Touch a nerve did I, huh?
I can`t stand when people waste money they could`ve saved.
I`ve seen people pay £50 for a game then £20 for the guide immmediately because they`re that addicted to the guide with a game.
£70 to play a game?
Most of it is easily figured out by playing or going online and getting the info FREE.
It`s a con by game publishers to make extra cash.
What terrible logic!
By your logic, I could have also saved the first £50 and just not bought the game itself. After all, I don't
need the game. Games are just a con by the game publishers to make extra cash!
Look, some of us like guides. We like the artwork. We like the portability. We like that published guides tend to be available well before online guides. We like the tables, maps, and diagrams that online guides often imitate (poorly) with text. To us, that £20
isn't wasted.
I haven't purchased the guide for this particular game, so I can't vouch for it. But there are plenty of guides that I have purchased and I've regretted very few of those purchases.
Besides, what free content are you talking about? The outdated, non-G&K stuff that only covers a few civilizations on the War Academy board? The
one G&K guide on GameFAQs that gives one user's personal opinion of each civilization? Or do you expect me to sit through 20+ hours of videos to watch MadDjinn play a game and explain a particular strategy for a particular civilization on a particular map? No, thanks. I'll take my published guides any day over that stuff.
(No offense to MadDjinn or any other YouTubers, of course. I have occasionally watched an episode or two!)