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General discussion (archive)Release: <b>Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum!</b>(285 posts)(285 posts)
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Posted April 26, 2012
Grab a front seat--this is one wild ride you will never forget

Finally, the trilogy is complete: GOG.com brings Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 back to your PCs in a definitive digital bundled-with-extras DRM-free package with the Soaked! and Wild! add-ons, all for just $19.99.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum! is a construction and management simulator, in which the player runs an amusement park by building rides, managing finances, hiring staff, and keeping the “peeps” happy. The game features career mode, in which players complete predesigned scenarios, and new sandbox mode where you can literally spend days and weeks designing the greatest roller coaster PC monitors have ever witnessed. The game utilizes full 3D graphics; that not only means you can rotate the camera and zoom in/out on your guests and amusement rides, but also allows you to use the CoasterCam and cruise along with your thrill-ride visitors.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 is all the best from its genre--it’s beautiful to watch, accessible but challenging, enormously entertaining, and incredibly detailed when it comes to managing rides, buildings, salaries, prices, and fees. In addition to that, RCT3 packs a few new elements, like a day/night cycle, creating your own fireworks, adding your own mp3 music to the background, and creating your own groups of visitors. This is a tremendous addition to the series, especially since the Wild! and Soaked! add-ons are included.

Run the greatest amusement park in gaming history, available now on GOG.com for $19.99.
Posted May 01, 2012
Yeah, 20 bucks is too much imo, and 30 bucks is too much elsewhere, too. :-P I'll probably get Splinter Cell eventually, though.
Posted May 01, 2012
Cool game but wishlisting for now as i am skint.
Posted May 01, 2012
20 bucks for this is ridiculous.

The 20 bucks price point was tauted as a Premium price (which in itself is ridiculous for games this old) because it would include a whole bunch of extras.

3 Manuals, a soundtrack and 2 avatars is in NO way 'Premium'. The introduction of the 20 dollar price point has given the publishers another way of screwing GOG and most of all US out of more money.
Posted May 01, 2012
I want to play this game, but not for 20$ :S
Waiting for a sale...
Posted May 01, 2012
I'll buy it when you discount it for 50%. It's a nice game (although really bad compared to RCT1 and RCT2), but this is really overpriced.
Posted May 01, 2012
Eventually there will be enough $15 and $20 games on GOG that when another one is released, the corresponding thread will have discussion of the game at hand, instead of balking at the price. That will be a good day.

So, how does this game compare to others in the series?
Posted May 01, 2012
http://store.steampowered.com/app/2700/ $29.99 USA

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-RCT3PL/rollercoaster-tycoon-3-platinum $19.95 USA
And please Do not compare retail to digital

Why must we have this discussion everytime gog offers a price equal to other digital stores and people put links to an on sale game or retail version and say they are getting ripped off.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by Whitewraith
Posted May 01, 2012
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kodeen: Eventually there will be enough $15 and $20 games on GOG that when another one is released, the corresponding thread will have discussion of the game at hand, instead of balking at the price. That will be a good day.

So, how does this game compare to others in the series?
This one was warranted by the fact that it's a 7 year old game that's twice the price of all the other 7 year old games here.

As for your question, that has been answered earlier in the thread. Apparently it's not as good as the previous games.
Posted May 01, 2012
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serpantino: So are you saying the pricing is down to the publisher being greedy? Because the discount retail re-distributors this is in the hands of have it cheaper.
It's not down to publishers being greedy, but prices for all digital distributors are determined in cooperation with the publisher. We can't just price games at whatever price point we think would be awesome for us without publisher consent.
Posted May 01, 2012
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ne_zavarj: $14.99 ?
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wodmarach: Still about £10 cheaper than anywhere else I can get it in the UK
They've been selling it my local Morrisons for the last couple of years for £7. >.>
Posted May 01, 2012
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wodmarach: Still about £10 cheaper than anywhere else I can get it in the UK
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SirPrimalform: They've been selling it my local Morrisons for the last couple of years for £7. >.>
I actually originally meant digitally but people keep throwing disc versions in my face but meh.
Posted May 01, 2012
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Fred_DM: why would a publisher offer a game for $9.99 on GOG when it's $19.99 or even $29.99 everywhere else?!?

as for GOG's previous pricing limit of $9.99, that's probably the reason why GOG.com has 'only' 382 games on offer while GamersGate has over 3000... you get my meaning?
"Everywhere else" has far better sales than GOG. The gamersgate version is $19.99 too, and I'm willing to bet it will go on a more than 50% sale at some point.
Posted May 01, 2012
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kodeen: Eventually there will be enough $15 and $20 games on GOG that when another one is released, the corresponding thread will have discussion of the game at hand, instead of balking at the price. That will be a good day.

So, how does this game compare to others in the series?
I hope not and how is it a good day? It'll mean everything is costing more on average. This is the whole issue with digital.... It's a means for publishers to simultaneously sell a game cheaper and make more profit but instead they're greedy and hike the price up, usually beyond the cost of the game retail. If the next generation of consoles is going to be digital like some speculate then we're in for a sh*t future of gaming.

As for the game. If you haven't played the first 2, play them first and maybe consider this in the future but bear in mind it feels dumbed down and less intuitive. It's not worth the price though unless you own every other good game on GoG already.



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serpantino: So are you saying the pricing is down to the publisher being greedy? Because the discount retail re-distributors this is in the hands of have it cheaper.
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TheEnigmaticT: It's not down to publishers being greedy, but prices for all digital distributors are determined in cooperation with the publisher. We can't just price games at whatever price point we think would be awesome for us without publisher consent.
Technically that's a yes worded as a no.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by serpantino
Posted May 01, 2012
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SirPrimalform: They've been selling it my local Morrisons for the last couple of years for £7. >.>
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wodmarach: I actually originally meant digitally but people keep throwing disc versions in my face but meh.
Ah, fair enough then. :P
Posted May 01, 2012
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serpantino: So are you saying the pricing is down to the publisher being greedy? Because the discount retail re-distributors this is in the hands of have it cheaper.
Digital and Retail are two different beasts altogether, by now the profit has been made, and retailers are desperate to free up some shelve space. In digital there exists no acutal "shelve space" so games don't loose value so quickly.

EDIT: not that i agree with the pricing on this one, way too much. 14.99 or 9.99 would hav ebeen much better.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by WBGhiro
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