Results from World of Goo pay-what-you-want experiment

[cgkc17]

famousringo said:

cgkc17 said:
where does it say that actually cost 2dboy money for those who paid a penny? i couldnt find it anywhere. it only says that 2dboy didnt recieve any money, and that it costs PAYPAL money to process the transactions, not 2dboy.

that being said, i paid $2.50, and am gonna the wiiware version this thursday.

I interpreted that as costs which Paypal passed on to its customer (2D Boy, in this case). I don't know of any financial institutions which are willing to take a loss on transaction fees for the benefit of their clients. Hence why most businesses require a minimum charge for debit and credit card transactions.

2D Boy is obviously willing to give away their product for almost nothing. I doubt Paypal is so charitable, but maybe I'm wrong.

heres a direct quote from the 2dboy website:

Big Picture

Since the birthday sale started, about 57 thousand people bought World of Goo off our website.  The average price paid for the game was $2.03 a significant percent of which went to PayPal for transaction fees.  Normally, they keep about 5% of the revenue, but because PayPal fees are structured in a way that they take a larger percentage for smaller transactions, we ended up paying over 13% in transaction fees.  For all purchases of around 30 cents and under, we actually saw no money, PayPal took it all, but they probably ended up losing money on most of those transactions ($0.01) as well, they’re not the bad guy.

2DBoy didnt lose a cent on any sales of the game, they just didnt make any money on sales of $.30 or lower.