The Trolllords have priced the PDF of the Castle Keeper's Guide for C&C at $31.99 and the actual perfect bound version at $29.99. Pure brilliance...
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The PDF of the Castle Keeper's Guide costs more than the actual book
- Thread starter CelticTony
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And this surprises you? They've proven themselves to be among the most unprofessional hobbyists in the market. Between the debacle of their multiple printings, to the long delay of their Castle Keepers Guide... This doesn't surprise me at all.
Did you miss this thread on the same topic?
Wow!
I'm glad I follow them closely enough to know how wrong you are.
Glad to know not to ever listen to your completely uninformed opinions.
A very good point. Apparently they ere only taking their hardcover price into consideration. Hopefully fan feedback will make them aware of their pricing contradiction soon.
Unlike other posters around here I do know they have been working a lot of overtime trying to fix the warping problems as well as dealing with a day or two of being seriously sick, so hopefully they did that pricing due to being sick/exhausted. I am pretty sure it isn't due to any lack of professionalism or lack of ability to be pretty cool people.
Anyways, I hope to see a much more reasonable price soon.
Sarcasm aside, this is an interesting point.
I can imagine a lot of gamers for whom a PDF is more useful than a printed book. Easier portability, easier searching, consumes less space, and probably more.
Why wouldn't you pay more for something that is more useful?
Caveat: I don't even know who the Trolllords are. I'm not advocating that PDF prices should be higher than book prices, or that Trolllords' pricing is intentional. I'm simply tilting at the common assumption that if it costs less to produce something, it should automatically be sold at a lower price.
Because by textbook capitalism, it's not economically rational.
Ephemera has no value -- the prices are arbitrary based on the "best guess" of the seller since there's no way to calculate what a fair market value is for an infinitely reproducible product. Without a limited supply variable, traditional economics breaks down, and all you're left with is the hope that someone will be willing to do the "right thing" and compensate you for your time and effort -- in other words, it's more like getting a donation or payment for labor than an actual exchange of goods/services.
And you mostly apologize for them, no matter how unprofessional their behaviour is, so I think we're about even as to who should be listening to whom.
Yeah, that is interesting and its something I've been pondering lately. I would much rather read a novel on an ereader than as a physical book, so the ebook has more value to me personally, but knowing how much less it cost to make, I still get a little miffed they are priced about the same. I vastly prefer modern plastic miniatures to metal ones - far easier to assemble and store - but I still get irritated if the "just plastic" miniatures cost the same as metal ones would.
But that's probably a topic for a different thread.
You are confused. In Capitalism, textbook or otherwise, the "fair market value" of an item is just going to be whatever people are willing to pay.
But that's definitely a topic for a different thread.
Point taken. Post-scarcity is a little off-topic unless we're discussing certain transhuman settings, I guess.
