Price

[D+]

The downloadable scenarios; will they cost anything?

[Drakefyre]

No, they are absolutely free.

[Drew]

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?

[Jewels]

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the value for BoE goes up every time a new scenario is made at the same time that it's value goes down for getting old/outdated.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.

[Zeviz]

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.

[ben4808]

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.

[Drakefyre]

Jeff has said that the Exile games still sell pretty well.

[Drew]

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.

[Jewels]

Quote:

Originally written by Zeviz:
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.

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.

[Ash Lael]

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.

[Jewels]

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...

[Princess Ruth]

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...

[ben4808]

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.

[Donald Hebb]

Quote:

Originally written by Drakefyre:
No, they are absolutely free.

Technically not true! Bandwidth costs money, after all.

[Ash Lael]

Quote:

Originally written by Jewels of the Forest:
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...

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.

[The Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Quote:

Originally written by Dervish Malachai:

Quote:

Originally written by Drakefyre:
No, they are absolutely free.

Technically not true! Bandwidth costs money, after all.

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.

[D+]

Do you need to buy the full version of Blades of Exile to play the downloadable scenarios?

[Drakefyre]

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.