ORIGINAL: billyjj
This all started with the Battle of the Bulge game, just like a few of us have warned. They see all you people as idiots now that will bend over and pay whatever they say for whatever crap they are selling.
There is no obligation to buy anything, and 'all us people' do make considered purchase decisions. Some have a price they will no go above for anything and others decide on a case by case example. In my own case I probably buy less than half the Matrix releases than I did a few years ago as due to a combination of exchange rates, sales tax and pricing policy I consider most not 'crap', but significantly over-priced. Despite enjoying CoG I refused to buy the EE because I thought the pathetic discount offered to existing owners verged on insulting.
BotB is expensive, but not overpriced. It is also, most certainly, not 'crap'! Ditto WitP and, in all probability, WitE. In the case of BotB the price was initially a shock as it was a significant increase on CotA, but the simple fact is that despite it's awesome owning-ness the series has never sold vast amounts of copies, even compared with other wargame series. If the higher price is needed to keep making games, so be it.
