When should someone "think commercial" of games ? When it gets big ? Or when it gets cool ? Does it have to be 100% original ? If i would make a game (for a start) and would be at least 50% perfect in all ways and a with a cool gameplay i would sell it with 3-5$ is that cheap ?

IMHO you need multiplayer, AI, Reality, physics ... etc
i would think com only if my game has many of these things... and for such a cheep price, ppl will play it widely... why not?



The Railgun Master

if you charged like 5$ for a game, you would probably get massive sales, because there are people that buy stuff just because its cheap, hehe, I think cheaper games is a great marketing strategy, especially if you have a small team. ppl would love a good game priced in the 20$ range, im always hearing people bitching about how games are getting so expensive ($50.00+) so if you made a really cool game and its cheap aswell, you will probably make as much money (if not more) as you would have if you charged 50+ dollars for it, because you will also be getting sales from the people that buy it because its cheap, instead of them waiting a while until its marked down from 50.00 to 19.99 and barely selling anymore... ofcourse im no marketing expert, so i have no clue if my strategy would work... and another way to get alot of money out of a game, is (if your capable) create a MMORPG, but offer the game itself for a free, and like 1 month free trial, then charge like 10$/month after that, i think that would work well, because some people dont wanna pay for a game, then turn right back arround and spend more money to pay to play it... and modifying on that idea, making a download version free, and a store baught version for like 10$ for those on 56k connection and what not...

thats my 2cents

quote:Original post by dirtypope
if you charged like 5$ for a game, you would probably get massive sales, because there are people that buy stuff just because its cheap, hehe, I think cheaper games is a great marketing strategy, especially if you have a small team. ppl would love a good game priced in the 20$ range, im always hearing people bitching about how games are getting so expensive ($50.00+) so if you made a really cool game and its cheap aswell, you will probably make as much money (if not more) as you would have if you charged 50+ dollars for it, because you will also be getting sales from the people that buy it because its cheap, instead of them waiting a while until its marked down from 50.00 to 19.99 and barely selling anymore... ofcourse im no marketing expert, so i have no clue if my strategy would work... and another way to get alot of money out of a game, is (if your capable) create a MMORPG, but offer the game itself for a free, and like 1 month free trial, then charge like 10$/month after that, i think that would work well, because some people dont wanna pay for a game, then turn right back arround and spend more money to pay to play it... and modifying on that idea, making a download version free, and a store baught version for like 10$ for those on 56k connection and what not...

thats my 2cents

People might also think that cheap == crap and not buy your game, so this can work but it might also fail.

quote:Original post by George2

People might also think that cheap == crap and not buy your game, so this can work but it might also fail.

Ithink most people - including me - tests game demos before they buy it... and then they can decide weather it is a crap...



The Railgun Master

nice idea indeed... I''d buy it too...



The Railgun Master