Retzinsky
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I'd like to echo what a lot of people have said in this thread. I also discovered Distant Worlds via the news on rockpapershotgun.com about the Legends expansion but I couldn't believe the price. £53.68 is insanely high and an immediate turn-off for anybody interested in taking a risk on something that looks interesting, especially considering there's no demo. I've bought a ton of indie games this year and they have on the whole been more enjoyable than "traditional" titles, but they have also been priced in such a way to entice the curious rather than turn them away. Bought this year alone: AI War + Expansions, Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Bastion, The Binding of Isaac, Dungeons of Dredmor, Frozen Synapse, Jamestown, Magicka, Revenge of the Titans, Space Pirates and Zombies, SpaceChem, StarRuler, Terraria. Those are just the ones I saw in a quick scan of my currently installed games on steam alone. Every single one of them for less than £15 and some of them for a lot less, sub £5 in some cases. Now, it's obvious that an enormous amount more development time went into a deep, complex game such as Distant Worlds than say, The Binding of Isaac. However, some are comparable, like StarRuler and AI War (which is itself available as a complete package from Matrix Games for less than £20.) I think you're missing a very large amount of potential sales. If the game suddenly showed up on steam as a complete package for £15 I think you'd be surprised at the results. Under those circumstances I wouldn't think twice about grabbing it. How many other people like me (and the others in this thread) are out there?
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