Planetary Annihilation

[Jarhead0331]

^ I don't think it was a slick move on behalf of the developers. I don't think you were suggesting I did - I just wanted to make clear that wasn't what I was wondering about.

I guess I just don't get why someone would pay $100 for something when they KNOW it'll be $30. Maybe you have to want something badly enough...maybe there's a game out there in the future that will show me how you get to make that decision, but I can't recall having come across one to date :-)

I was responding to this.

How many kickstarter backers do you think are losing their minds that people can now pay $29.99 for a gamma release? Did the $100 kickstarter offer any vanity options?

I didn't see the Kickstarter for this, so they may very well have been upfront about their pricing model and offered more goodies at the $100 kickstarter level, but I'm having a hard time understanding how someone who had paid $100 for less isn't a little peeved at the option of paying $29.99 now, for what appears to be far more.

[skeptical.platypus]

They only get less if the game doesn't get made.  If it gets finished then they get a chance to play it early and influence its design.  Still, way too much difference in price (100 vs 30).

Fair enough. But if you are paying $100 to play a game because you don't think it will be made, I'm not sure you are doing it right.  ;D

[skeptical.platypus]

I don't think anyone is losing their mind over it because it has been known from the beginning that the closer the game got to release, the cheaper it would get.  This isn't some slick move on the part of the developers.  Its been part of the plan all along.

That's an enormously good reason to not lose your mind.

Also still strikes _me_ as an enormously good reason not to invest $100.