Construction Simulator - The Official Guide

[jotada_63]

What the HECK?!?!
You need to pay money for it if you want read it (9,99€)

Newer going to happend from my wallet, In nowadays ppls get more and more greedy, So sad

[Chacal]

It's an extra. Not required for playing the game. Don't buy it if you don't want it.
Surely you don't expect a 200-page illustrated guide to be included for free with a game.
I remember in the early 2000s buying some guides for the Myst series of games, if only because I liked to collect everything related to them.

[jotada_63]

Just saying, I am been on Steam several years now and never seen like that before

[Stars-N-Stripes]

I've seen 3 games do this now, used to be you got instruction how to play a game with the actual game. Go pound sand !

[Tellheim [GER]]

Selling a proper tutorial for 9,99€

[gordon861]

£7.99 for the damn manual, they are taking the PI$$.

[Chacal]

As far as I can tell, the instructions manual is included in the game (key "1" on the keyboard). This "Official Guide" is not the manual, it is supplementary material. It looks nice but I certainly don't need it.

[Primus]

They are asking people to pay for a game manual! They must think their customers are complete morons. I sure feel like one having paid premium money on this buggy piece of software.

[Primus]

Originally posted by Chacal:

Surely you don't expect a 200-page illustrated guide to be included for free with a game.

That's called a manual! What rock have you been living under?

[wladi | astragon]

Originally posted by Primus:

Originally posted by Chacal:

Surely you don't expect a 200-page illustrated guide to be included for free with a game.

That's called a manual! What rock have you been living under?

Note: I don't really work on Construction Simulator.

But this is not a manual but a strategy guide. They exist since the very beginning of video games, nowadays to a much lesser extent than in the past as the internet kinda lowered their relevance.

They are also available for practically every relevant video game out there, see the giant Amazon section: https://www.amazon.com/Games-Strategy-Guides-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=87

And this Wikipedia article about the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_guide

And also this awesome Video from Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTgQF0L4w2o

There's also a bunch of them on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=Official+Guide

In addition, we don't earn anything if you buy it here, proceeds go to the company that actually made the guide with our allowance. We thought it was a cool extra gimmick. And if you don't like the hard copy, we think having it at least digitally available is a nice extra.

(I bought the Breath of the Wild strategy guide back then because it was cool to read through, never needed it when actually playing the game 😄)

[joridiculous]

Originally posted by wladi | astragon:

Originally posted by Primus:

That's called a manual! What rock have you been living under?

Note: I don't really work on Construction Simulator.

But this is not a manual but a strategy guide. They exist since the very beginning of video games, nowadays to a much lesser extent than in the past as the internet kinda lowered their relevance.

They are also available for practically every relevant video game out there, see the giant Amazon section: https://www.amazon.com/Games-Strategy-Guides-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=87

And this Wikipedia article about the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_guide

And also this awesome Video from Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTgQF0L4w2o

There's also a bunch of them on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=Official+Guide

In addition, we don't earn anything if you buy it here, proceeds go to the company that actually made the guide with our allowance. We thought it was a cool extra gimmick. And if you don't like the hard copy, we think having it at least digitally available is a nice extra.

(I bought the Breath of the Wild strategy guide back then because it was cool to read through, never needed it when actually playing the game 😄)

Main problem is this: "in-depth information about the game ". That should be IN the game, not having to look up in guides or "google" to find out how much a bucket can load.

This guide covers:

USA & Europe Map Overview with Icons and Landmarks
Jobs, Contracts and Offers
Campaign in the USA and Europe
Upgrading your Company
Milestones and Profiles
Full information on the game vehicles
Collectibles and Achievements
Game Settings and Configurations

ALL of that should be in the game!
But hey, now we can pay €10 for all this info every other "sim" already have "for free" IN THE GAME yay

[Holunder]

Also wenn es kein Handbuch ist, dann sind die Bilder im DLC selbst mehr als unglücklich gewählt weil was man dort sieht lässt auf ein Handbuch schlussfolgern.

Als konstruktives Feedback nebenbei erwähnt.

[sirwinni]

So I would spend the money on a good update or DLC with new campaigns or cities. But not for a "manual"
Also ich würde das Geld ausgeben für ein gutes Update oder eine DLC mit neuen Kampagnen oder Städte. Aber nicht für ein "Handbuch"

[W0mbat]

Originally posted by Chacal:

It's an extra. Not required for playing the game. Don't buy it if you don't want it.
Surely you don't expect a 200-page illustrated guide to be included for free with a game.
I remember in the early 2000s buying some guides for the Myst series of games, if only because I liked to collect everything related to them.

Uh yes, one would expect a manual for free no matter how many pages. They are afterall DIGITAL prints not hard copies. No costs for distribution, sales and service. Just a download.
Civ4 and even earlier versions like original Civilization which i got way back in the late 90s came with a hardcopy book the size of a novel. You didnt pay extra for that now did ya. A manual is part of a game not an additional extra like they all do now with selling bare bone games and adding useless crap to it or things that should be in it or modders filling in the gaps. Does one buy a new car without an owners manual?

[Chacal]

The manual is already included in the game.
This is a strategy guide, not made by the developers of the game. Like all strategy games that were written for hundreds of games since 35 years. I had one for Myst in 1994.

[Stringbean]

Originally posted by Chacal:

This is a strategy guide, not made by the developers of the game. Like all strategy games that were written for hundreds of games since 35 years. I had one for Myst in 1994.

Lol, this is Construction Simulator, hardly a survival first-person-shooter. Besides, strategy guides back in the day were actually worth paying for because they were physical printed books and no internet resources for guides e.t.c.