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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
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spinefarm: For people who have problem with the pricing:

Steam - US $ 29.99 / EU €29.99($ 39.63)
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grviper: Steam RU - $15
Russia is an interesting case, since prices are less for most (all?) games than anywhere else. If I were Russian I probably would buy very few games from GOG, unless it was an exclusive.
Posted May 01, 2012
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Kabus: If you think this way what are you doing here? Go pirate.
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bazilisek: You, sir, are an idiot.
If you want a see an idiot look at the mirror.
Posted May 01, 2012
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ABH20: It was cheaper for me to buy a physical copy of a game and have it sent to me FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET than it was for me to get it through digital distribution.
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andrestv: At risk of receiving some hate: is it because you aren't paying some taxes?
This is how it works at my country, people tend to buy games from far away so they can overpass the ridiculous amount of taxes there are around here.
This is just a curiosity about the price you reported, without comparing it to dd (which is successful in Brazil for the same reason). Kinda off-topic.
I call it the 'Australia Tax'. It's where everything is marked up here just because we're Australia. Now to be fair we do have a higher cost of living with higher minimum wage, so I can understand prices being a little higher here. We only have a 10% GST, so it isn't that making the prices so high. But when there's a price markup of 300% or even higher, shit is just ridiculous.
Posted May 01, 2012
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maycett: lol, I should have known GOG wouldn't beat the other digital distributors on price.
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Kezardin: Since Steam charges $29.99 for the game your superciliousness is irrelevant.
While I agree that the listed price is better than other retailers (should have come down long ago), if you look at Steam for instance, the game's been on $10 sale regularly. And that's probably the best pricepoint you'll see the coming years on GOG as well with a $19.99 listing price and their average sale of 40-50% (especially considering it's 'new' on GOG)

If this release would usher in a lowering of price the other retailers that's a bad thing because sales will top GOG's sales.

Anyway, that aside, I think there's 2 issues here.

1) The publisher is pricing this game *far* too high digitally, both on GOG and elsewhere. (though GOG to a lesser extent).

2) That GOG agreed to put a 6 year old game on their site for $19.99 (regardless of what it costs elsewhere).

I appreciate they get us more classics, and I'm sure the higher pricepoints open the door to many of them from the greedier publishers, but this just sets a bad precedent that I'm sure will worry a lot of the people here. Because once publishers smell blood, they'll go for it. And this could lead to games that otherwise would've been negotiated for less to be priced higher simply because it's been done already. Before it was $9.99 or no go.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by Pheace
Posted May 01, 2012
So this appears to prove my point from an earlier topic, higher price point's available so publishers push for it. (at least in this occasion)

This game has very few extra's either, it does not warrant a $20 tag

Quick scan of this thread and facebook seen to agree that this is WAY overpriced
Posted May 01, 2012
Interesting that the initial post on this is dated last Thursday. That's also where it is appearing in the news on the front page. Was this the release that was delayed on Thursday? I had assumed it was Blood Omen. Maybe both were and we ended up with two entirely different releases on Thursday than were originally planned.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by yyahoo
Posted May 01, 2012
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Zeewolf: A game is a game. DRM-free is a bonus. For many, a box is a bonus too.
For you.

For me it's the selling point.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by SLP2000
Posted May 01, 2012
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SLP2000: For me it's the selling point.
Call me crazy, but in the end for me, the game is still 'the' selling point. No-DRM being 'A' selling point as you said before the edit, that I can understand ^^
Posted May 01, 2012
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Pheace: Call me crazy, but in the end for me, the game is still 'the' selling point. No-DRM being 'A' selling point as you said before the edit, that I can understand ^^
Actually, no.

I have too many games to play, so if a game looks intersting, it's a question of "no-drm".

There are many games I would buy, but I don't - because they are not DRM-free.

Top of my list - Civilization V, Deus Ex (new one), Fallout New Vegas.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by SLP2000
Posted May 01, 2012
I have to wonder if this game would have been sold for $10 if they hadn't added the $20 pricing tier for "new" games.
Posted May 01, 2012
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PoSSeSSeDCoW: I have to wonder if this game would have been sold for $10 if they hadn't added the $20 pricing tier for "new" games.
It wouldn't probably be here.
Posted May 01, 2012
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SLP2000: Actually, no.

I have too many games to play, so if a game looks intersting, it's a question of "no-drm".

There are many games I would buy, but I don't - because they are not DRM-free.

Top of my list - Civilization V, Deus Ex (new one), Fallout New Vegas.
Ahh you see, but the common denominator you mention there is still that the game has to be interesting in either case ;)

But I do see your point and yes I'm kind of nitpicking, my bad ^^
Post edited May 01, 2012 by Pheace
Posted May 01, 2012
What happened with "only AAA titles will go higher than 9.99" TET promised? He said in general, that for classic and older games 9.99 price point is the maximum

I don't know why anybody would want to pay 19.99 for this game.
Posted May 01, 2012
$20 is a bit too rich for my blood, especially considering that Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 came out like 6 years ago. Of course, it's still $30 on steam, so I guess that's certainly a step up.
Posted May 01, 2012
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PoSSeSSeDCoW: I have to wonder if this game would have been sold for $10 if they hadn't added the $20 pricing tier for "new" games.
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SLP2000: It wouldn't probably be here.
Perhaps. It wouldn't make a lick of difference for me, because there's no way I'm buying a six year old game for $20.
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