Charles2222
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well he said he'd been lurking here for years and still hadn't come to a decision so there's no just arrived situation here. AE is an expansion to an existing game. Its been a long time in development and Matrix has earn revenue to keep producing. Ultimately AE is not necessary to purchase and play WitP. Some may prefer WitP's greater simplicity over AE.
Some of these people don't know this, but they're probably barking up the right tree and don't even know it. The main problem, I fear, is that somebody, with some know-how around here said the price will be cheaper than WITP, but not by much. Most of us take that to mean $10 cheaper. So the problem for the guy on the fence, like so many of us with UV, is that AE should be the entire game for the price it's allegedly commanding (we didn't need UV for WITP). Commonly, true expansions cost between 50% and 75% of the original price, and often many retail titles come out with gold editions, or reduction of price after a while. What happens in this case then, is not only will there be no gold edition, but the expansion is so expensive that it commands a new game price, but wait just a minute, that's not good enough, because you also need, at full price (not for the the beginning IIRC), in many cases, the original game.
So when UV came out, it was stated that WITP would come out later, and was a larger scale of the same basic game, many of us, present company included, decided to wait for WITP. So things have pretty much gone completely in reverse. Not only is WITP a new game compared to UV, but it doesn't require UV, therefore those who waited on WITP benefitted financially. Now, however, getting something which is usually considerably cheaper, bascially the same price, but it's also just an expansion. Must be quite a shock compared to how most fence-sitting scenarios go. Can you imagine not buying UV because they stated they would come out later with a larger game based on it, only to find that you were going to buy both 2 games anyway if in fact it required UV? Yes, Matrix never stated that AE would NOT require WITP, but it is quite a shock. New game gamble equals something like $140- $150. I know I wouldn't put $150 down for two games, one of which I presumably wouldn't play at all, but bought just to allow play of expansion. I suppose it's true what somebody said earlier, that AE was never meant for people who don't presently have WITP, because extremely few would pay that sort of money on something they can only get AAR's on.
< Message edited by Charles_22 -- 7/11/2009 12:21:08 AM >
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RE: AE's price - 
The next chance will probably be in our annual holiday sale. The long term price of WITP will not decrease and we still do feel that it's a good idea to buy and try WITP first before jumping into AE. WITP does indeed also have scenario content that is not duplicated in AE and its increased scale means that it is in some ways less daunting. 
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