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Talleyrand said:
Niche is no excuse, people expect game prices to fall.
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So because people expect the price to fall, the price should fall?
Shrapnel aren't trying to conquer the PC gaming world and make every PC gamer buy their products, you see. Most potential PC game buyers certainly do expect the price of a game to drop after a few months - but those same "most" would not buy a game like Dom2 anyway, because the graphics are so primitive, and the box isn't shiny enough (I mean, there is NO box), and there are no voices lines, and so on.
The target audience is different, and it seems that Shrapnel decided that their targeted audience is mostly composed of players who are willing to pay a premium price for what they consider to be a good game - even though most other players would not consider it so, and would not even buy it at maybe $10. Apparently, their sales figure show they were not too deeply wrong. At least from here, I'm happy with the price.
Basically, the price tag has little influence on sales of games like Dominions, so there is little reason for the price to drop after a few weeks or months.