So our German friends are also allowed to buy it should it ever return here. Congrats.

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Maybe it's a good sign. Gearbox probably wouldn't care, if they don't have any plans for selling the game again.

Is this the appropriate place to mention I have a complete set of unused Duke GOG codes for trade, region-restriction free?


Shhhhh.

They are already selling a version of it on Steam.

The old game? I can only see Megaton Edition and 20th Anniversary World Tour. Not sure if those were indexed as well. Technically these are not the same game.

Right. I forgot that the index might only apply to specific versions of the same game. I was talking about the 20th Anniversary. I'm not sure where you're seeing the Megaton Edition, considering that it was removed across all stores, 1 year ago.

You are right of course. It was only the Steamcommunity page in my search results.

Wasn't the Megaton Edition pretty much just OG Atomic Edition + officially authorized (but boring) 3rd-party expansions anyway? Or did they alter/update it somehow, as well?

Can't really attest to the quality of the three included expansions as I haven't tried them yet, but instead of using DOSBox (like the Atomic Edition did), the Megaton Edition was using a customised source port, developed in part by the person responsible for eDuke32.

Interesting, I didn't know that. (Not that it matters anymore, given that that version might never be sold digitally again.) As far as those 3rd-party expansions are concerned, I only ever played Duke It Out in D.C. -- it was actually the only expansion for the base game I ever had for my physical copy -- and I didn't think much of it. The levels seemed to be technically well-made (the few I played, at least), but I remember thinking it was pretty boring -- like the level designers were more concerned with getting all the landmarks in there and making it look as much like D.C. as they reasonably could, given the constraints, than with actually making it fun. I had a way better time just playing random user-made maps from a (probably unauthorized) retail CD-ROM Duke3D level compilation that I bought.
Of course, this was many years ago that I played Duke It Out in D.C. (though I still have all those Duke discs in a box in storage), and like I said, I never played much of it (or any of the other expansions). Your mileage may vary. :)

Yes. It seems that the Zoom people didn't get Gearbox's attention like other stores did.

I checked and the versions that were delisted from the German index now are the original game (full version and shareware) and the Plutonium Pack.