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How much is a fair price for Automation

What is a fair price?

Less than $5usd - 3.5€
3
2%
$10usd - 7€
5
3%
$15usd - 10€
12
7%
$20usd - 14€
45
26%
$30usd - 21€
51
30%
$40usd - 29€
37
22%
$50usd +
17
10%
 
Total votes : 170
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Post Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:52 pm

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

Yeah, we would never get anywhere near $100, less than $40 for sure
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Post Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:58 pm

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

Very Rasonable! I'm alreadly getting my friends excited :D so it's looking like maybe a 4 pack key for me
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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:12 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

That's what I like to hear, good to hear people spreading the word about us :)
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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:41 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

This question is a little bit early, but I guess 20-30 Euro would be a fair price.
I would pay for later additional contents too, if this way you could keep developing Automation after its release.
Like Automation 1.00 would contain only cars when released, but later you could download an official Pickup/Van/SUV pack.
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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:43 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

id happily pay £30 to £40.
not sure what that translates to in other currency's
quality and technical aspects of the game i think would warrant a price tag like that.
hope that makes you happy :lol:
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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:36 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

What fordford said (good choice, ford man myself :) ) £30 would be a decent price, or even a bug free basic version for say £20, with £2-£5 downloadable updates that add a reasonable amount, though then that can cause issues if a new feature is added and people have to start again. Its a tricky one!
Good example is Live For Speed, currently £12 for S1 £24 for S2 to get more content with the same features in both. But people are happy to pay £24 for that and its still not complete, just alpha/beta (depending on who you talk to and when!)
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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:02 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

I believe 40$ is a fair price for both gamers and developers of this game. From what I have seen, this game will be one of its kind and while there are so many crappy games around that cost more than 40$ (not to mention the last airline management game that I almost paid 60$ and proved to be so bad), a game like this deserves to be priced around 40$ or even 50. But since we are willing to pay this much, I hope developers will always care what the gamers say.
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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:39 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

Monikarda wrote:I believe 40$ is a fair price for both gamers and developers of this game. From what I have seen, this game will be one of its kind and while there are so many crappy games around that cost more than 40$ (not to mention the last airline management game that I almost paid 60$ and proved to be so bad), a game like this deserves to be priced around 40$ or even 50. But since we are willing to pay this much, I hope developers will always care what the gamers say.


I agree.

IMO 40$ is a good balance between excellent value for the customer and profit for the Developers. Especially considering the endless hours of gameplay I will get out of the game when finished.

we want you guys to do well enough to make games full time ;)
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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:49 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

Free :mrgreen:

jk, $30-$40 sounds perfect
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Post Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:20 pm

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

:( no free option? what about all us free loaders? :P

$40 USD seems a decent price
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Post Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:30 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

No free option if you ever want us to finish :P


Its nice to know people think what we are working on will be worth paying for, we sure hope it is, but its nice to hear ;)
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Post Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:05 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

I agree with the majority on here and say that 40 dollars is a fair price.
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Post Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:18 pm

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

Most on the market are above reasonable, unfortunantly. With the looks of it so far I voted with the $30 (US) option.
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Post Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:00 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

In my not-so-beautiful country, you can buy most popular games for 120 zł which is 41 $.

I checked the 20$ option, because there wasn't 25$ option.
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Post Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:27 am

Re: How much is a fair price for Automation

This is such a difficult question to answer! It depends on so many different things, which right now are impossible to know.
Generally, as a game maker I prefer a lower price tag coupled with easy distribution, basically cutting the "need" for piracy
and copy protection down to a minimum from the start. Examples like the humble bundle, Minecraft and Mount & Blade have
shown what success can come from such a fair-price policy. I voted for 10€ for now :) Offer an easy-to-use donation
function on top of a low price and off you go on a super-customer friendly pricing.

Cheers!
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