Re: FYI: COMPLETE Gothic Series -- Steam Sale $18.75 thru Thursday, 3/24 @4pm Pacific Time.

From	Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
Subject	Re: FYI: COMPLETE Gothic Series -- Steam Sale $18.75 thru Thursday, 3/24 @4pm Pacific Time.
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Date	2011-04-03 06:34 -0500

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On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:30:02 +1300, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Matt v3.3
wrote: 

>On 02-Apr-11 9:31 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
>> Amazon.com is $3 more expensive in my locale ($47.99 vs. $44.99). So,
>> since I can self-publish this game (for my own use), essentially, I'd
>> be paying $3 for DVD paint and a box. My "stuff" is a cakebox of
>> blank DVDs and no-DRM. One DVD does not cost $3.
>
>Mayhaps you forget about printed manuals - do they still make those? ;) 
>Especially useful for RPGs, back in the day at least.
>

Yeah, the days of a *useful* printed manual are gone.

Hell, the days of a *useful* .PDF are gone.  :^(

>> Add some DRM, which I place at a rough economic value of -$15.00, and
>> that game would have to be selling for $32.99 at Amazon before I
>> bought it.
>
>I'd put printed manuals at +$10.05 (assuming they are the thick and 
>leafy 200+ page type)  I'm also a sucker for cloth maps and other stuff 
>- I purchased all the IE games in their original fat boxes, despite the 
>cheaper re-releases with no extras included.

Yeah. I miss the good ole days, too. Nowadays, you have to shell out extra for
a "Primo's Guide" if you want that kind of thing. And then the "missing manual"
makes no distinction between tactical information and a spoiler. Ugh.

-- 
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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