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Originally Posted by memorax300
I just wish that gamers would realize that the hobby does not exist in some osrt of vacum. That prices of things go up. Your not going to find a hard cover for 20-25$ anymore. Forget it. Not anymore. Maybe 10-15$ certainly not now. Once he started complaing about the price of the book it was hard to take his review seriously. Why do gamers insist on getting tommorows gaming now at yesterdays prices.
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It's a perfectly reasonable criticism. There's a difference between saying "This book is expensive compared to what's on the market today" and "This book is expensive compared to books 10 years ago." John's comment struck me as being grounded in the former, not the latter.
This may seem shocking, but good reviews take a broad audience into consideration. A sentence or two on the price/content is not a bad thing. It is, in fact, something that is useful to many readers. While John made a mistake in his assumptions with regard to Chapter One, and has unsurprisingly gotten dogpiled over it, his attention to such consumer considerations as price/content is a good idea.