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I'm not a developer, but I love indie games. We are living in a Golden Age. I dropped maybe $10 on Minecraft back in Alpha. We are buying desert island games f
by msg 13y ago
I'm not a developer, but I love indie games.
We are living in a Golden Age. I dropped maybe $10 on Minecraft back in Alpha. We are buying desert island games for the price of a latte.
I think I bought To the Moon for $3. Maybe $5. And the next time it went on sale I bought it 5 times to give away copies.
Or Binding of Isaac, I think I paid 1.25 for my first copy. And I am closing in on 300 hours there.
Price is no longer a discriminator for great games. You can plop down $5 and get Steam keys for 5 to 8 games. If even one of them has good reviews, you can afford to take a risk on the rest. I was tempted by my conditioning (sponsored by modern retail) to say that the other games in the bundle are practically free.
So a good strategy to find your best new games is wait for the bundle, buy 10, cherish 1. If you can stand not to play on release day, you will gain a lot of solid gold and an enormous backlog. If you're going in with eyes wide open, it's a win win for players and developers.