I do agree with Vella on one thing: no developer should sell an app for less than it is worth, and dropping to 99 cents to increase sales doesn’t work anyway<\/a>. But certainly there’s a place for 99 cent apps on the store, and I know personally that a 99 cent price point will open me up to try apps I’m not sure about, especially apps that I might be interested in but that don’t offer a free trial. Clive Downie of ngmoco says as much later in the article<\/a>: it’s about the balance between providing choice for your customer and supporting yourself as a developer.<\/p>\n In the end, Vella knows what he’s doing: he doesn’t say that 99 cents is always the wrong price, but that you should always stick to your guns and ask your customers to pay the right price. If a game is worth $4.99, or $6.99, or even $9.99, developers will find that customers who care about the quality are willing to pay for it.<\/p>\n [via IGN<\/a>]<\/p>\n TUAW<\/a>Developers on avoiding the 99 cent App Store price<\/a> originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)<\/a> on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read<\/a> | Permalink<\/a> | Email this<\/a> | Comments<\/a> <\/p>\n Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b75ea_capylogo.jpg\")
I’ve become a big fan of game developer Capy<\/a> (formerly Capybara) in the past few months — their releases of Critter Crunch<\/em> on iPhone [iTunes link<\/a>] and Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes<\/em> on the DS have won me over quickly. But I’m not sure I agree completely with their co-founder, Nathan Vella, about what he says in this Gamasutra interview<\/a>. His opinion is that the push towards the 99 cent price on the App Store<\/a> is “the single most frustrating and terrible thing about App Store pricing.” He says the dollar price point is stifling, and he praises developers like Canabalt<\/em>’s Adam Saltsman for sticking with a higher price point even when their games are simple.<\/p>\n<\/h6>\n