Shouldn't they have just..........

SparkyidrSparkyidr Member Posts: 2,033
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Call me silly, but surely the best way forward for GameSalad as a business would be to have

$99 Express (no one had a prob with this as it was)
$499 for Pro (Seems everyone would love that...without the splash of course!)
AND
Keep GS Direct for the people who don't want to be a self publisher/bother with an apple account (I'm sure this would bring in a whole heap of new customers)

Seems all to obvious. But I am sure there are/were forces at work that means that model can't work.

........again, seems like an obvious model to me.

?

It feels like after the negative GS direct tirade from the community, they have gone too far in the opposite direction.

If they were not making enough money with the 99/2000 pricing model, how can they continue with a free/500 pricing model??????

Comments

  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    I think $500 is the right price for the software.

    Perhaps they should bring back the $1999 option to remove the splash screen. They could call it GameSalad Elite or something like that.

    This move certainly hurts their competitors. I was considering Unity or Corona, but with the new setup I think GameSalad is on-target. I have to test things out though. I'm not sure how everything works yet.
  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 1,173
    People, are you the enemy of your own money?
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    $99 for normal express features
    $500 for all express features + iads + URL forwarding + custom splash!
    No GS direct at all

    Simple as that

    GS has to understand that some people are trying to make a business from their software, and they can't keep playing around with us like this, keep changing things and making everything more complicated.
  • magic101himagic101hi Member Posts: 713
    artonskyblue said:
    $99 for normal express features
    $500 for all express features + iads + URL forwarding + custom splash!
    No GS direct at all

    Simple as that

    GS has to understand that some people are trying to make a business from their software, and they can't keep playing around with us like this, keep changing things and making everything more complicated.

    $0 for normal express features
    why not just leave it free!!!(Less Money To PAY!)
  • MotherHooseMotherHoose Member Posts: 2,456
    magic101hi said:
    $0 for normal express features
    why not just leave it free!!!(Less Money To PAY!)

    because free will generate more crapApps...

    MH
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    Hunnenkoenig said:
    People, are you the enemy of your own money?

    For those that really need to remove the splash screen, $2000 is not really a lot of money... especially when you have clients paying tens-of-thousands, maybe even hundreds-of-thousands, of dollars for app development.

    My concern is for the people that spent $1999 on the original Pro. They shouldn't get ripped off. They should be upgraded to "Elite" or something like that.
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