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[–] 221 points 7 months ago* (13 children)

Little different for me:

$1 - 5 = $5

$6 - 12 = $10

$13 - 20 = $20

$21 - 50 = $50

$51 - 70 = $100

>$70 = $1000

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  • [–] 130 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    That's basically right.

    $70?

    I could buy a car for that kinda money.

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  • [–] 58 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    You just reminded me of a time when $70 felt like nearly unlimited opportunities. Now, $70 means that I might get to buy groceries AND restock on spices.

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    [–] 148 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (30 children)

    60+: Haha, I can't imagine it's worth it.

    20-59: Buy if it comes strongly recommended.

    10-19: Impulse buy if the description and screenshots look cool.

    1-9: Buy if I like the store thumbnail.

    0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.

    EDIT: YES I know proper - often Open Source - free games exist. :) OpenTTD and good ol' Nethack are my faves

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (10 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Mine is more:

    $0.00: Is it FOSS, or is it on GOG? Is it DRM-free? Cool. (see: Luanti/MineTest, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Beyond All Reason, FreeCiv, FreeOrion, Remnants of the Precursors, Endless Sky, The Ur-Quan Masters, Mindustry, Jill of the Jungle Trilogy, etc)

    $0.01+ - $4.99: Is it in eXo? I'll get it that way.

    $5+: I can't imagine buying it if there's anything either in the FOSS category or in eXo that does the same thing.

    And 99% of the time, if there isn't, straight to torrents.

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    [–] 110 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Am I weird for rounding 8 to 10??

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  • [–] 84 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No. 8 is closer to 10 then it is to 5

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    no, completely valid, but pricing is a psychological question rather than a math question for some.

    reason for example products are priced with X.99

    some people se it as cost X amount, others (like youself) see it as X+1 amount. the 0.99 is the extreme end of the psychology and choosing 8 in the case of peak increases number of people who dont see it at the higher price

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    [–] 86 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    First, these jabronies need adderall.

    Second, I need adderall.

    I think we’re the same sort of jabroni.

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  • [–] 79 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    This is a really basic business concept; business 101 stuff. They definitely didn't make it up, they're just using it.

    It works against the general population, if this particular one doesn't, don't get too busy strutting, there is almost certainly something else that does work on you.

    Buy shit because you need/want it, not because it's a deal.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Same reason that shit on TV is five easy payments of 29.95.

    I'm willing g to spend $29. I'll even spend $29 five times. But not $150.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I had my sewer line backing up into my basement a couple of months ago. My regular plumber was busy so I had to call in a company that I knew was an overpriced scam ("Dream Team" lol) but I had no choice since I had guests in the house for my father's funeral. They came and of course they couldn't clear the line and said they had to dig up and replace the whole thing. The guy had a special tablet that he showed me the three options and the prices on and it initially showed them all in dollars per month with "zero-interest financing". I was like dude just show me the total cost. The three options were $17K, $22K and $36K total but the monthly payments actually decreased with increasing total price (naturally the payment option didn't show how many total payments you would have to make).

    Fortunately I called my regular plumber and he was so outraged at these motherfuckers that he came out that afternoon and cleared my line for me. Total cost $850.

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    [–] 71 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    This feels like a Discworld scene.

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  • [–] 53 points 7 months ago

    Finally, someone who thinks like me

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  • [–] 41 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Meanwhile factorio devs being chads and going with a round number for pricing.

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    i get it but for me 8 is 10

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  • Every premise leading to the conclusion here is verifiably false, and yet they all completely make sense.

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    The best bang for buck Steam purchase I've done is Halo MCC for 39,99€. Five great games plus Halo 4.

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    [–] 33 points 7 months ago (15 children)

    For me, it goes:

    0 - hell no

    1 to 5 - sure why not, that's about as much as a bottled drink.

    6 to 10 - maybe once a month.

    11 to 15 - better be a pretty damn good game, or I'm refunding.

    16 to 20 - I'm waiting for a discount, not worth it.

    21 to 60 - hell no

    61+ - I'm blacklisting your company from my recommendations.

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    [–] 24 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That trick with the $ x.99 all over again.

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    [–] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    For me, the price listed is the price listed. If it's $5, it's $5. $8 is $8, etc.

    This kind of ratio would just confuse me otherwise.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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

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    [–] 19 points 7 months ago

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

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago*

    We supposedly evolved to perceive values logarithmically. The difference between 1 to 3 should feel bigger than 3 to 5. Yet, the difference between $5 and $10 feels to me way more than the difference between $1 and $5.

    Maybe I'm just broke as shit and think $10 is a lot of money

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