Im not saying anything about the rest of your other post, but I think over half of those aren't or no longer are indie devs.
"dickiest" made me lol, love it!! I'm sorry to lose your last ounce of respect. I will work hard to earn it back.
This thread is dedicated to All the geniuses of TA who think they know more about gaming market than the devs themselves. You may not have made/sold a single game but you still believe you know how much any specific game should cost more than the devs who spent countless days/months of their lives on their game. Let these greedy ******** know they cant charge more than 99cents for this junk. In fact, it should be FREE!! Let them know they are DOOMED unless they agree to our, the Elite TA forum member's demands!!! who am I? I'm proud to tell you I'm TA's very first spammer. They banned me looong time ago but I'm happy to see I'm not needed here anymore. Carry on my legacy young padawans!
disappointed by the price but not surprised !! Illusion Labs is the best cheapskates company in the appstore Touchgrind and Sway never drop the price in 2 years !! http://appshopper.com/games/touchgrind http://appshopper.com/games/sway crappy argument for justified that " No sales, no introductory price. That's how we roll " arrogant and indecent by the current difficult times !!
Is this about the new Illusion Labs game? They're one dev team that would definitely be undervaluing their games at 99 cents, nothing but quality from those guys.
I played the Flash version of Canabalt and thought it was okay if a little underwhelming (my opinion). Runners in general -- even excellent ones w/more content like Monster Dash -- just don't hold my attention. Personally, I don't think the iOS version is worth $2.99 from my consumer POV but at the same time, it doesn't really matter what I think it's worth b/c I didn't come up w/the concept for, dump the time into, or code Canabalt so the devs could price it at $6.99 if they wanted to; I wouldn't care. And I come from a "traditional handheld" background (DS/PSP) so I'm not one of those App Store cheapos that barks at a $2.99 games b/c it's not 99 cents. In fact, $9.99 iOS games are a steal when you consider bargain bin DS and PSP games start at 2x that at $19.99. Most of what I play on my itouch cost in the range of about $2.99-5.99 anyway.
Well not to worry because since 99 cents is the price point me and my partner decided our new game will be at that price point. In the future I see other developers who find success on apple marketplace moving to other console type handhelds to recieve money they deserve .
nice story but why do people buy the game then and why is it in the top ten in the german app store ? so when every app would be one dollar , people would argue that they should be free and than we would have a communism also when developers try to make really nice AAA-titles they need a bigger budget and gotta pay more people so the price is higher higher quality = higher price normally i really like illusion labs and i like there policy it is good that you know that the app will be the same price no matter when you buy it imagine if you buy a car for 30000$ and on the next day it is on sale for 20000$ (that´s also one of the problems in the appstore) if illusion labs is the cheapskates company in the appstore , why do they have success . why is touchgrind in the top 100 for several years now? simply because people now they dont have to be scarred of price drops ( not like the EA titles where most people wait til they are a buck , then the sales explode but in the meantime they stay out of the top 100)
Epic quote... ... ... I have seen many of these instances, can't agree enough... Esp the 'experience' part
G'day mate. Just want to say that I agree with your point up there but I can't help but notice the word "communism" being used there and judging from the context I think you fell for that crap that some people in US (i.e. Republicans) spread where they basically mesh the word "socialism" and "communism" together (remnants from the cold war era) to make them seem to be one and the same. I'd like to remind you that they are not the same. It just means that the government is taking over things that are not supposed to be run for profit, like school, health services, etc. Communism is where the government takes over everything. I hope you can see the difference. I agree with the rest of your argument though.
the basics we learned in school about communism ( in german school system) are like that: in communism basically everything ( you need to life) is free and people work for free so they do make their job but they dont try to make it very good because there is no incentive , you still get nothing for you work so in this context : if every app would be free even more apps would be crappy so thats how i meant it
