Holiday Addon pack announced
Motoki:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 October 12, 03:46:50
Why couldn't it have been done as a download? Then the buyer could just put it on a CD and store it with the original game themselves.
I agree, hell even Prima is doing direct downloads these days and passing along the savings. I'd rather download it for $10 then pay $15 and have to wait for it to be shipped. :p
FutureCat:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 12, 14:29:37
I agree, hell even Prima is doing direct downloads these days and passing along the savings. I'd rather download it for $10 then pay $15 and have to wait for it to be shipped. :p
I'd much rather have it as a download. Assuming they would even ship to New Zealand (and I notice at the moment they say they'll only ship to US and Canada), it can take up to 4 months for surface mail packages to reach here from the US. Christmas would be well and truly over by the time any of us down here got it! ::)
I think I'll wait and see exactly what's in it before I decide whether to waste my money, anyway.
Trubble:
I've had some reasonably interesting (and frustrating) discussions about this on the BBS. I gave up due to sheeple stupidity. They seem pretty divided, one hand rip off, other hand over excitied and thinking more of it than there is (I think we'll have some disappointed sheeple).
Minus the 12 free items, you have 28 items - Twain said something like $0.53 per item, that's £0.29 for me and others here (the whole thing working out at about a £8 in the UK, however I'm sure they'll market it at £10 - I don't see why we wouldn't get it here).
The whole thing is a way to rerelease the base game and get some more interest (do they need it!?) however, as it's based mostly on Christmas - which a lot of the world don't celebrate - I don't know. I had a point, but I'm getting sleepy.
The price isn't that bad - if there are some extra things in there other than decorative objects. I'll probably do what they expect people to - put it on my Xmas list if it is available in the shops here. If not, well my student loan doesn't stretch to decorative objects that I can download or make myself... I think we need more information.
I would have rather had the patch, which I now is due out any moment, but still, the announcement of this was a little disheartening. When a corporation's main objective becomes souly to make money - they lose the creative spark that started it all. (I know, I know, businesses want to make money, however in a perfect world it shouldn't be their main objective and I can dream :P)
Karen:
Did anybody notice the picture of the toddler climbing on Santa's lap? Sorry, but I can't believe that's a real screenshot. Probably more along the lines of the things we saw in the preview CD, with kids swinging from ceiling fans, sliding down bannisters, and the like. It's too bad, because I would love for parents to be able to sit holding their babies and toddlers.
About the pack itself: this one holds zero appeal for me. I'm Jewish, and all I see in this "holiday" pack are a bunch of Christmas decorations, Christmas skins, Christmas objects, etc. (Plus the token menorah which has been available for download from the official site for nearly a year.) I'm not saying there's anything wrong with Christmas-themed objects etc., it's just that I see very little if anything in this pack that will be of interest to non-Christians.
Karen
ZephyrZodiac:
No doubt you're next in line for the rip-off when they do a Passover add-on!
How they can justify making the new edition cheaper than the original, and then charging us who have already got it (and after all, we're the real fans who'll go on buying new EPs long after most of the kids who get it for Christmas have lost interest) is beyond me, and they need to look long and hard at this!
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