Heart Breaking News, Frictional Games almost had to drop Amnesia

[superluser]

It's for reasons like this that I wonder if it might not make sense to do something a little different than prereleases for the next game.

Instead of saying ``Prepurchase now and get 10% off,'' you could say something like ``Buy an Amnesia bond and get a share of the prepurchase/first week profits.'' I'd rather pay you guys $20 for making the game than prepurchasing it for $18.

If you did it the right way, you could have each share have an expected return of 10% if the next game sold as well as the previous one, giving people an incentive to promote it to their friends. (And you could prevent a tulip by only selling a certain number of shares)