World Largest Dungeon Cheap

[DaveMage]

Wow, that's a whole 'nother thread in and of itself.

Heh.

I suppose, though, it's really hard to talk "price point" since the actual price of a product is determined by the seller (and the buyer), rather than the manufacturer. AEG listed WLD as a $100 product, but many people paid 20%, 30, 40, or, as evidenced by this thread, as much as 60% off, meaning that it really wasn't a true $100 product in the sense that not everyone had to pay that to get the product new.

IIRC, wasn't I.C.E. attempting to start selling products only via a "direct to the consumer" model? I wonder how that's working out for them.

I also wonder if others will do such a thing in the future...

 

[Quasqueton]

OD&D(1974) wood grain boxed set.

or maybe the 1973 Xeroxed copies set....

So stash a copy of WLD away for 30 years and it may reach it's potential.

AEG listed WLD as a $100 product, but many people paid 20%, 30, 40, or, as evidenced by this thread, as much as 60% off, meaning that it really wasn't a true $100 product in the sense that not everyone had to pay that to get the product new.

But many people *did* buy it for $100.

Quasqueton

 

[d20Dwarf]

Heh.

I suppose, though, it's really hard to talk "price point" since the actual price of a product is determined by the seller (and the buyer), rather than the manufacturer. AEG listed WLD as a $100 product, but many people paid 20%, 30, 40, or, as evidenced by this thread, as much as 60% off, meaning that it really wasn't a true $100 product in the sense that not everyone had to pay that to get the product new.

IIRC, wasn't I.C.E. attempting to start selling products only via a "direct to the consumer" model? I wonder how that's working out for them.

I also wonder if others will do such a thing in the future...

Hero is doing that, I don't know if HARP is too. Hero has one of the longest-lived and most popular game lines in history, and I doubt that strategy is able to support more than a couple of full time employees. The scale is just too small.

As for the price point, MSRP is the only measure by which you can discuss a product...discounters are irrelevant, because MSRP is what the distributors and retailers base their own costs on. And without those, games don't sell much at all. So it *is* a $100 product, because that's the cost reflected on the sell sheets. A book and maps is not a compelling enough product for a $100 MSRP, in my opinion...of course, their sales could prove me wrong, but at this point I doubt it.

I'm not disparaging the product, by the way, I'm sure I'll enjoy it, and if it's 800 pages of worthwhile encounters, I can pick and choose to make my own dungeons...so I'm sure I'll be satisfied for what I paid for it.

 

[DaveMage]

If AEG does go through with the World's Largest City with a similar size and map component, then I guess the WLD was successful (profitable) enough for AEG's tastes (whatever that means).

Also, I'll be interested to see how Mongoose does with their 1,000-page monster compilation that is supposed to be available at Gen*Con (although no word yet on what their price point will be).

 

[Shadowdancer]

There's one at Dragon's Lair that's going out of business here for 40% off, and it's not selling there either.

Wait, which Dragon's Lair is going out of business? All of the stores or just one?

They can't go out of business, that's where I buy most of my gaming stuff when I'm in Austin.

 

[d20Dwarf]

Wait, which Dragon's Lair is going out of business? All of the stores or just one?

They can't go out of business, that's where I buy most of my gaming stuff when I'm in Austin.

Good lord, I've started an internet rumor!

Only the San Marcos location is going out of business, all the rest are fine. www.dlair.net

 

[Felon]

No other adventures have one, so it seems unreasonible to expect opne here.

Is this just another run-of-the mill dungeon then? How many others span 800+ pages? How many take weeks or months to finish reading? The whole point of it is its massiveness, so I'd say it's quite reasonable to expect the authors to go the extra mile to make it as useful as possible.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Good lord, I've started an internet rumor!

Only the San Marcos location is going out of business, all the rest are fine. www.dlair.net

Whew! You had me worried. Don't do that again. Think of the cats, man -- think of the cats!

 

[Crothian]

Is this just another run-of-the mill dungeon then? How many others span 800+ pages? How many take weeks or months to finish reading? The whole point of it is its massiveness, so I'd say it's quite reasonable to expect the authors to go the extra mile to make it as useful as possible.

We, it is another run of the mill dungeon really, just bigger. I imagine it may take a few days to read but surely not months unless one just has zero time to read. With many companies have no or bad indexes in rules books, books that need indexes, it doesn't suprise me that there is none here. It was never advertised to have one and none of the reviews or talkiing threads mentioned one. So, I of course did not expect one.