PC games "backup" newbie...

[jrandom]

I'd imagine your target market is almost certainly businesses rather than home individuals.

Yup.

home user...

Agreed.

Still. Hard call to make, really. Do MS squeeze the market too hard? Not if you define 'too hard' in purely capitalist terms. When they start losing money, they're squeezing too hard.

I have difficulty finding the emotional energy to care either way, though.

[Dargor]

Come visit me at my office sometime and I'll show you some of what goes into writing software. It's a long and expensive process, with huge risk - all the cost goes in up front, and then you have to chuck your product out there and hope like hell that your bet, sweat and tears were right, and it's worth money to someone.

Opps, typo, "$3 TO print", i ment, to burn the cd and put it on a shelf. I didn't want to say anything about the total cost. I know it a lot more than that.

Maybe if you got rid of those annoying things in games people would pay more, like the need to have the cd in to play, people are going to crack it anyway. Stop wasting money on that.

When you make the illegal alternative easier/better piracy is what you get. mp3's are a prime example of this, it applies you games as well.

Honestly how can you think $100 is a good price, most games are targeted at a young audience who don't earn that kind of money.
Im sure you would get more money if you released at a more reasonable price. We want to support you but.. not that much.

And what if the games shit. nobody want to spend $100 to discover a shit game. Demos only go so far, and are never an accurate representation of the full gaming experience.

Maybe i would come and visit you but i think i might have a bit of trouble finding Norse mythology land http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niflheim

Is that trying not to be an idot enough for you.