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World Of Goo Sale Offers Fascinating Results
As expected, 2D BOY have published details of their World Of Goo First Birthday experiment. Offering the game for whatever price people wanted to pay (previously it was $20), this meant people could get a copy for as little as $0.01 or as much as fifty million squillion space dollars. (I believe that's the upper [...]

Author: John Walker
Category: RockPaperShotgun 2D-Boy feature pricing World-of-Goo
Publish Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:58:05 +0000

As expected, 2D BOY have published details of their World Of Goo First Birthday experiment. Offering the game for whatever price people wanted to pay (previously it was $20), this meant people could get a copy for as little as $0.01 or as much as fifty million squillion space dollars. (I believe that's the upper limit.) Originally this was intended to last for a week, but has now been extended to 25th October. And being a rather open sort they've announced how many copies they've sold so far, and indeed how much people have been paying, along with much more. It's an unprecedented amount of detailed sales information. Its significance shouldn't be underplayed.

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System Requirements
Minimum:

Supported OS: Windows® XP or Fista
Processor: 1GHz or faster
Memory: 512+MB RAM
Video: Any 3D graphics accelerator less than 5 years old
DirectX® Version: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 100MB

sounds like it would run nicely on my phone

any idea if the radiohead-sylee deal is still available?

/edit oooh, yes it is. Till 25 Oct. this got a rave review on game spot that I found randomly browsing through their terrible interface one bored day at work last week

I've been trying ALL WEEK to use this bloody thing, but anytime I check the 2D Boy server is dead.

I suspect the $1-1.99 range represents the minimum amount transferable using one of the payment methods, rather than people choosing to pay more than 1c.

paid a fiver
downloaded it first thing this morning
it's running on my netbook at work
I may never do any work ... EVER again

Wasn't going to buy it, but thought "this is a great idea", so bought it for £2 just to support the idea.

It's bridge builder but cuter and with goo

. As such a fine timewaster but given the lack of exploding helicopters and/or aliens with fekking big lazer gunz and spaceships it'll never be a true classic

I bought it when it was was new, but it bored me after five minutes.

FatherJack wrote:I bought it when it was was new, but it bored me after five minutes.

Do you have an immunity to charm?

spoodie wrote: Do you have an immunity to charm?

Don't think so, more that I didn't find any. The picture in the OP is cute and all, but I really don't remember any of that in the game I played - just recalcitrant blobs of tar who frustratingly would not do my bidding.

FatherJack wrote:just recalcitrant blobs of tar who frustratingly would not do my bidding.

Sounds like my lungs.

That picture (or something like it) was from about halfway through the game. It might be that you didn't play long enough to become charmed by it, but then if the game didn't grab you for long enough then it doesn't really matter.

I was referring to the general environment, the sign writer and the goo themselves. The "human" characters were just ugly, if I recall.

I'm not sure why this game never really appealed to me, even the buy it stupidly cheap option doesn't tempt me. Maybe because it has no guns.

Is there a demo?

HereComesPete wrote:Is there a demo?

Looks like it: http://www.worldofgoo.com/dl2.php?lk=demo

Cheers spoodie.

I'll give this a go (at some point) maybe (possibly).