After seeing 99 votes to the poll about game pricing, I must say that I’m pretty amazed about the results. Out of 99 voters, 5 would pay nothing, but 4 would pay more than $200 for a game (that’s pretty amazing if you think of this a bit).
83 out of 99 would pay $20 or more for a solid fun game.
Pretty darn interesting.
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tonic: "well… applying the same logic, why would you consider X360 since it doesn’t play old XBOX games? and yeah, first model of PS3 had extra HW to..." 4 hours 27 minutes ago. 
Juuso: "Russell: it’s the amount of junk in me house I dislike… I don’t like the idea of owning seven thousand different consoles connected to a tv. :)" 9 hours 16 minutes ago. Juuso: "Jake: what about stealth/assassinations - are they interesting as in Thief (=cool) or interesting as in Assassins Creed I (=pretty okay)?" 9 hours 18 minutes ago. 
Jake Birkett: "Shame. The PS2 played PS1 games but they looked funny. Can anyone 100% confirm if the PS3 games are really region free? If so I might buy one in Canada..." 12 hours 26 minutes ago. Jake Birkett: "@Juuso: Yes, it’s very good. I’m impressed. It has great graphics and a great atmosphere of 15th Century Italy (I actually feel like..." 12 hours 28 minutes ago. 
GamingHorror: "Besides the already mentioned points, backwards compatibility seems not to be a big issue. It’s definetely not a system seller." 16 hours 15 minutes ago. 
Lumooja: "It’s production costs. The old PS3 had a chip which could run PS2 games, so it didn’t need to emulate them. It also had bigger harddrive, more USB..." 18 hours 6 minutes ago. 
mikeful: "Original model supported PS2 games. For some reason backwards compatibility was dropped from newer models. PS1 games are software emulated on all models...." 19 hours 1 minute ago. 
Russell: "Actually, I believe that the first-generation PS3s did support PS2 games, but are only compatible with 92%-98% of them. You can check which models are..." 20 hours 29 minutes ago. 
June 25th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Again - I’m not sure the value of the poll.
If you were to show me Mass Effect back in 1981, and asked, “How much would you pay for this?” - well, money would have been no object. (Of course, I was a kid back then, so I had no money). It would be so amazingly, mind-blowingly beyond everything else out there that people would be willing to spend tens of thousands (in 1981 dollars) to buy the game. Woot.
But today - meh - I wasn’t willing to pay full price for it. I waited until I could get it at a discount. Too many competing games. The price is limited to what the market will allow. The problem is, you are never quite positive what the market will allow. But it’s largely dictated by what the competition is doing.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:22 am
One thing is sure in my mind: I would much rather pay for my favorite games than have to watch ads placed in them. Ads can do for a game that I only want to try once for a short time but I have a low tolerancy for them otherwise.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:43 am
I think, you should also have in mind, that most of the readers of your blog might be someone who creates games himself or is going towards that. So it might be that “normal” players would provide different results.
June 26th, 2009 at 8:46 am
There’s several factors:
- there’s very different games and game platforms
- the audience is “game developers” (who perhaps might pay more than gamers)
- saying and actually paying are two different things.
- people can throw random votes
- Don’t know if this poll system handles multiple votes from one person
And probably some more.
Let’s see what people vote here:
http://www.gameproducer.net/2009/06/26/how-much-have-you-paid-for-a-game/
July 7th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I have both sets of results on-screen at once. It interesting how what people SAY they will pay is not actually what they have paid. It turns out that people have in fact paid MORE than they said they would, which is very interesting.