Manor Lords, un city builder medieval, se lanzará a principios de 2024

Manor Lords Pricing (why we are sharing at launch, and what to generally expect)

Hi everyone! I'm Tim, CEO of Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse.

There’s been a lot of discussion about price recently, so I wanted to provide some info on why we aren’t sharing Manor Lords prices publicly yet. Manor Lords, like all other games on Steam, will not have one price. It will have regional prices that distribute across the world. 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 (though inflation is making that more and more difficult when local currency cannot be used)

So we don’t like to declare a price in advance of release. Because sharing the US price alone will lead to misunderstandings. People will be concluding the game is unaffordable in their region when at launch they will have pricing that will work for them. And whatever disclaimers we’d attach would probably be dropped when it is repeated elsewhere causing a bunch of people to lose hope and feel the game won’t be affordable in their country.

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 Lords keys. They don’t have any keys, and they aren’t going to be getting any from us. But they are attempting to capitalize on the hype, and, despite our stance that we are NOT doing pre-orders because we don’t want to take your money until after release, they are claiming to take pre-orders for key sales. 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’.

Now the most important thing I’d like to stress: I don't think people should be worried about price. As a publisher, Hooded Horse has never done AAA pricing on a game. We have no current plans to do so, no matter how popular a game is. And for Early Access release we’ve always previously done launch discounts in the range of 10-25% that last for the first couple of weeks. We're not trying to squeeze every last dollar out of people, 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.