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Why should Australian developers have to pay for Wall Street excesses ??????
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You're arguing that volume doesn't change and the price has to be set to cover cost and profit (revenue = volume x cost, after all).<br/>
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I know it's a small developer and they have to pay the bills yadda yadda yadda but no price drop in 5+ years is a bit ridiculous.
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This assumes a drop in price and a marketing push wouldn't drive so many new customers to the product you ...

<t> $80us? You have to be kidding. For a game built on an old engine? With no campaign? Please.<br/>
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If steam can generate a 3000% sales increase off a 75% drop in the price of Gary's Mod (which is a very niche product) maybe Matrix need to have a think about their pricing strategy. Did they ...

Arjuna! You're a star! Bloody good idea. I will go blawg about this soonish.

<t> I don't care much about a printed manual, or not. I guess because I don't mind reading PDFs. But for the love of good, promote BFTB by reducing the price on COTA when BFTB is close to release. Consider a cheap COTA a demo for a game that is sadly free of any demo. I've got friends who would like ...

<r> Steam is loaded with niche games actually. There are all kinds of oddities there and I find it hard to believe that wargames are somehow more niche than some of the things they have. And nicheness if never mentioned as a factor in whether Steam sells games or not when on sale. Further ...

<t> To me it's about economics and the developers getting as much cash as they can.<br/>
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For every person who thinks "Wow, this game is my dream game, here's your $50us" I bet there are a dozen or more who think "well, I like the odd wargame, but without a demo, and with a new release coming ...

<r> I blame the ugliness of the Matrix forums (and how messy they are to navigate from the master list), how poor the Matrix web pages are and also how poor Matrix are at promoting and competitively pricing their games. Those who were going to buy it did so in the first few weeks/months and I don't ...

I've had a look around, and blogged about it. It seems only (?) Matrix Games like to keep 6 year old games at their full price (HTTR). Panther, I love you guys, Matrix, not so much.

<t> With BFTB being released this year I know a few people holding off buying COTA. Why doesn't someone consider dropping the price? It would stimulate sales of BFTB and it would get more sales of COTA. People can't justify a full-price for a game that has been out a while.<br/>
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Also, I ...

Oh, I didn't mean a campaign game like that - I meant a big group of players doing one scenario using forums as the staff meeting place.

Thanks for the news. And I've no idea how you'd do a big campaign game - it would be extremely hard work!

So... what happened?

Blogged the Losheim Gap AAR. I really hope I can write about some more soon!

<t> Oh that sounds interesting!<br/>
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Has anyone tried running COTA as a staff exercise through forums? It would be really interesting to see folks write up and issue orders and then to have a GM plot them on the map as instructed, and to watch the players respond.<br/>
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Or it could be ...

<t> I can't face turn based operational games any more, even strategic games, they have to be WEGO or real time. I just think we're, what, 35 years past hex-based gaming, and we have computers, yet we're still stuck with the same central game we had back when wargaming started, albeit, with tweaks ...

<t> I've previously posted on the COTA side of the forum and have enjoyed COTA since then (several games and an AAR posted on QuarterToThree.com). <br/>
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Since then I've set up afteractionreporter.com and have posted a couple of bits and pieces about COTA in the past, as well as mentioning ...

Those are great! Good work kiwi ..from a fellow Kiwi!

<r> Yeah, I should have paid a bit more attention to the distance I needed to cover and the time I needed to do it in. Mind you, that would have meant leaving the VP locations earlier, resulting in a requirement to kill more Germans, that would be tricky! But doable I guess.<br/>
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<r> <B><s>[b]</s>Day 3, 1200 Hours - GAME END<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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WOO! Marginal Victory!<br/>
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