HoofandHeart

A quiet place to rest your hooves.

  • She/Her

I Wish i could have been here more, to see the best of what was here, but life and the needs of those i share my body with kept me away.

We made mistakes during the time where i was here, and to the two systems hurt the most by this, we are truly sorry. We wish for the best for you, and hope you can find peace in your lives.

To those we followed here looking for a more slow place, I'm sorry i did not reciprocate.

To everyone else. Hello. Here at the end, i think it's worth leaving some record of who we are.
I am Henua. Highland Cow therian, and member of the Rift system. My headmates have places in a few of the remaining corners of the internet, and you can find them here:

Give us a message if you want to stay in touch. And above all, do not just grieve for the past that was lost to us. Find joy in what good there was, and use that to forge onward, even at the end.



geometric
@geometric

as you price lower, payment processors wind up eating a larger percentage of your profit. at one dollar, you will barely see any of it. even the cheap games on steam now, the ones that are playing the algorithm lottery trying to go viral through impulse purchases, are like $3-6. if you are anywhere but steam, you are never going to make it up in volume. i am begging you to charge more.

even ten years ago, the $1 iphone app store price point was ridiculous. inflation means charging a buck today would have been like charging 75 cents back then. if you made a thing you think is worth some money, you are not begging for nickels!!!! if someone is seriously like "I could afford one dollar, but THREE???? highway robbery!!" they live in clowntown and can go fuck themselves or get it in a sale or pirate it, who gives a shit, selling anything for a dollar these days is worse than giving it away for free.



geometric
@geometric

according to itch:

For most PayPal transactions, a fee of $0.30 + 2.9% is applied per transaction.

I believe this is out of date! Paypal currently lists their fee as $0.49 + 2.99%.

So for a $1 game, Paypal takes 52 cents. That's over 50%! For a $3 game, they take about 58 cents, or about 20%. On a $5 game, they take 64 cents, 13%. DO YOU SEE??? If every transaction costs you a base amount, there is a floor to how much you need to charge to even make a transaction worthwhile.

Even if you sold ONE MILLION copies of your game at $1 a pop, you are handing paypal HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.

And please remember, after those fees you are going to pay platform fees and taxes.


bruno
@bruno

The margin on a $3 game is not three times more than a $1 game. It's like 10 or 20 times more. You'd have to sell at least 10x more copies for $1 to be a better price point than $3.

And the reality is that you will not, basically ever. People have a fairly inelastic psychological barrier to spending money, and you have to overcome that whether your game costs $1 or $3. Beyond that point, the marginal difference in sales between that $1 price point and the $3 price point is just not that big.

You will make more money setting your game on Itch to PWYW with a $0 minimum than by selling it for $1.


bruno
@bruno

Also just in general, indie game pricing has become a truly fucked race to the bottom. Most indie games could be a couple bucks more expensive. And don't get me started on incredibly aggressive sales that have trained players to think the sticker price is just a trap for the unwary and 'really' games are supposed to be half off...



TuxedoDragon
@TuxedoDragon

i recently started the process towards getting top surgery! turns out it's much easier to get approved here in Oregon than in Utah :3

i have a referral and i'm gonna be scheduling a consultation within the next couple of weeks! from there, it'll just be a bit of a wait for the big day...i was given an estimate of 2026, though it's also quite possible it'll get bumped up! either way, it's all very exciting!!

"human" may not be my ideal form, but i'm gonna make the best of it anyways! uwu