Jade and Grey Colleges delayed

The games may get discounted but the game companies make the same amount of money no matter what the likes of Amazon sell them for. A game company sells to Amazon or other retailer at a set price. That retailer then decides how much it wants to sell it to the public for. It's the same with all discount stores usually.

That's factually wrong for both brick-and-mortar retailers and online distributors, but in a different way. The online distributor takes a percentage cut of the retail price. The higher the price, the more the game company and the shop make on one sale. A high price is not the best way to get the most money, though. When you lower the price, the total sales goes up. It's a balancing act and you need to figure in the higher price tolerance of early adopters etc.

Brick-and-mortar retail require price incentives and cuts to even handle your game. You need to pay them to stock and promote you. If they're not happy with your sales, they force you to take back product already sold to the retailer and to lower the price to them.

I don't know what the deals are like with discount stores but they only get the games at the end of their life and are not that relevant or interesting. Probably bulk deals to squeeze out the last drops of sales.

It's just game companies like to milk the cash cow for longer now and sheeple like to make up stuff to explain why they bought half a game and why this is ok.

Needlessly insulting and would be a lot more convincing if the sales model didn't work. Intead, it's used more and more. Selling stuff as small low-priced packages seems to generate more total sales than one-off purchases. People are voting with their wallets, the most powerful force for commercial change there is. I can understand fighting it tooth and nail, but there it is. Adapting to changing trends is what successful companies do. The others die and make no more games. Ultimately the customers decide how games are sold to them.

[Jolly Roger]

Be ready to see some new fresh faces in the dungeons...
The Grey Wizards and Jade Wizards pack will be available on next thursday on our store!

Free Death Roller of Chaos for the first sale !

"Next Thursday" meaning it's been pushed back again? Or 2 days from now?

2 days from now I think - or, at least, that's what Jolly Roger meant by next thursday last time

2 days from now is THIS Thursday, next Thurs. means next week. Maybe someone should clerify when the release is going to be (like maybe give a date, would be no confusion there)

I think the subtle difference in the conventional use of "this" and "next" when used to refer to days of the week in english got lost in translation. Last time Jolly Roger said "next Thursday" he meant 2 days time, not the Thursday next week.

Ok just to clarify, the DLC will be released tomorrow (so this Thusday July 26th 2012).

Hope you're eager to tr thos green skins and those chaos warriors in the dungeons!