Gray_Lensman wrote:AGEod is a French company, selling into the USA market. Since the US dollar has been allowed to decrease in value vs all sorts of other world currencys, the price of outside products sold into the US market has to increase for them to keep their profit margin. This effects oil prices also to quite a degree, so we can thank our US financial wizards for allowing the US dollar value to slide so much.
Gray_Lensman wrote:AGEod is a French company, selling into the USA market. Since the US dollar has been allowed to decrease in value vs all sorts of other world currencys, the price of outside products sold into the US market has to increase for them to keep their profit margin. This effects oil prices also to quite a degree, so we can thank our US financial wizards for allowing the US dollar value to slide so much.
MarkShot wrote:CWNut77,
FOF is readily available from Matrix Games (the publisher):
http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_Main.Entry17C?SID=45905&SP=10023&CID=0&PID=883861&PN=1&V1=883861&CUR=840&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=0
Of course, our games are absolutely the best, but then what would you expect to hear on this Web site?
Perhaps, a good place to raise your question which would not have any preconceived biases would be at the forums of:
http://www.wargamer.com
In fact, if you do a search, I would be that these two games have been compared previously as BOA1 was also compared with Hussar's For Liberty too.
I hope that helps.
Gray_Lensman wrote:Though, I started this with an explanation about price difference, we really don't need to see the thread devolve into a political discussion.
Crimguy wrote:Markshot, tell me they're not actually paying you money over here ;-D
MarkShot wrote:It's actually the other way around, I paid them money and bought piece of the company. It's actually the only game studio and non-publicly traded company that I have invested in (besides my own business).
Yes, AGE Studio is a French company, but the Team at large (volunteers) spans the globe. However, I do believe that I am the only non-French partner. I do various things here and there for the Studio, but I don't beta test/SQA anymore. Five years of beta testing for Panther Games, pretty much burned me out. Now, I just want to play games if I find free time and feel up to it.
oldspec4 wrote:So no more mini guides?![]()
Gray_Lensman wrote:About game pricing:
The War Gaming market is a niche market. As such, the relatively small gaming companies that are providing games for this market cannot expect to sell the overall quantities of games that the larger companies are producing. They make up for this in a lot of ways by trying to produce quality products that cater to this niche market and also, btw, they tend to be a lot more directly responsive to gamers needs. All this requires man-hours, whether it be conversing with the gamers directly, fixing game code flaws, or designing new game products.
Now since we are talking about a niche market, but a large requirement in man-hours to provide such quality products, they have to charge what they perceive to be a fair price for the amount of man-hours they have to expend to produce the game. Comparing and expecting their prices to be as low as mass-marketed games is rather unfair. I've been amazed that the prices they charge is as low as they are. In my opinion both FoF and AACW are well worth what they are asking for, and I would easily pay $75 or more for them, since the $ amount per hour of enjoyment I receive from them is exceedingly low.
MarkShot wrote:OldSpec4,
He ... he ... I was wondering if anyone was going to notice whether the by now the usual pre-release AAR/Mini-Guide for BFTB is no where to be found?Well, I know HansBolter has done some AAR work. Yes, those Mini-Guides were among the top promotion tools for the series.
However, I was lucky to even get to do the COTA Mini-Guide. I had been out of the cardiac ward (heart attack) for just a couple of weeks when I started writing it. Eddy and Ray was toying around with the idea of new marketting slogans like "COTA - a combat experience so intense that it will stop your heart!". Yep, that Mini-Guide gave me something to do and keep my mind off of various "what ifs".
Well, rest assured, BFTB is going to be a real kick *ss game, even without a Mini-Guide. And, of course, over here, we got WIA coming out soon and VGN is still under development.![]()
MarkShot wrote:OldSpec4,
He ... he ... I was wondering if anyone was going to notice whether the by now the usual pre-release AAR/Mini-Guide for BFTB is no where to be found?Well, I know HansBolter has done some AAR work. Yes, those Mini-Guides were among the top promotion tools for the series.
However, I was lucky to even get to do the COTA Mini-Guide. I had been out of the cardiac ward (heart attack) for just a couple of weeks when I started writing it. Eddy and Ray was toying around with the idea of new marketting slogans like "COTA - a combat experience so intense that it will stop your heart!". Yep, that Mini-Guide gave me something to do and keep my mind off of various "what ifs".
Well, rest assured, BFTB is going to be a real kick *ss game, even without a Mini-Guide. And, of course, over here, we got WIA coming out soon and VGN is still under development.![]()
CWNut77 wrote:Meant to ask -- what is BFTB and WIA? COTA?
Are the only AGEOD games available now, BOA, AACW and Napoleon?
Gray_Lensman wrote:AGEod is a French company, selling into the USA market. Since the US dollar has been allowed to decrease in value vs all sorts of other world currencys, the price of outside products sold into the US market has to increase for them to keep their profit margin. This effects oil prices also to quite a degree, so we can thank our US financial wizards for allowing the US dollar value to slide so much.
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