marc420
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Joined: 9/23/2002 From: Terrapin Station Status: offline
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I'd say I probabaly own a smaller percentage of games that Matrix publishes than from most other publishers I like. Usually when I find a publisher that publishes games I like, I buy most of what they offer. Typically I find one game I like from the publisher, and then just from being around the forums and websites of the publisher I end up ordering a lot of their other stuff as well. With Matrix, everything is priced at the very upper limit. And now with no retail sales, there's never anything in the discount bin from Matrix. So for everything on Matrix's site, its a very hard choice as to whether to buy the game or not. Therefore I make much fewer impulse buys from Matrix and end up owning fewer games from Matrix. Also, since everything is priced at the upper limit of how much money they think they can take with people, to me there's a certain bad aftertaste from buying games from Matrix. If the game is good, then its just a matter of low-level grumbling about how much I paid for it. But if its a game that has problems or in which I lose interest in a short while after buying it, then I end up with a bad feeling about how much I paid. Not to mention that with these prices any purchase from Matrix pretty much cleans out the game buying budget for awhile. Either way, whenever I buy a game from Matrix, the high price means I'm almost always going to be saying that this is it and I won't be back to buy more for at least awhile. Its just an impression, but for me I think Matrix ends up getting less of my money because of the high prices. Look at it this way. BIN -- Matrix will get their $60 from me. Campaigns on the Danube -- won't buy now. Normally might be interested, but BIN will strip budget. Anyways, I have doubts about the game from what I've read. Mainly about how much interest I'd have in the game longer term. With no discount bin, I'll probably never get this game. WITP: At a lower price, I'd buy this game. But having cursed Grigsby's interfaces and game designs before, I simply won't pay $70 for this. Starshatter: This is a game I might buy just to check out. Its not really a game I'm interested in, but close enough that I might check out. But not at Matrix's prices and the dent Matrix is putting in my budget with BIN. So Matrix will get $10 to $20 extra from me for BIN. But there's at least three other games in their catalogue that I won't buy largely because of the way Matrix prices games.
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