Chess 2: The Sequel - Ludeme Games

[circlemaster]

You don't "purchase" the game if I remember right. You buy game tokens however to play online with others.

There is a buy option, $5.99

[Kaimega]

There is a buy option, $5.99

I found the reasoning behind it:

Of course we can discuss this, but it's a bit late to change right now (in the short term anyway). I've attached the prices below for discussion. One tier is left out, because it replaces the one in the middle if you haven't bought it yet. You can buy 720 crowns for the price of 400 ($5.99) once.

Let me give my rational for doing this, and you feel free to voice why you think it's a mistake.

This is very similar to the system that exists on Fantasy Strike right now. Where you pay gold to play each game, except I'm calling it "crowns" instead of "gold" because that sounds more thematic.
The prices are far too reasonable when you actually do the math (though, the Kotaku article didn't go into detail). For your first buy at $5.99 you get 720 crowns + the 240 free starting crowns = 960 crowns. 8 crowns per game means 120 games. At half an hour average per game, this comes in at a whopping 60 hours! There are few games on Steam that I own where my playtime exceeds 10 hours, let alone 60. For most people, this *is* a one-time purchase option. If 60 hours isn't enough though, buy this and add the $19.99 option for an additional 1600 crowns totaling 160 hours of play... or basically enough play time to beat Skyim and Oblivion handily but only costing $25.98. Or if you're totally nuts... go for the $49.99 option. But, that would be... nuts. Like a donation or something.
The point of the pricing tiers (attached) at all is that people can buy the game at what they value it at. Personally I'm sick of buying $60 games and putting them away after an hour. I wish I could pay for games after knowing how long I'll play them for (or whatever approximation of how much I like/value the game at) With the 30 free games (15 hours!), that's enough time to know whether or not you're a devotee, and buy accordingly... preferably between $5.99 and $19.99

I could go on, but I'd like to hear your objections first rather than build up a defense against an argument when I don't know what your argument is in the first place. Or who knows, maybe I'll immediately agree with you

Source: http://www.fantasystrike.com/forums/...ouya-app.8943/

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