Hello. This seems to be a funny and interesting game, but the price should be adapted from country to country. I understand that in USA where people get USD$1000 or so per month, $70 is not much, but in countries like mine (Portugal) where minimum wage is a bit over 500€ (that's close to $550), 64€ + other expenses gets a little to high to pay for a game, that might even get more stuff in the future to add to it.
Stexe2 votesFor the price it is actually really good quality. Similar games usually go for $90 to $100 range. It might be expensive in your country, but they designed the game for US and EU (and Chinese eventually due to the language it supports) markets.
EDIT: Actually, after looking at all the components in multiple reviews I'd say a game like this would easily break $100 normally. The miniatures are pre-painted and/or pre-washed. They also have a huge mini, some metal tokens, and a sand timer. It would probably be like $120 at retail.
Oleandervine1 votes$70 is standard price for board games of this caliber. Even Settlers of Cattan sat at about $50-60 when it first launched, and other board games with fully realized miniature armies sit around the $70 mark. It's by no means cheap for NA users, considering our minimum wage puts most people at around $600 a month if they can manage to work 35+ hours a week in a part time job.
Mr Fodêncio1 votes$600 per month part-time. That's higher than minimum wage on my country for full time jobs. part-time is paid half that or less. Average board games like risk, monopoly, scrable, trivial pursuit, etc varies from shop to shop, but most of them cost around 35€.
The point is not if it is expensive or not in USA, Germany, Norway, UK, Etc. it's that it is expensive in poor countries.
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$600 per month part-time. That's higher than minimum wage on my country for full time jobs. part-time is paid half that or less. Average board games like risk, monopoly, scrable, trivial pursuit, etc varies from shop to shop, but most of them cost around 35€.
The point is not if it is expensive or not in USA, Germany, Norway, UK, Etc. it's that it is expensive in poor countries.
You act as if people in the US don't have bills to pay. A cheap, slum apartment costs like $400 a month. You can get a better quality place, if you have roommates, but then you're probably paying $300 a month. Then there's electric, which can range from $40-80 depending on split and usage, there's water, which is usually $60, and that's just the bills to live, so that doesn't include an $60-80 Internet bill, nor does it include gas refills for your car nor food to stock your fridge. After a minimum wage person here is done paying bills, they pretty much can't afford anything, so please don't just assume that because minimum wage is higher that people here can live more luxuriously.
Mr Fodêncio1 votesThat's cool, but here, while we get half minimum wage, we pay 350€ for a small apartment, 40-60€ for electricity. 20-30€ for water. 60-80€ for internet. and while you pay $2 for a gallon, we pay 1.4€ for a liter. And 20-25% of the wage goes away with taxes. So, unless you're living with someone, you're able to get a T0 and live to work.
Edit: And those values are higher if you convert to USD$
merkhlor1 votesPlease don't lie.The average price for internet is 30E in Portugal like in my country (France).
I can understand it's expensive and not everyone can afford this but i'm pretty sure they can't sell this lower.It's already cheap.If Riot sell this lower it would be like they give you money.
Teslyn1 votespart-time doesnt describe actual pay. Part-time describes people who work without benefits.
ShyolGhul1 votesI've seen lots of comments on board game reviews where people complain the the game is actually TOO CHEAP. Yup, you heard right. 75$ for a game of that caliber is really not that much. It would easily go over 100$ if it went through retailers.