Information Underworld Gold Weekend Sale

[Kosmonaut]

Fucking Paypal, I wanted to get a copy, but Paypal hates my credit cards.

 

[Charles-cgr]

Fucking Paypal, I wanted to get a copy, but Paypal hates my credit cards.

REALLY? Wow with all the lately I'm kinda surprised...



I can PM you an alternate route if you like

 

[Kosmonaut]

What kind of alternate route?

 

[Charles-cgr]

What kind of alternate route?

One you'll at for sure . Plimus was the system I used previously, but there were several complaints. Then again now there are complaints with Paypal...

 

[Kosmonaut]

PM the link to the Primus page, I'll try it. Does it have a cool bassist?

 

[Charles-cgr]

PM the link to the Primus page, I'll try it. Does it have a cool bassist?

A cool wat?

PM sent!

 

[Jaesun]

Primus is also a Band name with an AWESOME bassist.

 

[Charles-cgr]

Ahhhh Primus but this is Plimus and their lead vocalist is a mute

 

[Telengard]

Grabbed my copy too.

For the sale, on the site, unless you are doing your sales style purely FOR SCIENCE!, I have some 2 cents to throw in:

• Get the information that the game is on sale out there earlier on the page, instead of having to scroll down to see it. That's important information, and so it should be displayed early. Always lead with the most important details.
• Move the sales text out of the description area in some way, making it more obvious that it is on sale. Boxing it, or left justifying it, or both, or something. The red color is nice and stands out and all, and there is the dash, but the text is in the same centered form and style as the description, plus it's smaller text, so it kind of hides away in the description. If I was just skimming, I wouldn't necessarily see that.
• Put the original price on display too. You don't have to do the "50% off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" shout thingie, if you don't want to prey on people's savings instincts, but the original price is important information for people, so should be out there, so people know that it is a real sale, and what the sale is.
• Never hide your price - whether in small type or on a separate page, or hidden in a wall of text. State it boldly. Show them that you want to sell this item, and that you believe it is something they should buy.

 

[commie]

Fucking Paypal, I wanted to get a copy, but Paypal hates my credit cards.

Maybe you should stop stealing them.

 

[Charles-cgr]

Telengard I'll make final pricing decisions by the sale's end and review my page accordingly then. I don't want to show the previous price because if I decide to change afterwards people that didn't know it could look back and think it was a lie.

thanks for your input though

 

[Kosmonaut]

Fucking Paypal, I wanted to get a copy, but Paypal hates my credit cards.

Maybe you should stop stealing them.

Says so the pole.

 

[Kosmonaut]

Just bought this puppy. I'm hoping for a worth Might and Magic successor, or else...

 

[Charles-cgr]

Just bought this puppy. I'm hoping for a worth Might and Magic successor, or else...

I cower in numbing, speech disabling fear now at the sight of those

Thanks for your support and happy adventuring!

 

[commie]

Don't worry Kosmo, this is the game Might and Magic III would have been if it was more like MM II(if that makes any sense).

 

[Dorateen]

Good on ya, Charles! Your success should reflect well on the sequel, Sovereign.

You should charge people who grabbed Underworld at this sale price, double for the sequel.

Harumph!

 

[Jasede]

So I'm trying out the demo...
Five minutes later I reach the end of the demo! Now maybe it's just my excellent RPG skills but perhaps that's a wee bit short! I'd have liked to, I don't know, level up a level or something first. So next time: longer demo.

(What happened was that I was merrily killing encounters left and right, found a tavern, agreed to explore the catacombs, walk through the first door and BAM!)

It does feel very comfortably like M&M 1 but with skills from what I briefly could tell. I'll get it when it's not on sale. :monocle:

 

[Helly]

Comme dit à l'époque - acheté par amour des blobbers et par soutien pour un camarade francophone

 

[Charles-cgr]

Helly Merci cher compatriote

Jasede thanks for the support, but did you see you could (R)eturn to game and go back to finish exploring the town? There you can also level up, achieve arena ranks, meet the town stewardess, find hidden ...

Enough spoilers methinks

Thanks Dorateen. Yes, punishment will have to be wrought. :D

 

[Zed]

For how much longer are you running the sale? 1 hour left on Sunday (CET)

 

[Kosmonaut]

Will you share your "findings"? Number of sales and all that shit...

 

[Charles-cgr]

Zed I'll let it run a few hours more so that it'll be a bit past sunday night at the westermost parts of the world.

Kosmonaut Why not. If Vault Dweller shares such info I don't see why I shouldn't. They're not gonna make anyone jealous :D

 

[7hm]

Telengard I'll make final pricing decisions by the sale's end and review my page accordingly then. I don't want to show the previous price because if I decide to change afterwards people that didn't know it could look back and think it was a lie.

thanks for your input though

I really hope you're not basing your regular pricing on sale pricing. If anything, if this sale is successful it indicates that you should maintain a high price, so that you get the best of both worlds (people who bought at 20$ and also people who weren't as interested but bought at 10$ during a sale). Though maybe that's what you mean.

I'd be curious to see what impact a deep discount sale would have on your product. Gabe has said in the past that the 75% off sales that run on Steam don't exhibit expected revenue patterns. It would probably have to be through some sort of indie bundle. Have you considered IndieGameStand? They do a PWYW sale on indie games and that seems to raise another 1-5k for the dev, as well as just getting the game out there.

Really looking forward to your findings - are you open to releasing all of your sales numbers?

 

[Charles-cgr]

I really hope you're not basing your regular pricing on sale pricing. If anything, if this sale is successful it indicates that you should maintain a high price, so that you get the best of both worlds (people who bought at 20$ and also people who weren't as interested but bought at 10$ during a sale). Though maybe that's what you mean.

I'm not really. I'm basing it mostly on the fact that I still hope to get coverage from some big guns that would never announce a sale like RPGCodex and RPGWatch did, making the current experiment impossible to reproduce reliably. If RPS readers for example bounce because of price and never know about future sales... That changes the rules a bit. So i decided to lower the price while leaving room to still have the option to do something.

I'd be curious to see what impact a deep discount sale would have on your product. Gabe has said in the past that the 75% off sales that run on Steam don't exhibit expected revenue patterns. It would probably have to be through some sort of indie bundle. Have you considered IndieGameStand? They do a PWYW sale on indie games and that seems to raise another 1-5k for the dev, as well as just getting the game out there.

Really looking forward to your findings - are you open to releasing all of your sales numbers?

I'll do some number crunching and try to write an insightful analysis over the next few days. Like I said my sales numbers aren't state secrets

 

[Jaesun]

Charles-cgr Did you even approach RPS, as in telling them about your sale?