On Sun, Aug 07, 2011, Shlomi Fish wrote about "The Humble Indie Bundle No. 3 - Pay What You Want for Seven Cross-platform games": > there are two days left to buy the Humble Indie Bundle No. 3: > http://www.humblebundle.com/
Interesting. Never heard of these games, so I can't comment on the product itself, but it's definitely an interesting business model. The page tries to tell you that this package is normally sold for $50 (a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_price) but lets people choose the price. Do you think people chose something around $50? Not really ;-) According to them, the average price people chose to pay was around $5 ;-) And interestingly, Linux users were the most generous ($12) and Windows users were cheapest ($4.7) - probably the opposite of the normal expectation. Of course, these averages may be misleading, as their "top contributors" list show that some billionaire's kid ( :-)) paid $4000 , and probably many others also paid hundreds of dollars. In any case these guys made almost $2 million from over 300,000 customers. Assuming (I *don't* know if that is a safe assumption) that the vast majority of these customers would never buy these games for their normal prices, it's not bad. That being said, something smells a bit fishy. These companies normally demand $10-$20 for *each* of these bundled games, and now they settle for less than $5 for seven of them? If they thought this was enough (like iPhone game developers have come to think), why isn't this the normal price? Where's the catch? -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Aug 7 2011, 7 Av 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Early bird gets the worm, but the second http://nadav.harel.org.il |mouse gets the cheese. _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list Discussions@hamakor.org.il http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
