First off 2: some of the first bundle did free their source, as I said. As for 1: Indie game makers don't enjoy as wide spread a publicity as EA, Sega and the other big players, but if you look at the games you may find many of them are much more graphically imaginative and have original game ideas.
I'm not going to make economic excuses for App developers. but their life is not easy either, they are in tough competition against Appstore unknowable rules and fierce competition, and the prices were driven down maybe because people expect to pay less for some small piece of software for a tiny piece of electronics, and for some odd psychological reason, that's how the market developed. However if you check out the prices of some of these games on Steam's store, you will see that Indie games are still cheaper. I am always happy to give the small guys a break. Sent from my Nokia N900 On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 18:28, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2011, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: The Humble Indie Bundle > No. 3 - Pay What You Want for Seven Cross-platform games": > > games as well. What's to complain about, Nadav? I see no down side. you > get > > a game for cheap, the writers get publicity for cheap, and the EFF and > > Child's Play get donations. > > I guess there's nothing to complain about :-) > > Unfortunately, on the Internet, sometimes deals which seem too good to be > true are indeed just that - and are often scams to get your credit card > details, or something else. A lot of people thought that this African > ex-president-now-refugee just offered them a million dollars because > everybody > wins in that deal - and then discovered that they lost ;-) But since you > and others already dealt with this company, and don't have any complaints, > I guess it's legitimate, and NOT a scam. > > Oh, but if you must, there are two things to complain about: > > 1. Why do commercial software writers feel they must charge $20 for a > single > game when they will be willing to sell it for even $1 (as this bundle > shows - and as iPhone app sales show). > > I don't know if you remember yourself as a kid, but I do: I didn't have > $20 to spend on each game I played. And $20 is actually relatively cheap > for computer games... > Also, it's not like I bought a $20 game and enjoyed it every day for > months - typically you "collect" (don't ask how) dozens of games, and > once in a while play one of them. > > 2. (obligatory for this mailing list) Why these games are not free software > ;-) > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Aug 7 2011, 8 Av > 5771 > [email protected] > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A computer without Microsoft is like > a > http://nadav.harel.org.il |chocolate cake without mustard. >
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