Comments on: 50% Permanent Discount On Casual Games?

By: papamook

papamook — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:16:12 +0000

I love the fact that as an affiliate I didn’t even receive an email from gamecentresolution to say this discount was happening (or had happened).

One other item I’d like to point out was that on the 6th, 3 days after the exciting new pricing strategy was announced, 103(!) games were removed from distribution by the developers/publishers.

By: papamook

papamook — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:52:04 +0000

not all games have been discounted though, I just noticed that most of the popcap games on reflexive affiliates are not 9.99, with bookworm adventures still being 29.95

to me this move stinks, and I blame gamepass et al. the perceived value of a pc downloadable has hit rock bottom. What happened to the view that pc versions were “deluxe”!?

By: Cray

Cray — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:11:15 +0000

Everyone who had “reflexive affiliate” pages are in a tough boat… doubtful most of them can make up 3x the volume from that price drop.

A couple are moving all the reflexive games to a low-budget category (and taking out the best ones) so their own full-priced games don’t get devalued to customers. Some of you might want to do that too

It’s a bad trend for sure. One of the higher ups at a portal I’m friends with says developers dealing with amazon/reflexive is definitely going to affect whether they market or even accept games

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:53:55 +0000

So at $6.99 you have to sell about 3 times more copies which is quite a lot but Amazon has some big coverage so it’ll be interesting to see what happens. It may make more people aware of the whole Casual Games thing which is not a bad thing.

By: Uorp

Uorp — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:09:39 +0000

eheh and this prove that Jake was right… ok but there’s one more developer happier than before :P

By: Uorp

Uorp — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:02:35 +0000

taking this specific case…

now with 20$ I will buy two games instead of one.

By: Uorp

Uorp — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:00:24 +0000

I don’t agree with Jake Birkett…
cause developers now will sell more copies.

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:30:38 +0000

This sounds like a bad trend…

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:21:44 +0000

Yeah I guess that now all the portals are warring price with GameHouse offering games at $5.99 ($1.00 less than BFG) a few months ago. Customers win, developers loose.

By: Uorp

Uorp — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:58:46 +0000

…something good for sure