Bone price cut to $12.99

By Tom Bramwell Published 5 April, 2006

Per episode.

Developer Telltale Studios, currently working on a Sam & Max game, has cut the price of its flagship Bone adventure series to $12.99 per instalment.

Bone, which is being developed episodically, will be sold through Telltale's digital distribution channel for $12.99 "to align with current models in other entertainment media".

As well as being the new price for Bone Act 2: The Great Cow Race, due out later this month, the new price point will be applied to the initial episode, Out From Boneville, which is still available.

"We will expand the audience for games enormously by setting a price that competes directly with DVDs, music CDs, books and cable television," said Dan Connors, CEO of Telltale, Inc.

The Great Cow Race continues the adventures of Fone Bone and his cousins as they head to Barrelhaven county fair, where the titular cow race is held.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • smelly #1 6 years ago

    Ooooh.. Might give it a go now.

  • Royal Fool #2 6 years ago

    Yay for Bone!

    /owns the comics

  • CordableTuna #3 6 years ago

    I didn't buy the first episode, not because it cost 20, but because (according to reviewers) it didn't have any challenge. I tried the demo and it consisted of 1 problem solvable by talking a bit and an action mini-game.

    I hate this. The characters and the world are magnificent, but if the game doesn't challenge me at all, I just feel bored. I understand the developer doesn't want to turn off new players by making the game too difficult, but this has gone to the point where I (as an adventure gamer) don't want to play the game, because it's too easy.

    Well, the best thing about episodic content is that the series can improve on the way. Maybe they'll add some challenge to the later episodes when they can expect their players to know a bit more.

  • smelly #4 6 years ago

    The demo put me off as it crashed my machine and needed a reboot.

    But for for 6 quid.. be rude not to play..

    But I agree, i hope they dont dumb down S&M so much.

  • fattakin #5 6 years ago

    just got the complete 9 series graphic novel so if its any use, i'll give the revised priced Bone a try fo sure!

  • jimmyjimbob #6 6 years ago

    Bill Door: I completed the first installment in about two hours, so as much as I want to support telltale, even $12.99 for two hours entertainment is quite expensive.

    A better system IMO is a base price of somewhere around $15 dollars, with each additional installment being around $2-3 or something. That way you'd end up paying about the same as normal game retail price (and of course telltale are saving a lot without publishing costs etc.)