Why such a high price?

[Mortifer]

WOW this game will cost 50 bucks !?!?!??!?
This cant be true! I mean Dom II. looks like a good game, but it shouldnt cost more than 25$ if you ask me.
You cannot compare this to Half Life II. in quality. [It was a bad example cuz HL2 will be an FPS, but you know what do I mean, right?]

[PDF]

Originally posted by Mortifer:
WOW this game will cost 50 bucks !?!?!??!?
This cant be true! I mean Dom II. looks like a good game, but it shouldnt cost more than 25$ if you ask me.
You cannot compare this to Half Life II. in quality. [It was a bad example cuz HL2 will be an FPS, but you know what do I mean, right?]

Why should it cost 25$ ? Why not 10, 5 or 1 ??
The video games economy is working backwards : HL 2 will sell millions copies, Dom2 will sell in few thousands (my guess, and I'm optimistic IMHO).
So HL2 should be *much* cheaper than Dom2, as industrial furniture is to craftmanship...

[Mortifer]

I think you are very wrong PDF. There are different quality categories for the games. If you want to sell a game with a '96 gfx quality, it shouldnt cost more than 25$. The gameplay might be good, but the gfx is at least as important now in strategy games, just like the gameplay. Good or bad...that is a fact.

[ September 21, 2003, 14:22: Message edited by: Mortifer ]

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Mortifer:
WOW this game will cost 50 bucks !?!?!??!?
This cant be true! I mean Dom II. looks like a good game, but it shouldnt cost more than 25$ if you ask me.
You cannot compare this to Half Life II. in quality. [It was a bad example cuz HL2 will be an FPS, but you know what do I mean, right?]

Its only five dollars more than space empires IV, and SE:IV is a couple of years old. Shrapnel apparently thought that 45$ was a reasonable price, and here in sweden at least new games cost 50-60 USD. And most of these games would only yield, to me, a fraction of the enjoyment and playing time that dom 2 delivers.

[Mortifer]

Well I hope that Dom II. will sold out completly, but I doubt is seriously...50$ Category is for top rated games usually....

[Hurmio]

I payed about 50€ of the original dominions. And i can now say that i haven't enjoyed any full price game as much as the dominions. This in mind i will gladly pay another 50€ of the ascension wars.

Matti

[Mephisto]

However Shrapnel should consider that we still have to pay about $11 for shipping and 16% taxes. That makes the game very expensive.

[Nerfix]

Originally posted by Mortifer:
WOW this game will cost 50 bucks !?!?!??!?
This cant be true! I mean Dom II. looks like a good game, but it shouldnt cost more than 25$ if you ask me.
You cannot compare this to Half Life II. in quality. [It was a bad example cuz HL2 will be an FPS, but you know what do I mean, right?]

Dominions II will have much more content than HL2. So if it's only the graphics that you care about, well, bad for you then.
I'm willing to pay the 45-50$ and the shipping costs for this game happily, while i won't propably even touch HL2.

[MythicalMino]

I agree Nerfix....I have spent mucho money on games....many of them were marketed as THE best game ever (Empire Earth comes to mind...)

I bought games that cost 30-40 dollars that are not even in my collection anymore....

Graphics? I don't care about graphics....the way i look at it, the better the graphics, the less time they have to actually put into gameplay.

I bought Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic....for i think 30 bucks...within 3 days, I had it uninstalled, and trying to pawn it off on someone for 20 bucks....Dominions offers so much more....so much more....even for the 20 dollar price difference...

I would pay that in a heartbeat...and I will come this thursday

[Nerfix]

Yeah... I stopped playing AOW 2 when i found Dominions. IMHO, Dominions I is one of the best games ever.