{"id":130,"date":"2010-01-10T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2015-04-05T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T08:22:42","slug":"price-drops-better-late-than-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/price-drops-better-late-than-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Price drops : better late than never!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I probably should have done this a long time ago, but I finally changed the prices of my games to adapt to current market. Here are the old and new prices:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">l<\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozax.com\/games\/spring-up\/\">Spring Up!<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozax.com\/games\/around-the-world\/\">Around the World<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozax.com\/games\/shapy-deluxe\/\">Shapy Deluxe<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"190px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozax.com\/games\/spring-up\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/games\/images\/sups.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"190px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozax.com\/games\/around-the-world\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/games\/images\/atws.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"190px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozax.com\/games\/shapy-deluxe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/games\/images\/shps.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<td>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">$19.99<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>$ 6.99<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">$19.95<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">$ 6.99<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">$9.95<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">$ 1.99<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<td>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/maclogo.gif\" alt=\"Mac OS X\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/winlogo.gif\" alt=\"Windows\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/maclogo.gif\" alt=\"Mac OS X\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/winlogo.gif\" alt=\"Windows\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/winlogo.gif\" alt=\"Windows\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Recently, many big companies involved in casual and downladable games business had big price cuts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/creators.xna.com\/en-us\/news\/pricechangereminder\">XBL Indie Games prices changed<\/a> a few months ago and are now available at either 80, 240 or 400 MSPoints ($1, $3 and $5 dollars).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfishgames.com\/index.html?afcode=afe45f20a68a\">Big Fish Games<\/a> games are now available at $6.99. Before, this price was reserved to Big Fish Game Club. Club games now sell at $2.99.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamecentersolution.com\/gamelist.aspx?CID=21216&amp;BID=1\">Reflexive<\/a> games have multiple prices, apparently from $2.99 to $10.99.<\/li>\n<li>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\">Steam<\/a> products are sold from $2.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\">iPhone games<\/a> are also very cheap ($1 &#8211; $5 usually).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Developers have different thoughts about cutting the prices. I honestly do not know if it&#8217;s efficient or not, but there is one observation I&#8217;ve been able to make: I am selling games from Big Fish using their affiliation program on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozax.com\">frozax.com<\/a>. When Big Fish Games changed their prices, I didn&#8217;t notice any change of income, or maybe a slight increase in profit. I do not have the full details of the number of games sold, but as the income per month stayed about the same, I can suppose there are more games sold to compensate.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope I can increase my volume of sales, too. 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Here are the old and new prices: l Spring Up! Around the World Shapy Deluxe $19.99 $ 6.99 $19.95 $ 6.99 $9.95 $ 1.99 Recently, many big companies involved in casual&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/price-drops-better-late-than-never\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Price drops : better late than never!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[80,93,111,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frozax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}