2 years ago

Question to my fellow game developers:

Have you noticed any harm in setting the price of your games as "pay what you want" vs "free?"

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Note, following was private draft post for almost a year before now:

I just released a demo last week and set the price to "pay what you want" (you never know right?). But even though people were seeing, liking, and following it, nobody downloaded it. I set the price to "free" and now I got 3 downloads fairly quickly.

Do you think it's a coincidence or does seeing "pay what you want" actually turn people away? And yes, I know that it's unlikely that I'd get any money anyway.

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