'Pay what you want' for Jason Rohrer's Sleep is Death

Jason Rohrer -- no doubt inspired by the continued and jaw-dropping success of the Humble Indie Bundle (currently up to $1.24 million raised) -- has just revealed a pay-anything deal for his free-form multiplayer storytelling game Sleep is Death. For a donation of any amount over $1.75, you'll get two copies of the game (one each for the storyteller and the storytell-ee). If you've been on the fence with this one, the time is now (see my original feature on the game for the specifics on how it works and why it's important/valuable) and don't forget to check out previously noted third-party helper sites like SIDTube to download art packs and mediate online play. Sleep is Death [Jason Rohrer]

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Gainclone

I wish this policy was in effect when curiosity got hold of me, and I bought the game. A few weeks ago it was still about fifteen dollars.

It’s the only time I’ve ever felt I wasted money on a video game. The game is basically useless.
WA

To be rather frank, pay-anything-more-than-$1.75 is not pay-anything. I can understand the issue with processing fees and bandwidth, but this isn’t really an excuse for what seems like shady, false advertising, especially when other companies selling games with a pay-anything model don’t have such restrictions, and take the below-minimum payments as a loss made up for by the overly high payments.

That, combined with the oddness of the “open source” aspect of Sleep is Deathâ€”despite using the OSI logo, I can find nothing about the licensing of the game beyond something that doesn’t sound like open source at allâ€”keeps me from buying the game simply as a matter of principle.
atansm1th

hmmm.. agree with you Gainclone. As i search videos and feedback at i didn’t find any positive feedback on this. But I think i should still need a copy to test it on my own hoping that there something good will happen like what i had in world of warcraft gold seller
Anonymous

I have to agree with Gainclone. At fifteen dollars I really felt a little cheated. It took me a long time to even get the thing working with a friend. Once we did, we quickly realised that it would take a HELL of a lot of practice for the ‘dungeon master’ to be anywhere near quick enough to respond to even simple player requests within 30 seconds. We had a couple of tries each and quickly got bored and frustrated. I doubt I’ll ever boot it up again.
hbl

I bought this today. It turned up on Savy Gamer (worth RSS bookmarking if you’re in the UK), and I paid a fair price I think. Created a few characters, and got a few ideas for scenarios. If anyone wants to play, let me know.