When I was a younger man I spent literally thousands of dollars on Magic cards, and plenty more on other CCGs and tabletops, video games, video game subs, P&P RPGs, you name it. Dominion seemed to me like the perfect deal at the time that I found it; no longer having nearly as much expendable income (acquired a mini-me) the CCG-type game without the "collectibility" aspect was great. Buy the box, you get all the parts up front. It is a great model, one that responsible adults can really get behind.
But I gotta tell you, Donald X, if it were not for finding BSW the week I bought the original Dominion Box, I probably would have bought Intrigue. BSW taught me that this game was really, really fun online against a legion of opponents, available day or night. Goons and Venture appearing on BSW led me back to BGG, interested enough in Dominion to look further in and decide whether to try to budget a copy of Prosperity, and instead found Isotropic. A perfectly functioning version of the game, online, not only free but with the licence holder's approval. So you lost two sales.
I want to support you, and your business people, and Comic Book World, Old Shepardsville Rd, one mile south of the Outer Loop in Louisville, KY. I also want to make ends meet, vacation in Sunset Beach, NC maybe or go to Cedar Point or a Colt's game every year or two, and having a perfectly functioning version of your game, online, not only free but with the licence holder's approval, makes it very hard to justify buying your boxes of cards, or Skyram, for that matter.
I will be pleased as punch to pony up a reasonable amount for the upcoming online release. You guys deserve it.