Sathariel wrote:If I was to buy the pro-consul version I`d have to pay over 400 dollars for it, only because I live in the UK. As much as I like AGEOD's games and have a great amount of respect towards the company, I can not agree with that kind of pricing policy and will try to buy AJE on some sale in a few years

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a misunderstanding, maybe? first, it would be £250.00 tax incl for the most expensive one (to avoid confusion 2hundred50 pounds for UK)
you can get the game for less than 20 pounds/euro/dollars as the completely normal version, [color="#FFFF00"]as it would be in any department store. [/color]
afterwards you would need to buy in every potential scenario pack for additional money.
the pro-consul version is a kind of offer to players, to express their special appreciation and support to the game...
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main advantage:
PROCONSUL EDITION
AJE Pronconsul Edition is for people that really want to send the message to the world, that the AJE team and Ageod, producing those detailed historical strategy games, should continue and expand in the future and thus need our support! You also get the following 7 bonuses, in addition to your digital copy of the game:
* Be part of the decision process to select which expansion pack or DLC will go next in production
* An extra digital and DVD backed-up copy of the game for a buddy of yours (add the additional address when you order).
* 'Proconsul' Icon (A Patrician head) added underneath your name in the forum
* Your portrait in-game, added as a Roman leader (you can ask to be a Pontic general or a barbarian too!), appearing in at least a scenario! Send us your source photo by mail
* Get your name in the credit section of the game, as soon as the first patch is released (or on Day 1 if you pre-order the game!), plus your name added immediately in the AJE credits forum thread.
* All future expansion packs or single-scenario release for AJE for free, including Birth of Rome expansion pack for free, upon its release (ETA Spring 2013)
* A backup DVD of the game, sent to your physical address, with handwritten thanks from the team.
* On the backup DVD a special edition of the manual signed by the team, plus the original maps (full bmp format) of the game (normal and winter), a smaller PDF map, and a special map showing the game’s region by terrain types.
so you see, additionally to the emotional value, we talk about
a.) all future expansion, paid IN ADVANCE but you dont know how many and when
b.) the two backup dvds
c.) the normal game itself
...not paid by AGEOD.
however, prone to throw them into disarray.
PS:
‘Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War . . . in War, through the influence of an infinity of petty circumstances, which cannot properly be described on paper, things disappoint us, and we fall short of the mark.‘
Clausewitz