Dom 3 price...

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Agema said:
I didn't think the price was bad. But then, at $1.9 = �1, $55 is about the same as a shop-bought game, the exchange rate works in my favour. I'd expect to pay less for an electronic download and .pdf manual (I prefer CD/DVD and paper manual anyway).

You're not only paying for the mere physical products, whose cost is probably unusually high due to limited publishing run, but you're also paying for an unusually high level of quality support.

Dominions 3 was released in May '06, and the developers and reps of the publisher not only can be found still participating in the forum, but also continuing development work that adds more than bug fixes. From a 'normal' publishing house, you'd probably have never seen many of the post-launch fixes and content without paying for multiple 'expansion packs', if ever. You probably also wouldn't have seen quite the support for mods, because -that- much ability to mod makes it harder to sell aforementioned expansions.