my entertainment per dollar. Why would I ever pay more than the minimum amo
by aminuit 17y ago
I don't understand this. As a consumer buying a video game, I'm trying to maximize my entertainment per dollar. Why would I ever pay more than the minimum amount? Maybe the HN crowd will pay a little more out of a sense of camaraderie, but I don't understand why a typical gamer would.
- gjm11 17y agoTo encourage the developers to make more games that you like. Because your inbuilt sense of fairness makes you want to reward them for something whose value to you is more than the minimum amount. Because some bit of your brain always acts as if other people might be watching, and you don't want to appear mean. Because playing the game, or reading the 2dboy blog, or something, has made you feel like you have some sort of personal connection with the developers, and you want them to do well. Because you want to trade off giving them more with keeping more for yourself, and at very low prices too little of what you pay goes to them rather than Paypal. (For example.)