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When will DA and ToA price drop?

February 10, 2009 8:38:49 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums

Now that retailers have the Ultimate Edition available (Amazon.com has it for $36.99 + Free Shipping), can you guys drop the price of the expansions?  I purchased Dread Lords on it's release day and have been wanting to get the expansions for some time now.  Why are they still $44.99 (as a bundle) when I can just re-buy everything for $10 less? 

Can you help a poor gamer out?

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Reply #1 February 10, 2009 10:04:48 PM
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Well i'm not familiar with the specifics of this situation you ask about, but for the most part, any games that hold their price for longer is usually a good sign that the game is popular and will be well supported. I hate it when i buy a game which i fall in love with and then see the price crash..... killing my hopes for future expansions!!!

On the other extreme, are the Microsoft operating systems which are seemingly miraculous in their price holding ability in total defiance of how the entire pricing universe is supposed to work! I mean, name one other man made product in existance that can sit on a shelf and maintain it's exact same price from day one for several years and meanwhile the new release is sitting in a box on the same shelf right next to it?????????????? *miraculous*

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Reply #2 February 11, 2009 7:25:07 AM
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Hi!

I'm waiting for the weekend sale of the TotA. Who knows, meybe I'll even get it this year.

BR,  Iztok

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Reply #3 February 11, 2009 9:44:26 AM
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Quoting Mystikmind,
reply 1

On the other extreme, are the Microsoft operating systems which are seemingly miraculous in their price holding ability in total defiance of how the entire pricing universe is supposed to work! I mean, name one other man made product in existance that can sit on a shelf and maintain it's exact same price from day one for several years and meanwhile the new release is sitting in a box on the same shelf right next to it?????????????? *miraculous*

not THAT miraculous considering updates are delivered the whole time ...

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Reply #4 February 11, 2009 3:42:57 PM
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I would argue that the prices have dropped substantially. As an early adopter to Dread Lords and the two expansions, I spent $100 total. Now the whole bundle is less than half of that, and worth every penny IMO.

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Reply #5 February 11, 2009 4:40:13 PM
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The way it works is after a while you breakdown and buy it, then the next week it will go on sale. At least that's the way it seems to work for me

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Reply #6 February 11, 2009 7:27:50 PM
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Quoting DethAdder,
reply 5
The way it works is after a while you breakdown and buy it, then the next week it will go on sale. At least that's the way it seems to work for me

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Reply #7 February 11, 2009 9:27:35 PM
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Hehe, Murphy's law as it applies to prices...

PenicillinX57: I've seen somewhere else on this forum a remark that seemed to indicate that Stardock did not plan on competing in price with all the retailers, don't take this as an official point of view though. But that happens more often, the company itself won't price itself out of the market trying to keep up with any retailer that happens to lower the price - those retailers get a considerable volume discount and can survive with a lower profit margin than the developing company itself.

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Reply #8 February 11, 2009 10:11:39 PM
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I don't think that's related.  The new bundle is $40 at any retailer, and Stardock should be able to pricematch itself.

 

I don't have any desire to buy the bundle when I already have the original game, personally.  I was curious about the expansions but I've already moved on and don't plan to come back unless this does signal a coming price drop.

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Reply #9 February 18, 2009 3:52:56 AM
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Quoting whismerhill,
reply 3

Quoting Mystikmind, reply 1
On the other extreme, are the Microsoft operating systems which are seemingly miraculous in their price holding ability in total defiance of how the entire pricing universe is supposed to work! I mean, name one other man made product in existance that can sit on a shelf and maintain it's exact same price from day one for several years and meanwhile the new release is sitting in a box on the same shelf right next to it?????????????? *miraculous*
not THAT miraculous considering updates are delivered the whole time ...

 

I wouldn't consider a lot of their patches 'updates' . They really do far less than they should get credit for most times.

 

I will say however that I'm overwhelmed by the wow factor of Windows 7 though. It has so many neat little functions that you end up discovering the more you play with it.

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Reply #10 February 18, 2009 6:24:13 AM
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Quoting TheUltimateEnd,
reply 9

I wouldn't consider a lot of their patches 'updates' . They really do far less than they should get credit for most times.

maybe but as a matter of fact, XP was a pile of crap at launch, worse than win2k which was already plagued by problems (at launch). Debugging & fixing, is by far the most daunting & time consuming programming task of a project. Accorded that there is still some crap in XP like the poor explorer.exe which still have (as of today) a handle leak (unlike win2k by the way). Yet you can't really deny the amount of fixing work that went into it

galciv2 is very comparable being plagued by an awful amount of bugs the first few month ... and also any project, which is as widespread as windows is, will get in the spotlight of some underground people to exploit weaknesses in the code...

as an example, on some hacker convention, linux was left unhacked because of lack of interest, not because of lack of possibility ...

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Reply #11 February 18, 2009 8:41:04 AM
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Effective immediately there are some GalCiv II price changes:

Galactic Civilizations II: Expansion Bundle - reduced to $29.95

Twilight of the Arnor (both digital and digital +box) - reduced to $19.95

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Reply #12 February 19, 2009 4:41:13 PM
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Don't be cheap please.

Stardock deserves all the money it can get. Please buy the full price most expensive version you can for a good deed.

Buying Stardock's products should be considered a tax-deductible charity handout, its that good, morally.    

Now its the opposite for EA... you're sleeping with the devil. 

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Reply #13 February 22, 2009 2:36:23 AM
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Oh sweet...you guys are awesome!  Thanks for listening and bringing the pricing scheme in line with retail!

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