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On the World of Goo Sale

Rock, Paper, Shotgun follows up on the World of Goo sale that's currently underway allowing customers to pick their own price for 2dboy's platformer. They analyze "interesting," "significant," and even "fascinating" data on the prices gamers chose to pay (besides the over 16,000 who paid a penny), including 352 who chose the occasion of this sale to pay full price. Perhaps most striking is that 10% of the customers who gave a reason for their purchase said they were now purchasing the game after having previously pirated it. In all the game has sold about 57,000 copies during the sale for over $100,000, and 2dboy is making a note here, "huge success."

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17. Re: On the World of Goo Sale Oct 20, 2009, 13:46 Prez
 
If the game isn't even worth $5, I would say just move along and never play it.

Well, as an Indie developer, I'd much prefer thousands of gamers paying 3 bucks for a game than not paying at all simply because "3 bucks is too cheap to pay".

And I am confused as to why people are so focused on the number of people who essentially didn't pay. A number, as it happens, that is dwarfed by the number of those that did. I am wondering if it is pessimism, predisposed negativity, or greed (by way of being obsessed by the money you could have had instead of thankful for the money you got) that makes some people ignore the positive side of this story. To me, this story, that a title without DRM and one that is essentially given away for free to anyone who wants it still earned 100,000 bucks for the developers by 41000 gamers who paid when they didn't have to in order to get the game, is pretty damn fantastic news and says something positive about most PC gamers.

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