Not a first playthrough if you're actually looking around the map and listening to the dialogue instead of just rushing ahead, and that's not even counting the average moron probably getting stuck for 30 minutes in some rooms.
Under 2 hours is one thing but 'under half an hour' means your game is not worth money. I would not pay a dollar for 20 minutes of video game.
. They don't understand the concept of time having value and 4 bucks is still a significant amount of money to them, so they'd rather have a game be bloated and waste more of their time (as they've got a surplus of it). They don't understand the appeal of a fun short/hour long experience that doesn't overstay its welcome and which you'll still remember positively years later.
You're going to have to fund those Fortnite cosmetics somehow. Think your dad's got time to transfer the balance from his creditcard to your Epic account later tonight, or are you going to miss out on the current special deals?
>playing 30 minute game means you are not a child >playing long game for 1 or 2 hours a day after work means you are a child because it is long
Whoa... this is the power of indie dev argumentation
That's a lot of assumption there bud. One of my favorite games of all time is The Stanley Parable and you'll probably have seen everything in it within 7 hours. That's $3.57 an hour, normally not a value I'd consider good at all but I consider it well worth it because the game is good. A game I've put hundreds of hours into over the course of a few years (DRG) is the same price. At this point I'm looking at $0.03 per hour. $4 for a 20 minute linear game though? I could go watch it on youtube for free and get the same experience at that point.
I know you're baiting but there are people who genuinely think like this.
"It's not a lot of money" is why so many people spend their entire lives in debt. Everything adds up and you need to be more discerning with whether something is worth your money or not.
>i enjoyed the game >i would like to see more games like this >i would like those games to be more expansive >i want my money back tho
he's shitposting or a moron
>finish game in under 2 hours >eligible for a refund >enjoyed your time with the game, get your money back AND give devs a positve review
I don't see the problem, everyone wins.
What 'costs does Steam accrue for this? An extra 67 kb of data for the return process? What 'costs' does the developer get? Steam does send the developer a percentage of each sale real time.
if you can complete a game in under 30 minutes and it offers no incentive to do at least even one more playthrough then it's 100% the devs fault if people refund that
there were games on Newgrounds that you could play for free that offered far more than that
If you make a game that lasts less than two hours, you deserve to get your money stolen.
Such a short game should be freeware anyway. Be thankful you get money from anybody at all.
it doesnt last 2 hours, as it says in the review. The guy speedrunned it, and its just one guy, people extrapolate how its a global problem without seeing any hard numbers.
>watching a 90 minute movie when you could be watching a 900 minute game essay or 9000 minute series >ordering a nice fancy stake you'll finish in ten minutes when you could be ordering an all-you-can-eat hamburger buffet >reading a 120 page novel when you could be reading 1200 pages of Harry Potter fanfiction
heh, suckers. the former just doesn't waste your time like it should.
dev is coping being poor, zoomer is coping being a moron and watching streamers
you cant sell games that take less than 2 hours to beat on steam. not even for 50 cents
portal takes less than 2 hours
99% of sales were made before refunds were a thing
Not a first playthrough if you're actually looking around the map and listening to the dialogue instead of just rushing ahead, and that's not even counting the average moron probably getting stuck for 30 minutes in some rooms.
the moron trying to sell a video game you can finish in less than two hours
why did OP do it?
To make Ganker bootlickers seethe
what are timezones anon?
doesn't matter when it's displayed in local time
Because he's a child. Just like
. They don't understand the concept of time having value and 4 bucks is still a significant amount of money to them, so they'd rather have a game be bloated and waste more of their time (as they've got a surplus of it). They don't understand the appeal of a fun short/hour long experience that doesn't overstay its welcome and which you'll still remember positively years later.
I'm going to refund your shitty game just to spite you.
You're going to have to fund those Fortnite cosmetics somehow. Think your dad's got time to transfer the balance from his creditcard to your Epic account later tonight, or are you going to miss out on the current special deals?
>current special deals
you seem to know a lot about fortnite for somebody shitting on it
>playing 30 minute game means you are not a child
>playing long game for 1 or 2 hours a day after work means you are a child because it is long
Whoa... this is the power of indie dev argumentation
That's a lot of assumption there bud. One of my favorite games of all time is The Stanley Parable and you'll probably have seen everything in it within 7 hours. That's $3.57 an hour, normally not a value I'd consider good at all but I consider it well worth it because the game is good. A game I've put hundreds of hours into over the course of a few years (DRG) is the same price. At this point I'm looking at $0.03 per hour. $4 for a 20 minute linear game though? I could go watch it on youtube for free and get the same experience at that point.
I know you're baiting but there are people who genuinely think like this.
$4 is not a large sum of money in any universe, poortard. Even three magnitudes more isn't.
"It's not a lot of money" is why so many people spend their entire lives in debt. Everything adds up and you need to be more discerning with whether something is worth your money or not.
the developoor for making such a shit game
>i enjoyed the game
>i would like to see more games like this
>i would like those games to be more expansive
>i want my money back tho
he's shitposting or a moron
>finish game in under 2 hours
>eligible for a refund
>enjoyed your time with the game, get your money back AND give devs a positve review
I don't see the problem, everyone wins.
they give the game for free to journalist and other twitch morons to praise the game and shill it
difference is this dev is a moron
except the dev and steam. they incur costs.
What 'costs does Steam accrue for this? An extra 67 kb of data for the return process? What 'costs' does the developer get? Steam does send the developer a percentage of each sale real time.
Under 2 hours is one thing but 'under half an hour' means your game is not worth money. I would not pay a dollar for 20 minutes of video game.
if you can complete a game in under 30 minutes and it offers no incentive to do at least even one more playthrough then it's 100% the devs fault if people refund that
there were games on Newgrounds that you could play for free that offered far more than that
whining on twitter surely is a good marketing strategy. Anyone got the numbers his game got after the tweet?
what games exactly do you not beat on your first playTHROUGH?
way of the samurai was the game where if you died your save got deleted?
>pay $6 for game
>get a 30 min long game
Frick the dev, I would have refunded that shit too.
Based
I can play DOOM mods for free and get more time and enjoyment than whatever shit was being offered here.
What game and how much was it?
if your game takes less than 2 hours to beat you deserve it
If you make a game that lasts less than two hours, you deserve to get your money stolen.
Such a short game should be freeware anyway. Be thankful you get money from anybody at all.
it doesnt last 2 hours, as it says in the review. The guy speedrunned it, and its just one guy, people extrapolate how its a global problem without seeing any hard numbers.
what game?
>watching a 90 minute movie when you could be watching a 900 minute game essay or 9000 minute series
>ordering a nice fancy stake you'll finish in ten minutes when you could be ordering an all-you-can-eat hamburger buffet
>reading a 120 page novel when you could be reading 1200 pages of Harry Potter fanfiction
heh, suckers. the former just doesn't waste your time like it should.
You might have a point if any 30 minute game was a masterpiece but there's no such thing.
>You might have a point if any 30 minute game was a masterpiece but there's no such thing
ahem...