How much would you pay for World Of Goo? Is the question 2D BOY are asking to celebrate its first birthday. For the next six days you can choose how much you want to pay for one of our favourite games of last year, whether it’s 1p or a million billion pounds. It’s also a chance, they point out, for those who previously acquired a copy without paying to return and offer something for their entertainment. Head here to get a truly stupendous game for whatever you wish to pay. It will be fascinating to see how this works out.
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Donated .50 to start out… will be donating another $4.50 once they get their server working and I actually have my game in hand. I donated via pay-pal and so I have an e-mail receipt from pay-pal as a record of my donation (paypal’s website isn’t having any trouble) so I’m not worried. I’m sure 2D Boy will get things up sooner or later and treat people right as soon as they can.
And kudos to them for doing this. I played the demo and enjoyed it very much… but only have limited cash (and time!) to spend on games… so didn’t shell out full price… but I am glad to pay them $5 both because I’m sure I’ll be getting a great game sooner or later (once they get their server fixed) and also because I want to support the studio and the idea that trusting your customers to pay is a viable business model.
I wonder if the people who are buying a second copy and don’t want it (as in they’re making a donation) and have the download codes could hook up with the people who are trying to get it for the first time and didn’t receive the download info.
Broken server is broken.
Hopefully I will remember to try again in a few days.
Spy’s sappin’ mah server!
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Server down!
Picked this up recently in the Direct2Drive sale. I like how I keep thinking I’ve figured it out, and then realising I haven’t. “Aha, so I just… No. Eh? Oh. Aaaahh.”
Another as comments above, donation confirmed but no download information. Panic
What gets me is that if you met the 2DBoy guys down the street, regardless of whether they just gave you a free copy of their game, you’d probably want to buy them a drink. Unless you’re socially inept of course. How much is a pint of beer these days? (or for those of you underage, at least a can of Coke). That should be the absolute minimum fee. I’d probably buy them several beers, get them slightly inebriated, and get them to spill the beans on their next project. But that’s me.
Yay! At last it works! =D
I got World of Goo 6ish months ago on a Steam sale for $5 after playing the demo and *really* liking it. Played it, thought it was WONDERFUL. Easily one of my favorite games of all time. Felt guilty for getting such a beautiful, amazing game for 75% off. So..
$15 donation away!
What a wonderful approach. I’ll be passing – I already own the game -and- bought a second hard copy not long ago to pass on to someone else who’ll probably enjoy it loads – but I hope it does well for them.
Rockpapershotgun comments make me sad. How can such a nice website have such nondy bunch whine-o-cunts as a community?
If only we were all more like you!
I bought this wonderness for $5. some fun for my Ubuntu installation.
If you need a download link:
http://worldofgoo.com/manualEmailBot.php
do vendors still get charged a processing fee per transaction online?
here’s hoping they don’t, and 2D Boy isn’t forking over xx c/pent/ce per 1p transaction.
I dont think anyone is whining ^ and also I really do support the idea that devs trust their customers but I think the people on this website are a very unrepresentative segment of gamers. most will take the piss.
Havent had my email through yet, not whining just really excited to play it, its been on my list for ages but after all this hype im especially excited!
Surely the sight crashing is good news for 2DBoy? The offer must have been more popular than expected :) Congrats.
I bought my copy off Steam a while ago – not sure how much I paid, around the $20 mark i believe, but I’m from England so I’m not sure what that was in £ at the time.
Is their site working now? I tried to buy it yesterday for $0,01 but never got the download link, only paypal confirmation. And I’m too shamed to email them that my 1 cent purchase failed, I’d just rather buy another one :D
Or this might be their devious scheme to get money.
Yes! Got the email with the download link today. The server issues must be cleared.
When I saw this yesterday I couldn’t resist buying. Best $8 I’ve ever spent. Or it will be when my download link comes through…
I made another donation today (for 80 cents) and received my download link immediately… so it seems like the site is working again. I will be sending them a few more dollars (for a total of $5) after my download completes successfully. Hurray for a great game and hurray for being able to support them at least a small amount ($5).
If I pay, say, 0.50USD for it, will Paypal charge me or 2dboy any extra?
Yay, it came through a couple of days ago and ive completed it last night, lovely little game. very polished. should be making a mint off it on nintendo ds or iphone etc.
I’ve already bought it on Steam a year ago, but I wanted to have native Linux version, so I gave them 1 $ now :-)