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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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TheEnigmaticT: RTC 3 launched at the wrong price. It's supposed to be $19.99, not $14.99. We're in the process of updating the main page spot for this as well.

My apologies about this. With everyone on holiday today in Poland and out of the office, this launch is not going off as smoothly as we would have liked.
Ouch, does this mean that the pricing structure has changed? Previously a 2005 title would have been $9.99.
Posted May 01, 2012
$19.99?!!!!!!

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Posted May 01, 2012
Ouch was just what I was thinking. As I mentioned in my earlier post it's easy enough to find about £4+ cheaper in the UK. With that kind of price difference I'd rather buy the disk and apply a no-cd patch, I mean that's all GOG does sometimes anyhow.
Posted May 01, 2012
lol, I should have known GOG wouldn't beat the other digital distributors on price.
Posted May 01, 2012
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hedwards: Ouch, does this mean that the pricing structure has changed? Previously a 2005 title would have been $9.99.
This.

"Old" when it was GOG was 3 or more years old. Apparently with the switch to "gog.com" changes this.

Hmm....
Post edited May 01, 2012 by csmith
Posted May 01, 2012
You're doing it wrong ;) http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/new_official_price_points/post5
Posted May 01, 2012
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hedwards: Previously a 2005 title would have been $9.99.
It's a game that's for sale at $19.99--or more--everywhere else it's available for digital download. We have negotiation-fu, but not that much negotiation-fu.
Posted May 01, 2012
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hedwards: Ouch, does this mean that the pricing structure has changed? Previously a 2005 title would have been $9.99.
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csmith: This.

"Old" when it was GOG was 3 or more years old. Apparently with the switch to "gog.com" changes this.

Hmm....
I don't care for it, mostly because it tells publishers that they can get more money for their old games. Would we be better off if the game hadn't been released had it been $9.99 max, I doubt it, but who knows.

It's a bit disturbing that about the only things left that GOG hasn't done an about face on are the DRM freeness of the games and the one price globally,
Posted May 01, 2012
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csmith: This.

"Old" when it was GOG was 3 or more years old. Apparently with the switch to "gog.com" changes this.

Hmm....
the game is $29.99 on Steam. what do you expect?
Posted May 01, 2012
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hedwards: Previously a 2005 title would have been $9.99.
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TheEnigmaticT: It's a game that's for sale at $19.99--or more--everywhere else it's available for digital download. We have negotiation-fu, but not that much negotiation-fu.
Well obviously you can't offer it for less unless the publisher allows it. My point was simply that previous to all the changes there wouldn't be any games that were over $9.99. I'm not sure how I feel about this at the moment.
Posted May 01, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: It's a game that's for sale at $19.99--or more--everywhere else it's available for digital download. We have negotiation-fu, but not that much negotiation-fu.
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.
Posted May 01, 2012
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hedwards: Well obviously you can't offer it for less unless the publisher allows it. My point was simply that previous to all the changes there wouldn't be any games that were over $9.99. I'm not sure how I feel about this at the moment.
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?
Posted May 01, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: It's a game that's for sale at $19.99--or more--everywhere else it's available for digital download. We have negotiation-fu, but not that much negotiation-fu.
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hedwards: Well obviously you can't offer it for less unless the publisher allows it. My point was simply that previous to all the changes there wouldn't be any games that were over $9.99. I'm not sure how I feel about this at the moment.
The irony is, that the overall profit would probably rise for GOG and the publisher if it was sold for 9.99$. I'm certainly not buying it for 19.99$. But I have never played the RC series and usually I would take a GOG release as an opportunity to try new stuff. But 20$ is to much a gamle for a game I might play only for 2 hours...

And I'm certainly not the only one thinking along those lines.
Posted May 01, 2012
RCT1 is $5.99, so it's normal that RCT3 is three times that (and little bit more).

Or, you know, just get the better rollercoaster tycooning experience with a 66% saving. ;)
Posted May 01, 2012
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hedwards: Well obviously you can't offer it for less unless the publisher allows it. My point was simply that previous to all the changes there wouldn't be any games that were over $9.99. I'm not sure how I feel about this at the moment.
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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?
The reason they only have 382 games is because they're responsible for making them work on modern computers and there are a finite number of older games. GOG has a library of games available which either don't work or are being held. Plus those other sites have tons of new games to bolster their collection.

For games from 7 years or more ago, $9.99 should be more than enough to license most of them.
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