$2 an hour is cheap, it also doesnt factor in replayability, nor that you will use the monters, items, characters and overlord cards in other campaigns.

Sorry but i think this lt packs are waaay to expensive. I dont have a single one. I better buy a new expansion then a new lt.

However i have to admit that the small expansions are expensive aswell. (i did not pic up one yet, because there is not much in it). I picked up LoR and i think this one is worth its price.

The new monster pack with 4 heros in it, seem aswell a bit overprices. Its sad they want to make it so expensive.

I would buy all of them if i had the moneay but its very hard to consider which to own when you dont have the money to through out the window

I completely agree with you!

But this type of board game is a hobby and apparently that's simply how it's treated.

At least you know what you get when you buy something unlike "Magic the gathering" booster packs.

Or those little Asian toys from Kid Robot that you buy blind and are also expensive.

I tend to buy my games online and they are usually a little cheaper than retail price.

http://www.coolstuffinc.com/ has the Liutenants at $5.99 +

Amazon tends to have the expansions for $20+

I have 1 local gaming store but they are very small and don't carry most things

Yet if they have something I want I'll buy it full price from them; to do my part so they don'y go out of business.

Sorry but i think this lt packs are waaay to expensive. I dont have a single one. I better buy a new expansion then a new lt.

However i have to admit that the small expansions are expensive aswell. (i did not pic up one yet, because there is not much in it). I picked up LoR and i think this one is worth its price.

The new monster pack with 4 heros in it, seem aswell a bit overprices. Its sad they want to make it so expensive.

I would buy all of them if i had the moneay but its very hard to consider which to own when you dont have the money to through out the window

You get what you pay for, I guess. FFG has always put out quality material. The LT packs and the expansions are all unnecessary luxury items. I, personally, don't find it too much of a big deal to spend $10 every few weeks on a Lieutenant Pack or $30-40ish on a new boxed expansion. Ultimately, you get a LOT of bang for your buck.

Personnaly, I don't think any of FFG stuff from descent is expensive.

I'm not going to play an other game for a long time, so I don't see any trouble to give my money in this game. I happy to have a really big game full of stuff, than multiple small games. I always wanted to have a game so big that it will never end, and descent looks like to be the one; So, where's the problem ?

For a LT pack, one way to think about it is, you're not buying that coffee (ranging from $2-$5/drink) for a few days and/or maybe making your own lunch once that week. I bought LT packs because of the cards less so than the miniature. I like collecting stuff, having as much as possible available, won't take a watered down gaming experience!

Who cares cheaper is always better for the consumer no matter what they put into the product! Pretend you saw a pencil you wanted to buy but it was $15 bucks but they put a lot of effort in costs in that pencil and other resources into it. Just next to it there's a similar pencil for sell but it was $1. Are you going to feel bad and butt hurt for the company who made a pencil and it got priced $15 bucks? Or are you going to buy that $1 pencil? Guess what you got $14 more bucks to buy on something else woohoo!

Consumers need to be butt hurt over what they "personally" buy because they worked for the cash they are choosing to spend. Not only that you also need to consider the family budget if you got a family. So I don't agree with "labor and expenses put into a products" being a priority reasoning for buying something.

Who cares cheaper is always better for the consumer no matter what they put into the product! Pretend you saw a pencil you wanted to buy but it was $15 bucks but they put a lot of effort in costs in that pencil and other resources into it. Just next to it there's a similar pencil for sell but it was $1. Are you going to feel bad and butt hurt for the company who made a pencil and it got priced $15 bucks? Or are you going to buy that $1 pencil?

Consumers need to be butt hurt over what they "personally" buy because they worked for the cash they are choosing to spend. Not only that you also need to consider the family budget if you got a family. So I don't agree with "labor and expenses put into a products" being a priority reasoning for buying something.

Completely agree with this..

Sorry but i think this lt packs are waaay to expensive. I dont have a single one. I better buy a new expansion then a new lt.

However i have to admit that the small expansions are expensive aswell. (i did not pic up one yet, because there is not much in it). I picked up LoR and i think this one is worth its price.

The new monster pack with 4 heros in it, seem aswell a bit overprices. Its sad they want to make it so expensive.

I would buy all of them if i had the moneay but its very hard to consider which to own when you dont have the money to through out the window

I don't know the actual prices but I think people underestimate the cost of development, marketing, research (hours and hours of playtesting), the cost of figurines and packaging (random example/comparison, a plain box the size of the game container used for shipping at the post office costs ~$5 itself, nothing inside!)

Buying a LT pack isn't too bad (lots of new gameplay options), but once you start buying a few of them, it's pretty easy to see buying an expansion (small or large) is more worthwhile. By that note though, its probably even better to buy a new different game than get an expansion.

Depending on your wage, board games can be quite worthwhile. For an hour or a few hours at most of work, you can potentially get many hours of entertainment. E.g. Labyrinth of Ruin adds about 20 hours for $40 (a single campaign). That's $2/hour. Compared to a movie, which is something like $5/hour.

So I don't agree with "labor and expenses put into a products" being a priority reasoning for buying something.

I don't think anyone said that it is a reason to buy something. It was mentioned that people tend to underestimate those factors when they are trying to figure out why a company sets their prices, which is absolutely true. Many people only look at an item and say "Man, this probably only cost <insert amount here> to make, why is it so expensive?"

If you don't think the enjoyment/utility you'll get out of a product is worth the amount of money to you it's priced at, don't buy it, or wait for it to go on sale for cheaper somewhere. If you CAN find something that is almost exactly the same, but cheaper, great, but that's unlikely to be the case, especially when dealing with producers who are used to economies of scale, like FFG is.

So I don't agree with "labor and expenses put into a products" being a priority reasoning for buying something.

I don't think anyone said that it is a reason to buy something. It was mentioned that people tend to underestimate those factors when they are trying to figure out why a company sets their prices, which is absolutely true. Many people only look at an item and say "Man, this probably only cost <insert amount here> to make, why is it so expensive?"

If you don't think the enjoyment/utility you'll get out of a product is worth the amount of money to you it's priced at, don't buy it, or wait for it to go on sale for cheaper somewhere. If you CAN find something that is almost exactly the same, but cheaper, great, but that's unlikely to be the case, especially when dealing with producers who are used to economies of scale, like FFG is.

Considering how many hours I will get out of this game it will be well worth it to me. So far I have probably spent around $300 on it, and I have already played 40 hours. That's $7.50 an hour, and I am not even close to being sick of it yet. Compared to buying a movie or going to the theater this is about half the price. Compared to my other hobby, reading, it is very expensive. If a book lasts 15 hours and I paid $20 that's $1.33 per hour.

It all depends on what you think is important, income and personal preference I guess.

Who cares cheaper is always better for the consumer no matter what they put into the product! Pretend you saw a pencil you wanted to buy but it was $15 bucks but they put a lot of effort in costs in that pencil and other resources into it. Just next to it there's a similar pencil for sell but it was $1. Are you going to feel bad and butt hurt for the company who made a pencil and it got priced $15 bucks? Or are you going to buy that $1 pencil?

Consumers need to be butt hurt over what they "personally" buy because they worked for the cash they are choosing to spend. Not only that you also need to consider the family budget if you got a family. So I don't agree with "labor and expenses put into a products" being a priority reasoning for buying something.

Hmm so you're okay if people (e.g. children) are exploited to make that $1 pencil? How would you like working all day in terrible conditions for almost no pay? Say your friend lost their job because the pencil making factor was outsourced to another country where the labor is cheaper...is that okay so you can get a cheaper product? It's a fine line.

Anyways, I was just pointing out as mentioned above that the amount of stuff you get is not the only thing that determines the price. If you look at a box and think I get 20 miniatures, it should cost them $20 of material to make it and it should cost me no more than $20 to buy...then you're missing the big picture. Sure maybe it did cost them $20 to put together, but also lots of money to develop the game. It CANNOT be JUST $20 because they need to recuperate those costs...they're not going to sell you a product at a loss.

Who cares cheaper is always better for the consumer no matter what they put into the product! Pretend you saw a pencil you wanted to buy but it was $15 bucks but they put a lot of effort in costs in that pencil and other resources into it. Just next to it there's a similar pencil for sell but it was $1. Are you going to feel bad and butt hurt for the company who made a pencil and it got priced $15 bucks? Or are you going to buy that $1 pencil?

Consumers need to be butt hurt over what they "personally" buy because they worked for the cash they are choosing to spend. Not only that you also need to consider the family budget if you got a family. So I don't agree with "labor and expenses put into a products" being a priority reasoning for buying something.

I didn't see this when I made my last comment.

"Cheaper is always better for the consumer" Always? FFG could make a way cheaper version of Descent by not play-testing the game, using cardboard cutouts instead of plastic, not hiring artists to conceptualize everything, not having writers to make up the story, and not having a developer to come up with the overall ideas and game mechanics. Imagine that game. Sounds like a POS. I challenge you to go to the store and buy the cheapest game you can find. Play that and see how much fun you have. It will probably be some dice or a deck of cards, some fun can be had with those I guess.

Cheaper is not always the best, cheaper is often not better. Your pencil analogy could go further, but lets get real. Let's say you can buy 4 pencils for a buck or one pencil for a buck. The more expensive pencil was made to work and last. The other pencils where made to be cheap. I have experience with pencils, I work in an elementary school. The cheap pencils often are just plain garbage. When you sharpen them the lead isn't in the middle, so you can't even use them. So for $1 you can buy a bunch of garbage, or something that actually works... which is better for the consumer?

Who cares cheaper is always better for the consumer no matter what they put into the product! Pretend you saw a pencil you wanted to buy but it was $15 bucks but they put a lot of effort in costs in that pencil and other resources into it. Just next to it there's a similar pencil for sell but it was $1. Are you going to feel bad and butt hurt for the company who made a pencil and it got priced $15 bucks? Or are you going to buy that $1 pencil?

Consumers need to be butt hurt over what they "personally" buy because they worked for the cash they are choosing to spend. Not only that you also need to consider the family budget if you got a family. So I don't agree with "labor and expenses put into a products" being a priority reasoning for buying something.

Hmm so you're okay if people (e.g. children) are exploited to make that $1 pencil? How would you like working all day in terrible conditions for almost no pay? Say your friend lost their job because the pencil making factor was outsourced to another country where the labor is cheaper...is that okay so you can get a cheaper product? It's a fine line.

Anyways, I was just pointing out as mentioned above that the amount of stuff you get is not the only thing that determines the price. If you look at a box and think I get 20 miniatures, it should cost them $20 of material to make it and it should cost me no more than $20 to buy...then you're missing the big picture. Sure maybe it did cost them $20 to put together, but also lots of money to develop the game. It CANNOT be JUST $20 because they need to recuperate those costs...they're not going to sell you a product at a loss.

All the reasons that go into that pencil being $15 bucks isn't going to sway me to buy it when there's a $1 one right there that works just as good regardless of who had to work to put it their,or why they had to work their.

Who cares cheaper is always better for the consumer no matter what they put into the product! Pretend you saw a pencil you wanted to buy but it was $15 bucks but they put a lot of effort in costs in that pencil and other resources into it. Just next to it there's a similar pencil for sell but it was $1. Are you going to feel bad and butt hurt for the company who made a pencil and it got priced $15 bucks? Or are you going to buy that $1 pencil?

Consumers need to be butt hurt over what they "personally" buy because they worked for the cash they are choosing to spend. Not only that you also need to consider the family budget if you got a family. So I don't agree with "labor and expenses put into a products" being a priority reasoning for buying something.

I didn't see this when I made my last comment.

"Cheaper is always better for the consumer" Always? FFG could make a way cheaper version of Descent by not play-testing the game, using cardboard cutouts instead of plastic, not hiring artists to conceptualize everything, not having writers to make up the story, and not having a developer to come up with the overall ideas and game mechanics. Imagine that game. Sounds like a POS. I challenge you to go to the store and buy the cheapest game you can find. Play that and see how much fun you have. It will probably be some dice or a deck of cards, some fun can be had with those I guess.

Cheaper is not always the best, cheaper is often not better. Your pencil analogy could go further, but lets get real. Let's say you can buy 4 pencils for a buck or one pencil for a buck. The more expensive pencil was made to work and last. The other pencils where made to be cheap. I have experience with pencils, I work in an elementary school. The cheap pencils often are just plain garbage. When you sharpen them the lead isn't in the middle, so you can't even use them. So for $1 you can buy a bunch of garbage, or something that actually works... which is better for the consumer?

Yes my analogy could go lots further but I was making a simple point. Of course there's price matching and just plain smart shopping. Two packs of pencils one pack has 100 pencils in it store clerk says "a lot of sweat and blood went into this 100 pack", other has 5 but last 20x longer, 100 pack cost $2 bucks, 5 pack cost $1 hmmm which one would I buy...which would you buy?

FFG is a thriving company they aren't a company just started out and praying for the first customer to come in. I don't buy from say a company from FFG because I'm supporting them I buy if it would support my family in some way. To entertain them,to collect, or whatever it's for them/us. They still get supported even though that's not why I bought from them.

Can we stop the hijack?

We could I'll start....I think it will come out tomorrow.

Lol light bright. I think your on to something!

Argh... but I had something else to say...

Ok, nevermind.

"Shadow of Nerekhall" is going to be awesome! I hope it's out for my birthday in March.

Argh... but I had something else to say...

Ok, nevermind.

"Shadow of Nerekhall" is going to be awesome! I hope it's out for my birthday in March.

I hope that this week we will see an update on LoR Lieutenats of they will be avaliable on 14 Febuary.

The next week or in the comming 2 weekns we will see an update on SoN and it's lieutenats.

So that they will come in march, ad in April we will get the first Heroes & Maonsters collection.

Keep it comming FFG, can't ait to buy those.

Cheers

Hi,

here in Europe every bode say about 3-4 weeks, so in March.

It was clear for mew that SoN will come in march but what about the LoR lieutenats? Will they come sooner then SoN or with it? In Game Trade Magazine they wrote theat Shadow of Nerekhall will come with lieutenats for it at the same time.

Can wait for all those,

Cheers

LoR lieutenants are listed as a Feb release per FFG, check out the "upcoming" hyperlink at the top of the page. Can't wait for the allies packs!

nothing new for nerekhall, but labyrinth of ruins lieutenant will be avalaible really soon now, since they are in "shipping now" state. Can't wait to have them in europe !