Space Empires IV as collector item?
 

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Um, since when has this game gotten so high? I think it was cheaper... Wonder how much higher it will go before Space Empires Deluxe is released.

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Hmmm that is pricey. Wonder if anyones buying it?

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Is there any bidding involved? Otherwise, I would pay those $50 and call it a bargain; games cost about $60 dollars in stores here, and I paid nearly $100 for Space Empires (through a French reseller, saving all the trouble with shipping and extra fees).

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No it's a 'Buy it now' price and only ships to the US.

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Got curious and found vanilla SEIV for $20 + shipping.

For El Moderatorisisimo AT I will use URL tags. But because I'm me I will co-operate with the letter and not the spirit of the instruction by making the title far longer than the actual URL. Perhaps slightly childish but it makes me laugh.

Today's question: Is gold worth double the money? Discuss.

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Not with deluxe coming out soon.

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Please use URL tags for long addresses.

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Sorry http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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And you should be dammit!.... J/k, its just helps keep everything nice and tiddy thats all. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Besides you get to NAME the link.... and thats always fun. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Since most of the ones sold are pre-gold versions, you might be onto something. If you have an extra copy of GOLD you might get $50.00 for it. That is until they discover they can buy it NEW from SFI later this month. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Actually I wonder if Gold sold more copies than the original?

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I heard, recall but cannot confirm that about 5,000 copies of the game were sold. Seems like a low number if you ask me, but then again, who knows. Didn't shrapnel report that they hit the 500k mark in sales? If that were true then they sold around 13,000 copies or so.

Given the core nature of posters over the years I find it hard to believe that THAT many copies of the game were ever sold. I mean it would be great if that many had been sold, but its more realisitic to think that about half that many or less were sold.

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I think 13,000 is a realistic number, if not more. 5,000 seems way too low, that is for sure.

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Well you only ever get a low percentage of people who buy a game going on the forums for it. With a large chunk of that tech support or gameplay advice. Given the nature of the game, the plethora of competition in the 4X market and the fact it was never retail 5,000 isn't impossibly low.

The revenue figues, well such things are for PR, it's not lying just artistic licence http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif So if you include total revenue and shipping you get a high value, if you take off taxes and shipping you get a low value. It's a niche(ish) product and you want publicity, which would you chose to use?