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Author Topic: World of Goo: Name Your Price!  (Read 6269 times)

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World of Goo: Name Your Price!
« on: October 14, 2009, 03:14 PM »
World of Goo is celebrating it's first birthday by allowing you to buy the game at any price you choose.

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(on the linked page, scroll down and look for the above image)


World of Goo is a great game that has been mentioned at this site before: Click here to see the previous thread about World of Goo.

If you haven't gotten it yet, now is the time!

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Re: World of Goo: Name Your Price!
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2009, 03:58 PM »
I just bought it and read this in the download e-mail:

We are trying an experiment: World of Goo has absolutely no copy protection or DRM at all, since we want to give you (and everyone) the best experience we can. Thanks for not distributing this, and helping us make this possible!

Sounds really awesome of them to not only have a Name Your Own Price experiment, but also to make the downloads DRM free as well.

Great job, 2DBoy!

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Re: World of Goo: Name Your Price!
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2009, 05:55 PM »
bought it for 0.80 cents , yeah i know but it's all the money i had left on my paypal account. Anyway the game seems okay but i got stuck in the stage with the saw.
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« Last Edit: October 14, 2009, 06:13 PM by gexecuter »

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Re: World of Goo: Name Your Price!
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2009, 07:37 PM »
bought it for 0.80 cents , yeah i know but it's all the money i had left on my paypal account. Anyway the game seems okay but i got stuck in the stage with the saw.

Same, $1 :(
I'll deff buy retail once I get my paycheck tho =)

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Re: World of Goo: Name Your Price!
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2009, 09:49 PM »
fantastic offer! thanks for the heads-up, Deozaan. :Thmbsup:

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Re: World of Goo: Name Your Price!
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2009, 08:22 PM »
here is an article taking a look at the results of this sale and also the offer has been extended to 25th October.

http://www.rockpaper...fascinating-results/

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Re: World of Goo: Name Your Price!
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2009, 04:21 PM »
Thanks for the info on the sales results. I finally had a chance to look at it.

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Re: World of Goo: Name Your Price!
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2009, 09:55 PM »
yes, the blog made a pertinent point. imo, this is a good way for developers to get some return on older games.

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Re: World of Goo: Name Your Price!
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2009, 07:59 AM »
updated wrap up that talks about average donation amount, platform differences, geographic differences in donating, etc.:

http://2dboy.com/200...rthday-sale-wrap-up/