ravinhood
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What you in essense say is that whatever price a company set, is the correct price. And if someone disagree, they are cheap? Stupid? What makes you KNOW that 69$ are the best price? And 10$ for a CD is a fair price? When you see a subcompact (whatever that is) to the price of a hummer, dont dare question it, just 'get over it'. I have to agree with Jalla on this one, buying a vehicle vs buying a "game" for mere entertainment is a major different issue. I personally think the price of the game without a CD and manual is rather expensive as well. But, I don't care for monster games anyway, so, it doesn't affect me either way. But, I think in all fairness to those that do enjoy monster games, they have every right to complain about pricing and inclusions of articles like CD's and maunals. It's what makes "competition" out there, if someone else comes along and provides near the same game for $59 with a cd and a manual (and in a retail outlet), who do you think we are likely to purchase it from? ;) I won't be purchasing many of Matrixs games because of this direct sale for download only, cd $10 extra, because I don't like that type of purchasing. I have dialup and I'm not going to sit for days downloading a game that they could just as easily box up and market it on the shelves of Best Buy, Ebgames and other software outlets which I frequent regularly. And yep I'll miss out on a lot of games. Oh well. It's probably a major reason wargaming is dying as it is, too many wargame developers have pulled out of the retail market and not enough NEW people can know about their games, because they restrict everything to direct sales. What about wargamers that don't even own an internet connection? Look at the masses they are losing just by making them online download from this aspect. HPS, Shrapnel, and now Matrix all pulling out of the retail avenue of sales (or never were involved, I can't remember the last HPS or Shrapnel game I saw on a retail shelf), not good for computer wargaming, not good at all. I've been wargaming for 35 years, and it wasn't until like 2002 that I even heard about Wargamer.com. So look at all those years I never even knew about HPS, Shrapnel or Matrix. All I ever knew was what I saw in a "retail" outlet. That's where I went, it's still where I go to buy most games, but, I will use ebay now also to buy games, since downloading is out of the question. At least HPS and Sharpnel offer the complete games in a box, though HPS has gone to this PDF file type of manual instructions. I just don't like that at all, thus have only bought one HPS game to date. I'm thinking about Gettysburg (their new one), thinking thinking thinking, maybe if I wait awhile it will be on ebay. hehe
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