Steve Troughton-SmithCapcom putting a stake in the ground and saying Resident Evil 4 for Apple platforms is a $60/€69 game, but supports iPhone & iPad 'for free’, is a good move for the App Store IMO. Developers have priced themselves into the ground for the past decade and honestly paid-upfront software needs to start going back up. I think we've all spent way too long optimizing for the people who don't want to buy our software instead of the ones who do. Expenses and the cost of living sure aren’t going down 💸
Wesley Hilliard@stroughtonsmith Biggest thing I'd note about free up front with IAP means the game must be purchased multiple times within a family. I wonder how this will work out, as families aren't likely to buy it multiple times.
I'm very excited to see full $60 games on iOS and hope it means software can be priced what they are worth again.