http://doublebuffered.com/2009/08/05/the-irrationality-of-pricing/ A Programmer's View of Game Design, Development, and Culture Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:55:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://doublebuffered.com/2009/08/05/the-irrationality-of-pricing/#comment-737 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:49:35 +0000 http://doublebuffered.com/?p=247#comment-737 [...] and thus we should be HAPPY to have to pay more. As I’ve said before this isn’t how pricing works. As soon as a game is over $30 or so (conveniently the price of a Borderlands and L4D2 4 [...]

]]> http://doublebuffered.com/2009/08/05/the-irrationality-of-pricing/#comment-681 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:52:42 +0000 http://doublebuffered.com/?p=247#comment-681 Personally, I think part of the reason for the insanity of games pricing comes from the fact that each game is a mini monopoly. The experience of any single game can only be obtained at the price set by the company selling it (not counting illegal methods). This means that there is often very little price competition.

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