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pricing and searching games

A topic by rogerty created Mar 15, 2021 Views: 175 Replies: 2
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hello! Everyone!

Is it ok to have 2 project pages of the same game? One being the "premium" version (with several OS versions) and one the free version.
This way one project appears as free in the itch browser and one as paid.

I have read: https://itch.io/docs/creators/quality-guidelines#avoid-uploading-and-lsquoreskin...
("Avoid uploading ‘reskins’, or many project pages for minor changes Do not create multiple project pages for projects that are essentially the same but with minor adjustments. If the code or asset changes are substantial it’s okay. Additionally, if you're trying to preserve different versions of the project, eg. jam versus final, it’s okay. If you need to sell different tiers of the same product you can use our individual pricing tools.")

And I have read https://itch.io/docs/creators/pricing

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That’s okay with us, quite a few developers have similar setups. The issue our Creator Guidelines is specifically calling is for those who create what some people tend to call an “asset flip,” where they create a large number of product pages with slight variations of the same thing to try to make their pages show up more frequently.

Note that you might have more success having your free version on the Paid version’s page as a “Demo,” that way there is only one page to manage, and anyone who comes across the free version will also see that you have a paid version. Generally they’re more likely to convert to a paid customer that way.

Hope that helps

Wow thanks Leaf for answering. Love your projects.
Ok, in that case I will blindly follow Leaf's advice and go with 1 site. Thanks!

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