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Independent game publishers have come out with a new way to fight piracy: Pay Whatever You Like.
Instead of paying $80 for the package of 5 indie games, you can choose to pay whatever you want from them, whether it's a single dollar, or a hundred dollars.
The "Humble Indie Bundle", as it's known, includes the popular games World of Goo, Gish, Lugaru HD, Aquaria and Penumbra Overture, and are available for multiple platforms including Windows, Mac or Linux. And of course, the games are DRM free.
World of Goo developer 2D Boy previous attempted a similar trick, and earned more than $100k and a lot of free publicity. This time, they are raising more awareness of the issue of piracy, of DRM, and you can even choose to allocate whole or part of your purchase price to anti-DRM campaigners Electronic Frontier Foundation, or Child’s Play, a charitable foundation for donating toys to sick kids.
Statistics so far show this to be a huge success, with $300,000+ raised. And not all buyers are just paying the minimum, most are paying on average $8, and one user even paid $500 for the bundle.
2D Boy says that from a survey of the last time they used this sales model, it showed that the majority of buyers paid the maximum amount that they could afford, and the pricing model was very favorably received.
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Get your Humble Indie Bundle here:
Instead of paying $80 for the package of 5 indie games, you can choose to pay whatever you want from them, whether it's a single dollar, or a hundred dollars.
The "Humble Indie Bundle", as it's known, includes the popular games World of Goo, Gish, Lugaru HD, Aquaria and Penumbra Overture, and are available for multiple platforms including Windows, Mac or Linux. And of course, the games are DRM free.
World of Goo developer 2D Boy previous attempted a similar trick, and earned more than $100k and a lot of free publicity. This time, they are raising more awareness of the issue of piracy, of DRM, and you can even choose to allocate whole or part of your purchase price to anti-DRM campaigners Electronic Frontier Foundation, or Child’s Play, a charitable foundation for donating toys to sick kids.
Statistics so far show this to be a huge success, with $300,000+ raised. And not all buyers are just paying the minimum, most are paying on average $8, and one user even paid $500 for the bundle.
2D Boy says that from a survey of the last time they used this sales model, it showed that the majority of buyers paid the maximum amount that they could afford, and the pricing model was very favorably received.
More:
Get your Humble Indie Bundle here:
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