by grant5
bygberbrown wrote:
grant5 wrote:
bygberbrown wrote:
Badigel wrote:
Hi,
Just wondering, why such a price tag?
Just wondering, why such a price tag?
I came here to ask this exact question. Here is my reasoning: the Z-Man edition features quite thin boards, and quite thin cards. I haven't seen the earlier Lookout Games edition. The resource tokens are really nice and there's heaps of them.
Its weird that its priced the same as Agricola when that came with a whole tree's worth of animeeples and there's no wood in this one at all... Is cardboard and printing expensive?
Board games cost what they cost because people are willing to pay it. Board games are luxury goods, not commodities. Their MSRP is not based solely on the cost of the raw materials used to produce them. Why is this so hard for people to understand?
That doesn't help me when I open up a AU$100 game and find flimsy components. Why is my disappointment so hard to understand?
Fair enough, but in that case I would say you're asking the wrong question. Your question shouldn't be "why is it so expensive?" (answer: people will pay it), but rather, "given the price, why is the quality bad?"
I have the Lookout version, and I am very satisfied with the quality. I haven't seen the z-man version, so I can't speak to that.