New Amistore releases?

[imagodespira]

Hello, the  around 300 copies are only AmigaOS4.x could be some less (maybe some more), but not much. As we sell digital Version via amiboing.de over the time we dont know it 100%, we heve to calculate it (count the PayPal orders, the direct payments etc..).
 
 The 50 digital Units written in the amiganews.de entry are much higher now, also the CD Versions where increased over the time (Dealers ordered a second batch because it where sould out). We had to make more discs over the time. Currently we don't have more MACE discs here but dealers should have some more. We where asked a week before for 10 new discs and another dealer got a good numbers but he ordered 10 more. We have to order at least 25 units, so we now wait until they runs out of stock at the dealers...
 
 Selling the discs is a long journey, users often purchase one disc if they order other stuff in the online shop and put a disc on top. We are also often on amiga meetings in Germany and there the discs where sold direct to the users from a dealer, amigakit does the same... the direct communication with the user and the feeling .. I WANT TO BUY SOMETHING TODAY! makes for sure some sells on such meetings.
 
 As for AmiStore we see there a platform to get digital content from one source for AmigaOS. From user side, I like to get software without searching the net for it. Currently all small developers has its own payment stuff and we have to find it first. On Amiboing it is the same, users have to register, then pay direct to us. If the user wants word me up, he have to pay there and so on. An appstore could join this. Look at ztools, since it is on amistore there are much more updates, to pay for it, the user shows the need of the software and the respect for the work on it. I look forward for more of this.
 
 From developer view, we will put more software to amistore in future. Maybe we will close the payment stuff on amiboing.de sometimes. It is easyer to handle the payments over one dealer instead on each customer. As it is also sparetime for us, we can focus on making software. Currently we let it go as it is, but we will see how amistore runs in future and this could be someday the only distribution channel for digital content for us.
 
 Another thing, no need to make a secret of it. If AEON has an Appstore and releases new computers like x1000, with a preinstalled appstore we could get more customers. This means more time we can cut from our work time for amiga related stuff.
 
 For all developers..
 There is not much money to earn, but it helps to let the developments goes on. For hobby developers it also could just finance a NG Amiga, this helps you and with your software it helps the user. They pay if the software is fine and have not to donate before the release and no risk if it will be not released.
 
 
 As for Candi. It is a lot of fun, so why not sell it on AmiStore. Yes it is not a big thing but it is nice. And the work behind was not easy and took much time. You are free to buy it or not, or look forward to the radiance suite to get it within a package. We will work in future on it too, it is a nice gimmick.

[imagodespira]

We have kept the price all the time. It is not deceided if we make a price drop, it also depends if the shops have discs in stock. It would be infair if we have a massive drop but the shops can not because the discs had to be paid.

We did a drop for swamp defense, because the second part was on the way.

Around 15-18 euros is not bad for a bigger game. If people like it, they buy it. It also depends on the development time we spend on the game. We can not make the price as on mobile platforms, it is here not just a port. We have to optimize much things to get it run as it runs.

We see here that it not so much depends on the price, more on the game. If people like it, we sell more units. We expect around 50 units for every game but the last time we focus to the 100. If it is more, it is great. But this is our aim and we try to get more over the time (perhaps M.A.C.E. was luck, so we expect no more than 100 and are happy if it will be more). If we have software, we get users and so on...

Please note that gaming is good but I think not the target market for AmigaOS, people more want real Software. Many users are not the youngest anymore and they are not the biggest players. I am sure we could sell much more units on AmigaOS If we had a real software. We got also some messages from people, they like what we do but are no players.
As we must do the games for business on the mobile platforms, we got our direction, it is a time problem. But we also working on smaller software stuff and want to try to offer it via amistore if the time is right, then we will see what happens. And there it will be the same as with the games, we start with small stuff and try step by step to get bigger ones (more sales, more time for bigger projects).

I am dreaming of 500 units within the amiga community for each software, also for other devs.
Would be nice if the platform would grow to such numbers, then semi pro developers, self employed developers could make software... in future we need a small but healthy market. But it is a long road until there, hope the x5000 would make a step, also the sam460cr with lower price is good for it.