How will PA be priced?

[OpenFlow]

$49?
$69?
$99?


This will be completely digital distribution. How do you think it will be priced?

[Xocrates]

652$

[OpenFlow]

652$

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

[AIRburst95]

$49?
$69?
$99?


This will be completely digital distribution. How do you think it will be priced?

PA? what am i missing?

[OpenFlow]

$49?
$69?
$99?


This will be completely digital distribution. How do you think it will be priced?

PA? what am i missing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La_u1jPLOIA

[AIRburst95]

$49?
$69?
$99?


This will be completely digital distribution. How do you think it will be priced?

PA? what am i missing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La_u1jPLOIA

oh thank you, that clears things up very well, PA must stand for steve ballmer talking about windows...

[Jordy...]

I thinkbetween 15-30 dollars, closer to 15 dollars probably, though maybe $25, let's make a bet?

[NeatNit]

nowadays any non-mainstream game priced more than $20 fails to sell too much, I believe, unless there's some insanely effective marketing. It's gonna be $10-$20.

[Feud]

15 USD, 20 Euros, or 2 gold doubloons.

[Mas Tnega]

About 3-4 Bitcoins, definitely. It's got some strong backing from the community.

15 USD, 20 Euros, or 2 gold doubloons.

Ha ha, very funny. Euros, indeed...

[Jordy...]

Yea.. not gonna happen for a while if you ask me Feud... dream on though.

[Laika]

I pay in roubles. Since Steam started to accept them, it looks like we've got lower prices for almost every game than in Europe or USA.

[MikeTheWookiee]

That's cause they know that in Eastern Europe no bugger would ever pay full price, so adjust the pricing accordingly.

Also, anyone know what a paid alpha actually is?

[NeatNit]

Uh, see minecraft?


But generally IV doesn't do this. Never have, AFAIK. They have closed betas, free and unpaid, available for the community to sign up for when beta time approaches. There is no way to pay for access to the game before it's officially released.

[Mas Tnega]

Ahem.

This "Prison Architect paid alpha" idea didn't come out of nowhere, y'know.

As for what paid alpha would mean, ISTQB would have you think it would be this but paying for the "privilege". In reality, it's paying to play a game that's too much of a business risk to release commercially (read: bugged up the ass) and/or incomplete.