Please bear with me as I play devil's advocate on the topic of pricing.
... no one from neoqb has officially said that it would be less that $40. There was a lot of conjecture, but never anything from anyone at neoqb that talked specific pricing.
True enough. No specific price mentioned. But we know what the price in Russia is simply by looking at the site selling it (link to shop posted by NeoQB:
http://www.nd.ru/catalog/products/warinheaven1917/ ) Anyone can do the currency conversions from the price in Rubles stated on that site. The Limited Edition set is selling for approximately what the North American standard release is ... minus a few of the goodies.
There is a blog entry on the official NeoQB site proudly proclaiming "One world, One Price".
http://riseofflight.com/Blogs/April-2009/One-world---one-price.aspxRise of Flight will be distributed worldwide at a uniform price. Variations are possible only because of the publishing activities in different countries and should be minimal.
After reading that, I was happily expecting a price point in the US of roughly half what we're seeing.
Regardless of the math or symantics involved, I'll be buying RoF. The blog entries made were obviously a bit optimistic, and certainly not concrete evidence of the final pricing schemes necessary to see the product hit store shelves around the globe, but do reflect the good intentions NeoQB originally had. I won't fault them for trying.
Okay ... no more pricing talk from me either. In the end I'm just tickled that arrangements have been made to enable this sim to be in my hands much sooner than I was expecting. That is certainly worth the price of admission.