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<blockquote data-quote="Remus Lupin" data-source="post: 6162359" data-attributes="member: 12760"><p>I'll just note that I for one haven't used any phrase like "dirty marketing scheme" to describe my attitude toward the game at any point. I've simply said that, the way that it's being marketed has yet to convince me that it's worth my time and money. I fully accept that others may differ with me on this. Once more, I'm not asking, at this point, for every alien ever (I think I said that explicitly), but for a reasonable sampling. If your definition of reasonable sampling is different from mine, so be it. Similarly, if you feel that $60 is a reasonable pricepoint, once more, so be it. Clearly FFG is a well run company and I'm sure their market research is solid, so I have no doubt that many others will agree with you. But again, I'm not really talking about $60, I'm talking about $180 to get all three of the books. Granted, over time I probably paid considerably more than that for all of the WotC supplements. But, apart from one or two that I picked up for the sake of completeness, each of them gave me something *in addition to the core experience* that I genuinely wanted. My gripe is that I feel like I'm being asked to pay $180 for the core, not for an array of supplements that I could take or leave.</p><p></p><p>To be clear: I'm not saying any of this is "a dirty marketing scheme," I'm simply saying that it does not fulfill my criteria of diminishing marginal utility.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remus Lupin, post: 6162359, member: 12760"] I'll just note that I for one haven't used any phrase like "dirty marketing scheme" to describe my attitude toward the game at any point. I've simply said that, the way that it's being marketed has yet to convince me that it's worth my time and money. I fully accept that others may differ with me on this. Once more, I'm not asking, at this point, for every alien ever (I think I said that explicitly), but for a reasonable sampling. If your definition of reasonable sampling is different from mine, so be it. Similarly, if you feel that $60 is a reasonable pricepoint, once more, so be it. Clearly FFG is a well run company and I'm sure their market research is solid, so I have no doubt that many others will agree with you. But again, I'm not really talking about $60, I'm talking about $180 to get all three of the books. Granted, over time I probably paid considerably more than that for all of the WotC supplements. But, apart from one or two that I picked up for the sake of completeness, each of them gave me something *in addition to the core experience* that I genuinely wanted. My gripe is that I feel like I'm being asked to pay $180 for the core, not for an array of supplements that I could take or leave. To be clear: I'm not saying any of this is "a dirty marketing scheme," I'm simply saying that it does not fulfill my criteria of diminishing marginal utility. [/QUOTE]
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