There may be other factors explaining why Dominions II seems expensive for you: Sharpnel is basically selling less games than, say, EA. Less sales result in a higher sell price, even if the costs to make a game are less expensive.
Along the sames lines, either Doug Church or Warren Spector (If you don't know who they are, perhaps you know some of the games they have been involved in: Ultima Underworld, System Shock, the Thief series, Deus Ex, Ultima 7 if memory serves right, to name but a few) said that, while the cost to make Thief were *ten* times higher than for Ultima Underworld, the sales for the game were about the same. You can see there will be a problem somewhere at this rate.
And Tim said that the costs needed just to make the CD and the manual are raising as well with each pasing year. And I would believe other expenses were increased as well. If you haven't read their Posts, I would advise you to do so if you want to know why their games tend to be more expensive. (At least for the inhabitants of the USA.
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If that can help you make feel better, Dominions II is a very cheap game by the standards here in France. The average game costs in fact more than Dominions, even if you don't take into account the current exchange rates. (If you say a dollar is equal to an euro, your average costs about 50 to 55 dollars here in France. At the moment it would be somewhere between 60 and 65 dollars.) So as far as I am concerned, Dominions is a cheap game, less expensive than most.
[ November 03, 2003, 17:54: Message edited by: Alneyan ]