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Originally Posted by Molon Labe
But there IS A MOTHER ****ING PRINTED MANUAL!
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They just were sent a Retail box (I assume) and I'm sure they never even went to the
Strategy First product page for DW to see that the spiral-bound manual
could be purchased for $19.99 (or $14.95 if you buy DW from the site as well).
They were reviewing what the average Best Buy, CompUSA, EB, or Gamestop consumer would get... which is, a product without the manual.
Now... The sidenote of all of that is that we pitched DW *
with* the spiral-bound manual in an expanded box (for $49.99 instead of $39.99) to every single Retailer we talked to and EVERY SINGLE one of them laughed at us. They didn't want to pay the extra shipping costs, they didn't want to afford the box the extra shelf space it needed (since it would have been slightly deeper and wider), and they didn't want to sell any PC game for over $39.99 unless it was some Collector's Edition of a game that they KNEW was going to fly off the shelves at $49.99...
In this instance, we're not the problem... neither is our publisher, really... there's a heckuva lot more to getting a game on the shelves than what they know and the Retailers play a HUGE part in that process (Walmart especially).
Anyway... I still got a chuckle from the review. They said exactly what I thought they would say, and there's something to be said for a humorous dose of predictability (it's comforting, in a small way).
