Planetary Annihilation's $90 Alpha [Jun 14, 2013, 8:41 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Steam News announces
that Planetary
Annihilation is now available as an early access title. This is causing
quite a stir thanks to the $89.99 price it carries, which is steep for a
finished game, much less a pre-beta. They include a note somewhat addressing
this, explaining that this is the price they told their Kickstarter backers that
early access would command:
Our pricing for this stage of early access was determined by our Kickstarter. The stages of our early access for ALL users, which was determined during our Kickstarter, is:
June through August: $90 for early alpha access, during the time where we're still locking down features and making tweaks to the flow of the game. This access is permanent access - you will be able to play through alpha, beta and on through retail. (Galactic Edition Equivalent with all addons)
eRe4s3r wrote on Jun 15, 2013, 04:33:MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 14, 2013, 23:54:Dev wrote on Jun 14, 2013, 22:57:
And yet this is the 3rd best selling item on steam right now, ahead of skyrim.
Where are you getting that data?
This indicates otherwise?
Although maybe there is a more up to date list somewhere...
Actual stat is that about 150 people bought it on Steam...
Steam Charts
How are the Kickstarter people being given their alpha access? Steam codes? If so, do the several thousand people who backed at the Alpha level or higher count as a "purchase" when they end up registering their Steam code?
Not sure how their "Top Seller" page actually works, but a rush of people registering codes would probably boost things for a short time if that's how it works.
I find it unlikely that more people are buying a $90 barely playable Alpha RTS than are buying Skyrim, unless it's just a temporary boost.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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