I want to buy Episode 5 of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People on the PC. It looks neat.
Can't buy it, though. I can't buy it because there's no option to buy the episodes separately. I could buy the whole season, but I don't want to. This seems deliberate; I can buy the Sam and Max episodes separately, but not the Strong Bad ones. I want to think I'm jumping the gun, the way I'm about to condemn Telltale for this, but if they were going to offer the option to guy the last episode separately, you'd think they'd do it on release day.
Is it just me, or does this sort of defeat the player-side value proposition of episodic gaming? You guys get to make them at a comfortable pace, but I don't get to buy them at a comfortable pace.
What's the bottom-line argument for this decision? No really, is this saving/making you money, Telltale? Because if so, and I really mean this, no harm/no foul. Or is this an experiment for you, seeing if the money lost by not letting me and my budget-conscious ilk just buy one episode is greater or lesser than the money gained from the people who are willing to shell out a little bit more to round out the whole season?
If so, I'm curious as to what your findings will be. Again, I'm serious. I happen to think it'll be a sour sign for episodic gaming if it proves unavoidably profitable to force people to buy whole-season packs.
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