Survios price drop and game prices

gameovr

I noticed Survios is dropping the price for all its games to .06, does anyone know if the is a temporary or permanent drop? Either way kudos to them for setting the standard not just for having great arcade modes for their games but also bringing their products down to a reasonable price point. The industry seems to be leveling out around that point and the outliers that are still .10-.12 are going to start feeling the effect as everyone starts shifting their library to cheaper games.

It gets harder and harder to justify mediocre games at .08 or above when so many good ones are at .06 now. With games like Battlewake, the Blue, Evasion, and Contractors, and Superhot at that price, how do older titles like Brookhaven that haven't seen updates in a long time justify those prices?

thevrclub

Westworld and Creed are still at 0.8c though, perhaps because they're both newer, and suitable for shorter play sessions than their other games (Westworld because it's scary, not because it's short, and Creed because it's tiring)

As for games priced higher than 0.8c I feel like it's a combination of reasons, either a game doesn't have much competition to justify a price drop yet (like Arizona Sunshine), and/or it's an older game which launched at that price when there weren't many other titles and the devs haven't updated the price to remain competitive... Or they're just completely out of touch with the LBE VR industry (cough Owlchemy Labs cough)

DigitalWorldsVR

You talking about how Battlewake is $0.06? Are they actually reducing the others, like Raw Data and Creed, down to $0.06? That would be great if so. Ever since I added Evasion here, it's been my go-to shooter. It's only when a group of four comes in that I go back to Raw Data. If they dropped down to $0.06, especially Creed, I would be so happy.

crazevr

I am just glad to see prices dropping to .06 this makes it so much easier to offer them in our arcade.

SurviosArcades

@gameovr @crazevr @DigitalWorldsVR @thevrclub We've moving a lot of the content to 6 cents/minute, but some is staying at 8 cents. Some of the big IP/high performing content like Smashbox and Creed will stay at 8, while the rest, including new titles Battlewake, will be 6 cents. We are trying to find a balance between keeping arcade's OpEx low while making it economically viable for us to continue focusing on arcade content.

DigitalWorldsVR

SurviosArcades

Very good to hear. I'm actually pretty okay with Creed being higher. Creed is a great game to pull people in and of course it looks great in videos of people playing it at the arcade, but luckily people get so exhausted in it that they're not going to spend a full hour in it. Thanks for doing what you can to keep our costs down, it means a lot for us little guys.

EDIT Now if only Boss' punch ability was disabled during the character/level select part of the game.

VR-ARRIVAL

SurviosArcades

Thanks @SurviosArcades. Appreciate you guys taking this step! Curious with Smashbox Arena staying at 8c/min though. Does that mean that this will have debugging work done on it still? We have not been able to close this game for the last few months without having to manually force it to close. Last time I spoke with Survios, they said the developers were aware of it but wasn't an easy fix so probably wouldn't be fixed - is that still the case?

VoyagerVR

VR-ARRIVAL

I notice that Smashbox doesn't auto-close either. I have to manually close each time since it just hangs. I'm more concerned that I'm not being charged when it's inactive.

thevrclub

Yeah I'm surprised Smashbox is still priced so high, and that it's such a high performer. It is a great game once you get into it, but it's riddled with bugs and takes ages to set up a multiplayer match. Compared to its most similar game, Rec Room's paintball, which runs great and can get a group of people into a match in under 30 seconds, and of course, is free.

Kudos to @SurviosArcades for the positive approach with the other games though!