{"id":15080,"date":"2011-10-27T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"indie-royale-launch-bundle-uses-intriguing-price-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15080-indie-royale-launch-bundle-uses-intriguing-price-model","title":{"rendered":"Indie Royale Launch Bundle uses intriguing price model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ask any indie developer; making money from making games is tough, especially when you need money to make your games in the first place.<\/p>\n

That’s why the payment scheme being used for the Indie Royale Site Launch<\/a> is so intriguing – because it breaks the mould typically used by indie devs, where they have to under-sell their product to gain attention (but suffer a loss) or inflate their value to make a success out of fewer purchases.<\/p>\n

The idea of the bundle is simple: 4 fantastic indie games (valued at around $40) are available for a super low starting price of $1.99.<\/p>\n

As more people buy the bundle, the price goes up – offering “competitive” prices all the way.<\/p>\n

This pricing scheme essentially rewards early adopters by giving them the best deal, and encourages some sort of indie-hype so that interested gamers hurry to get the best deal for themselves, which, in theory, boosts the profile of the games on offer.<\/p>\n

There’s also an option to pay full-price and more (if you’re feeling particularly kind) which has the inverse effect on the price – causing it to become cheaper for everyone else.<\/p>\n

Indie Royale will be refreshing their bundles with new games every two weeks.<\/p>\n

For the launch of this Indie Royale initiative, the four games up for grabs are A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda<\/a>, Gemini Rue<\/a>, Sanctum<\/a> and Nimbus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The site also has a countdown clock, counting down (as they do) to the next bundle release.<\/p>\n

It will be very interesting to see how this picks up, and what effect it will have on the indie scene.<\/p>\n

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Indie Royale Bundles gives indie devs a new pricing model<\/a> <\/strong><< Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4 indie games bundled together, for sale in a novel way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}