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KevSteele:
David Foley has already quoted a price range of $.50 to $9.99

His example used "Speed Coin" as a $.50 game, and "Asteroids" as a $9.99 game.

We'll have to see how many games are considered "premium" and how many are "bargain bin"...

Kevin

RayB:

--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 15, 2005, 08:29:38 am ---His example used "Speed Coin" as a $.50 game, and "Asteroids" as a $9.99 game.

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It will never fly. For the same reasons buying music downloads never worked until FINALLY we could get single tracks at $1 each.

Asteroids right now is about $6 from StarRoms. What makes Fooley think it will sell at $9.99? At that price I would expect to also get Deluxe, plus a CD and manual, and an enhanced 3D version. What he doesn't seem to "get" is that zero development is going into each game, therefore there's no overhead like you get with a published retail product. I wouldn't pay more than $2 or $3 for Asteroids.


KevSteele:

--- Quote from: RayB on June 15, 2005, 09:31:55 am ---
--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 15, 2005, 08:29:38 am ---His example used "Speed Coin" as a $.50 game, and "Asteroids" as a $9.99 game.

--- End quote ---

It will never fly. For the same reasons buying music downloads never worked until FINALLY we could get single tracks at $1 each.


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Personally, I definitely think $1 is the "sweet spot" for pricing, but I obviously have no idea what sort of licensing fees are being charged. The industry may have a different idea of what constitutes a "fair and reasonable" fee.

Heck, I've paid over $100 for parts, I'd certainly be willing to buy my "top 100" arcade games for $100.

Kevin

IntruderAlert:
perhaps if it was anyone else selling them..

sorry.. I know that someone compared it to a TV set and said something like "what do you care if the guy that made your TV set is a jerk or not?"
but after all that has happened I just don't see myself sending 100 bucks to Foley

Sure.. there are principals involved in the whole matter of legalizing a persons ROM collection
and I strongly believe that it is a good thing to do so.

But on the other hand..
there are principals involved here in allowing a devious snake to profit from the whole affair

KevSteele:

--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on June 15, 2005, 11:30:56 am ---
Sure.. there are principals involved in the whole matter of legalizing a persons ROM collection
and I strongly believe that it is a good thing to do so.

But on the other hand..
there are principals involved here in allowing a devious snake to profit from the whole affair

--- End quote ---

That's the whole crux of my dilemma: supporting legal ROMs at this time means supporting David Foley, which is paradoxical and frankly makes me feel a bit slimy all over.

Unfortunately, if we boycott Foley, I can easily see the IP owners looking at the situation and saying "see, I told you no one would buy ROMs..."

I'm not happy with this situation at all.

Kevin

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