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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
Great release but...what's with the 20 dollar pricetag? 20 bucks for a 6 year old PC game?

yeah, this release includes the expansions and stuff...but still...
Posted May 01, 2012
Didn't Xplosiv sell this for five pounds?
Posted May 01, 2012
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maycett: lol, I should have known GOG wouldn't beat the other digital distributors on price.
Since Steam charges $29.99 for the game your superciliousness is irrelevant.
Posted May 01, 2012
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Roman5: Great release but...what's with the 20 dollar pricetag? 20 bucks for a 6 year old PC game?

yeah, this release includes the expansions and stuff...but still...
The problem with a game like this, is that most people already own it in one format or another... it's neither old enough to be hard to come by / get running on a modern OS or young enough to be desirable enough to snatch it up at that price.

So with that in mind, I'd imagine a huge portion of the sales would be from people (like myself) who would be double, or even triple dipping just to support GOG. As it stands, $20 is a stupid price to do that, when I have the game retail and on steam already. When it drops to $9.99 in a sale, I'll buy it to support GOG, but until then, I lose nothing by continuing to play it on Steam.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by thisisgil
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.
How am I being supercilious? Just expressing my point of view, and stating the truth. No need for personal attacks just because you don't like it. That's a rather immature way to discuss anything.

Gamersgate has the drm free version of the game for $19.99, and they have better sales than GOG.

However, I'm used to GOG having high prices, but good service. So I wasn't really having a go at GoG anyway, simply saying that I was pleasantly surprised for a short while, but I should have known it was too good to be true.
Posted May 01, 2012
I've got all this on disc already.....

At $19.99 I won't be buying this to replace the discs (like I did with Ghost Master, Evil Genius, etc) and the lack of extras doesn't add any enticement either....

At $14.99 I might have after thinking about it a while - and would have definitely at $9.99....

Sorry GOG but unless mondo extras are added to make it 'platinum' (like Assassin's Creed had) or until a sale cuts it by 50% this is a wish list but won't be bought....
Posted May 01, 2012
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maycett: However, I'm used to GOG having high prices, but good service. So I wasn't really having a go at GoG anyway, simply saying that I was pleasantly surprised for a short while, but I should have known it was too good to be true.
So you're saying GOG is offering it's service for a higher price, because things here cost less or just as much as other DD sites.

What?
Posted May 01, 2012
Not directed at GOG, I'm grateful that they're trying to do their best to get us the classics DRM-free and at affordable prices (even on a holiday), but personally I'm not all that interested in these new price points either if they also apply to games that are 6 years old already and distributed by big publishers on top of it. I'm fine with paying $20 for indies and "classic" games from the last 2-3 years or so but that's about it, I guess.

Lucky for me I'm not interested in this particular game anyway. ;)

EDIT: Okay, what I didn't take into consideration is that this is a complete edition including two expansion packs. So if it was a game I'd be really eager to buy, maybe it's not such a bad deal after all.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by Leroux
Posted May 01, 2012
It's priced $20 and $30 elsewhere, i don't think the publisher gonna give privilege to GOG to lower the price more than that. Beside, even if the game priced at $10 i don't think people will stop thinking it's still expensive. For some people, whenever game released for $10, they will assume it's expensive.
Posted May 01, 2012
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maycett: However, I'm used to GOG having high prices, but good service. So I wasn't really having a go at GoG anyway, simply saying that I was pleasantly surprised for a short while, but I should have known it was too good to be true.
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WBGhiro: So you're saying GOG is offering it's service for a higher price, because things here cost less or just as much as other DD sites.

What?
I don't know where you get the "cost less or just as much" from. Things here cost a lot more than at other DD sites. e.g. I got the D&D collection for ~$6 from gamersgate, and the fallout collection for ~$6 from steam, and they would have both cost me a lot more if I'd bought them from GOG.

GOG has many good features, but good prices are not one of them.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by maycett
Posted May 01, 2012
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Whitewraith: http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-RCT3PL/rollercoaster-tycoon-3-platinum $19.95 USA
What's interesting about this is that the GOG version is actually cheaper (for me in the UK) than the GamersGate (UK) version :-)
(well, according to this, at any rate: http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=19.99&amp;From=USD&amp;To=GBP)
Posted May 01, 2012
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maycett: I don't know where you get the "cost less or just as much" from.
By looking at the price of this particular game, for example. Also both fallouts sell for 5.99 here, while they're 9.99€ (for me) on steam. So yeah gog sure is the best deal.
Posted May 01, 2012
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WBGhiro: I
By looking at the price of this particular game, for example. Also both fallouts sell for 5.99 here, while they're 9.99€ (for me) on steam. So yeah gog sure is the best deal.
That's good for you, but for everyone that doesn't have a strong currency like yours, GOG's prices are higher than the other DD sites. That's what I was referring to.
Posted May 01, 2012
This is a rip-off
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?
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serpantino: I hope not and how is it a good day?
Because I'm fully capable of analyzing a price point and determining if I find it acceptable by itself for my budget. I'm not capable of determining if the game is good enough to warrant a purchase at all, having not played it, so I come here for discussion on that front.

The squabbling over the price is essentially just noise. If you can get the game cheaper somewhere else then do it, problem solved.
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