how about you buy it and show your love for the developers instead of complaining

The current Discount is part of Steam's Anthro Festival

well said bro. The devs are delusional if they think I`ll touch this ♥♥♥♥ after two years without at least a 70% discount. Not even the worst AAA game does such pathetic discounts!

Originally posted by CKOnline:

how about you buy it and show your love for the developers instead of complaining

Brother they probably have more money than you or I will ever have, stop treating game developers like charities

I remember Freedom Planet 1 went on 50% off like the year it released and subsequent years and had a lower base price of $15 to boot.

They would sell a lot more if they put out a discount of at least 50% off which at this point that's what it's worth, they are not pricing it correctly to maximize profit. Now you might say, ok their profits are none of my business, they have the right to decide their own price, sure, but if lowering the price benefits BOTH the buyer and the seller compared to keeping it at launch price then it's not even out of greed, it's out of some kind of misplaced pride which i think says a lot about the hubris of the dev(s).

I'm wondering whether it is because of there being a full pack of games for sale.

But I do understand the sentiment that the game has been out for just under two years and possibly should get discounted more as a result. I think that the console release only being this year might skew that kind of perspective from the devs, maybe the seven year development is affecting things too in making money back.

Originally posted by interior crocodile alligator:

I remember Freedom Planet 1 went on 50% off like the year it released and subsequent years and had a lower base price of $15 to boot.

They would sell a lot more if they put out a discount of at least 50% off which at this point that's what it's worth, they are not pricing it correctly to maximize profit. Now you might say, ok their profits are none of my business, they have the right to decide their own price, sure, but if lowering the price benefits BOTH the buyer and the seller compared to keeping it at launch price then it's not even out of greed, it's out of some kind of misplaced pride which i think says a lot about the hubris of the dev(s).

Stop being a cheapskate. The game is cheap for what you get.

Originally posted by -|Nur|-:

Originally posted by interior crocodile alligator:

I remember Freedom Planet 1 went on 50% off like the year it released and subsequent years and had a lower base price of $15 to boot.

They would sell a lot more if they put out a discount of at least 50% off which at this point that's what it's worth, they are not pricing it correctly to maximize profit. Now you might say, ok their profits are none of my business, they have the right to decide their own price, sure, but if lowering the price benefits BOTH the buyer and the seller compared to keeping it at launch price then it's not even out of greed, it's out of some kind of misplaced pride which i think says a lot about the hubris of the dev(s).

Stop being a cheapskate. The game is cheap for what you get.

never paid $25 for an indie platformer, never will. shove it.

Originally posted by Scott:

Originally posted by CKOnline:

how about you buy it and show your love for the developers instead of complaining

Brother they probably have more money than you or I will ever have, stop treating game developers like charities

You are one of the most deluded, mathematically incompetent people I've seen in a long while.

Steam Revenue Calculator estimates this game at 1.035 million in gross sale since launch, before tax, discounts. and refunds. as well as Steam's cut. About 305k of that would have gone to developers. Divide by seven years of development time plus two years since release, and you have this making enough to pay $34,000 annually back to the entire development team combined from Steam sales. It did just release on consoles a few months ago and will hopefully pay a lot more back from that, but it would need to make a lot more to be called a financial success, given the time it took to develop.

I imagine one reason there hasn't been a sharper discount yet is to maintain the game's price parity for the console release.

Originally posted by Songbird:

Originally posted by Scott:

Brother they probably have more money than you or I will ever have, stop treating game developers like charities

You are one of the most deluded, mathematically incompetent people I've seen in a long while.

Steam Revenue Calculator estimates this game at 1.035 million in gross sale since launch, before tax, discounts. and refunds. as well as Steam's cut. About 305k of that would have gone to developers. Divide by seven years of development time plus two years since release, and you have this making enough to pay $34,000 annually back to the entire development team combined from Steam sales. It did just release on consoles a few months ago and will hopefully pay a lot more back from that, but it would need to make a lot more to be called a financial success, given the time it took to develop.

I imagine one reason there hasn't been a sharper discount yet is to maintain the game's price parity for the console release.

yeah I'm definitely never gonna see that kinda money lmao

Originally posted by interior crocodile alligator:

Originally posted by -|Nur|-:

Stop being a cheapskate. The game is cheap for what you get.

never paid $25 for an indie platformer, never will. shove it.

$25 is a pitifully low amount of money in 2024. It's clear how you don't appreciate other people's labor.

Great point, also I went to the store today and I bought a bunch of bananas for $3, can you believe that, in 2024, think of all the labor that went into that and i got it for $3, it should be $100. think of all the people that had to plant the seeds, wait for weeks for the plants to grow, pick them, drive them in the truck to the store. All that for $3? its downright criminal.

Originally posted by -|Nur|-:

Originally posted by interior crocodile alligator:

never paid $25 for an indie platformer, never will. shove it.

$25 is a pitifully low amount of money in 2024. It's clear how you don't appreciate other people's labor.

I was going to say, there’s a VERY good reason a sequel that took 7 years to make, is 2 and a half times the size of the original, has been rated overwhelmingly positive for a year and a half, and has the sonic mania lead dev brought in to help stick the landing (which btw sonic mania overtook adventure 2 as the franchise’s highest rated title. Love sonic or hate him thats HUGE) costs more than the original game. And can’t give a half off discount upon request.

Like literally there’s so much game here.
Going by save file play time, Lilac’s campaign in the original alone - counting ALL deaths - took me about 4-5 hours to Beat.

By comparison, a full clear of lilac’s campaign in the sequel, doing everything except an all achievement run and counting all deaths, took me a full *26* hours to beat.

I don't know what any of that has to do with having a sale. You guys need to understand that the market decides the price, not your personal perceived value. If the game was worth more then they should price it slightly higher like 30 dollars and then just have sales like normal.

Originally posted by interior crocodile alligator:

I don't know what any of that has to do with having a sale. You guys need to understand that the market decides the price, not your personal perceived value. If the game was worth more then they should price it slightly higher like 30 dollars and then just have sales like normal.

Well I guess the market decided on $25 then🤷‍♂️

Yet a quick visit to steamdb shows the game goes on sale at pretty much all of steams regular sales.

B-U-T your exact words were, and I quote:

Originally posted by interior crocodile alligator:

never paid $25 for an indie platformer, never will. shove it.

So I guess thats it then. Bye!