Really Expensive Stuff

[Scribble]

I've noticed something...

Books that fall within the 30-50 dollar range...

People grumble a lot... "Man I know they say the price of paper is higher now but..."

Price something around the 70-100 dollar range,however... (Provided it's not just a "collectors" reprint of something available already..."

"Wow I can't wait to get my hands on the new..."

Just seems kind of funny to me...

 

[Aus_Snow]

Uh, is this in reference to any particular thing? I think I missed it.

For the record though, I was fine with the fairly high price tag of Conan from Mongoose. It's a beautiful hardcover, full colour, not little, and a great game what's more.

Oh, and that was $50 full retail. I think there are a few more too. . .

Sorry if I'm not getting the joke!

 

[Scribble]

Uh, is this in reference to any particular thing? I think I missed it.

For the record though, I was fine with the fairly high price tag of Conan from Mongoose. It's a beautiful hardcover, full colour, not little, and a great game what's more.

Oh, and that was $50 full retail. I think there are a few more too. . .

Sorry if I'm not getting the joke!

Nothing in particular... Not really a "joke" just an observation.

That being: People seem to be less upset about products that are "REALLY" expensive, then they are about the moderately expensive ones...

If I were a company selling a product, maybe I should wait until I have a humungo amount of material and just package it together as a high priced item.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Ah. Actually, I think you have a point, FWIW.

Personally though, I just tend to balk at all the price points above ~$50.

 

[bodhi]

I think it's a matter of expectations. You see a $50 book, and you start comparing it to books around $40, or $30, or $25. There's a lot of room to nitpick about stuff, and you gloss over things like paper quality (vs page count), artwork, layout, and good indexing. You hem and haw, and debate whether or not you want to spend the extra $10-20.

Then you see something like World's Largest Dungeon or Ptolus, and you gush over how huge it is, and how slick and clean it looks. And hey, there's a CD in back, and you know there's a ton of stuff on the website, and, and, and...

You grumble about the rising cost of your bread and butter, whatever that may be. With a luxury item, you already know you'd be spoiling yourself, at least a little.

 

[Treebore]

Joe Goodman said that a number of people were turned off by the $100 price tag of DCC 51 at GenCon, despite being 760+ pages, maps, and other handouts. He says the content is equivelant to over $200 in "normal" DCC content.

 

[Scribble]

Joe Goodman said that a number of people were turned off by the $100 price tag of DCC 51 at GenCon, despite being 760+ pages, maps, and other handouts. He says the content is equivelant to over $200 in "normal" DCC content.

Granted, my perceptions are probably skewed.. I'm basing my study off of the ever so scientific (what I've noticed on enworld...)



Just seems like there are way more I can't believe it's that much money! complaints for the regular stuff then the "delux" stuff...

Maybe it's for the reason said above.. when you buya delux thing, you know what you're getting into...

 

[billd91]

Joe Goodman said that a number of people were turned off by the $100 price tag of DCC 51 at GenCon, despite being 760+ pages, maps, and other handouts. He says the content is equivelant to over $200 in "normal" DCC content.

I can understand why. Whatever the value of the final product, it has a high hurdle to get over - a price tag of $100. You should expect people to be turned off by that price even if it were equivalent to $400 of normal DCC content.

Personally, I find it hard to countenance spending over about $60 for a game product. That's just the level of expense I'm comfortable to stretch to, and not more than that.

 

[Treebore]

I definitely know it. I want DCC 51. I WANT DCC 51. I still keep having my brain throw out at me, "But its a $100.00!!"

I think when I see it on Amazon for $66.00 I can get past it.

 

[bento]

I definitely know it. I want DCC 51. I WANT DCC 51. I still keep having my brain throw out at me, "But its a $100.00!!"

I think when I see it on Amazon for $66.00 I can get past it.

And there's a difference between DCC #35 and #51. I could easily justify buying the first box set because it was a complete campaign setting. I'm using the maps and gazetteer as background material in my current game, which is set in the Lostlands.

This second box set is a mega dungeon crawl, which would be a gamble for me cause I don't like my crawls to go more than five or six sessions at a time. But it does have another gazeteer in it....