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Apprentice
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written Friday, June 10 2005 11:15
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The downloadable scenarios; will they cost anything? Posts: 2 | Registered: Friday, June 10 2005 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Friday, June 10 2005 11:26
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No, they are absolutely free. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy Encyclopedia Ermariana - Trapped in the Closet ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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By Committee
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written Friday, June 10 2005 12:00
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You know, JV really ought to bring the price on his older games down a bit. I can't imagine his sales are that great for the Exile series when the Avernums are available for virtually the same price. I think he'd actually sell a lot more if he dropped the prices a bit. Law of Supply and Demand, and all that, you know? Posts: 2242 | Registered: Saturday, April 10 2004 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Friday, June 10 2005 12:41
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But see, the value for BoE goes up every time a new scenario is made at the same time that it's value goes down for getting old/outdated. He probably would sell more if he lowered the price, but what'cha gonna do? I doubt Jeff will budge. -------------------- "Even the worst Terror from Hell can be transformed to a testimony from Heaven!" - Rev. David Wood 6\23\05 "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." - John Wesley Posts: 1001 | Registered: Tuesday, August 19 2003 07:00 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Friday, June 10 2005 13:07
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Avernum is the exact copy of Exile, but with a new engine. So there is absolutely no reason to buy both Avernum and Exile games. This means that anybody who considers registering Exile games now is a hard core fan who probably doesn't care about the price. The only thing Jeff could accomplish by lowering prices for Exile series is cutting into his Avernum sales. As for BoE, it is currently a better value than BoA, because a value of a game like this is in its scenarios and there are far more quality scenarios BoE. [ Friday, June 10, 2005 13:08: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Master
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written Friday, June 10 2005 14:16
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Well, you can't forget that a sizable portion of each game is free for download, presumably just enough to get the player captivated and ready to buy the full version at all costs. So that puts out the possibility of putting games like Exile 1 up for free download so you can try out how the Exile games work. BoE will continue to sell at full price for a very long time. No one wants to miss out on all those scenarios there for the playing. -------------------- -ben4808 Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Friday, June 10 2005 16:06
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Jeff has said that the Exile games still sell pretty well. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy Encyclopedia Ermariana - Trapped in the Closet ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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By Committee
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written Friday, June 10 2005 16:41
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Fair enough. EDIT: Ben, obviously I'm aware of the sizable demos. I wasn't suggesting he let the game go for free. Were he to offer it instead for, say, ten bucks, I think he'd manage to sell a lot more of it. That's all. [ Friday, June 10, 2005 17:00: Message edited by: Andrew Miller ] Posts: 2242 | Registered: Saturday, April 10 2004 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Friday, June 10 2005 18:34
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quote:There is one reason, but only for the Blades'. Not all scenarios (more likely only a few) BoE scenarios will be ported to BoA. (and probably no originally BoA will be converted to BoE) So you have to buy both if you want to play the scenarios for both. -------------------- "Even the worst Terror from Hell can be transformed to a testimony from Heaven!" - Rev. David Wood 6\23\05 "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." - John Wesley Posts: 1001 | Registered: Tuesday, August 19 2003 07:00 |
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E Equals MC What!!!!
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written Friday, June 10 2005 18:46
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You'll notice that Zeviz referred specifically to the Blades games in the next paragraph, so I think it's safe to assume he wasn't including them in that statement. Mind, I still prefer the Exile Trilogy to the Avernum Trilogy. Never registered any games from either, though. -------------------- SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice. Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 04:32
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You're missing alot. Even though the demos were huge, they're still only thirds or forths of the whole games. You should buy them... ;) [ Saturday, June 11, 2005 04:39: Message edited by: Jewels of the Forest ] -------------------- "Even the worst Terror from Hell can be transformed to a testimony from Heaven!" - Rev. David Wood 6\23\05 "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." - John Wesley Posts: 1001 | Registered: Tuesday, August 19 2003 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 12:04
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They're really cheap as it is though! Look at how much Exile costs compared to your average X-Box game... And you get loads more play out of it too... -------------------- I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let's evolve. Let the chips fall where they may. Posts: 1277 | Registered: Sunday, December 9 2001 08:00 |
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Master
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 15:06
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Most people register because they really want a game. And if you really want a game, you will be willing to pay for, no matter if you can get Halo for the same price or not. The enjoyment factor in most cases is similar. -------------------- -ben4808 Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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BANNED
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 17:21
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quote:Technically not true! Bandwidth costs money, after all. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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E Equals MC What!!!!
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 17:52
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quote:No, I shouldn't. I don't enjoy them even close to enough to make a purchase worthwhile. They're mainly just loads of fighting glued together with crummy or non-existant storylines. Geneforge was good, though. -------------------- SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice. Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 18:19
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quote:BoE scenarios are small enough that it doesn't matter all that much anyway. EDIT: At least for the downloader. For a website hosting the scenario, repeated downloads from several people will probably cost a bit more money. [ Saturday, June 11, 2005 18:20: Message edited by: The Almighty Doer of Stuff ] -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Monday, June 13 2005 10:00
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Do you need to buy the full version of Blades of Exile to play the downloadable scenarios? Posts: 2 | Registered: Friday, June 10 2005 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Monday, June 13 2005 11:52
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Yes. However, with the amount of good scenarios (100+), it amounts to a cost of about 30 cents per good scenario, and 10 cents per scenario out there, and many of them are very good. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy Encyclopedia Ermariana - Trapped in the Closet ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |