by bournizzle
TedW wrote:
-I think a better marketing strategy and better ROTV art work could have drastically increased the penetration of this game. The art is good from an artistic standpoint but terrible from a "luring a prospective customer into buying it" perspective.
I guess my problem with the cover was actually more of a marketing problem. Hasbro was definetly marketing the game to children. It's kind of a catch 22 though because I'm not sure Hasbro would have ever released heroscape had they realized that their primary market was not going to be children. That isn't to say that they didn't sell a lot of copies to children (being in Wal-Mart and ToysRUs they would have had to) they just never had a chance of creating sustainability in that market.
I agree that one of the great things about this game was the value and quality of the product. I don't know what ROTV was off the shelf (I'm guessing under $40), but they were only able to sell the product so cheap because they were able to mass produce it on a "Hasbro" level.
What price would this game have gone for had A smaller publisher released it?
Also how much would you have paid a smaller publisher for this game?