Manor Lords is rightfully getting lots of attention ahead of its early access launch tomorrow, but many have been left wondering about the Price and how much it will cost on launch, it looks like we won’t know for sure until tomorrow.
Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender has been spilling the beans on Reddit, talking about Manor Lord’s price and why it isn’t revealing it before release.
How much will Manor Lords cost?
While there has been much speculation about the pricing for the Early Access release, expectations suggest it will likely be in the range of $30 to $40.
“Manor Lords, like all other games on Steam, will not have one price. It will have regional prices that are distributed across the world.” said Bender.
“These aren’t just different currencies — there are large regions of the world where Steam uses US Dollar pricing but in a different way. For example, parts of Southeast Asia, many CIS regions, Turkey, many middle eastern countries, Argentina, many South American countries…all have prices in US Dollars but different from that of the US in order to provide some help for local customers be able to afford the game given the prices and wages in their country.”
Hooded Horse aims to avoid misleading consumers in certain countries where the game may be priced differently on Steam due to regional currencies, fluctuations in inflation, and variations in average wages. It doesn’t want the game to appear unaffordable.
“I also want to draw attention to another issue, and an important additional reason why we aren’t sharing the price publicly now – the rise of gray market/scam stores attempting to sell “pre-orders” on Manor Lord’s keys. They don’t have any keys, and they aren’t going to be getting any from us.” added Bender, moving on to talk about digital sites that are trying to sell pre-order keys, even though they may not have any yet.
“They have no idea what the price will be, so they are taking their wild guesses and probably figuring they can get a key through some questionable means later (or just leave the customer not getting what they paid for if not perhaps). We don’t want players to get scammed or cheated by such sites, and giving them a definite price to plan around would probably just increase their proliferation and marketing of these ‘pre-orders’.”
What we do know is that there should be a launch discount of between 10 - 25% during the first few weeks of launch, and Bender was quick to point out that there will only be one edition of the game, and no day one DLC.
“We won’t be putting up 5 editions with a spreadsheet needed to understand them or locking up content into Day 1 DLC or any of that crap. There’s going to be a fair price there at launch with a fair discount.” he concluded.
There will be a regional discount too, so customers from Vietnam for example, will see a 50% discount in place.
We should see regional release times revealed at some point today, we will update with those once they’re live.
Where to buy Manor Lords
You will be able to pick Manor Lords up from both Humble Store and Steam tomorrow. The exact time will be revealed shortly.
You can check out our getting started guide, which will help you quickly build up an economy and build up your coffers, so that you’re ready for the launch. You can also see what Fran thought in his early access review.
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