Coquests to include all PTW content?

[Tiberius]

Did any of you figure out why would anyone buy Civ3 Gold? (which is going to be released in the same time with Conquests) Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Civ3 Gold = vanilla Civ3 + PtW ? Since it seems that Conquests is going to include all PtW content, why would anyone buy the Gold edition? If you wanted to buy now Civ3 plus an expansion pack, wouldn't you buy vanilla Civ3 + Conquests, which includes PtW anyway ?

Civ3 Gold + Conquests = Civ3 + PtW + PtW + Conquests

[statusperfect]

Yup, that is weird :/

I guess we are missing out on some info.

[WarpStorm]

Probably regular Civ won't be produced and on the shelves once Civ Gold hits the streets. People might find copies in a bargain bin, but not on the big retailers shelves.

[Louis XXIV]

Civ3 vanilla probably costs $30. Civ3: Gold costs $40, but is probably easier to get your hands on.

Besides, since the target is somebody who doesn't have Civilization yet, perhaps he would like to try out the regular game before buying the new $30 xp. I guess Civ3 Gold allows you to get both Civ3 and PTW at a fair price, before you decide to buy the expansion.

Anyway, that's my guess.

[The Pioneer]

I just pre ordered the game and at 15GBP (about 21 euro or 19 USD) which is a very good price. I know have to wait another 7 or so weeks until I get my hands on it .

So long...

[Psycho Billy]

Originally posted by dexters
As for my "attitude" I suppose I would just buy Conquests had they not included PTW content, since it is actually THE STANDARD INDUSTRY PRACTRICE to not include last year's expansion pack in this year's XP. I've said this many times before in various threads. The inclusion of old XP content in a new XP is rare, and is practically unheard of in recent memory. What Atari is doing is out of the ordinary, yet they are pricing the product as if it is business as usual.

Really?? Bundle packs are all over the place. The XP to Dungeon Seige even comes with the full version of DS:

Originally posted at http://www.actiontrip.com/previews/d...aranna_i.phtml
Additionally, Legends of Aranna comes bundled with the original Dungeon Siege and you can play the original game, or you can even play the original adventure using the new expansion executable, thereby gaining the new features and new spells and equipment.

This is hardly a new and unique idea.... I'm not trying to start anything here I just really can't understand why this bothers some of the ppl that bought PTW (much like they obviously can't see why we aren't bothered)

[Panag]

Originally posted by Tiberius
Did any of you figure out why would anyone buy Civ3 Gold? (which is going to be released in the same time with Conquests) Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Civ3 Gold = vanilla Civ3 + PtW ? Since it seems that Conquests is going to include all PtW content, why would anyone buy the Gold edition? If you wanted to buy now Civ3 plus an expansion pack, wouldn't you buy vanilla Civ3 + Conquests, which includes PtW anyway ?

Civ3 Gold + Conquests = Civ3 + PtW + PtW + Conquests

hi ,

well some new customers want to join in on the fun also , .......

have a nice day

[Grond]

I see most people feel they got their moneys worth from PTW. I've gotten the impression that the multiplayer is all but unplayable except for email. Has anybody here had success with LAN games?

[Master Zen]

Look at it this way.

What if Conquests did not include PTW? Instead of creating therefore two different communities (The PTW and C3C crowd) and having only a percentage of those two being mixed (the ones that own both game), you have all the C3C crowd immediately compatible with the PTW crowd. What's not to like about this decision? What I do agree is perhaps a $10 rebate would have been in order for buyers of PTW, but still, is $10 really worth all this fuss? (as to why EA does it, well they better give something back to the consumer after having to buy every silly yearly edition of their sports games most of the time which are almost identical to last year's only with a different roster).

What I do find totally despicable is if Civ3 Gold eventually replaces Civ3 GOTY like GOTY replaced Civ3. Civ3 had practically gone down to around $20-30 when GOTY appeard. Civ3 was immediately taken off the shelves and GOTY jumped the price up another 10-20 for something that simply included a 10 minute video and 3 maps and the latest patch, all of which could be downloaded from the internet. Bad Infogrames, really bad.

I truly hope that Atari doesn't make the same mistake and take out GOTY for the sake of C3Gold and jump the price up another $20.

[Louis XXIV]

Civ3 Gold is $40, wasn't GotY $50?

With Civ3 and PTW its a better value than GotY, isn't it?