Sorry, i can't follow you here.

If a company developes a product the price is calculated in advance.

It is calculated how many copies will probably be sold, how many man-hours are needed, how many overhead for printing and accessories is necessary and so on.

So, the calculated price is fixed before production is finished.

Why not publish it? Every other Software company does it??

I for one placed a preorder yesterday at amazon.de. I think, these campaigns will deliver the offline content I was looking for with CloD: A nice string of historic missions as experienced by the piliots.

I bought a lot of campaigns for IL2, too and had a good time playing them.

* Case Blue
* Battle over Europe (ok, that one did bring new maps)
* Ostfront
* Rebirth Of Honour
* Wings over Waves
* Fliegerasse: Stern von Afrika
* Fliegerasse: Eismeerjäger
* Operation Overlord

So why shouldn't I with CloD?

If it does what it says on the box, and contains what it says in the box, then it's in no way a rip off.

You may judge it expensive or not, but that's something different, and is a value judgement you're free to make.

Considering Clod prolly needs a £600 PC and a £100's worth of peripherals, £15 for some usable content doesn't sound too bad.

However, if it's missing half the advertised features, the half that remain don't work and you never hear from the guy that took your money then yes, you've been ripped off.

I would pay 10 euro for an English download version but 30 is too much for me when the game is not much more (or even cheaper) today.

Good luck to them anyway and I hope they're successful since I doubt the devs will produce any decent campaigns any time soon, at least for BoB.

The relation between the price for CoD and the mission-pack is absolutely irrelevant!

If you buy a stock Harley sportster it costs about 8000$, with all extras it costs 18000$!

I guess that's true and I have no problem paying for add-ons. But at the same time:

30 euros, Desastersoft = Campaign
vs.
30 euros, 1C (or whoever) = Campaigns (admittedly pretty rubbish), QMB, FMB, mission recorder, online play etc...

just ignore robtek, he's not a reasonable person willing to recognize some simple truths.

it doesn't matter how much money costs Desastersoft to make this campaign, if it would have costed them 1 billion euros, that wouldn't mean anyone would pay 100k euros for it just because those were their costs.

and again, what could be seen from their demo, was just simple missions, without any kind of awesome scripting (actually almost no scripting at all, unless you can call trigerring some texts scripting).

also, the statement some of their advocates keep throwing is the "historical research". let me tell you I saw LOTS of user made missions & skins & campaigns with far more research than that.

in the end, that pack is absolutely not worth anything above 10 euros, and I'm sure their sales number will confirm that.

sincerely sell 30dollars a campaign... with only mission made in the FMB and maybe some skin....

it is incredible that people buy that!

at this moment.. anybody can do it and sell it....

but you know what we said... as soon people are able to buy something...we will sell them!

A 30-euro expansion for a broken game? Is this a hoax?

I keep getting the sneaky impression that there are either people that work at that company or friends there off, trying to peddle, talk it up, justify the costing. Anyways i'll say no more on this topic..

Regards