Hi,
There is a great solitaire (board) game called D-Day at Omaha Beach by Decision games that I have played via a Vassal mod (basically a PC interface for board games). The actual solitaire game play design and mechanics of this game is really quite clever. When I heard that Decision Games was working on a full-on PC version of this game, I certainly was interested. I had actually thought myself what it would be like to essentially "automate" the solitaire mechanics of this game so that the player is freed of all the gameplay housekeeping an rule checking.
Anyway, the game has now been released.
https://shop.decisiongames.com/Prod...e+Arena+14&utm_campaign=BA14&utm_medium=email
I was keen to get it. However, when I went to order it I saw that the only option was to order a physical DVD of the game, paying for all the postage and handling of course.
Now I congratulate Decision Games on making the game, but what could they have possibly been thinking when they decided that the best way to distribute the game is to make it available as a physical DVD only and charge $24.95 + p&h for it?
Where is any sense of logic in that? What decade do these guys think it is? Are they that backwards? I find it almost insulting that they would expect this from their customers. The game specs says you need 32mb of space to install it. Maybe it needs the DVD in to play (again very old school) but for a game of it's type surely the total size of the game is no more than perhaps a few 100mb if that.
The cost of the postage and handling to get it to me is almost half the price of the game itself! Even if I did order it, I would still have to wait a week or two for it to arrive, knowing that if I could just download it it would take less than 10sec.
I emailed them about this and they said they may consider it in the future. It's 2015 and this is the future where everything is available as a download.
Can anyone make sense of this?
There is a great solitaire (board) game called D-Day at Omaha Beach by Decision games that I have played via a Vassal mod (basically a PC interface for board games). The actual solitaire game play design and mechanics of this game is really quite clever. When I heard that Decision Games was working on a full-on PC version of this game, I certainly was interested. I had actually thought myself what it would be like to essentially "automate" the solitaire mechanics of this game so that the player is freed of all the gameplay housekeeping an rule checking.
Anyway, the game has now been released.
https://shop.decisiongames.com/Prod...e+Arena+14&utm_campaign=BA14&utm_medium=email
I was keen to get it. However, when I went to order it I saw that the only option was to order a physical DVD of the game, paying for all the postage and handling of course.
Now I congratulate Decision Games on making the game, but what could they have possibly been thinking when they decided that the best way to distribute the game is to make it available as a physical DVD only and charge $24.95 + p&h for it?
Where is any sense of logic in that? What decade do these guys think it is? Are they that backwards? I find it almost insulting that they would expect this from their customers. The game specs says you need 32mb of space to install it. Maybe it needs the DVD in to play (again very old school) but for a game of it's type surely the total size of the game is no more than perhaps a few 100mb if that.
The cost of the postage and handling to get it to me is almost half the price of the game itself! Even if I did order it, I would still have to wait a week or two for it to arrive, knowing that if I could just download it it would take less than 10sec.
I emailed them about this and they said they may consider it in the future. It's 2015 and this is the future where everything is available as a download.
Can anyone make sense of this?