You just made a mistake

[MDuh]

By providing PAP 3 to be free for a day,
now i have 0 interest on buying this sequel. looking forward to get this for free after 2 years or humble bundle whoever comes first.

[durzo]

I'd imagine it encouraged enough people to buy it though to make it a good move for them

[Soul]

The game's like 5 bucks, dude. A cup of coffee. We can wrangle over the finer points of thrift, but more importantly mocking these guys for making their art freely available just makes you an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[GeNolWeNol]

Originally posted by {-FFF-} Soul:

The game's like 5 bucks, dude. A cup of coffee. We can wrangle over the finer points of thrift, but more importantly mocking these guys for making their art freely available just makes you an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Lol...that's a lot of bottom pointing upwards, which is appropriate for describing the OP. :P

[vehicularman]

Wouldn't have bought 3, got it for free, loved it enough to make this a must-buy at $4.50. So, there's the other side of the coin, I guess.

[MDuh]

Originally posted by vehicularman:

Wouldn't have bought 3, got it for free, loved it enough to make this a must-buy at $4.50. So, there's the other side of the coin, I guess.

tbh i can get it for 3$ via russian friend. This would be as insta buy if they didn't handout free copies of 3. Bought 1,2 and 3 for full price then they gave way 3 for free? well then, i'm gonna wait for #4 to be free instead.

[bamboozled]

You don't want others to have what you do? Sounds a bit selfish. Don't gamers like to share the games they play with others?

[MDuh]

Originally posted by eGreg:

You don't want others to have what you do? Sounds a bit selfish. Don't gamers like to share the games they play with others?

totally wrong, PO'd BL2 and season pass to install in our univ pc gaming station so we can play on steam offline mode through LAN.

back to topic, if the devs has shown that they have the tendency to release their game for free, then there's no point buying it if I can wait until they do it again.

[Joe Mother]

This is really an argument?

[+-VonDz-+]

Get a job and you won't cry over any game being $5

[Descri]

My only minor minor complaint is that you can't buy all four in the same package, was hoping to gift the entire series to a friend for a birthday gift in one click.

[DariusOne]

Wait. are you saying that... games get cheaper over time? HOLY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ WHAT A REVELATION. And yeah I don´t see the big difference between it going 75% off and being outright free that would make the sequel a no-buy on that basis alone.

[MDuh]

Originally posted by DariusRaider:

Wait. are you saying that... games get cheaper over time? HOLY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ WHAT A REVELATION. And yeah I don´t see the big difference between it going 75% off and being outright free that would make the sequel a no-buy on that basis alone.

Yes you are right, game's value gets cheaper and cheaper in time, no doubt about that. I didn't say that I won't be buying the game though, for sure I will get this if ever it goes on sale on summer sale. But my point is if you put your game for free or on sale too early, it just makes me hesitate to buy it for full price.

Look at square enix, even though their games are totally worth the buy for full price on release because they are actually good, square enix have a habit of putting their latest game on sale for 50-66% in a span of 3 months. If I can wait for 3 months on not playing the game (which I can easily can, too big of backlog now) then I'd rather wait for the price to drop in 3 months time.

[DariusOne]

Originally posted by MDuh:

Yes you are right, game's value gets cheaper and cheaper in time, no doubt about that. I didn't say that I won't be buying the game though, for sure I will get this if ever it goes on sale on summer sale. But my point is if you put your game for free or on sale too early, it just makes me hesitate to buy it for full price.

Look at square enix, even though their games are totally worth the buy for full price on release because they are actually good, square enix have a habit of putting their latest game on sale for 50-66% in a span of 3 months. If I can wait for 3 months on not playing the game (which I can easily can, too big of backlog now) then I'd rather for the price to drop in 3 months time.

Ah, I can agree with the too early thing. There is certainly a schedule these kinds of things have to follow and too fast too steep discounts are bad. But I´ll say given that the only mention of time in any of your posts before this one was the "after 2 years" part in the OP you might have wanted to emphasize that part of your point a bit more. I would personally say after 2 years is quite a reasonable time to get an indie game for petty change or for free.

EDIT: just checked, episode 3 was released pretty much exactly a year ago. Still not a huge deal for me since such a small game, but it is getting quite close to that yeah. The episodic nature helps too I guess, makes the game feel old ect.

[dustin1280]

I have trouble understanding why you aren't willing to drop $5.00 to play the game and instead are going to wait at least a YEAR to get it for free... if not longer...

But to each his own i guess...

[rwb36]

We made Precipice of Darkness 3 free for one day as a special promotion with the hopes that some of the people who got it for free would like it enough to buy Precipice of Darkness 4. Since Precipice of Darkness 4 is the last game in the series, there's no reason for us to make it free at any time.

Humble Bundle generally only does games that are available on PC, Mac, and Linux so it's unlikely they'll ask us to participate.