Pay "what you want" or bundles with minimal prices.

What WOULD you call it then for a system that requires a minimum but lets you pay anything upwards from that. "Pay what you want, except that it has to be above the minimum" is quite the mouthful for naming a pricing schema.

E: Also I looked up IndieRoyale's FAQ and nowhere does it claim to be a pay what you want system, as Jexel stated below.

Some bundles are just bundles. They don't all claim to be pay what you want.

"HIB effect was because people could just buy bundles and to pay for it REALLY WHAT YOU WANT. It's like stealing from a poor man - you conciense doesn't allow you to do that, so you are paying as much as you can afford it."

I thought you said you understood why there's now as $1 minimum on HIB?

It's a joke, right? You can buy 4 or more game for a price of one and You're complaining?!

I don't wanna...

On the HIB4 i payed way more than average because it's a awesome bundle but some bundles has 1 semi-decent game and a bunch of crap that you will never play more than 1 time but if you can pay 3 or 4 euros maybe you fall and pay for it.

Without the minimum price, the developers would risk not making enough money to develop their games with.... which = no more games

The success of certain bundles over others has very little if anything to do with their pricing structures...

There is no need for a minimum so I can buy 100 copies with a whole dollar then sell each off for one key on TF2.

Basically making 2500 dollars with 1 dollar.

Not really

I agree. How dare they put a minimum price of 14 dollars for a bundle of 35 games.

for example, if you buy a bundle of 3 games for 3 dollars:
0.33 dollar goes to developer 1
0.33 dollar goes to developer 2
0.33 dollar goes to developer 3
0.50 dollar goes to charity 1*
0.50 dollar goes to charity 2
1.00 dollar goes to the bundle tip

Clearly, you're paying too much for just 3 games.

• granted IndieRoyale doesn't give anything to charity.

I'm not very fond of Indie Royale's pricing since it's constantly changing and it ends up being rather confusing, but otherwise, I believe minimum prices are perfectly fine. Take Be Mine 2 for example: they are raising money to feed the poor, and since each meal is $2, they set a minimum price of $4 so you can get 5 awesome indie games while 2 people get a meal, which leads to having more people fed and less idiots abusing. In cases like Indie Royale, money is split between the developers of all the games that are part of the promotion: that means each team gets $1 or a little less for each $4 purchase. Since they actually need the money for themselves (in this case it's not for charity), just imagine how much they would get if it wasn't for the minimum. Considering you're actually paying to the developers for their work, I believe they totally deserve it. Finally, the guys from Humble Bundle had to set a minimum of $1 because of people who abused the bundle in order to get lots of Steam keys. Payment services charge a percentage of the money transfer, and since these assholes were buying lots of copies for $0.01, that led to an unnecessary money loss. Minimum prices are always there for a reason, I hope you get to understand it after reading this. Cheers.

i understand the minimum in the other bundles because there is many resellers which buy a bundle and then sell individual keys

buy infinite indie bundle once and life without any problem :)

If you have computer to play games (it cost at least $300-$400) and don't have money to buy 4-5 games $1 for each, it's better to work harder instead of playing.
As i remember - IndieRoyale never said "Pay what you want"

I'm not playing most of bundles games. But imho it's good to support indie developers.

I cannot understand the constant complaining about these bundles. People want cheap and good entertainment, sure, but why the constant complaining even when you have some pretty good deals out? If the price is too high, just skip the product and find some other product that fits you. It is not a situation where we are running out of fun in the world. Bugger, you can find good games for even free (legally).

Some arguments are for poor and lower income countries and they are partially valid. One dollar/euro/<currency> is not equal for everyone. But the same argument is also invalid as the developers are also affected by this. If they live in a country with high income standard, they require higher salaries to keep them fed and working.

Developing games is job, and like any job, certain minimum payment is required. Some developers can throw games out practically free for charity/PR/<other reason> but don't expect everyone to do so. Not all of them have the luxury of that choice.

Maybe my words gonna sound a bit with spicy rasist words, but it`s not my intentions...

You´re Russian, right now you got the best prices for you country while most of countries a getting opressed by the 1$=1€=1£ thing...

Right now you´re complaining about bundles that were made for charity or indie devs support, maybe you don´t know, but during last year Christmas sales, most bundles with pay-what-you want system were abussed by damn Faggots for coal- and game- farming purposes and even before or after they still abussed it for self-enrichment by resseling them for bigger price, etc.etc.

What is the main point of this wall of text what I have written above?

The main point is that people that are working at creating such bundles give you possibility to buy X number of games (which would cost you to buy one by one for around 50-70$) for only 2-5 bucks and you´re DaFAKing whinning about limit of the price... You must be grateful to be able to enlarge you library for such a low price... I mean save money, help poor and gain karma...

Where does it say on IndieRoyal, pay what you want? It doesn't.