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@vampiress in 1982 I happily sold Vic 20 games at £5.95, £6.95, nobody complained.
I remember trying to do mobile games back in 2011 ish and people moaning when I tried to raise the price of a game from 69p to £1.99.
"Oh no, too expensive".
Somewhere along the way our art got utterly and completely devalued.
@llamasoft_ox @vampiress Games in general have been devalued slowly over the past 20-ish years, likely due to digital distribution and too many sales promotions, but mobile games specifically went through rapid devaluation over around 4-5 months from late 2008 to early 2009 during a race to the bottom that was all about visibility on the App Store charts.
Nobody batted an eyelid at prices of several dollars per game on mobile before that brief period of chaos. I made a podcast documentary episode about it years ago.
Nobody batted an eyelid at prices of several dollars per game on mobile before that brief period of chaos. I made a podcast documentary episode about it years ago.
@llamasoft_ox@toot.wales@MossRC @vampiress yes, that race to the bottom also helped spawn all the execrable monetisation practices that you see in mobile gaming today, and is the reason I simply do not touch mobile gaming at all, apart from one game, Zookeeper DX, which I paid for outright ages ago and never nags me to buy anything else.