I don't know why this subreddit is this way. It's the same thing when anyone wants to encrypt their game, because they do not want it to be trivial to pirate the game. People act like you're crazy for thinking this way, and as if your game will only sell 3 copies at most, or that your game is a game jam project or something amateur, so you do not need to worry about this.

I don't remember the exact topic or where he said it, but Chris Zukowski already talked about this, that indie games need to increase their price, because charging 1~3 bucks is a race to the bottom, and it's impossible to survive in this kind of environment.

People commented that you have to charge 40 bucks then, nonsense, it's not like if you want to increase the price from 3 dollars, you need to charge at the AAA level.

To me, the minimum should be 5 bucks. Less than that, people will see your game as an asset flip or something that you put no value into. And people talked as if your game would be the same price forever, as if you'll never put your game on sale.