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Dominion => Dominion General Discussion => Topic started by: love on September 25, 2016, 01:44:03 am

Title: Standalone
Post by: love on September 25, 2016, 01:44:03 am
Are standalone dominion sets (Base, Intrigue) sold more often than expansions?
Why are there not more Expansions shipped with the base material (Copper,..., Gold, Estates, ..., Provinces)?
Title: Re: Standalone
Post by: Beyond Awesome on September 25, 2016, 01:47:28 am
Are standalone dominion sets (Base, Intrigue) sold more often than expansions?
Why are there not more Expansions shipped with the base material (Copper,..., Gold, Estates, ..., Provinces)?

According to Amazon, Base sells the best and Intrigue second best. Intrigue will no longer have the base cards, but regular Dominion will. 2nd Editions are coming out soon.
Title: Re: Standalone
Post by: Donald X. on September 25, 2016, 02:36:56 am
Are standalone dominion sets (Base, Intrigue) sold more often than expansions?
Why are there not more Expansions shipped with the base material (Copper,..., Gold, Estates, ..., Provinces)?
The initial plan - of RGG's - was to have all expansions standalone, every set coming with base cards (there were no small expansions).

But when Intrigue (way back when) was announced as coming with base cards, a lot of people on BGG complained. Well Intrigue having base cards lets you go up to 6 players, so there was that to defend it. But RGG announced, okay, the other expansions will not come with base cards. And they haven't.

There's no good way to evaluate impact on sales; we would need a set in the middle there that was a standalone, and don't have one. Mostly the earlier sets sell better than later ones, and large sets sell better than small ones. I could speculate as to why but so could anyone.
Title: Re: Standalone
Post by: GendoIkari on September 25, 2016, 08:41:03 am
Are standalone dominion sets (Base, Intrigue) sold more often than expansions?
Why are there not more Expansions shipped with the base material (Copper,..., Gold, Estates, ..., Provinces)?

Doing that would really upset a lot of people who don't want to pay 11 separate times for the same set of base cards when they only need 1 set.
Title: Re: Standalone
Post by: werothegreat on September 25, 2016, 08:51:08 am
Are standalone dominion sets (Base, Intrigue) sold more often than expansions?
Why are there not more Expansions shipped with the base material (Copper,..., Gold, Estates, ..., Provinces)?

Doing that would really upset a lot of people who don't want to pay 11 separate times for the same set of base cards when they only need 1 set.

Lol yeah there was that one guy that was hilarious
Title: Re: Standalone
Post by: GendoIkari on September 25, 2016, 10:09:17 am
Are standalone dominion sets (Base, Intrigue) sold more often than expansions?
Why are there not more Expansions shipped with the base material (Copper,..., Gold, Estates, ..., Provinces)?

Doing that would really upset a lot of people who don't want to pay 11 separate times for the same set of base cards when they only need 1 set.

Lol yeah there was that one guy that was hilarious

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Title: Re: Standalone
Post by: werothegreat on September 25, 2016, 10:28:50 am
Are standalone dominion sets (Base, Intrigue) sold more often than expansions?
Why are there not more Expansions shipped with the base material (Copper,..., Gold, Estates, ..., Provinces)?

Doing that would really upset a lot of people who don't want to pay 11 separate times for the same set of base cards when they only need 1 set.

Lol yeah there was that one guy that was hilarious

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It was probably on reddit.  Some guy got a copy of the Base Cards for each of his expansions.  He didn't seem to realize what a waste of money that was.
Title: Re: Standalone
Post by: Jack Rudd on September 25, 2016, 01:22:16 pm
Are standalone dominion sets (Base, Intrigue) sold more often than expansions?
Why are there not more Expansions shipped with the base material (Copper,..., Gold, Estates, ..., Provinces)?

Doing that would really upset a lot of people who don't want to pay 11 separate times for the same set of base cards when they only need 1 set.

Lol yeah there was that one guy that was hilarious

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It was probably on reddit.  Some guy got a copy of the Base Cards for each of his expansions.  He didn't seem to realize what a waste of money that was.
Oh, it has its uses. You can run tournaments if you do that.