[PC] The Indie Gala Thread

BobbyTastic said:
Iknorite? :wall:
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Well in your case, seems you at least got in on the early price at least once, but since you do yours one group buy at a time you probably are too late to even average it out for people. So the first ones are going to pay half what the second ones will :( All of mine are going to be equally expensive :(

 
Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
Well in your case, seems you at least got in on the early price at least once, but since you do yours one group buy at a time you probably are too late to even average it out for people. So the first ones are going to pay half what the second ones will :( All of mine are going to be equally expensive :(
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the first round lasted 20~30 minutes :(

 
Waggles said:
So Gala HH basically adopted Royale's pricing policy? Those fuck s gotta burn.
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It was most likely a pricing error, but it's happened before. Another thing they do is withhold HH for a while, make it higher priced early on, and a week later when the bundle hasn't old well they'll drop the price for HH significantly.

topyy said:
the first round lasted 20~30 minutes :(
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It's all Murdered: Soul Suspect's fault! Kept me up last night.

 
If there's one thing consistent about Indie Gala, it's that they're inconsistent.

Another case in point, remember Blockstorm's 'Better buy now because the price is going up to $15!'?

http://steamcommunity.com/app/263060/discussions/0/540743757286388821/

[Mops] TENTACLE BOSS has Blockstorm 17 hours ago

So thanks for lying to the preorderers

I bought this from your site early understanding the price would go up from $9.99 to $15. Now you sell it on your steam page for $9.59 after the preorder period. Thanks for being considerate and keeping your word, devs.
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samuelmurdoch [developer] 15 hours ago

Sorry, Tentacle Boss,

our publisher didn't want to lie.

It's just because they could only "suggest" a price to Steam,

they were just a bit careless to think that it would not have been changed..

We all are a bit inexperienced yet, we ask you to excuse us.
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Also I'm calling BS on them blaming Valve for the pricing. Part of the whole reorg of the Steamworks kit was to give developers more control over things including pricing and setting sales.

I can guarantee you if Valve was still controlling pricing there wouldn't be $20 and $30 visual novels. Plus no way are they going to take the manpower and check if pricing is appropriate on every single game coming in given the huge volume these days.

 
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Motoki said:
If there's one thing consistent about Indie Gala, it's that they're inconsistent.

Another case in point, remember Blockstorm's 'Better buy now because the price is going up to $15!'?

http://steamcommunity.com/app/263060/discussions/0/540743757286388821/

Also I'm calling BS on them blaming Valve for the pricing. Part of the whole reorg of the Steamworks kit was to give developers more control over things including pricing and setting sales.

I can guarantee you if Valve was still controlling pricing there wouldn't be $20 and $30 visual novels. Plus no way are they going to take the manpower and check if pricing is appropriate on every single game coming in given the huge volume these days.
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got a free Blockstorm copy from indie gala but never played.

 
Motoki said:
If there's one thing consistent about Indie Gala, it's that they're inconsistent.

Another case in point, remember Blockstorm's 'Better buy now because the price is going up to $15!'?

http://steamcommunity.com/app/263060/discussions/0/540743757286388821/

Also I'm calling BS on them blaming Valve for the pricing. Part of the whole reorg of the Steamworks kit was to give developers more control over things including pricing and setting sales.

I can guarantee you if Valve was still controlling pricing there wouldn't be $20 and $30 visual novels. Plus no way are they going to take the manpower and check if pricing is appropriate on every single game coming in given the huge volume these days.
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3. Who sets the price for my game on Steam?
Pricing is very title specific, and we've got a lot of data and experience to help you decide on what the best price is for your title. We'll work with you to figure out pricing.

There's even youtube guide on changing price. Won't link here since it isn't exactly public.

 
Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
It was most likely a pricing error, but it's happened before. Another thing they do is withhold HH for a while, make it higher priced early on, and a week later when the bundle hasn't old well they'll drop the price for HH significantly.

It's all Murdered: Soul Suspect's fault! Kept me up last night.
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Nope I didn't even get one. Was about to checkout after I got the PMs sent, but it was too late.

 
BobbyTastic said:
Nope I didn't even get one. Was about to checkout after I got the PMs sent, but it was too late.
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Alright, everyone who's paid me should have their bundles now.

I am sending the third and last wave of bundles for this HH out now, so if you want in, now's the time to contact me.

 
Screw you jerks, BLOCKSTORM is awesome.*

*this message was brought to you by someone who accidentally helped fund BLOCKSTORM and is desperately attempting to justify his careless spending habits

 
Some of the gifts I've gotten over time ended up applied to my account, but definitely all of them. I don't know how the hell it happened and I doubt Indie Gala does either.

*Edited to add: I don't save my links, I just keep all my email from forever up on Gmail and then just search and find them when I need to, but doing so is most definitely not Asheskitty approved.

 
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Motoki said:
Some of the gifts I've gotten over time ended up applied to my account, but definitely all of them. I don't know how the hell it happened and I doubt Indie Gala does either.

*Edited to add: I don't save my links, I just keep all my email from forever up on Gmail and then just search and find them when I need to, but doing so is most definitely not Asheskitty approved.
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Same thing, but locally archived.

You need a warrant PIGS.

 
Bundles gifted to you do get associated with your email address on IG. If you use the link recovery feature (or whatever IG call it), the email should include all the links for the gift bundles sent to that email address.

 
Detruire said:
Bundles gifted to you do get associated with your email address on IG. If you use the link recovery feature (or whatever IG call it), the email should include all the links for the gift bundles sent to that email address.
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Detruire said:
Bundles gifted to you do get associated with your email address on IG. If you use the link recovery feature (or whatever IG call it), the email should include all the links for the gift bundles sent to that email address.
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This feature definitely doesn't work 100% all the time though. Maybe it works better with the later bundles, but the older ones definitely hit or miss.

 
What Fox said. It's most definitely not 100% and actually it's pretty hit and miss for me so don't count on always getting those gifts associated to your account.

Really, when it comes down to it, Indie Gala being inconsistent about anything is a surprise to no one.

well maybe Bobbytastic

 
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I've tried that, it's never worked for me.

I just tag my gift notifications / receipts in my Gmail account. I've also been keeping tabs of things with an Excel / Calc spreadsheet.

 
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Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
This feature definitely doesn't work 100% all the time though. Maybe it works better with the later bundles, but the older ones definitely hit or miss.
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It's worked for all the gifts that I checked, but I didn't know about group buys until ~IG 10... nor did I check thoroughly.

Motoki said:
What Fox said. It's most definitely not 100% and actually it's pretty hit and miss for me so don't count on always getting those gifts associated to your account.

Really, when it comes down to it, Indie Gala being inconsistent about anything is a surprise to no one.

well maybe Bobbytastic
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Oh, I'd never suggest that someone relies on it: even if it was 100% reliable now, I wouldn't trust it to work properly next week.

 
The weird thing is, it even worked for me for some (but not all) really old ass gift bundles before they even created the accounts. *shrug*

 
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Detruire said:
Aside from the initial price screwups, I don't think it actually ended.
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Nah, it counted down all the way to 2 or 3 minutes. I remember because I was debating on whether or not I wanted to buy another batch. :p

So unless they just rebooted the timer?

 
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