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[Arakash]

Distant Worlds is one of my favorite games, and while its expensive to get it and all its expansions

You can say that again! I was serious contemplating buying it until I saw the price. I'm surprised it's still so pricey considering how old it is.

Yeah, its been a consistent problem for most of their history, mainly due to their choice of publisher and their pricing policy. They don't even release demo's afaik, which is facepalm worthy. The forums are packed full of thread about all of it. (one on basically every forum page really)
I don't think it detracts from its use an an example, or reduces the quality of the game or its gameplay/development though.

Recently it sounds like a complete/combo version is coming up, which should be much more reasonable in pricing. (im hoping for something like $50 rather than the 90-100 it costs atm to pick up the game and all its expansions)
The saddest part of that is that the expansions bring a lot of improvement to the game and the UI.
If you've watched some LP's or read some reviews and like what you see, the cheapest you can do is $35 for the original.
If your lucky you could get it cheaper through one of their infrequent Christmas/holiday sales.

Anyway, my ranting about DW has derailed the thread I should follow my own advice and be more careful about that.