Okay its a board game!

You should call it... a cardboard game.

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What people are getting the wrong idea?

Good point.

And with the expansion bits you can also play an even larger game. There are 10 nations. It would take a month, but you probably could do it.

Something some fixed card games do is include single copies of some cards, so you have to buy multiple copies of the game to make the ideal deck.
This seems really shady to us, so Harkovast does not work that way.

Though I suppose you could buy a second copy if you want to changethe game up (like add more regiments to each race, that kinda thing) the game has everything you need and doesn't try to get you a buy more copies to be able to play competitively.

Yeah I am just going to start saying table top game.
Its a bit vague but I think it gives people the right idea.

Net runner or smash up is a good comparisson, its very much that kind of arrangement (but better with more in the box and awesome furries obviously!)

You can add even more by getting the expansion sets to add up to 6 more races, experiences to upgrade your characters and decks for Eldex and The West.

I guess I'm the "people" you're referring to

I think you might have overreacted to my comment, but since one of my intentions was to provoke you to reveal some more information about the game and to start some discussion about the price, I guess it's not too bad. I'm just trying to provide constructive feedback, but since I don't have time to keep up to date with the forums, I just know the details from the comic descriptions and comments there.

To begin with, I'd like to clarify:
When I say "in the price range of a MtG deck" I don't mean that the game has to be that cheap as a whole. I only mean that I won't personally pay more than that. If I can find three more people willing to pay and we can split the costs, it means the price range drops to a quarter from my perspective. If I can talk a gaming club or store into buying the game and renting it for a fraction of the price, that's another way to lower the price range into manageable levels.

A second thing worth mentioning:
I said I spent about 40 PLN on a MtG deck. That's about $10, €10 or £7
That's in fact very cheap even for a MtG deck. It's slightly less than a starter deck. People who play competitively often spend ten times as much, or more. I'm a casual player though, so I just hand-picked some of the cheapest cards. Alternatively, I could have bought cards from people who stopped playing MtG and are selling their decks, that's another way to get cards much cheaper than at the store.

So I find it somewhat misleading when you say "cost the same as a deck of magic cards". It's just that an average MtG deck probably costs much more than the one I mentioned.



And to sum it up:
I'm not EXPECTING the game to be that cheap. I'm just saying that my limited budget won't allow me to buy it at full price. The problem isn't with the game's price. The problem is with my budget. You see, I'm just doing a doctorate, while working half-time in my university. In Poland. I could probably buy the game at full price if I really wanted to, but it would probably cost me a few times more than I'm comfortable with.

One more thing:
The addition of dice, coins, beads etc. is probably a detriment for me. I already have a set of dice (for RPGs) and a set of plastic counters (for MLP CCG). I'd rather buy just the cards, if it meant the box would cost me that much less. But then again, I could just buy the box, then sell the dice and counters, so I guess it's not really that much of a problem.




Oh, and you mentioned console games in the comments.

To be honest, I'm a Linux Gamer, so my console of choice is PC
I usually try to buy games for less than $5. There are so many great games, like Fallout 1, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 & 3, Master of Magic, Master of Orion, Baldurs Gate, ... I could probably name hundreds of great games that cost less than $5 and are much better than most of the overpriced console games. Why would I spend piles of money on new games, if I can buy ten better, old games instead?

To be honest, I did a few times buy games for more than $20, but the only ones that I don't regret buying are Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program. Everything else was kinda "play once and forget", in other words "why even play once?". (some notable examples -> the Eador series, the first game, Eador Genesis was great, so I spent a whole bunch of money on the sequel. I think I might have even fallen for the pre-release crap. But of course, the sequel was muuuuuch worse, buggy, failed to deliver a Linux version even though it was promised, and overall I returned to playing Genesis after much frustration; another example -> X-Com Enemy Unknown, I think I bought the game because tactical turn based games are just my favorite, there aren't many of them and I thought it would be an important one to stay up to date with the genre. But to be honest, Xenonauts trump over it and will be the game I'll return to more than once.)

There is a limit to how man versions and break downs of the game we can do, so we would rather have the game be entirely complete, rather than expect people purchasing to have to go and buy other stuff or already own that stuff.

Also some of it is kinda specific, like two colours of d20 and d10. A lot of people might have that but not everyone will.

The coins come with stickers to make them in proper Eslum Soveriegns, bearing the image of the Mariner (partially defaced.)