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Name your price on some great games!

I guess one reason why I started to play more Indie games is not just the fact that they are quite fun, but it also feels like you are “in touch” with a fellow gamer. With someone that creates a labor of love and not just someone that looks at the bottom line. These fellow gamers, or entusiasts of great game ideas need our support! So don’t be too much on the fence when it comes down to supporting these! Don’t buy Torchlight two on sale, but spend the whole (gasp) $20. Even if you don’t plan on playing the heck out of Red Orchestra 2, consider helping them with $35 so they can make another game that supports dedicated servers, server admin tools, sdk to mod the heck out of their game. Buy SPAZ just and get a second copy free for a friend.

Realize that your money will make a difference! Help yourself 3-5 years down the road when that small dev house makes something that hits your play style even more because they could feed their families!

What made me think of this is kind of the unrelated article on PCGAMER. Talking with Riot games they tickled this little nugget out and I wished that some big companies would listen. You wouldn’t need some crazy DRM, lock me in some software that wants to scan my entire hard drive and be big brother or make sure I have my internet always on because you want a real money auction house. They way you think of your user base makes a difference! To Riot, I am a gamer! To Cliff Harris I am a fan and it shows how he deals with people that want to talk to him.

We had a chance to catch up with Riot Games this year at Gamescom for a chat about the future of League of Legends, and Riot Games’ attitude to players who pick up League of Legends, play it every day, but never buy any items.

“We actually don’t say ‘How can we monetize our users?’ or anything crazy like that,” says Lead Champion Designer Ryan Scott. “We just go ‘How can we make players super happy”’ and then players will buy what they want and then all of our free players are also super valuable because they’re in there, engaged with the game, and in the community. We’re totally fine with that, we love that.”

“We renamed our customer support group “Player Support Group” because we didn’t want to ever give the impression that we only cared about people who paid in the game,” adds Lead Producer Travis George. “People were like “Why did you do that?” and we’re well, it’s because we want that subtle mentality shift to be part of everything we do.”

Just spotted this on Shacknews.  I really like the concept of paying any amount you please.   Check it out!

http://www.wolfire.com/humble

Only 3 days left though, sale ends at 4pm EDT on May 15th.