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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6270707" data-attributes="member: 58197">The reason people are freaking out about it is that we don't evaluate prices in a vacuum. We compare to other, similar things, and to what we have paid in the past. Most Americans have a strong negative reaction to what we perceive as unfair deals. We balk when we feel someone is trying to soak us for extra cash, even if the value proposition we're being offered is acceptable in itself. (It's a pretty interesting psychological phenomenon, actually. We'll turn down free money if we think it will lead to someone else getting more than they deserve. It's irrational for the individual, but it might be a very valuable trait on a societal level.)The argument that "If you're willing to pay $130, you should be willing to pay $150" doesn't hold water at all. How far are we supposed to be fine with being bid up? $130 to buy into a game is steepish. $150 is steeper still. At some point, adding one more dollar must cause the decision to shift from "Yes" to "No." And it will always be possible to say at that point, "It's just one dollar!" But it's not just one dollar, it's one more dollar on top of a bunch of other dollars.For some people, the break-point is going to fall between $130 and $150. If you were completely comfortable and felt no hesitation laying out $130 for Pathfinder, I agree it would be silly to treat $150 for 5E as a horrible money grab. But if you felt a little socked in the wallet laying out $130 for Pathfinder, you could reasonably find $150 to be over the limit for 5E.For me, I'd be willing to pay $150, but I wouldn't go a whole lot higher.Which who the what now? Who says they're doing a staggered launch? You're reading a whole heck of a lot into a single placeholder on Barnes and Noble--and it's obviously a placeholder, they don't even have an author credit. Do you have a source for this?</blockquote>

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