Dominions 3 News!

[Agrajag]

As long as it doesn't cost insane amounts of money to ship to Israel (like most US delivers cost :\), I'll probably buy it.
Otherwise I'll just have to wait for either prices to drop or some of the independant Israeli importers to get it. Or I'll just convince my friends to buy it, and play at their house and just wait for a year and buy their copy from them =P.
How much does shipping to Israel cost anyway?

[WraithLord]

Agrajag said:
As long as it doesn't cost insane amounts of money to ship to Israel (like most US delivers cost :\), I'll probably buy it.
Otherwise I'll just have to wait for either prices to drop or some of the independant Israeli importers to get it. Or I'll just convince my friends to buy it, and play at their house and just wait for a year and buy their copy from them =P.
How much does shipping to Israel cost anyway?

I have ordered it to be shipped to Israel and the shipping cost is $8.45.

For me the price is ok because of the printed manual and replay value. Also I think it will be nice if shrapnel will at some time make a collectors edition of dominions with all the dominions titles, fan made stuff and other goodies.

[Annette]

Agrajag said:
As long as it doesn't cost insane amounts of money to ship to Israel (like most US delivers cost :\), I'll probably buy it.
Otherwise I'll just have to wait for either prices to drop or some of the independant Israeli importers to get it. Or I'll just convince my friends to buy it, and play at their house and just wait for a year and buy their copy from them =P.
How much does shipping to Israel cost anyway?

I just took a look at our shipping options to Israel. We offer two; the least expensive is USPS Global Priority Mail for $5.00.

[Gandalf Parker]

I dnt think I will bother comparing Dom3 price to games that MIGHT last a month at most on my machine (like Oblivon). Also Im not sure that asking any company to compare their prises to the types of places that have their own factory cranking something out in bulk ever works anyway. I see it tried alot, I just dont think Ive ever seen it work.

[PrinzMegaherz]

Gandalf Parker said:
I dnt think I will bother comparing Dom3 price to games that MIGHT last a month at most on my machine (like Oblivon). Also Im not sure that asking any company to compare their prises to the types of places that have their own factory cranking something out in bulk ever works anyway. I see it tried alot, I just dont think Ive ever seen it work.

Anyway, aside from the established fanbase, noone else will buy a game with "cheap" graphics for that much money. And all those fans (including me) will preorder, so in the end noone is going to pay the whole price.

[Alneyan]

I frankly would be surprised if a mundane player found 50$ to be a bargain for Dominions. A few more bucks does not seem that likely to make a difference for the non-convinced player: 50 bucks is still as expensive (if not more so) than a retail game with their shiney graphics, so the comparison is never going to turn out to Shrapnel's favour.

Then again, perhaps I'm biased. I bought Dom II for roughly 60 euros, with a fast delivery and no hassle, and found the price fair enough. Games here are (or were? Been a while since I last purchased anything in retail) more expensive than either Dom II or Dom III (through Shrapnel). Or perhaps it is because there were also complaints about the pricetag for Dom II a couple years ago.

Of course, I'm not saying it is good news, but I'm more concerned about the "why" than the end result. Somehow, I doubt Shrapnel has raised the pricetag so that Tim can buy his third mansion in California. I'd trust Shrapnel that something is not looking quite so well in the Book of Scribbled Figures of Doom (the accounting department, and the dust therein), hence making the price increase necessary.

[B0rsuk]

Sounds like you never heard about Linley's Dungeon Crawl
http://dungeoncrawl.org/

Most computer 'RPG' games tend to look primitive when compared to typical roguelike game (A.D.O.M., Nethack, I suppose I also have to mention Angband but I'd rather not)

[Alneyan]

B0rsuk said:
Sounds like you never heard about Linley's Dungeon Crawl
http://dungeoncrawl.org/

Careful with the "Reply" fields! It looked as though you were replying to me, while it was probably not the case (DominionsFAN was probably the one you replied to). Don't dare say I never heard about roguelikes, or else.

[Annette]

Alneyan said:
Of course, I'm not saying it is good news, but I'm more concerned about the "why" than the end result. Somehow, I doubt Shrapnel has raised the pricetag so that Tim can buy his third mansion in California. I'd trust Shrapnel that something is not looking quite so well in the Book of Scribbled Figures of Doom (the accounting department, and the dust therein), hence making the price increase necessary.

Still working on that first mansion The only reason for the $5 bump is because of the increase in production costs. Remember, we're going from a 134 page manual to a 200 page manual. And everyone is working very hard to be sure it will be worth every penny!

[PrinzMegaherz]

Annette said:

Still working on that first mansion The only reason for the $5 bump is because of the increase in production costs. Remember, we're going from a 134 page manual to a 200 page manual. And everyone is working very hard to be sure it will be worth every penny!

If the manual is as helpful as the manual of Dom2, you should just drop it, save the money, lower the price and include a good tutorial / launch a Dominions 3 wikipedia as Stardock is doing for GC2. Maybe you could offer a cheaper download only version, saving people the shipping cost.