B3 Game Expo For Bees Gets Surprise Price Cut

I saw Easy Allies play this as their 'dumb game monday' game...kinda tempted to get it now.

Honestly this was a smart move on this guy's part. Lowering the price can easily change one's value or perception of the game. Plus, it will incline more people to buy it. Sorry for the people who paid full price I guess.

Wow, that's pretty awesome of him! I won this game in a giveaway, and it's a blast, but it's not worth $10. $5 is a much more reasonable price. Way to listen and learn from feedback, Famous Gamous!

I bought it at full price but have yet to play it. I just wanted to support a weird exclusive on my favorite console, but I would have held off for a week had I known this was coming. I'm not exactly sore about it but can't say that I'm too pleased, either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufhtVYFIfMs

For that price I am tempted. From the reviews I've read it looks like a good game but was too short based on the original price.

I could see how this would be frustrating for someome who paid full price honestly. Being a new solo guy though, I hope he does well.

@RCMADIAX Least when it will be in a sale, it'll only be £1-2. Screw the coins, can't argue with cheapo games.

I'm still not interested in the game but respect the developer and his comments. Good luck in the future Famous Gamous

Nah... even cut the prices still not make me impressed.
Cheaper price like that = cheap quality. Cheap games. Just big no no from me.
Still stick on well-known game developer like SquareEnix/CAPCOM/Nintendo/Konami, etc with expensive price rather than all indies. My trust for indies is below than 0.1%.

I might get it in the near future, if only to support the guy. I already like this developer more than Ninja Pig Studios!

I guess a lot of early adopters will be annoyed. He can explain all he wants, I think its not very nice to the early adopters!

@RCMADIAX Feel like Nintendo should make the My Nintendo points threshold at $4.99 vs $5 as well nothing is ever a whole dollar amount.

B3 Hype!!!

Fair play to him. He's to be commended for taking on board peoples opinions and acting quickly. Feel sorry for the early buyers though.

I got a free copy from him during his AMA and haven't yet gotten a real chance to play it. Seems like an awesome guy that's having a blast learning the development process. Really awesome of him to cut the price in half. Definitely doing the right things to make fans. From what I played I enjoyed so far. Just waiting until I have a free hour or two so I can beat it in one sitting.

Impulse buy territory! And to be honest he dropped the price like a week after launch, so I don't think a ton of people bought it. No way you lower the price if it sells, ask Nintendo

It's a good thing that devs can respond this quickly. the reviews said 'good, but overpriced considering its length', the dev dropped the price. All is well. Imagine if the eshop wasn't so responsive...

@RCMADIAX Just so everybody knows I have a lot of respect for RCMADIAX's experience as a dev and I carefully read the advice he posts on the Nintendo Dev forums.

Here is the thing... FTC regulations prevent initiating a sale without establishing the regular price for a certain time. So basically a sale this early would not be legal. If I waited a bit longer, then yes, then I could do a sale and be eligible for future rotating sales. But, while this makes sense financially, I wanted to fix the problem as fast as humanly possible, thus a permanent price drop. I knew I'd take a hit, my choice.

@TheRedCap30 @Henimii @SLIGEACH_EIRE I have been in contact with early adaptors, via [email protected], and without going into details, I have been being nice.
@Stu13 please contact me.

@toxibunny It actually takes a lot of hoop jumping to do something like this so quickly. I'm very thankful to Nintendo for being an incredible partner!

@OneBagTravel I am the biggest Kyle Bosman fan in the universe. His play through that you linked to was the highlight of my game development life!!

@sinalefa Obviously I can't talk sale numbers, but I'll note that B3 Game Expo For Bees has been the #3 Miiverse community all week... between Pokken Tournament and Disney Art Academy. It's been a blessing and a curse.

@FamousGamous Fair play to you. Good deeds like this deserve to be rewarded. You've just earned yourself another customer. A thumbs up from Kyle Bosman didn't hurt either.

This is pretty awesome and I feel like my user icon speaks for how I feel about any game that features bees and other yelllow things that fly, price cut or not.

(Well, actually Japanese Giant Hornets are pretty awful to bees but I personally still love both)

@RCMADIAX Sure, you're an expert on how to make good money with inferior product.

May bee

At that new price point game length isn't an issue anymore. The content may be light, but I see there's effort in graphics, humour and charm, so I'll give it a chance.

Comparing this with Ninja Pig's garb is like comparing an ambitious short movie with white noise and a Poltergeist coming out the tv.

I'd say $5 is closer to the price I would pay for said game. Initial screenshots does look like a fair amount of effort went into the game. Kinda saving my credit for the upcoming Phoenix Wright game, but, we'll see

I respect him for listening to the community, if I'd put a ton of work into a game I'd be rather ambiguous to a permanent drop so quickly!

I'll admit I'm a lot more likely to get this now at $5 then $10.

It's better to get more people to buy a game with a lower price then a higher one for a bigger payout. First time I ever seen something like this happen, quite interesting.