Now, its not totally unknown for me to miss something on Garpa on the odd occasion, so I might get my arse kicked again, but.........this looks very tasty.
http://www.uberent.com/pa/
its on my 'huw spreadsheet of money loss' - does preordering buy you early beta access (like now?)
Looks very cool!
Wow.
Certainly is an entertaining trailer to watch but.....is it a frantic, click-fest? Too much going on at one time for me to wrap my 62 year old brain around.
That looks pretty refreshing - but I have the same concerns about "click fest" - I'm not really a "speed" thinker or player. I lose - ALOT at games like that!
Isn't this the Total Annihilation clone that was brought to Steam a couple of days ago?
Huh...I've got a long list of things to try but I cannot see this one making it.
Planetary Annihilation is on sale for 40% off
http://store.steampowered.com/app/233250/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/233250/)
Tempting - just under £20.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on February 27, 2014, 05:17:17 PM
Planetary Annihilation is on sale for 40% off
http://store.steampowered.com/app/233250/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/233250/)
Still waiting for you to say it's worth it
Quote from: undercovergeek on February 27, 2014, 05:58:26 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on February 27, 2014, 05:17:17 PM
Planetary Annihilation is on sale for 40% off
http://store.steampowered.com/app/233250/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/233250/)
Still waiting for you to say it's worth it
It's definitely getting there. The gamma release today added a lot of polish. Its starting to look and feel like a serious game.
In a huge fan of SupCom, so this one is on my wish list.
In not pulling the trigger yet in hopes that it'll stop below $30
^Technically, it already has...its $29.99.
Am I imagining things, or was Planetary Annihilation previously priced at $99.99?
That was when it was in alpha. It was then reduced to 59.99 and then reduced again to 49.99.
lol
I don't get how such a model can work.
I don't mind buying into beta - even alpha, but at a reduced price. No way in hell I'd actually pay MORE for beta or alpha. Though I suppose no-one was to know the price would drop. I mean, in one of the beta's I bought into, it's entirely possible they reduce the price on release and I wouldn't have known they'd do that.
It does look pretty cool, but I do think it looks too frenetic for me
Quote from: JudgeDredd on February 28, 2014, 06:36:26 AM
lol
I don't get how such a model can work.
I don't mind buying into beta - even alpha, but at a reduced price. No way in hell I'd actually pay MORE for beta or alpha. Though I suppose no-one was to know the price would drop. I mean, in one of the beta's I bought into, it's entirely possible they reduce the price on release and I wouldn't have known they'd do that.
It does look pretty cool, but I do think it looks too frenetic for me
Well, it must work, because they raised over $2,000,000 in the kickstarter phase. People are willing to pay a premium in order to help support the game's development. Look at Battle of Stalingrad...that is also priced at $94.99. Heck, look at the alpha price for Elite...its f'ing $300!!!!!
I guess where there's a market, why the hell not.
Quote from: JudgeDredd on February 28, 2014, 06:48:54 AM
I guess where there's a market, why the hell not.
Yeah. I think I bought in when it dropped to 59.99. That was more than I would have liked to pay, but I really wanted to try this one out. I agree, 99.99 is too much. I've resisted buying into BoS and I haven't even considered buying into Elite.
$2M is pretty compelling evidence the model works. I wonder what the release price is going to be if it's down to $29.99 in gamma, after being at least $49.99 and $99.99 at various earlier points in development.
The game looks fantastically cool, but if I can't even handle european escalation, there's no way I'll be able to deal with PA.
For me, seeing those planets move...WOW...I can just see how much I would suck at this...it wouldn't be long before I found myself with the enemy on my doorstep and I've researched pencils!
Quote from: JudgeDredd on February 28, 2014, 06:36:26 AM
lol
I don't get how such a model can work.
I don't mind buying into beta - even alpha, but at a reduced price. No way in hell I'd actually pay MORE for beta or alpha. Though I suppose no-one was to know the price would drop. I mean, in one of the beta's I bought into, it's entirely possible they reduce the price on release and I wouldn't have known they'd do that.
It does look pretty cool, but I do think it looks too frenetic for me
They had to set the Alpha price at that because that was the Kickstarter price to allow Alpha access. Otherwise, KS backers would have lost their minds. ;D
How many kickstarter backers do you think are losing their minds that people can now pay $29.99 for a gamma release? Did the $100 kickstarter offer any vanity options?
I didn't see the Kickstarter for this, so they may very well have been upfront about their pricing model and offered more goodies at the $100 kickstarter level, but I'm having a hard time understanding how someone who had paid $100 for less isn't a little peeved at the option of paying $29.99 now, for what appears to be far more.
Quote from: skeptical.platypus on March 01, 2014, 05:53:03 PM
How many kickstarter backers do you think are losing their minds that people can now pay $29.99 for a gamma release? Did the $100 kickstarter offer any vanity options?
I didn't see the Kickstarter for this, so they may very well have been upfront about their pricing model and offered more goodies at the $100 kickstarter level, but I'm having a hard time understanding how someone who had paid $100 for less isn't a little peeved at the option of paying $29.99 now, for what appears to be far more.
That's part of the reason why I couldn't understand how a model such as this works. ??? :o
They only get less if the game doesn't get made. If it gets finished then they get a chance to play it early and influence its design. Still, way too much difference in price (100 vs 30).
I don't think anyone is losing their mind over it because it has been known from the beginning that the closer the game got to release, the cheaper it would get. This isn't some slick move on the part of the developers. Its been part of the plan all along.
^ I don't think it was a slick move on behalf of the developers. I don't think you were suggesting I did - I just wanted to make clear that wasn't what I was wondering about.
I guess I just don't get why someone would pay $100 for something when they KNOW it'll be $30. Maybe you have to want something badly enough...maybe there's a game out there in the future that will show me how you get to make that decision, but I can't recall having come across one to date :-)
Quote from: JudgeDredd on March 02, 2014, 04:15:24 AM
^ I don't think it was a slick move on behalf of the developers. I don't think you were suggesting I did - I just wanted to make clear that wasn't what I was wondering about.
I guess I just don't get why someone would pay $100 for something when they KNOW it'll be $30. Maybe you have to want something badly enough...maybe there's a game out there in the future that will show me how you get to make that decision, but I can't recall having come across one to date :-)
But that would mean somewhere out there is your favourite genre JD, and maybe upon finding it you'd discover the game that stops you buying anything that's released in your frantic search for it :P
I would LOVE if that happened!
Quote from: JudgeDredd on March 02, 2014, 04:15:24 AM
^ I don't think it was a slick move on behalf of the developers. I don't think you were suggesting I did - I just wanted to make clear that wasn't what I was wondering about.
I guess I just don't get why someone would pay $100 for something when they KNOW it'll be $30. Maybe you have to want something badly enough...maybe there's a game out there in the future that will show me how you get to make that decision, but I can't recall having come across one to date :-)
I was responding to this.
Quote from: skeptical.platypus on March 01, 2014, 05:53:03 PM
How many kickstarter backers do you think are losing their minds that people can now pay $29.99 for a gamma release? Did the $100 kickstarter offer any vanity options?
I didn't see the Kickstarter for this, so they may very well have been upfront about their pricing model and offered more goodies at the $100 kickstarter level, but I'm having a hard time understanding how someone who had paid $100 for less isn't a little peeved at the option of paying $29.99 now, for what appears to be far more.
Quote from: bobarossa on March 01, 2014, 06:37:27 PM
They only get less if the game doesn't get made. If it gets finished then they get a chance to play it early and influence its design. Still, way too much difference in price (100 vs 30).
Fair enough. But if you are paying $100 to play a game because you don't think it will be made, I'm not sure you are doing it right. ;D
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 01, 2014, 07:34:34 PM
I don't think anyone is losing their mind over it because it has been known from the beginning that the closer the game got to release, the cheaper it would get. This isn't some slick move on the part of the developers. Its been part of the plan all along.
That's an enormously good reason to not lose your mind.
Also still strikes _me_ as an enormously good reason not to invest $100.