Good or bad idea?
Look at a Steam store page for game, go to the reviews section, all user reviews, be it bad or good, mention what they think the game should be bought at.
Examples:
Hollow Knight, recommended, recommended price: $15 (-25%)
Megabonk, recommended, recommended price: $20 (+100%)
Also, there's be an aggregate price recommendation from all that data to average a recommended purchase price.
This is basically another data point for the user the help them decide if they want to get a game or not, alongside general review average.
Go for it?
Yay or nay?
Replies (4)
Well some games you would not play even if they were free. Also, between countries or wage levels you would get very different estimates. So as an average might not be that meaningful. But might be helpful to get a quick estimate of what your friends think about the game, as they would potentially have more similar estimation of game's worth.
I’m not sure about this one. It feels like overengineering when users could simply mention in the reviews, 'Not worth the price.' Maybe a tool that summarizes what users think and then says, "Users often don’t think this game is worth the price"
I guess it's too nitpicky, and everyone has a different idea of what's the correct price as everyone has a different personal value system.
Bad free game:
Recommended priced: -$20 (+?%)
Game so bad that the devs need to pay you to play it x3
