Deal of the Week – Battle Academy and Pandora

[Surtur]

As some of you will be aware, the Steam Summer Sale is well underway. During this time, a vast amount of games on this popular distribution platform, get discounted, bringing forth the biggest digital sale of the year. This year, some of our own games are also available on sale there!

For the duration of the Steam Sale, you will be able to grab Battle Academy for the reduced price of $ 19,99 and our Christmas 2013 hit Pandora: First Contact for just $ 26,99.

Don’t forget that is you buy (one of) the games from our stores, you will also be able to redeem your free Steam key!

Click here for the Battle Academy product page.

Find more about Pandora: First Contact here.

[fluffee taco]

I really want to buy this game, but stores don't sell 30$ they only sell 20$ 50$ 100$ steam cards. Lots of the games on steam that go on sale for around 20 dollars and cheaper get popular fast. Also 20$ is the best price range to go is because everyone can afford a 20 dollar game. Last, i got lots of friends who want to play this game and their price range is 20-30. It would mean alot to me and everyone else to the community to make this game 20$ for the steam summer sale event. Trust me you'll get lots of money for making it 20$

[JosephM]

Hello Fluffee Taco,

We don't really believe in this trend of putting games on massive discounts soon after release. Maybe this is one of the reasons why we're still around and growing fast while nearly all other medium sized publishers have died or are dying. Our back catalogue is a huge part of the revenue stream for us and our developers. We have a different philosophy. We support games for years to come and use ongoing revenues from those games to support it.

Pandora is in fact an exception to a normal rule of ours, which is that nothing goes on sale for the first year. The price has been reduced by 10% for the summer sale. To reduce it further would be a slap in the face to the customers who have bought the game at first release. Pandora has already received a free update, which brought a further challenge to the game and enhanced the mid/late game stage, providing a change from the regular grind that such games suffer when one faction has dominance. And we will still support the game for years to come.

People assume massive price cuts are the answer and its simply not true. There are times when it’s a good idea but as a general rule not. This is based on 15 years of data and 200 releases across all platforms. The business model works very well. We have this discussion many times. Many developers struggle to break even and keep dropping prices to try and gain market share when the best option is to say this is a great game that is worth the price of a meal. Dropping prices does increase sales but not by enough to make up for the lost revenue.

Joe

[brucemcl777]

I don't own this and will buy it this week - and I would prefer to buy it from Matrix and just get the steam key with it.

However Buy Battle Academy Collection
Includes 7 items: Battle Academy, Battle Academy - Blitzkrieg France, Battle Academy - Operation Market Garden, Battle Academy - Operation Sealion, Battle Academy - Operation Husky, Battle Academy - Rommel in Normandy, Battle Academy - Fortress Metz
SUMMER SALE! Offer ends 30 June $39.99

and I don't see the equivalent offer on Matrix just the base game for $20 and the add ons for $30 - so am I missing something or do I have to go to steam to save the $10?

Thanks
Bruce

[dmantione]

Maybe this is one of the reasons why we're still around and growing fast

I agree, because it is an important ingredient in a DRM free business model. $30.... a meager €22 gets me the service of a continuously improved game, where I don't need to spend any time to keep it up to date. Being an adult an having a busy job, money isn't the worst concern, time is. If I would pirate the game to save a miserable €22, I wouldn't get these updates automatically, would need to search the net for it, and install myself. No thanks, with limited time to spend on gaming I'd rather spend that time on playing the game itself.

[bhurrel]

Caveat Emptor.

I wish you all better luck than I had with Pandora.

I have tried to get it to run on 3 different computers -- a laptop and 2 desktops ranging in age from 1 to 5 years.

Is $27 for absolutely nothing a better bargain than $40 for absolutely nothing? How do you calculate the value on the dollar since you can't divide by zero.

As in zero value. I'm sure there are IT professionals who can get this running just fine. I, however, am not lucky enough to have a personal IT staff living in my home.

[VPaulus]

I have tried to get it to run on 3 different computers -- a laptop and 2 desktops ranging in age from 1 to 5 years.

I'm sorry to hear you are having issues with Pandora. I have just checked your open tech support tickets, and the DxDiag report you have provided is from an older computer that doesn't have the minimum graphic requirements to run Pandora properly.
As you seem have also attempted to run the game in newer computers, could you please send us the DxDiag report regarding those computers and their Pandora log files? We would appreciate if you could attach those files on your open helpdesk support ticket at Matrix Games. We apologize for all the inconveniences.