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Pay What You Want: Immortal Defense

By james_fudge

The creators of Immortal Defense, the indie developed story-based tower defense strategy game arte experimenting with business model that lets players pay whatever they want. Other indie developers have tried this --including the guys behind World of Goo - and it has proven to be a pretty successful model because no matter what people pay for the game, the sales tend to be a lot higher.

Radical Poesis Games & Creations says that this is not a sale, and not time-limited, but simply a test of using this model as a permanent pricing model. If it doesn't work out they can always switch back to a more rigid pricing model. Still, they want it to work and will probably use it for future releases like Saturated Dreamers which is currently in production.

The only stipulation is that they need at least a minimum payment of $1.75 to cover fees, but more generous payments are welcomed and encouraged.

If you are interested in picking up Immortal Defense, you can visit studioeres.com/immortal. We'll let you know how this pricing model works out for them as soon as information is available.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).