Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

[Oct 13, 2009, 12:30 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

2D Boy is offering the opportunity to name your own price to purchase World of Goo, their gooey platformer. Their site is currently barely responsive, so it seems the response to this offer has been positive. The offer applies to the Windows, MacOS, and Linux editions of the game between now and October 19. Thanks Big Download.

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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 14, 2009, 14:45

Kxmode

$10-15 is a good price of WoG.

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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 22:50

jdreyer

This is a great game. I either paid $10, or got it with a Steam indie game pack (8 games for $30, I think). Either way, this game is FANTASTIC. It plays like an RTS puzzle game. The demo isn't representative of the total game play, as each new area has new types of goo to help build structures and complete levels that constantly add new challenges and force you to think in new ways. And the art style is unique, and some puzzles are quite humorous. And the music is quite good as well - very Danny Elfman-inspired. Pick this up, but throw the devs a bone so they can make their next game. When good devs run out of money, bad things happen. Just look what happened to Titan Quest maker Iron Lore.




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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 22:01

Prez

It may not be "fighting piracy" per se, but this is a clever way of getting pirates to put their money where there mouths are and buy the game. No DRM, name your own price (Priceline for videogames? Where's Will Shatner?!?!) - how many times do we hear pirates say they download warez because of intrusive DRM and games being over-priced? I'd say that those are close to the top 2 most cited reasons.

This is a pretty bold move. It will be interesting to see if 2D Boy's action here gets any notice form other studios.




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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 19:50

headkase

lapino: After you made your pay-pal purchase you had to click on the link to return to the 2d boy page. Clicking on that link completed the transaction on their end. I would suggest forwarding the pay-pal email receipt (most importantly the confirmation number) to 2d boy and seeing if they can set you straight. This comment was edited on Oct 13, 2009, 19:50.

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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 18:31

Kajetan

This is quite an inventive means to combat piracy This has nothing to do with "fighting piracy". This is all about winning new customers, because ... you cannot fight software piracy Brad Wardell from Stardock was one of the first industry CEOs to speak that truth out loud. The one, who leeches your game and doesn't pay for it, does NOT matter. Simply ignore him. But he matters at that moment, he becomes a customer after purchasing your game. And he does that, because you make an excellent offer to him, not because you think, you have forced him to this purchase.

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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 17:06

PHJF

It's worth about $15.




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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 16:47

spindoctor

It's DRM free.




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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 16:33

Veinman

So when buying straight from them, are you getting any DRM?

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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 16:16

lapino

still nothing

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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 16:03

Bucky

This game is worth $10 all day long, which I believe is what I picked it up for via Impulse awhile back. Great game, everyone should grab it. I would imagine the site is hammered right now, though.

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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 16:03

Fuzzmatang

So does "name your price" include free? $0.01 is the lowest (2D Boy will actually end up losing money from processing/transaction fees if enough people put in that amount.) And their website is absolutely hammered right now.

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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 15:30

Mark

I'd like to send the 2 dollars or so currently left in my Paypal account. I won't get an email back calling me a cheap bastard, will I?

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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 14:39

lapino

Bought is using paypal; got a payment confirmation but no other email with download link or serial. Hm... (and paid a decent price for it, I support devs)

Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 14:31

tony

So does "name your price" include free? I'm sure it does, but you can't fork over a few bucks, cheap*ss?

Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 14:22

ViRGE

So does "name your price" include free?

Re: Game Reviews

Oct 13, 2009, 14:15

BobBob

I must be one of the few people who got bored of that game.

Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 14:09

jimnms

I played the demo, but I didn't even finish it because I got bored with it.




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Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 14:05

SBlat

No game is worth the hassle of rearranging icons and widgets after every time I play it. Wow, that sucks. It never reset my desktop, even when starting in its default resolution, but I know how annoying that can be. If you like inventiveness though, this is definitely a game worth working on getting going. Like Jim says, you can set a different resolution in the config files (properties/config.txt). But on some resolutions (like my native 1920x1200) the game doesn't quite scale right (the level name text in the main menu is half off-screen, the level end pull-cord is barely on-screen, etc). I think the latest 1.30 patch fixed that, but nobody at Steam ever got around to sticking it on their servers. Still, 1920x1080 in the Steam version does work, and isn't much different from 1920x1200. But with this offer you can pick up the latest version, DRM-free, with Mac and Linux versions too, for whatever you think is reasonable.

Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 13:51

tony

This game was more than worth the $5-10 it goes for on sale at Steam and D2D. I hope people who are taking advantage of this offer are at least giving them a few dollars.

Re: Pick Your Own World of Goo Price

Oct 13, 2009, 13:09

Creston

Until they add proper support for common screen resolutions, they can give it away for free without me caring. No game is worth the hassle of rearranging icons and widgets after every time I play it. Never had that problem. This is quite an inventive means to combat piracy. I really like the game, just haven't had time to play it much. Creston

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