Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [World War II] >> War In The Pacific - Struggle Against Japan 1941 - 1945 >> RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price Page: <<   < prev  4 5 6 [7] 8   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/13/2005 5:11:00 AM   
marky


Posts: 5780
Joined: 3/8/2004
From: Wisconsin
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

quote:

ORIGINAL: marky
no scool

Sez it all.


lol

i actually read and write well above college lvl

im just a big fan of BBS

_____________________________


(in reply to pasternakski)
Post #: 181
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/13/2005 5:11:45 AM   
marky


Posts: 5780
Joined: 3/8/2004
From: Wisconsin
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Halsey

I doubt it. You know how those "cheeseheads " are!


i myself am not a cheesehead

imho the packers suck

_____________________________


(in reply to Halsey)
Post #: 182
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/13/2005 7:49:12 AM   
pasternakski


Posts: 6565
Joined: 6/29/2002
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: marky
i actually read and write well above college lvl

So did the pilot of the Columbia until he tried to re-enter the atmosphere.

(in reply to marky)
Post #: 183
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/13/2005 9:46:14 PM   
marky


Posts: 5780
Joined: 3/8/2004
From: Wisconsin
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

quote:

ORIGINAL: marky
i actually read and write well above college lvl

So did the pilot of the Columbia until he tried to re-enter the atmosphere.


hmm

i do have a sense of humor, but that is not funny at all Pasternakski

7 brave astronauts died that day exploring the final frontier, and quite a few were mothers and fathers whos children are without them

have some more respect please

< Message edited by marky -- 2/13/2005 1:47:04 PM >

_____________________________


(in reply to pasternakski)
Post #: 184
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/13/2005 10:10:34 PM   
marky


Posts: 5780
Joined: 3/8/2004
From: Wisconsin
Status: offline 		as for my reading and writing skills i dont have my scores handy now but wen i find them ill share them if u like

IIRC they were in the Top 10% of the nation

and u can ask any teachers ive had throughout my life

so...

PBBBBT

< Message edited by marky -- 2/13/2005 2:12:27 PM >

_____________________________


(in reply to marky)
Post #: 185
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/13/2005 11:39:33 PM   
pasternakski


Posts: 6565
Joined: 6/29/2002
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: marky

ive

Uh huh.

(in reply to marky)
Post #: 186
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/14/2005 12:45:37 AM   
marky


Posts: 5780
Joined: 3/8/2004
From: Wisconsin
Status: offline 		okay

first - how old are u? 5? 4?

second of all

who the HELL do u think u r to judge or evaluate other peoples style of writing or typing or to judge the level of writing or typing in that particualr person?

third of all, SHUT UP and keep to urself ur own thoughts of other people unless they are good thoughts, and have some decorum

also, have sum respect for the dead and act like an adult

< Message edited by marky -- 2/13/2005 4:49:27 PM >

_____________________________


(in reply to pasternakski)
Post #: 187
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/14/2005 1:09:46 AM   
pasternakski


Posts: 6565
Joined: 6/29/2002
Status: offline 		You really need to go take a couple of the pills that help you calm down.

By the way, getting back to the topic of the thread, I think that demos are useful in evaluating complicated games like WitP, but only if the design team's time is not wasted by creating them. Screenshots and developer notes can help you understand how the game plays, its scale, and so on.

I've never really analyzed it, but I think I make a decision on buying a computer game based on its subject matter and what I can perceive of the approach the game is taking to it. For example, HOI2 addresses a game subject that is interesting to me, but, from what I understand of the game design, I won't be buying it. The whole concept of clicking on "go," then having to scramble to see what's happening and if I need to click "stop" to give orders lost me way back in the "Carriers at War" days.

(in reply to marky)
Post #: 188
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/14/2005 1:10:58 AM   
marky


Posts: 5780
Joined: 3/8/2004
From: Wisconsin
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

You really need to go take a couple of the pills that help you calm down.

did i hit a nerve?
seems i did...

_____________________________


(in reply to pasternakski)
Post #: 189
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/16/2005 8:48:41 PM   
Warfare1


Posts: 658
Joined: 10/20/2004
Status: offline 		I was going to buy the game but I balked at the price.

For Canadians the price for WiTP is a whopping:

$120.00 (plus change)

Almost $24.00 for shipping?

It's only a jewel CD case...

I realize it's a great game, but still...

(in reply to marky)
Post #: 190
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/16/2005 9:01:44 PM   
marky


Posts: 5780
Joined: 3/8/2004
From: Wisconsin
Status: offline 		hmmm

that is alot to cough up for a game

but

ive been playing WITP almost NONSTOP for about a week now

and i can tell ya

IMHO...

its WORTH it

_____________________________


(in reply to Warfare1)
Post #: 191
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/16/2005 9:02:19 PM   
testarossa


Posts: 952
Joined: 9/24/2004
From: Vancouver, Canada
Status: offline 		I've paid $90 CAD for download. Considering average 2 evening game is $50 i think it is well worth the price.

@marky: As I get older I get more philosophical and cynical. And my humour gets darker too. And I tend to accept other people opinion without labelling them bad or good.

< Message edited by testarossa -- 2/16/2005 11:03:19 AM >

_____________________________

Dr. Miller: I should've called the marines!
Dalton: They're few, they're proud... And they ain't here!!!


(in reply to Warfare1)
Post #: 192
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/17/2005 12:30:21 AM   
Ron Saueracker


Posts: 12121
Joined: 1/28/2002
From: Ottawa, Canada OR Zakynthos Island, Greece
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Warfare1

I was going to buy the game but I balked at the price.

For Canadians the price for WiTP is a whopping:

$120.00 (plus change)

Almost $24.00 for shipping?

It's only a jewel CD case...

I realize it's a great game, but still...


Buy it. Canadian units are in it...a first for a game encompassing the Pacific War I think.

_____________________________





Yammas from The Apo-Tiki Lounge. Future site of WITP AE benders! And then the s--t hit the fan

(in reply to Warfare1)
Post #: 193
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/17/2005 12:31:35 AM   
Warfare1


Posts: 658
Joined: 10/20/2004
Status: offline 		I would like it on the CD.

I only have dialup - so the download would take forever.

Still... $24.00 for shipping?

I have ordered thick books that cost less than that for shipping

Ah, well...

(in reply to testarossa)
Post #: 194
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/17/2005 2:26:42 AM   
Gem35


Posts: 3420
Joined: 9/12/2004
From: Dallas, Texas
Status: offline 		If you enjoy getting away and engulfing yourself in strategy and tactics, then by all means go and buy this. If you are the casual type who can't sit still for more than a few hours don't bother. I swear there has to be something fishy going on at work. The clock ticks alot slower than when I am home in-game trying to set each of my kiwi units to jump on the railways and head to Darwin I would have paid $200 for this game. Thank god for Matrix games Ok , now that i am done, back to over analyzing the costs per hour of computer games.

(in reply to Warfare1)
Post #: 195
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/17/2005 5:27:34 AM   
Warfare1


Posts: 658
Joined: 10/20/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Gem35

If you enjoy getting away and engulfing yourself in strategy and tactics, then by all means go and buy this. If you are the casual type who can't sit still for more than a few hours don't bother. I swear there has to be something fishy going on at work. The clock ticks alot slower than when I am home in-game trying to set each of my kiwi units to jump on the railways and head to Darwin I would have paid $200 for this game. Thank god for Matrix games Ok , now that i am done, back to over analyzing the costs per hour of computer games.


I agree with you. I play UV and LOVE it.

And I know WiTP is a great game.

And I knew the game would cost around $100.00.

But why so much for the shipping ($24.00)? It's a quarter of the entire game's cost. After all, it is a slim, light CD jewel case.

And the $120.00 is still BEFORE taxes.

If there was a distributor here in Canada, then most likely the shipping would be free.

After all, Matrix makes NOTHING on the shipping costs, yet it is probably losing sales of the game because of this very issue...

< Message edited by Warfare1 -- 2/17/2005 3:29:49 AM >

(in reply to Gem35)
Post #: 196
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/17/2005 5:35:08 AM   
Gem35


Posts: 3420
Joined: 9/12/2004
From: Dallas, Texas
Status: offline 		Just think of all the time you have on your hands now that your national sport is cancelled. You would get back your money's worth and then some by the time Lord Stanley's cup would have been raised.

(in reply to Warfare1)
Post #: 197
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 12:57:27 AM   
testarossa


Posts: 952
Joined: 9/24/2004
From: Vancouver, Canada
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Gem35

Just think of all the time you have on your hands now that your national sport is cancelled. You would get back your money's worth and then some by the time Lord Stanley's cup would have been raised.


I will drive to Seattle to watch Mariners. NHL should rot in hell.

_____________________________

Dr. Miller: I should've called the marines!
Dalton: They're few, they're proud... And they ain't here!!!


(in reply to Gem35)
Post #: 198
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 1:42:34 AM   
Paulchen

 

Posts: 46
Joined: 4/13/2001
From: Schneverdingen,germany
Status: offline 		This game or the old great big fine game pacific-war are a life-style.
It will never find a price.
Because:
A game, that will produced in 1984 and still in progress,
what will it really cost?
I hope, this will the same for witp.

< Message edited by Paulchen -- 2/18/2005 11:43:19 PM >

_____________________________

veni, vedi, vici

(in reply to testarossa)
Post #: 199
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 2:00:05 AM   
Cap Mandrake


Posts: 23184
Joined: 11/15/2002
From: Southern California
Status: offline 		Canadians should definitely buy the game...they need something to do now that the NHL is kaput for one year.

$90 is nothing for a game that required that much time to develop. Compare that to $25 or $30 for Bill Clinton's biography.

I figure I got back at least $90 in geography lessons...for eg., I now know that if I want to go to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from Perth...I go due North

Now I can also wow my friends by spelling Toelongebeotoungue and Soorabyeyuh.

_____________________________


(in reply to Paulchen)
Post #: 200
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 2:14:39 AM   
Charles2222


Posts: 3993
Joined: 3/12/2001
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Canadians should definitely buy the game...they need something to do now that the NHL is kaput for one year.

$90 is nothing for a game that required that much time to develop. Compare that to $25 or $30 for Bill Clinton's biography.

I figure I got back at least $90 in geography lessons...for eg., I now know that if I want to go to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from Perth...I go due North

Now I can also wow my friends by spelling Toelongebeotoungue and Soorabyeyuh.


The key to making a comparitive basis is to make sure that the object of comparison is actually something somebody would buy. You might as well had compared to buying a stick for $25-30.

(in reply to Cap Mandrake)
Post #: 201
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 2:42:37 AM   
Cap Mandrake


Posts: 23184
Joined: 11/15/2002
From: Southern California
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Canadians should definitely buy the game...they need something to do now that the NHL is kaput for one year.

$90 is nothing for a game that required that much time to develop. Compare that to $25 or $30 for Bill Clinton's biography.

I figure I got back at least $90 in geography lessons...for eg., I now know that if I want to go to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from Perth...I go due North

Now I can also wow my friends by spelling Toelongebeotoungue and Soorabyeyuh.


The key to making a comparitive basis is to make sure that the object of comparison is actually something somebody would buy. You might as well had compared to buying a stick for $25-30.


I completely agree. Surely WITP is worth 3 copies of whatever its called.

_____________________________


(in reply to Charles2222)
Post #: 202
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 2:47:25 AM   
Charles2222


Posts: 3993
Joined: 3/12/2001
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

quote:

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Canadians should definitely buy the game...they need something to do now that the NHL is kaput for one year.

$90 is nothing for a game that required that much time to develop. Compare that to $25 or $30 for Bill Clinton's biography.

I figure I got back at least $90 in geography lessons...for eg., I now know that if I want to go to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from Perth...I go due North

Now I can also wow my friends by spelling Toelongebeotoungue and Soorabyeyuh.


The key to making a comparitive basis is to make sure that the object of comparison is actually something somebody would buy. You might as well had compared to buying a stick for $25-30.


I completely agree. Surely WITP is worth 3 copies of whatever its called.


I see how you must be going with the retail price, only I was saying that whatever it's called was worthless and not worth $25-30, such that infinite amount of whatever it's called would still not make for a sufficient comparison, that is, if we don't consider the pages hygenic capabilities in the little room.

(in reply to Cap Mandrake)
Post #: 203
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 6:21:55 AM   
sadja

 

Posts: 299
Joined: 8/1/2004
Status: offline 		I can not believe we are still talking on this topic, worried about a 20-30 dollors different price. I never played UV but I played Pac war on a 486 and loved it. Like a bunch of people have said, this is not a game it is a lifesyle change. I have ben playing this game since August. I saw an ad in WWII magazine and got on the web sight. Never regeted buying it. I still need to get the maps.

There is just so much support on the forum pages and sheer entertainment from reading the AAR's. There is no way a demo would help, it would turn many people off. It isn't a point and shoot game, you have to think about what you do. Ohterpost have discussed that if a buch of new people bougt it they would get bored easily because there is so much to do and plan and think about. I know I'm rambleing it's the ADD (55years old) kicking in. We will nerer convice jpinard or other people who have already made up thier minds. Money should never be problem if you want to make it your priority to have this game.

Thanks for anybody who read this and just not blow it off. Don't have to say any more how much I love this game and if I new how much fun it was going to be I would have paid 200.00 for it, because some experinces are priceless.

Sadja
Wargamer from the Avolon Hill days.

_____________________________

Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.

Tom Massie GPAA

(in reply to Charles2222)
Post #: 204
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 7:15:27 AM   
Cap Mandrake


Posts: 23184
Joined: 11/15/2002
From: Southern California
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Charles_22


I see how you must be going with the retail price, only I was saying that whatever it's called was worthless and not worth $25-30, such that infinite amount of whatever it's called would still not make for a sufficient comparison, that is, if we don't consider the pages hygenic capabilities in the little room.


I think you are being a bit harsh. You have completely discounted the value of whats it called as a paperwieght and doorstop or as use as kindling when the wood is a little wet.

_____________________________


(in reply to Charles2222)
Post #: 205
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 2:44:11 PM   
m10bob


Posts: 8622
Joined: 11/3/2002
From: Dismal Seepage Indiana
Status: offline 		We're with ya'..

_____________________________




(in reply to sadja)
Post #: 206
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 4:01:56 PM   
Charles2222


Posts: 3993
Joined: 3/12/2001
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

quote:

ORIGINAL: Charles_22


I see how you must be going with the retail price, only I was saying that whatever it's called was worthless and not worth $25-30, such that infinite amount of whatever it's called would still not make for a sufficient comparison, that is, if we don't consider the pages hygenic capabilities in the little room.


I think you are being a bit harsh. You have completely discounted the value of whats it called as a paperwieght and doorstop or as use as kindling when the wood is a little wet.


You mean those are more lofty aspirations than serving for hygenic purposes in the little room? I wasn't attempting to define whatever it's called by it's many possible purposes, but only with it's most precise purpose.

(in reply to Cap Mandrake)
Post #: 207
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/19/2005 6:41:52 PM   
Cap Mandrake


Posts: 23184
Joined: 11/15/2002
From: Southern California
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

quote:

ORIGINAL: Charles_22


I see how you must be going with the retail price, only I was saying that whatever it's called was worthless and not worth $25-30, such that infinite amount of whatever it's called would still not make for a sufficient comparison, that is, if we don't consider the pages hygenic capabilities in the little room.


I think you are being a bit harsh. You have completely discounted the value of whats it called as a paperwieght and doorstop or as use as kindling when the wood is a little wet.


You mean those are more lofty aspirations than serving for hygenic purposes in the little room? I wasn't attempting to define whatever it's called by it's many possible purposes, but only with it's most precise purpose.


Clealiness is next to Godliness. It does occur to me though, that said tome would not be as valuable in the Islamic world owing to different little room habits.

You are very persuasive. I retract my comparison of whatever its called to whatever I was comparing it to.

_____________________________


(in reply to Charles2222)
Post #: 208
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/1/2014 10:15:13 AM   
panzerman1

 

Posts: 2
Joined: 2/1/2014
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: WiTP_Dude

I was wondering about the no demo policy myself. Supposedly it isn't needed because demo users will get frustrated by the game and not want to buy the full version.

I was always curious of this myself.

(in reply to WiTP_Dude)
Post #: 209
RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price - 2/1/2014 11:15:24 AM   
tocaff


Posts: 4781
Joined: 10/12/2006
From: USA now in Brasil
Status: offline 		I was thinking about my GC v Steve and the years of enjoyment we've both had. That being considered, even if that was my only game having been played with WITP the game was worth every penny of it's price. How many dollars for how many hours? What a bargain!

_____________________________

Todd

I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2080768

(in reply to panzerman1)
Post #: 210
Page:   <<   < prev  4 5 6 [7] 8   next >   >>
All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [World War II] >> War In The Pacific - Struggle Against Japan 1941 - 1945 >> RE: You're losing sales with no demo/high price Page: <<   < prev  4 5 6 [7] 8   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

0.906