Why such a high price?

Kristoffer O · #1 September 19th, 2003, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by Psitticine:
The only other thing I want from it is a giant parrot avatar (Psitticine = parrot) for my Pretender God.

Perhaps we should make a Parrot-patch

Nerfix · #2 September 19th, 2003, 05:14 PM

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:

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Perhaps we should make a Parrot-patch

Uh...
You guys are scaring me...
First, R'lyehian Tentacle Boogeymen and Tentacle Boogeymen/Human crossbreeds

...
Then the spider-riding Zulu Machaka...
And now Parrots?
*shiver*

[ September 19, 2003, 16:15: Message edited by: Nerfix ]

Psitticine · #3 September 20th, 2003, 06:27 AM

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Originally posted by Kristoffer O:

quote:
Originally posted by Psitticine:
The only other thing I want from it is a giant parrot avatar (Psitticine = parrot) for my Pretender God.

Perhaps we should make a Parrot-patch

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! (leaping up and down)

Mortifer · #4 September 21st, 2003, 02:48 PM

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 · #5 September 21st, 2003, 03:19 PM

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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 · #6 September 21st, 2003, 03:22 PM

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 · #7 September 21st, 2003, 03:22 PM

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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.