Prima Guides and Steam have joined forces to sell in-game player guides. Guides are available for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Splinter Cell Conviction, Left 4 Dead 2 and Just Cause 2 with more coming down the line. They'll normally sell for $19.99 but are currently 50% off in celebration of the launch.
In other news, Prima is still trying to maintain a presence despite the fact that people can use the Internet to find guides and hints on various forums and even Youtube videos. For free.
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4:20 PM on 05.20.2010
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Given that we've seen commenters on this site decrying used games, can we expect to see people screaming about how sites that offer such info for free are bankrupting Prima?
Unfortunately I think we all know the answer: a lot of people.
If any of those suckers^Wpeople are reading the comments here don't bother with flea friend, I'll sell you the exact same link for only $1.50. I'll even wave the $4.00 shipping and handling fee if you would rather have the link delivered via email.
It costs around $1 for the ink and paper to print out a guide these days - use smaller font if you have to!
That shit looks amazing.
What about cell phones? They sell guides on the Android marketplace for like $5. Oh yeah, and GameFAQs.
Protip: Steam browser
Take away the physical aspect of it though, and I'll take my GameFAQs guides, thank you very much.
It's kind of sleazy that they would sell the online guides at the same price as the paper ones, given how much of the paper ones' price must have gone towards the actual paper, printing, shipping, etc.
i do love a good guide though. ff12's guide was great. but an online pdf guide is a rip-off when i can just copy.
Unfortunately, there's not enough awesome contained therein to make up for dropping $20 per guide. So my conclusion is thus: fuck that noise.
That said, the Alan Wake guide is surprisingly comprehensive. Compared to the online Dragon Age guide a friend of mine owned, the Alan Wake guide is lightyears ahead in terms of kickass. It's awesome, and appears to contain the full manuscript from the game, making it easier to read.
Normally I'd point out that there's actually little difference in the cost to the publisher between paper and digital copies of books, but books with lots of photos/color images are different. Those are more expensive to print than to put online, so yeah, I have to agree with you.
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