Infamous Quests
The Games => Quest for Infamy => Topic started by: Bad2DaBone on July 16, 2014, 02:07:17 PM
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Okay, so I told my brother about this game. He's interested in playing but said, "I'll wait til it's on a Steam sale, I only buy Steam games when they're on sale."
A few questions...
1. Do you guys make more money or less money when the game sells when it's on sale?
2. Will this game ever have a Steam sale? If so, how long would it be? Probably not for a good while I'd reckon since it just came out.
Thanks! :)
Also, is there any way to track sales? I really like this game a lot and I'll try to tell as many people as I can about it. I'll get it for my brother for XMas since he's a cheap bastard anyway when it comes to Steam games. (then again, he's got dozens he's barely touched- but he does work in the industry so his job draws him across tons of differing games)
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In all honesty? We make more money when people pay full price for our game. ;) Still though, it's always good to have the exposure. I'd prefer people buy the game when it's on sale than not at all. That said, I have no idea when or if it will be on sale in the near future.
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We only released the game a week ago, we won't be putting it on sale for a little while yet!
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Funnily enough, I think that economically speaking, the answer to the first question changes over time, which is why there are sales at all. It's supply and demand - demand decreases over time as more people already own whatever is being sold and no longer need one, so fewer people buy it. Eventually, you reach a point where decreasing the price brings in enough new sales (either cheapskates who were waiting for sales or people who just couldn't afford to pay full price) that it compensates for the decreased income per sale and amounts to more money per time period. That's when the sale happens. Permanent price decreases work the same way. Particularly when it comes to software, there's no additional cost for selling more units, so the effort can be put to improving the product or making a new one to start selling when the previous one has saturated the market.
In short, it's possible to wait for a sale, but then you don't get to play the game while you're waiting, and all of your friends will be talking freely about it by then. This is why I so rarely play video games anymore.
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A lot of times I kind of just wait to play certain games, particularly the giant ones that always have lots of bugs and are guaranteed to have a dozen patches and a crap-ton of DLC. Not only will the price go down eventually but the game will finally be "complete" and "ready" to play.