Eschalon is on there, but possibly for not much longer.
This is a the start of a price war that has no end in sight- except for "free" (advertising driven revenue) or perhaps $0.99 (games to compete with iTunes). This will kill any game that takes more than 3-6 months to develop, and all we will begin to see are ultra-cheap game portals saturated with endless versions of Breakout and Bejeweled. Jake, how long before BFG counters with $4.99 downloads for all games?
Basilisk Games was not given a choice in the matter, they just cut our price and put our game up. All our other vendors are now being undercut by Amazon and I highly doubt we are going to see sales compensate for this lower cost. We are a niche game, after all. Our customers are fewer and are willing to pay $20-$25 for a quality 30-hour RPG. Lowering our price does not increase our appeal to housewives.
We will likely pull out of Amazon/Reflexive and concentrate on portals like Greenhouse, Direct2Drive and Steam. If Basilisk Games decides to start making "Eschalon Adventures: Gem Match Melee!" then we will be happy to be on Reflexive.
This is a the start of a price war that has no end in sight- except for "free" (advertising driven revenue) or perhaps $0.99 (games to compete with iTunes). This will kill any game that takes more than 3-6 months to develop, and all we will begin to see are ultra-cheap game portals saturated with endless versions of Breakout and Bejeweled. Jake, how long before BFG counters with $4.99 downloads for all games?
Basilisk Games was not given a choice in the matter, they just cut our price and put our game up. All our other vendors are now being undercut by Amazon and I highly doubt we are going to see sales compensate for this lower cost. We are a niche game, after all. Our customers are fewer and are willing to pay $20-$25 for a quality 30-hour RPG. Lowering our price does not increase our appeal to housewives.
We will likely pull out of Amazon/Reflexive and concentrate on portals like Greenhouse, Direct2Drive and Steam. If Basilisk Games decides to start making "Eschalon Adventures: Gem Match Melee!" then we will be happy to be on Reflexive.