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The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. (media.piefed.world)
submitted 7 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] exu@feditown.com 61 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Am I weird for rounding 8 to 10??

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 47 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No. 8 is closer to 10 then it is to 5

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm Canadian, so I instinctively just round 5 bucks up to 8 bucks instead (adding exchange and tax)

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

It's so odd hearing how North America doesn't have total purchase price on the item.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, but what about $7.99?

[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 1 hour ago

That's 8, so also 10

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

Closer to 800

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 hours ago

no, completely valid, but pricing is a psychological question rather than a math question for some.

reason for example products are priced with X.99

some people se it as cost X amount, others (like youself) see it as X+1 amount. the 0.99 is the extreme end of the psychology and choosing 8 in the case of peak increases number of people who dont see it at the higher price

[–] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

Nah. But I think the difference in this specific case is that if you're already kinda wanting to buy something and it's 8 dollars, you might convince yourself that it's basically just 5 dollars to justify the purchase.