Indiependence Day Anti-Sale 0% discounts- what do you think?

for me, all that would accomplish is reducing the chance that I buy your game to 0%

I love indie games...I really do. But these dumbass devs need to google the effects of sales promotion on sales volume in an extremely saturated and competitive market.

Then they need to step back and come to the harsh realization that, by and large, we as customers don't give two shits about them. We care about their product. If they put out a good product, it will sell.

I doubt you'll reach the right people here.

You know what's most pretentious about this movement? Games like World of Goo blatantly ripping off customers. 20$ asking price? Are they out of their mind? They put it in at least 8 bundles, the regular price on Steam is 10$, even less on GOG and it's almost 7 years old. That's not how you build consumer trust and goodwill, morons.

This blog summary (and my comments):

1. Economy 101 means price is dictated by supply and demand

2. irrelevant passage about experiental goods. (no conclusion, no relevance)

3. competition (supply) is high.

4. supply is high.

5. demand is low (some more empty statements)

(All of the above are presented as 'complications' which are problematic according to the writer.
Welcome to the real world sucker, as consumers we love this situation. It's a buyers market.
Now comes the genius solution.)

3. THE SOLUTION IS TO MAKE A GREAT GAME
4. THE SOLUTION IS MARKETING

(It would increase demand and therefore the price you can ask for it, good job Dan. You can't write for shit and you don't actually draw this conclusion buy we can see a good point here)

4. some shit about a case study (ignore it)

(I'd give a fourth grader a B+ for this piece for seemlingly nearly understanding basic economic principles)

We've also been "conditioned" to accept shitty ports, shorter games and day one disasters every single damn time. Yet prices only went up.
Also, the number of rehashes, carbon copy games and cash-ins on buzzwords like retro, indie and roguelike have gone up, as have scams that crowdfund their game and then sell out to publishers.

I'm only paying them what they're worth to me and if they don't like it, there's other work they can do. Just as there are other hobbies.

Why is the indie game scene one of the only independent movements (music and film, I am thinking of) to have such a sense of entitlement? I thought it was about the craft and the art, not the money, developers.

There are VERY few indie games that are worth full price. Most indie games are unfinished cr*p sold for way more than it deserves even when bundled for $1 with other games.

Some are real art made by gamers for gamers. I won't deny that (i.e. I had a lot of fun with Survivor Squad, and spent a lot of hours there). But others are made just to steal money...