Amy Developer Asks: “Do You Want To Pay Less?”

lol people complain about 13 bucks! but not 59,99 plus an additional fee if you want full experience wow this is new

@Lnin0 said:

You don't think twice about paying the billionaire corporations $60 for recycled, rushed garbage year in and year out but can't spare a cup of coffee to help the creators of AMY who are offering an innovative downloadable experience. If anything, every true gamer should be asking to pay MORE for this game - not crying about a couple bucks like a bunch of sad, little, spoiled school girls.

Oh well, I guess we can all just go back to playing our tired old sequels and moaning about the lack of new IPs in the industry.

It isnt the xbox live owners who are complaining, its the Playstation owners, who get the crap you and i get from xbox live for free, or they get it in plus.

I'm pretty sure people aren't complaining about the $13; they're complaining about the price disparity between the XBLA and PSN versions. As they should be; charging two different prices for the same exact product is just bizarre.

Edit:

Also, in the end the developer set that price because he bought into the same dollar=euro nonsense like every other big publisher. I don't see why he's being defended here.

And WATCH PS + members will get a discount.....

Okay, so I know about this game now and hey,eventually I MIGHT pick it up, who knows. I just wonder how many people that voted in the poll have intentions to buy the game, or were just voting due to the price?

I won't be able to find the game on the new XBLA dash anyway, so I couldn't buy it if I wanted to.

the fact this entire charade goes unabated, with only an inkling of criticism, sort of makes me want to give up on the whole industry. this is beyond any comprehensible measure of human stupidity.

The worst part is that is was supposed to be a PS3 exclusive and then they dropped the higher price point on Playstation gamers. No wonder people were upset.

@mariokart64fan said:

lol people complain about 13 bucks! but not 59,99 plus an additional fee if you want full experience wow this is new

They're not complaining about paying thirteen dollars for a game, they're complaining about having to pay more for the same game because their system of choice uses plain currency rather than space bucks. Also take the price of the game on 360, the three dollar increase is almost 1/3 of the base price.

What is this game and why should I give a shit?

Kind of related but inverted story, GOG have tried to be kind of sane and customer friendly with their pricing, not buying into the ridiculous $1=1€=2AUD stuff, or even any kind of regional pricing. Apparently them doing this with The Witcher 2, offering the game at the same price (and uncensored) to everybody, whether they were european, american or australian, caused a shitstorm, and they've now been forced by court to implement Geo-IP and regional pricing based on the customers reported location so the retail publishers and stores can keep charging twice or more than the reasonable price people in the US would get without going out of business.

Hell yes, I am biased, but there's one thing if the developers and distributors want to fuck their customers over, and hopefully get reduced sales as a result (though that rarely happens) - and an entirely different thing when they try to keep the customer's best in mind, like GOG did, but get sued for it.

@McGhee said:

What is this game and why should I give a shit?

Because the guy that made Flashback is working on it.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/28/amy-psn/

@triviaman09 said:

Thought some person's name was Amy Developer

It is. She works at the same company as Scott Tester and Susan Producer.

Shame about this. But better its $2-$3 then say $5-$10.

Another reason why space bucks are Stupid.

I don't think I'd mind paying three dollars extra if it meant the game wouldn't be delayed. While it's kind of crap that it is extra it's also only three bloody dollars...

@Jack268: Damn right. We could be buying so many video games if they were as cheap as overseas.

Why not less? They probably cover costs from all the sales they'd get. IE Bastion during the Steam Sale. Good game, but not something people wanted to shell out $15 for.

Want 50% more cash? NO!

@Solh0und said:

And WATCH PS + members will get a discount.....

yeh and your point is??? People are paying money for that service and part of it includes discounts on games

You price match by region, simple as that.

I am kind of shocked that XBL prices are global, but whatever.

Maybe there is some money to be made buying MS points in in cash and selling them in Europe at a small profit margin.

@D3adend said:

You price match by region, simple as that.

I am kind of shocked that XBL prices are global, but whatever.

Maybe there is some money to be made buying MS points in in cash and selling them in Europe at a small profit margin.

Points are region locked.

XBL prices being global is a good thing, means we don't get screwed over as much (See prices of On demand games for an example of this...), the exchange rate changing constantly is something Microsoft don't need to really worry about as it'll always be the same price for people in the same reason so there's no difference in that respect. On top of that in the UK at least it's very easy to buy points online for less than there worth (For both PSN and XBL) so you can end up covering most the difference.

There are a lot of problems with the points system, the prices in points of items being global is not one of these problems.

They should put their game out on Steam as well, where a price change won't get any delay at all, let alone a week.

And also so that I can play it. ;)

Put me on the list of people who thought this was a story about a person named "Amy Developer."

I'm surprised the points cost the same worldwide?.. I guess that's pretty cool for lower currency countries. As a dual console owner, always feels like PSN users get the short straws which is unfair. I'm in no rush so I'll wait for the pricing to be concrete before making the purchase, esp. as Sony has a history of making up for it's mistakes.

@triviaman09 said:

Thought some person's name was Amy Developer

@Jack268 said:

So... $3 is a lot to some people? I mean, a regular video game is $85 here in Sweden because of retarded "$60=€60" bullshit. I feel there is bigger fish to fry than a tiny XBLA game.

I hear you. I haven't actually bought a game for some months now, and when my PS3 died over a year ago, I didn't bother getting a new one. Gaming is simply too expensive for a student couple renting an apartment and cooking their own food. A game is between $90 and $100, and a new PS3 is $481 for the most basic package. I don't actually know anyone in my situation who has bought any "extras" for gaming, such as a 3DS, Kinect or such. In Iceland, that's a serious goddamn investment.

Does Amy Developer works with John Producer?

It's actually NOT ~13€ over here if you use your brain and buy codes online instead of directly on the console.

Thought some person's name was Amy Developer

A more important question and indeed what I first thought it said is "Do you want to play less?". So many games these days are designed around you paying them to have to play less. I think it's the worst trend in video games that games are made to be tedious so that you will pay anything to not have to play it as much.

No one would make a movie with bad and tedious parts and then charge you money to fast forward past that part.

Interesting game but it doesn't look too polished.

Will look forward to a quick look.

@ptys said:

I'm surprised the points cost the same worldwide?.. I guess that's pretty cool for lower currency countries. As a dual console owner, always feels like PSN users get the short straws which is unfair. I'm in no rush so I'll wait for the pricing to be concrete before making the purchase, esp. as Sony has a history of making up for it's mistakes.

It's not quite exactly the same, though the difference is small. Where 800 MS Points cost 10$ in the US, 1000 Points cost 12€ in the EU, which means 800 Points cost 9.60€ (~12.21$ US atm). I bet some brilliant marketing research went into that convoluted pricing scheme. Might be different still for other regions and currencies, so it's not really "the same worldwide" at all.

Haha, is there any guess at the Xbox price going up to make this fair? (That would be a funny move, but I hope it works out that the PSN version gets to be equal in price for all users).

A friend of mine is interested in this game so I will wait and see how this pans out (well a quick look or demo of the game to see what it is about).

Funny, until a few hours ago I didn’t know about this game and now it’s in all gaming sites. In the end they will lower the price for the US release and got tons of free publicity. Win-Win

@TehChich said:

@triviaman09 said:

Thought some person's name was Amy Developer

BRILLIANT marketing move. Excellent work folks what made this game.

Doesn't matter over here anyway(Norway). They'll just add the 25% VAT on the reduced price and I'll end up paying 110NOK ~18USD for it.

Thankfully steam doesn't do that(yet..)

Apologies to Ms. Developer, but I would think that if her publisher is named "Numerique" then they should really know better how to avoid this sort of confusion.

Doesn't matter over here anyway(Norway). They'll just add the 25% VAT on the reduced price and I'll end up paying 110NOK ~18USD for it.

Thankfully steam doesn't do that(yet..)

huh, I didn't realize that points cost more overseas. that's pretty shitty of Microsoft.

You'd think they'd just make it $9.99 on the US store and €9.99 on the European store, to keep it even. Sucks for the European users, but that's the way it's been for years.

@Doogie2K said:

You'd think they'd just make it $9.99 on the US store and €9.99 on the European store, to keep it even. Sucks for the European users, but that's the way it's been for years.

er, that's not even at all.

Say you own a 360, BroDude Chainsawhand 3 just launched on the HD twins. 360 version is 65 dollars, while the PS3 version costs 60$. Only 5$, right?

Look like fun game

i rather wait a week and pay 10$ but if they give a dynamic theme as a bonus if i pay 13$ i would pay the 13$

It's not smart to ask whether the asked price of $12.99 "is a good [price]". No one voting has played the game so they can only judge the value by what they've seen – not by what they've played. What he should be asking is "Are you okay with paying more for no reason?". That's the question that gamers should ask themselves.

Or they could have priced it at $15 on both platforms and avoided this whole PR snafu.

The sad thing here... it's entirely possible that the game comes out, and it's not even worth $10!

Oh PAY less, thought it said play less.. $ = € in the video game industry it seems, consoles and games get the same treatment pretty much. If people can get away with charging a little more, they will.