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Well, they do have a habit of giving entire episodes away for free.

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“Ah, what you actually mean is “I love to not support Telltale”.
Since your actual argument is that “they once did something I disliked, so now I refuse to support them even though they no longer do that thing which I disliked”.”

I take it you’re human, right? You’ve never had an experience where someone offended you in a way that made you want to avoid them, even if they stop doing that thing you hate (but don’t apologize)? In what way is this strange to you?

Forcing people to pay for the entire season up front is decidedly BAD business because it discourages semi-interested people from trying out the series because they are unsure that their 35 dollar investment will be worth it. Lower entry costs always encourage more buyers. Further, it encourages Telltale to try less hard on the latter games in the series, because they know full well that most of their buyers are already locked in. You might counter that they will work equally hard on all episodes because they want to encourage sales for their next series, but that just begs the question of why they don’t permit people to buy individual episodes for the same reason.

Further, you’ve entirely misunderstood the situation. The Strongbad series was available episodically UNTIL the very last episode, at which time they forced you to buy the entire series. I bought 3 of the first 4 episodes at $8 each, and I intended to buy the fifth for $8 as well, for a total cost of $32. Instea,d thanks to their unannounced switch to the buy-as-a-series model, I was going to have to pay more to get the last episode than I would have to buy the entire season from the outset. Punishing people for ONLY buying 4 of your 5 episodes isn’t a good way to build consumer loyalty. What made the situation more insulting was how little thought went into the process. Many people who did what I did were left out in the cold, but they only considered that people who bought some on the Wii and some on PC would be left out; a decidedly small group. It was a brash, stupid move and it pissed a lot of people off.

In any case, you claim that Telltale moves from season pass to selling individual episodes at the end of the series doesn’t match with the facts of the matter (strongbad going the opposite direction), and the fact that they are doing so on the Monkey Island series might well be understood as realizing that selling them by the season is simply less profitable.

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To begin with, you try to get people to buy the entire season, because that’s best for Telltale.
As time passes, you become more and more flexible, ultimately allowing people to pick which chapters to buy.

I’m sure some will scream and rage at this obvious money-grabbing scheme, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s just business. There’s no law that all pricing options have to be available from day one.

I’d love to still be able to support Telltale

Ah, what you actually mean is “I love to not support Telltale”.
Since your actual argument is that “they once did something I disliked, so now I refuse to support them even though they no longer do that thing which I disliked”.

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On the other hand I don’t laugh much when playing since the humor is varying wildly.
They absolutely nailed Episode 3 but I fear they might have used all they had in it since episode 4 was far less funny even with Stan included and the cliffhanger was just stupid although it caught me unexpected.

Not sure they should proceed with a 2nd series since I fear they might not have enough capacity to carry another series. Might be better to let Monkey Island RIP.

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