Had an idea. What if all games were free but for every X installs the game goes up in price by Y$
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How to avoid a big player base for your next hit online multi-player game.
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Every time the price increases, Z% of the increase goes to paying people who already bought the game, incentivizing early adopters to become brand ambassadors
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If you beat the game, you are given the option to “Permanently Uninstall” to bring the price down, sacrificing your happiness for gamers worldwide. Your name then is added to the end-game credits.
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s/all/some/ and this becomes an intriguing idea, though I think instead of Y being constant, it would make more sense for it to vary, such that the price as a function of how many people have purchased it is like a sigmoid (with a not-too-large maximum).
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This way, it would encourage early adopters, and it would only approach the final* price after it had a chance to be validated as good by the players who were willing to take a small risk by playing a small price for a game before its quality had been evaluated by many players.
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If it's anything like real life, then all the millionaires will get it first and the poor will have to pay the most
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