World of Goo 1 year old today - Pay what ever price you want for it!

It's a great game, good fun and superb production values.

Taking advantage of a bargain and piracy are two completely different things.

Also there will be forums buzzing worldwide talking about 2Dboy and this offer. That's the sort of publicity that costs millions to generate via normal means. I used to work in advertising, and this is the sort of creative advertising that gets justly rewarded.
 
Filled the form out, hit enter and the reciept was instantly in my inbox!!! :)

I don't really want to get into the debate. I just hope that the company benefit from this. I woun't be able to play the game until wednesday but am looking forward to it after reading good things?

BTW to anyone with a 5870... Are you getting decent FPS on it? :)
 
Payed $5 for it last night.
Never heard of this game before and Im glad they decided to do this. This kept me up 3hours longer than I wanted to be. Gonna finish this tonight i think.
 
Husband to wife ... 'How many flowers do I have to buy so you'll love me'

Wife .. 'I'll love you however many you buy, just get me what you think our love is worth'

Husband .. 'Wahay, guess what, you'll get precisely zero then. You can have .. er .. 1 blade of grass. Sucker. How clever am I eh? hahaha that was hilarious look what I got away with..'.




Marvellous.
 
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Im disappointed you can't get it for £0.00 and skip having to give away your details, if people are paying £0.01 why bother messing people around, i could live with getting a key through email if thats all they want.

Im talking in general here so its just something to think about, the internet offers the ability to copy data and transfer it for little cost, so isn't it better if millions get to enjoy something instead of just thousands?

In the current world im all for a fair profit but why should any person or business live off endless profits? After a certain point the money would drop off anyway so there's no reason to keep things limited by being locked up with certain rights holders or by high cost, once a fair profit is reached (which it inevitably would unless the product was rubbish) it should become freely available.

If we could live in a world of abundance wouldn't it be much better if everyone benefits instead of the few?
 
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Radiation said:
Im talking in general here so just its just something to think about, the internet offers the ability to copy data and transfer it for little cost, so isn't it better if millions get to enjoy something instead of just thousands?

In the current world im all for a fair profit but why should any person or business live off endless profits? After a certain point the money would drop off anyway so there's no reason to keep things limited by being locked up with certain rights holders or by high cost, once a fair profit is reached (which it would inevitably would unless the product was rubbish) it should become freely available.

If we could live in a world of abundance wouldn't it be much better if everyone benefits instead of the few?
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That's commie talk that is! ;)


Seriously -- copyright already does cease after a set time for this exact reason. Think it's 50 years or something. Paul Mccartney is just moaning on about it because his early hits are starting to fall out of copyright ...
 
britboy4321 said:
That's commie talk that is! ;)


Seriously -- copyright already does cease after a set time for this exact reason. Think it's 50 years or something. Paul Mccartney is just moaning on about it because his early hits are starting to fall out of copyright ...
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Copyright goes on for way too long but i don't have problem with them under certain circumstances, say if someone wants to retain copyright for life they should, as long as no profit is made and its given away freely to whoever they like, if they want to make a profit then it should be limited to number of years or when a certain profit is reached, obviously i can't say what is fair but im sure something acceptable for everyone could be worked out, if it costs me £1000 to create something in materials and time (living costs) then depending on what it is a few thousand percent in profits would be more than fair?
 
If you were on your holiday and your mate wanted to buy your ferrari off you, and you said 'put through the letter box the money you think it's worth' .. when he posted 1 cent -- you'd see the issue.
 
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If you were on your holiday and your mate wanted to buy your ferrari off you, and you said 'put through the letter box the money you think it's worth' .. when he posted 1 cent -- you'd see the issue.
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no, because I would expect him to pay me 1 cent.

If I wanted more than 1 cent for it I would have said, pay me more than £70,000 for it. I still would expect to get £70,000.01 for it.
 
You are kind of an UBER-SOLVER here. It's mental ... I better up the stakes ...

You've not won yet, Don't get in a tiz
Go test your knowledge, at Britboys members quiz

You want the treaure, coz of all you've seen
Go check the square root, of number 16


That should get rid of the shirkers :)
 
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Wow, you have very different mates from mine. If you go to a 'bring a bottle' party to you buy the cheapest, nastiest drink you can possibly find for the party goers? As the party isnt a 'bring a bottle worth over £5' party? Wierd ..

My mates wouldn't rip me off even if they had an easy opportunity to do so.

To be honest I don't even expect them to rip me off ..


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This game developer isn't my friend. It isn't the same as "bring a bottle to a party". Your buying something with no minimum fee, why would you pay more than 1 cent?
 
Because the rule is 'Pay what you think its worth'. The rule is certainly not 'Pay the minimum you possibly can'.

Therefore you have broken a rule, simply because it is easy to break and you won't get caught. Which is of course a morally dubious position to take. And whats stranger, is you can't understand why people WOULDN'T break a rule, if they could get away with it.

It's a moral judgement we're talking about here.

Remember -- the rule was not 'Pay the minimum you can'. It was a different offer from that. A rule you broke just when the company was trusting you. Capiche?
 
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I think its only worth 1 cent. Capiche?
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Ask 10 of your friends whether they think you'd have paid 2 cents for the game rather than 1 if that was the mimimum price. They'll all say 'Of course you would have paid 2 cents for the game'.

Every single person that reads this, including both of us -- know you'd have paid 2 cents if that was the deal. Therefore everyone knows you broke their rules because you could. You know it. I know it. It's simply a moral decision you made, you just don't like it because you've realised it's an unflattering indication of your character. Sorry mate -- just saying it as I see it ..

(The fact you said 'why didn't everyone do it' is slightly more worrying. Means you may not have even understood the moral dilemma)

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ahaha ok, I'll humour you some more. Would you have paid a pound more if you bought it? Where do you stop? To me the game was only worth 1 cent. It's no better than the free web based games.

What don't I like exactly? That I didn't waste my money? I still don't understand what mystical rule I have supposed to have broken. I paid what I thought it was worth! To me that was 1 cent.

Being careful with my money, I consider that a great part of my character!

I never said 'why didn't everyone do it' I asked Why would anyone pay more? And know one thus far as answered that. I know why I only paid 1 cent for it, why did you pay more?
 
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