Comments on: Radiohead model applied to World Of Goo http://blog.mostlytigerproof.com/2009/10/21/radiohead-model-applied-to-world-of-goo/ Craig Timpany's weblog Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:12:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: World of Goo « ROYSDON http://blog.mostlytigerproof.com/2009/10/21/radiohead-model-applied-to-world-of-goo/#comment-89 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:03:41 +0000 http://blog.mostlytigerproof.com/?p=171#comment-89 [...] like it must not be worth it, but $7 feels like I’m paying a little and getting a lot. More data and charts if you’re feeling guilty playing a game and need to justify it [...]

]]> By: Craig Timpany http://blog.mostlytigerproof.com/2009/10/21/radiohead-model-applied-to-world-of-goo/#comment-88 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:30:34 +0000 http://blog.mostlytigerproof.com/?p=171#comment-88 I think the biggest skew is that the survey takers are self-selected. As I understand it, you can get the game and skip doing the survey. There’s going to be a systematic bias toward people who want to justify themselves to 2D Boy.

I just checked the overall price distribution against the price distribution in the survey, and the proportion of people that pay $0.01 is almost halved in the survey takers compared to the rest of the customers. Lucky I didn’t use the revenue figures from the survey.

Oh yeah, another thing to bear in mind is that World of Goo has gone through several discount sales already, so we’re seeing the most price sensitive market segment in both datasets. The 25% of people saying they can’t afford more might be totally genuine, rather than just feeling defensive about their choice. Maybe that $5 peak would be in a different spot if the revenue numbers were for the general population?

]]> By: zeek http://blog.mostlytigerproof.com/2009/10/21/radiohead-model-applied-to-world-of-goo/#comment-87 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:43:15 +0000 http://blog.mostlytigerproof.com/?p=171#comment-87 Interesting analysis. of course the survey data is somewhat skewed by the fact that 1> you cannot choose multiple reasons, naturally and 2> any survey is limited in sample, again quite naturally so it’s hard to know what any of it all means, besides that Kyle and Ron had a very nice week

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