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)
MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 15, 2013, 00:04:Its for whatever the companies want to use it for, and the people want to buy it for.
ugh, people really are buying this 90 dollar version. Steam is for the SALES, people, not paying extra.
For instance, that train game. Its a niche product, rarely goes on sale, and the entire set of DLC will set you back $1000+ when its on 50% off sale.
But the target market (model train people) have no problem with their pricing. The company is mostly using steam as a distribution platform. Its almost a moot point for them that steam has a huge customer account base (although they've benefited from that no doubt, but that is NOT why they started using steam).
This comment was edited on Jun 15, 2013, 11:05.
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