Ludosity Games seeming to have their price increase?

[OctaHeart]

Hello! Back in 2019, Ittle Dew 2+ dropped its price to $15, and barring sales it stayed that way for 5 years, but now in August last month the game (and several other Ludosity games) seem to have jumped in price to $20. Is there any particular reason for this?

[JCollins2048]

The original game also used to be $9.99 USD. On August 5th, it doubled in price. I have no idea why, either.

The only reason I noticed is because both games are on my Wishlist, and I manual sort the things by price then name. Pretty weird, that.

[Hotel Security]

It's probably because they slapped the "+" on the game to indicate they added stuff. May have used this to justify the increase.

[OctaHeart]

Originally posted by Hotel Security:

It's probably because they slapped the "+" on the game to indicate they added stuff. May have used this to justify the increase.

Could've sworn that the + was there ever since they were publishing with Nicalis I think.

[Hotel Security]

^Just read up on it and, yes, it's the "+" is a name they slapped on the game after breaking from Nicalis. But it's also to indicate the addition of the Dream World and the five new dungeons with Cards.

Strangely, I remember the game was listed on the Playstation store for like a week before it was removed and never returned. Then I tried to play it on Steam and it would never run. Ended up having to get a Switch to play it and it was worth the wait.

[OctaHeart]

Originally posted by Hotel Security:

^Just read up on it and, yes, it's the "+" is a name they slapped on the game after breaking from Nicalis. But it's also to indicate the addition of the Dream World and the five new dungeons with Cards.

Strangely, I remember the game was listed on the Playstation store for like a week before it was removed and never returned. Then I tried to play it on Steam and it would never run. Ended up having to get a Switch to play it and it was worth the wait.

But the game's been Ittle Dew 2+ on Windows since May 24th, 2019. -- https://steamcommunity.com/games/ittledew2/announcements/detail/1615016429201446760 -- with the price increase happening back in September of 2024, around when I made this post.

[Hotel Security]

>But the game's been Ittle Dew 2+ on Windows since May 24th, 2019

It's not that simple. It came out in 2016 on Windows, XBox and Playstation without the "+." The console versions got taken down quick and we instead got the "+" version released on the Switch sometime in 2017...but this was the only version with the "+" on it.

The original Steam version was never taken down since it was self-published but it was not the "+" version at that time. For a while, only the Switch had the "+" version but eventually these updates were ported to the Steam version in 2019 and it was dubbed "+" at that time.

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As for the price increase, I don't know on that one. But, while the Dream World DLC was free for existing owners, they may have decided that was enough of an addition (five full dungeons) to warrant a price increase.

I remember a similar situation with Shovel Knight. I bought the original for like $15 and then they added three full-game expansions to it. They were all free to me since I had it already but they raised the price of the game to about $25/$30 for new buyers because the content was pretty extensive.

In the end, I don't feel it's a big deal and it's not like it's hurting the loyal fans who were supporting from the beginning...they still get the new stuff free.

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Also, be aware the increase only happened on Steam. I just got it for $15 from the Nintendo store. And Ittle Dew 1 is still going for $10. I often find it crazy that a PC version of a game is ever more expensive than a console version....it's like the exact opposite of how it should work but that's Steam for you.