GOG News and Updates 2013

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cicero said:
The bundle ends in seven days, extra bonuses will come soon. I would also assume that the GOG code you get from Groupees will need to be redeemed within a month or so. Older codes that they have sold have had expiration dates on them.
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This particular one expires on May 16, 2014 - thankfully they include the expiry date on the game description now.

Thanks for the general remember about expiring GOG codes, though, as I've got a couple expiring real soon to give away:

Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring - Expires July 2
Unmechanical - Expires July 31

For anyone that wants one, name your choice in a reply then I'll PM with the code.
 
Trellisaze said:
This particular one expires on May 16, 2014 - thankfully they include the expiry date on the game description now.

Thanks for the general remember about expiring GOG codes, though, as I've got a couple expiring real soon to give away:

Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring - Expires July 2
Unmechanical - Expires July 31

For anyone that wants one, name your choice in a reply then I'll PM with the code.
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Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring please?

EDIT - Trellisaze kicks arse and takes names! :D
 
I've picked up Torchlight (cause it was free), Shogo, and I'm about to get Leisure Suit Larry 7, just because I heard it's one of the best point n' click games out there
 
The current IndieGameStand Pay What You Want deal is for the indie game The Real Texas. It redeems on both GOG and Desura, it ends in about 4 days. You need to pay at least $1 to get the GOG and Desura keys. If you pay more than $1.57 you unlock the bonus material which includes "Paradise Perfect Boat Rescue", "Fold Sum'm! Papercraft", and The Real Texas Original Soundtrack.

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The devs of Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten have price-matched today's GOG sale price on their Humble Stores page. More money goes directly to them, you also get a Steam key along with a GOG key. This price-match ends when the current GOG daily sale ends at 6am PST.

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten: $3.74 (Soundtrack, DRM-Free Humble hosted copy, GOG, and Steam keys included.
 
A quick question for you good people if you wouldn't mind.

If I snap up a bundle offer like this one here:

http://www.gog.com/promo/introversion_originals

but I already have one of those games due to the generosity of a lovely GAFer, I may gift the key for that game to someone else, yes?

Sorry if it's a stupid question but I'm new to all this and am sleep deprived and wouldn't like to waste a key.

EDIT - nvm, it appears that I can.
 
Interesting business going on with the Dragon Commander preorders - turns out there's a CE being released, and GoG are reacting to that announcement:

Divinity: Dragon Commander is an upcoming multi-layered real-time strategy game with a fantastic setting, epic scale, and many original ideas making it a breath of fresh air in the genre, and it's currently available for pre-orders on GOG.com, for $39.99. The game's release is currently planned for August 6, and if you pre-ordered it, plan to pre-order it, or are generally interested in great RTS games, we've got some important news for you!

Larian Studios, the game's creators, announced there will be two editions of the game available at the release. The version you'll be getting if you pre-order on GOG.com before August 6 now becomes the extended Imperial Edition, which contains the game's additional launch content: a development documentary video, an extra campaign map, an additional golden skin for your Dragon Emperor, and the game's soundtrack. The pre-order period is your chance to grab the game and all of the additional content for just $39.99.

If you decide not to take the pre-order route and get the game after the release for $39.99, you'll still be able to upgrade your version with the aforementioned development documentary video, extra map, golden dragon skin, and game soundtrack via the additional $9.99 "Imperial Edition Upgrade". Yes, this basically means that early adopters receive $9.99 worth of content with their pre-ordered copy, free of charge, thus becoming the owners of the most robust version of the game available on launch day.



The other thing Larian Studios is offering to GOG.com pre-ordering customers is a complimentary free copy of their classic Divine Divinity action-RPG. This will be a GOG.com copy, mind you, so the free game itself also comes with tons of valueble bonus content (and don't forget about the first free game you got out of this deal: Master of Magic!). This gift from Larian is meant to make up for the fact, that due to technical reasons the developer can't offer early beta access to GOG.com buyers.

Bottom line: Pre-order Divinity: Dragon Commander on GOG.com for $39.99 before August 6, to get the exclusive Imperial Edition of the game + free Divine Divinity & Master of Magic!
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So, in short: Pre-order and you'll automatically get the collector's edition version, but orders after launch will have to pay $10 extra for CE content.

There's a further comment directly from GoG:

Now, just to keep things transparent, a post-bottom line. This announcement might made some of our veteran users raise their eyebrows once or twice, and we feel it is important to address the fact that we're taking a new route with this release. First of all, this is the first time on GOG.com that a single game will be simultanously available in two different versions, one of them standard and the other one with addtional content. We believe this gives more freedom of choice to our users, and increasingly, this is where a lot of newer titles are going: selling additional content like soundtracks and so on at a premium. It's important to note that GOG won't be doing this with our classic releases, as the GOG.com policy for those always has been and will be to make every release as complete, comprehensive, and filled with free bonus content as possible. For new titles we would like to offer both the gamers and the developer more flexibility to make their mutual deals the way they want to. Furthermore, as time progresses and new releases become a de facto part of our back-catalog, we'll be trying to re-negotiate our deals to include soundtracks and more bonus content with those as well.
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Back to normal! With... a sale. Specifically, the normal weekend sale. This time:

60% off:

Gobliiins pack
Ishar Compilation
Robinson`s Requiem Collection
Waxworks
Personal Nightmare
Feeble Files, The

Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer 2
Simon the Sorcerer 3D

Tex Murphy 1+2
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Tex Murphy: Overseer

Broken Sword: Director`s Cut + The Original Game
Broken Sword 2: Remastered + The Original Game
Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon
Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death (Secrets of the Ark)

Runaway: A Road Adventure
Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate
 
A list with good games, but some of them are a tad overpriced, IMHO. Runaway 3 should be at most $5.99, and stuff like Gobliiins, Robinson's Requiem and other really old games ought to be $1.99.

I'd have liked to see Woodruff, the Legend of Kyrandia series and the Discworld series on the list; pity they're not on GOG yet (don't forget to vote for them in the community wishlist).
 
Nickodemos said:
A list with good games, but some of them are a tad overpriced, IMHO. Runaway 3 should be at most $5.99, and stuff like Gobliiins, Robinson's Requiem and other really old games ought to be $1.99.

I'd have liked to see Woodruff, the Legend of Kyrandia series and the Discworld series on the list; pity they're not on GOG yet (don't forget to vote for them in the community wishlist).
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Overpriced? With the exception of Runaway 3's special pricing, those are typical GOG sale prices for games that are at the typical GOG price base of either $5.99 or $9.99. Most Weekend promos seem to be at 60% off nowadays, with special Summer/Winter sales at 50% off with special prices for games in bundles. The only other exception is if they are individually in a Weekly Indie Gem/Classic 24hour Promo. Seeing as how we just passed the big Summer Sale promo and have six months before the Winter Holiday promo starts, I would go for whatever you are interested in playing or having now.
 
I really wish they could add the the Artdink A-Train games. After reading about them in Ray Barnholt's issue about the developer in Scroll, they sound like a good fit for me. It'll probably never happen, though.
 
Wasn't Total Annihilation on the chopping block, too? I have the original, but didn't buy Kingdom's yet. I'm sure I can spare $2 for it. I also need Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, just in case I want to give that one a shot at some point.

Anything besides TA and Rollercoaster Tycoon that's worth picking up before it inevitably disappears?
 
Sinatar said:
Yea anyone who doesn't own Riddick and wants to play it better get it now.
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Riddick's not going to disappear cuz of the Atari going bust thing though, right? Granted, I firmly believe that anyone who wants to live should get a shiv, because today, Johns, you get fucked.
 
Chacranajxy said:
Ladies and gentlemen: The Infinite Shelves of Digital Distribution!
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I suspect that you're not serious but I've seen people complain about this before. Do people really expect a company to continue collecting money for a game whose rights are in question? Who gets the revenue?

Retail games can stay on shelves because the publisher gets paid when they ship to the retailer, not when the game is sold.
 
epmode said:
I suspect that you're not serious but I've seen people complain about this before. Do people really expect a company to continue collecting money for a game whose rights are in question? Who gets the revenue?
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I'm being sarcastic, as always, but a lot of people still champion digital distribution as this magical place where you can instantly buy any game you want, ever. Which isn't true for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is licensing. This is an opportunity to rub their noses in shit and say "ha, you stupid motherfucker."

Okay, maybe not that extreme.

But it's still kind of sad that it's a "ya snooze, ya lose" situation with these games, especially in the case of an excellent game like this. One that's also saddled by crippling DRM in its retail release. So when the GOG.com version's gone... well, that kinda sucks.
 
Well there's always a chance of the IP moving to someone else who will then maintain distribution on GOG and elsewhere. But I wouldn't risk it.
 
Sinatar said:
Well there's always a chance of the IP moving to someone else who will then maintain distribution on GOG and elsewhere. But I wouldn't risk it.
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Yeah, same thing when the Fallout rights transfer at the end of this year. The rights could transfer and the games could still be available but then again they could just pull them.
 
Nickodemos said:
A list with good games, but some of them are a tad overpriced, IMHO. Runaway 3 should be at most $5.99, and stuff like Gobliiins, Robinson's Requiem and other really old games ought to be $1.99.

I'd have liked to see Woodruff, the Legend of Kyrandia series and the Discworld series on the list; pity they're not on GOG yet (don't forget to vote for them in the community wishlist).
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Yeah, I completely disagree. With the amount of content you get, those games are in no way overpriced.
 
It sucks when I click on a game on the front page that I think is an old game but it turns out to be a new indie game. This is why I visit gog less and less. I really wish gog had created an offshoot site for new games.
 
vazel said:
It sucks when I click on a game on the front page that I think is an old game but it turns out to be a new indie game. This is why I visit gog less and less. I really wish gog had created an offshoot site for new games.
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Honestly just out of curiosity, why does it matter which it is?
 
Giever said:
Honestly just out of curiosity, why does it matter which it is?
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Because indie games have a nasty habit of trying to mimic old games, but without the actual good game design that made people take note of those older games which they seek to riff on. Or it's just going to be another crappy physics-based puzzle platformer.

That's obviously not always the case, but it tends to be true pretty frequently.
 
Giever said:
Honestly just out of curiosity, why does it matter which it is?
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I really loved gog.com's original purpose of focusing on preserving and promoting old games. Before gog all we had were 'abandonware' sites like Home of the Underdogs who's legality was questionable(as a result of that legal gray area Home of the Underdogs doesn't offer downloads anymore).
 
epmode said:
I can't think of many other good old PC games that aren't already tied up in some rights/publisher bullshit.
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You mean 'big' titles like NOLF2 and Lucasarts adventure games? It would be nice to see those games on the service but there are still plenty of lesser known titles like Heart of China and Wings of Glory that I want to see make its way to the service.
 
vazel said:
You mean 'big' titles like NOLF2 and Lucasarts adventure games? It would be nice to see those games on the service but there are still plenty of lesser known titles like Heart of China and Wings of Glory that I want to see make its way to the service.
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Yeah, there are so many other games out there that I wish they'd get. There are still more Sierra games out there that aren't available, although they've gotten the big ones. Plenty more old stuff out there, and I don't go to the site much anymore because most of the new games they offer don't appeal to me.
 
If you don't own the RCT series I would consider getting it from GOG before the rights change hands.

Great games as playable today as they were when they originally released
 
I'd second the RCT recommendation, at least as far as the first two games go. Never played the third, but I might pick it up just in case. But those first two games are gold. Incredibly addictive, fun games.

Is Total Annihilation also on the way out? Realized I didn't have the Kingdoms expansion, so I picked that one up this morning.
 
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