1.99 prices > 2.00 prices

Maybe I adapted to that with time, like .99 always felt like a scam pricing strategy, but for me everything involving number nine is worse than, say 1.20. Double nines are the worst. Flat prices with zeroes make me more confident and interested somehow.

Still waiting for ANNO 1800 with all extensions to fall to the 5$ category. Until then, I'm enjoying me some ANNO 2070.

They’re outta line, but they’re right

Nothing new tbh. How we subconsciously round off numbers is a big part of super market pricing. Everything with a zero at the end seems bigger. Not only does 19.99 seem much smaller then 20, but even 21.99 seems smaller then 20 at a glance.

For something that makes absolutely no sense at all, this makes a lot of sense.

A reminder that you don't need to know advanced maths to be a developer. Just call the necessary functions to do the job

How about a different pattern;

• Figure out what your breakeven is - in other words, how much money you need to make to recoup salaries, licenses, and generally keep the lights on.

• Put out a free demo (and I mean free - no DRM either). See how many people download it within a month or so.

• Project the production budget for the next game.

• Price based on a 2% retention rate of the demo downloads to accommodate breakeven + next game + 5% profit for op-cap.

Rinse and repeat as necessary.

For me:

Under 100₴ - free

100₴ - 300₴ - it must be worth it for me to buy it.

More than 300₴ - i will never finacially recover from this purschase.

Unfortunately up here the Benjamins to beaver bucks conversion rate sucks. And then we have to pay 15% tax on top.

So anything that’s trying to follow that logic breaks apart real quick, even when there’s 10% off on launch, still comes out to more than the full price would be.. :(

So their greedy assholes that admit to price manipulation...