Now here's something interesting. Indie Royale, a new website dedicated to selling indie games in bulk, is testing the waters with an interesting pricing tactic. You basically set your own price, much like the Humble Indie Bundle deals, but the price you choose to pay can raise or lower the minimum price of the product.
The site launches with what they're calling their "Launch Bundle," which includes sci-fi noir adventure game Gemini Rue, first-person tower defense title Sanctum, 2.5D platformer Nimbus, and side-scroller-shooter A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda.
Basically, the game pack starts at a low figure, and the more people buy, the higher that number goes. Naturally, buying early means you pay less, but here's the thing: you can influence the minimum price based on how much you choose to pay. The more folks purchase the pack, the higher the price goes, but paying more than the set minimum actually lowers it for others. So the more generous people are, the lower the price remains, and the site's leaderboard already shows certain folks paying nearly $50 for the four games.
That's pretty much what you get for paying above the minimum: self-satisfaction and a spot on the leaderboard. At the time this article was written, the price was floating around $2.65 USD.
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Indie Royale Bundle site
Pretty cool concept, and the games look decent-to-good/interesting. I recommend hopping on this deal as soon as possible, because the longer you wait, the more you pay. They're having problems with Steam code distribution at the moment, but they assure us it will be fixed shortly. Also, for every 10,000 bundles sold, they're giving everyone with the bundle a free DLC for Sanctum. The bundle has been going for just under 8 hours as of this posting, and the sales already tally higher than 15,000 so we're likely to get several free Sanctum DLCs.
