Tribes Vengeance : Now on D2D (Direct 2 Drive)

Tribes is back with a vengeance and it's available for digital purchase on Direct2Drive! For only $29.95, you can get Tribes: Vengeance immediately with a digital download right after your purchase. Check it out!


http://www.direct2drive.com/product.aspx?gid=2&pid=98

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ok. Honestly it should be $15, considering you can buy it some places for $20. and direct download has no packaging/shipment expense.

It's called re-coup. They'll start it high to see who bites, then lower the price.
I also suspect that the goal is to penatrate some markets where imported software can be very expensive. I know of a few people that want T:V but it's currently priced over $100 US where they live.

Woah, did not really expect this :o

ok. Honestly it should be $15, considering you can buy it some places for $20. and direct download has no packaging/shipment expense.


You need to learn about Retail. Just because it's 20$ in some places, doesn't mean its $20 in all places or worth $20. For as many retailers selling it at a discount, there are more selling at it full retail value of a modern boxed game product.


The reason retailers can sell it at a discount varies on many points, but doesn't always reflect the actual quality of the product. It is a popular and unfortunate myth that because something has been discounted, there must have been something wrong with it. Unfortunate... except to those who understand the mechanics of retail.

You need to learn about Retail. Just because it's 20$ in some places, doesn't mean its $20 in all places or worth $20. For as many retailers selling it at a discount, there are more selling at it full retail value of a modern boxed game product.


The reason retailers can sell it at a discount varies on many points, but doesn't always reflect the actual quality of the product. It is a popular and unfortunate myth that because something has been discounted, there must have been something wrong with it. Unfortunate... except to those who understand the mechanics of retail.


Bingo

I like the digital downloading because it's another option and options are good and I understand that pricing doesn't always reflect quality. But the main reason why T:V got discounted is basic supply and demand. They had an estimate of the demand they believed there was for T:V so they created a supply to match the projected demand. But they overestimated demand and thus the supply was too great. When that happends and you want to sell a product that's sitting and taking up inventory space, you discount the price which results in making the product more attractive and sell more copies.

It kinda makes sense to offer the download for a little more than discount retail at first, because it encourages all potential buyers to go out and grab those unsold units sitting on store shelves instead.

I know of a few people that want T:V but it's currently priced over $100 US where they live.

Where do they live 1970s communist Russia? If so I've got a role of toliet paper and a chocolate bar I'd like to sell them.

And a really good hidden benefit of this… You don't have to swap CD's to play the game.
Yes, for those that don't want to use the "fixed" exe. :-)

That was the main reason I downloaded HL2, I didn't have to worry about what CD I had in the drive when I wanted to play.