I agree tom.
In the early days I had a lot of stuff I did not buy.
Most of that has been replaced with free or low cost stuff.
I hardly buy anything, games etc I may buy once a year if that
because of the price.
One of my pet peevs are that prices for some things have been a bit high.
The apple system solves that.
The big issue is getting in.
To get in at least in new zealand, its 4-6000 for a mac at least in
one of the computer places I checked out, granted its fully loaded
but who has that much unless you do.
its at least 1000 or more for an iphone or something.
Now if you can afford the initial headake every so often to keep your
devices supported, software including the os really is quite small.
1-10 dollars in general for apps some are more.
30 or so dollars for a mac system os upgrade on a computer and
nothing for the phones.
On the other end of the scale, pcs can be got for as little as 400
straight up, ofcause its about 700-1000 for a good or reasonable
laptop, and true you don't get all the power of a mac, but still its cheaper.
Prices for pc apps can get up there though.
At 08:17 PM 2/16/2014, you wrote:
Hi Valiant,
Well, I certainly do think the fact that the Draconis titles are being
released for a new market does have some effect on sales. After all,
it is easier to make a lot of money when there aren't several other
companies to compete with in the same target market. However, I don't
believe that is the one and only factor why Draconis's sales are so
high on Mac.
Another very prominent reason is basic security. As Josh and others
have stated time and time again the Apple Store is a very good way to
secure a developer's work from being pirated/stolen. That is more
people on Mac is likely to be an honest customer than on Windows.
Windows software on the other hand has a much more likely risk of
being pirated, cracked, and stolen obviously bringing sales down.
Last but not least, I think the cost has a lot to do with it. Ever
since releasing Change Reaction 2 and Silver Dollar Draconis has been
bringing the price of their games down to something like $9.99. Lower
costs generally means more sales from honest customers who can afford
the software. Even I have plans to buy both as soon as finances will
allow. However, my point is that if a company sets a price that most
people can and will pay then sales will usually go up.
Cheers!
On 2/15/14, valiant8086 <valiant8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> Have you taken into account the possibility that your numbers are as
> they are because your windows releases are on a platform that's been
> getting games, while not as many as we'd all like, for a long time, and
> your releases on mac are dropping into a big gaping black hole of people
> who have been clamoring for games for all this time? Of course we see
> the gravitation toward thinking of iOS as a good gaming platform also as
> you've said if I'm not mistaken affects all this, but that's not really
> in line with my thoughts right now. By that I don't mean I disagree with
> that too I'm just thinking about windows sales vs.mac exclusively here.
> Thinking about myself, I wanted to buy your mac games for my 2010 mac
> book air, which I don't use for much more than trying to stay familiar
> with mac so I know in my own mind how they compare and can try to help
> friends out with mac questions on occasion. I heard about your mac
> releases and I wanted to go buy them just to say thank you for giving us
> something to play besides RSGames on mac OS. I haven't done this yet,
> but I haven't bought any games in quite a while except a couple of 1
> dollar games on iOS.
>
> but my thinking is, you have people excited to be able to play on mac,
> and curious how well you guys made it work. Could that have inflated
> your sales a bit?
>
> Granted, it doesn't really change the point, the fact would still be
> that you're selling more games on MAC and the people you're selling to
> on that platform are more involved, I think that's what you mean about
> the demographics anyway. Just something I wondered about.
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