Comments on: Skaven Mad: Blood Bowl Released, Expensive

By: jackflash

jackflash — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:59:23 +0000

That’s not a loss leader. A loss leader is when you sell one item at a loss and hope that will induce them to buy other items at full price. Non-rivalrous goods can’t really be loss leaders because there is no marginal cost of production or distribution. Obviously, you can still sell them at a price so low that no matter how many units you sell you won’t recoup your costs of production (so overall you sold them at a “loss”), but steam sales tend to generate huge amounts of revenue for the product on sale because of the high volume.

By: Sunjammer

Sunjammer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:26:30 +0000

I wanted to do a Flash version of Necromunda a while back. On that topic; Gorkamorka?! I had more chaotic fun with that game than any other GW title

By: Pedwarpump

Pedwarpump — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:43:54 +0000

Much as it’s going to sound like whining, but who else has paid out for this? I doubt the randomness of the game engine, just having played my first game and suffered 9 double skulls in 11 turns :(

By: Chicken Dinner

Chicken Dinner — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:37:52 +0000

I quote, from the latest patch notes:

“To enhance the performance of the game on your computer, the game resolution has been decreased.”

That is the entirety of the changes, and this required an entirely new bb.exe to be downloaded (24MB).

Seems fishy to me. Nothing like full disclosure to instil confidence in your customers.

By: Ganabul

Ganabul — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:47:36 +0000

People looking for a cheaper alternative while they wait for the price to drop could do worse than check out http://www.fumbbl.com, which uses the skijunkie client mentioned above.

Someone mentioned fumbbl in the comments to an earlier bloodbowl thread, & I’ve been playing on and off ever since. My way of passing it forward ;)

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:59:46 +0000

Hey, look, it’s authentic Blood Bowl complete with an authentic Games Workshop price!

Someone had to say it, right? I didn’t buy it (yet :-/) because I saw the US $50 price tag and I’m still trying to decide whether I want the portable or PC version…

By: Walsh

Walsh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:37:23 +0000

This is what happens when you:

a.) Don’t have a demo of any sort.
b.) Charge $50 for what is essentially a very late beta by the sound of it.
c.) Charge 40 pounds to the poor sods in the UK (roughly $66).

Bwahaha, the old if theres no demo I have a legitimate claim to pirate it excuse. It doesn’t play like a beta to me, I’ve poured maybe 8 hours into it already. It plays great and captured the tense thrill of the boardgame.

By: Scautura

Scautura — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:26:15 +0000

Why yes – there is… Squelchy non-Dorf teams for lunch?

By: Bursar

Bursar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:45:11 +0000

The key point that no one’s yet confirmed:

Is there a Dwarf Deathroller?

By: Wazco

Wazco — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:15:08 +0000

After clicking your credit card type where you put your name, email and CC details, theres a country field that defaults to United Kingdom for me, click the “change country” link. This probably wont work for Paypal though.

By: Scautura

Scautura — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:41:14 +0000

What country field where?

I know if you put the code for the US product in you can get some money off (convert $50 to £ then add silly amounts of VAT) so can this be abused so you can get it for £30.30?

By: Wazco

Wazco — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:20:10 +0000

Im not sure if its mentioned in the comments already but for any brits who want this cheaper, in the country field, change UK to United States and you get it tax free, it still ends up being the most expensive game ive bought but shaving £7 off the bill helps.

Im not going to get into the legality of it but for me it was legal as im from the channel islands and dont pay VAT anyway. (I actually sent them an email a wek ago asking how to get it tax free and what do you know they havent even replied yet)