wtf? Does that mean they're ending the sale early? It's not midnight on the 14th yet!

It's not a new market anymore. The Appstore has been around for a year now. Get your frakking deal straight.

I bought Peggle at $5 and thought that was great value given how awesome the game is. But I appreciate that the arbitrary time between launch and sale is frustrating.

I mean, c'mon guys, $4 saved = FOUR PURCHASES OF iFART. Am i rite?

The thing I'm angry about is not that it DID get cheaper. I am angry about WHEN it got cheaper and WHY it got cheaper.

On the PC platform, you ALWAYS start at around 50 to 60$ for a game and you can be almost sure that in two months the price will drop to 20 to 30$ and in about a year you'll get it for either 10$ as a single game in different packaging OR you'll get it in a game compilation.

Now, if let's say EA brought you the next version of NHL 200x, which in itself is a game that's already been out and that's basically re-released each year with miniscule changes (and it finally bit them in the ass) that doesn't change the fact that it simply will NOT go on any kind of "SALE" within the first month of being released.

It's not ME who is ruining the platform with "that attitude". Mind you, there are people out there who are not willing to pay for anything and there are examples given on the net where developers tell you about the rate games are pirated. THOSE people are ruining the platform.

I myself payd 25$ for Zuma back in the day and if it were to be released now on the iPhone I would've payd 5$ for it in a heartbeat (if Stoneloops wouldn't already be on my iPhone).

But I would still be pissed to no end if they'd drop the price, even for a nanosecond, to 99 Cents after two weeks. Because that basically means their sweetspot for selling the game has ALWAYS been 99 Cents, and that those 4 extra dollars are the ripoff. Or maybe they made their money back and then dropped the price so their sweetspot changed. That way I (!) payd for all the people who now get it cheaper.

Next time I won't be the dummy. Period. And about Real Racing: I would buy it if I weren't that invested in playing Go-Go Rescue Squad, Peggle, Blimp, the new version of Flight Control - and with my balls. They came for free and I think in the future I'll play with them until shit drops to a price it can compete with free ball scratching.

And you didn't address my second point at all. I said that if the prices are in such shift, you'll never be able to put out games that are produced on a higher budget and HAVE to sell for a high price to even remotely make their money back. If this keeps up, 20$ games will never ever be published on the iTunes Store. And I'd be willing to pay that for certain games, especially because the OpenGL|ES graphics will demand a real high production budget this is nothing that's far fetched, it's a damn reality. The 3G S is out there, and if gaming companies whore out their product like this, nobody will ever start producing high quality games for the iPhone, no matter how good the tools are.

The difference is four freaking dollars. It's nothing. Even at the 'expensive' price it's *half* what it costs on the PC. If a company wants to put their stuff on sale, cool, more power to them. I only get pissed when I pay $5.00 for Boulderdash and find they didn't do elementary bug-testing, or $5.00 for Phaze and find it's just not what i was hoping for, or when Namco expects me to pay over $6.00 for Pac-Man or Ms Pac-Man when they've obviously gone to very little effort for it. (or $10.00 as those were previously ..I think those Namco guys must be high.)

Hope you guys make a boatload of money on this Popcap. It's a very fine game, ported well, and deserves to be widely enjoyed.

Of course, it would have made much more sense if Popcap had dropped the price in anticipation of another major release on the iPhone. Still, can't complain.

Likewise I'm just voicing opinion, not trying to insult at all, I can understand your point somewhat.

Sure the app store has the problems you just said, the apps constantly get sales and quality games are never made. But you and Sebastion and refusing to buy Real Racing because you're afraid there will be a price drop - I can understand that. But in doing so, you criticise the app store, but you're also the ones that are contributing to the price drops and the lack of quality games by refusing to buy.

I was glad Peggle dropped to 0.99. I hadn't heard about the game before but this price drop made me go out and grab it. But I've also bought Real Racing, and hey, I love the fact that its a rare quality game for the iDevices. If you become reserved and don't purchase games for fear of a sale, wouldn't you get yourself into a catch-22?

Fear of possible sale -> refusal to purchase game at full price -> Games forced to drop price from lack of sales.

Just my 2 cents anyway

I do think there is a problem with the system though as it seems temporary price drops are the best way to boost a game on the Top 25/50 rankings. Peggle is at #3 right now and I would not be surprised if because of this it hits #1.