This discussion misses a few points along the way.
The game costs what it costs because Matrix Games determined what it needed to make the sale possible for THEM.
It is not relevant what my economic circumstances are in the making of THEIR game.
Because it was not ME that made it, thus it was not MY money being put on the line.
The simple fact is, I can't afford everything I want. Thus I don't own everything I want. And I don't expect David Heath or any of the other designer/developers to lose sleep lamenting that this poor schmuck couldn't buy their game.
I bought HTTR this year, because it beat out the competitors. Plain and simple. That ONLY says that I wanted that one more than all the other ones. It does not mean the others are unworthy, just that I myself wanted HTTR the most (and was only able to pick one).
I have several games I yet still want, and if the calendar rolls over into 2005 and I have still not bought them, that is likely just my problem.
There is every reason to believe, I could yet still not buy any other games this year, even if the price was dropped 15 bucks on every single one of them.
The wallet is empty here right now.
Some people just need to wake up and smell the reality, we can't all be friggin rich, or crazy enough to buy every game that happens to get placed on sale (at the expense of some other part of their personal lives).
Maybe it's to my advantage I have to be so ruthlessly picky.
I also don't have most of the games out there that eventually get to be picked on for being crummy.
CD on demand, it says what its about.
You want the damn thing, and don't want to or can't do so yourself, then dig in the wallet some more.
I don't recall David strong arming anyone to buy their 10 dollar cds or else.
The WAY some people complain, an observer would think they are being paid to do it
In all the past years of buying wargames, the actual PRICE of the game has never been the dominant factor in my getting it/not getting it. It was whether or not I had an avenue to getting it at all.
I live in small town nowhere, far removed from decent retail. Retail to me is a 20 dollar (gas costs) drive to somewhere else.
Thus, no matter what I buy in gaming, odds are it cost me 20 bucks to get to the store to look at the shelf and go "hmm nothing on sale today".
Much better to just spend the money on broadband, and download what I want when I want for whatever reason I want.
And anyone that can afford broadband, can also afford a decent cd and or dvd burner.
Thus, cd on demand, why the heck would I even need that service.
My sympathies to those living in small town nowhere, with no braodband access, no local friends with broadband access nor burner drives, no credit card, and no retail, and no job.
When are you planning to move though?
And complaining about piracy I feel eventually something will happen, maybe not in my lifetime, but, someone might look back on this post 4000 years from now and say, wow, HE WAS RIGHT! lol
