publishing selling price question

[Aida79]

what is the ideal selling price ?
the auto publish mode no longer works as it use to it seems bug ( i think i done a post on this a while back )

I am lazy I don't like to manage that stuff I like to auto publish but it doesn't adjust the price the same way as using the if you use a publisher to distribute your game'. So you cant make money of it

[Kyouko Tsukino]

If it's about publishing your own games:

Depends on what you call "ideal." I can make a self-published game stay for over sixty weeks by selling at $15 or below - which is part of why I find add-ons to be redundant, low prices already take care of "staying power."

If it's about publishing AI games, I'll have to quote the very old, very good movie 'War Games.'

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

[Aida79]

I wish the auto selling price feature a full worked like it use to

[Stromming<3]

I typically set mine to 19, 29, 39 for the different editions. Gives good money even early on with only 200k fans or so

[Aida79]

is the auto selling feature bugged ?

[Kyouko Tsukino]

I don't remember it ever working, but I haven't used it since I figured out it just set prices to the highest possible price and made very small adjustments along the way, which barely kept games alive up to week 52 - while my $15 method can keep games going for about 70 weeks. Also, the number of copies sold is quite affected by price, so even 50 weeks at $15 can give you a lot more money than 50 weeks at $ 40+

[Aida79]

Yes it use to work properly it worked in away that was similar to NPC publishers. Now you lose money because as you said it stays at the highest possible. I am convinced that's a bug.

[navyboyslocum]

Originally posted by Aida79:

what is the ideal selling price ?
the auto publish mode no longer works as it use to it seems bug ( i think i done a post on this a while back )

I am lazy I don't like to manage that stuff I like to auto publish but it doesn't adjust the price the same way as using the if you use a publisher to distribute your game'. So you cant make money of it

I start my sales at $20 for standard then I slowly decrease it as the sales decline. I usually have no issue in keeping a game on the market for over a year that way