Post originally by Tim Byrd at 2003-05-27 07:00:53
Converted from Phorums BB System

Seanchai seems to be following the philosophy that you can judge the quality of a woman by the size of her tits. Naturally, that can be a factor, but to base a decision purely on such consideration is foolish.

No one seems to be telling you to pity Pinnacle, or to buy their book if you don't want to. If you judge an RPG by the poundage of it, then certainly SW sounds like a bad deal for you.

What is being said is that there are market factors at work in the price of these books. The bigger a print run you make, the better a price you can get, the lower a price you can charge. A company has to take little matters like print costs into account when coming up with their retail price: if PEG could get your business by selling you their books for less than it costs them to print them, they'd be idiots to do so. If you aren't willing to pay the price of their books, a price dictated by very real financial considerations at their end, fine. But to villify them or their product simply because they have to deal with the reality of their business is foolishness.

I can buy a 700 page romance novel for six or seven bucks. Or I can buy a history text book for thirty or fifty bucks. Am I getting a better deal on the romance novel? Only if I prefer to have it over the text book. If I need the text book, I'd be a moron to buy the romance novel simply because I'm getting more words per penny.

The issue is "Is SW worth $30 to ME?" If it is, then $30 is a reasonable price to pay. If it isn't, it's not. Whether I can get another few ounces of book or prettier pictures from another publisher isn't a valid consideration. I either want SW or I want something else. I'm not going to buy a game I'm less interested in simply because it costs less, just as I won't buy a game I'm less interested in for more money.

Bottom line to me is quality, not mass. If your scale is purely cash-based, that's fine. Weird, but okay.

You don't want to spend $30 on SW? So what?