Wargame of the Year 2007 election

On the 31 Dec 2007, Giftzwerg <giftzwerg999.RemoveThis@NOSPAMZ.hotmail.com>
wrote:

> In article <18e1065a4f.jades.RemoveThis@d.thurlwell.btopenworld.com>,
> nospam.RemoveThis@jades.org says...

>> My only real complaint is that the final price from the Matrix Games /
>> Digital River site of £40.22 ($80) was maybe a little on the pricy
>> side but this is almost completely outweighed by the overall quality
>> of what I bought.

> Yikes! How can this be?!? I'd have thunk that the weak dollar would
> have made an American-published product cheaper to buy for you guys
> getting paid in mighty Pounds and Euros.

I bought it off the European site. First off, remember The Games
Industry Law of UK Pricing - "take the USA price, and substitute a
pound sign for the dollar one." Secondly, the price I mentioned
included UK VAT at 17.5%. Thirdly, I opted for physical shipment so
the price of that and the attendant postage and packing also need to
be taken into account.

By way of comparison, I believe the standard new-release RRP of PC
games in the UK is about £35 or $70 (I buy so few games these days I'm
not actually sure, other UK posters will be able to confirm) and it's
highly unlikely that the printed manual, if you get one, will be
anywhere near as good as the CAW one.

In hindsight it would've been cheaper to get it from somewhere like
NWS but then I'd be running the risk of getting whacked with Import
Duty and the assorted collection fees related to it like I did when I
imported the Special Edition of Civ III.

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In article <419d0c5a4f.jades RemoveThis @d.thurlwell.btopenworld.com>,
nospam RemoveThis @jades.org says...

> >> My only real complaint is that the final price from the Matrix Games /
> >> Digital River site of £40.22 ($80) was maybe a little on the pricy
> >> side but this is almost completely outweighed by the overall quality
> >> of what I bought.
>
> > Yikes! How can this be?!? I'd have thunk that the weak dollar would
> > have made an American-published product cheaper to buy for you guys
> > getting paid in mighty Pounds and Euros.
>
> I bought it off the European site. First off, remember The Games
> Industry Law of UK Pricing - "take the USA price, and substitute a
> pound sign for the dollar one." Secondly, the price I mentioned
> included UK VAT at 17.5%. Thirdly, I opted for physical shipment so
> the price of that and the attendant postage and packing also need to
> be taken into account.
>
> By way of comparison, I believe the standard new-release RRP of PC
> games in the UK is about £35 or $70 (I buy so few games these days I'm
> not actually sure, other UK posters will be able to confirm) and it's
> highly unlikely that the printed manual, if you get one, will be
> anywhere near as good as the CAW one.
>
> In hindsight it would've been cheaper to get it from somewhere like
> NWS but then I'd be running the risk of getting whacked with Import
> Duty and the assorted collection fees related to it like I did when I
> imported the Special Edition of Civ III.

Ouch. Gotta be a "third way" solution to this sort of nonsense.

Maybe we need to informally set up a war-historical global clearinghouse
where one of the American members of the group can purchase the serial
number and downloaded file at US prices, then you can pay us back with
your strong-currency European clout, using the real rates of exchange.



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