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The chronicle of the Third Era is about to be revealed!

Age of Wonders 3, the long-anticipated continuation to the fan-favorite, award-winning strategy series, set in a robust and beautiful world that becomes the scene for diverse, complex, and engaging gameplay, is available for pre-orders on GOG.com. Depending on your location you'll be charged $39.99 or the USD equivalent of £29.99, or €39.99. An extended Age of Wonders 3 - Deluxe Edition, featuring a full soundtrack and the Dragon's Throne standalone scenario, is available for $44.99, £34.99, or €44.99. As a special pre-order bonus, both versions include the Elven Resurgence, a standalone scenario DLC.

Imagine! Empires rising and falling before your very eyes, led to victory or defeat by heroes of legend so powerful that they appear to be titans in the eyes of mortals. Sorcerers harness the arcane powers to bend the rules of the world around them. Theocrats twist the wills of their followers with the holy aura bestowed upon them by their deities for their zealous service. Rogues rule the shadows, taking any chance to strike and win before their foes even realize there is a war to fight. Warlords earn the loyalty of their legions by the glory gained in the many battles they emerged from, victorious. Archdruids become one with nature, and the land itself rushes to their aid. Dreadnoughts rely on the art of engineering to construct their unstoppable artificial armies. All those powers, all of their miraculous exploits, all of their desires, all thrown into one realm of war. This shall truly be an age of wonders!

With Age of Wonders 3, Triumph Studios aims to set new standards not only for the acclaimed Age of Wonders series, but also for the turn-based strategy genre itself. Taking advantage of all the modern gaming bells and whistles, the title will deliver an impressive level of complexity in gameplay and an immersive, lush, and diverse gameworld that can become your own for hundreds of hours. With the ability to choose one of the six leader classes, you'll be able to custom-tailor your empire--and by extension your experience with the game--to your personal gameplay style, so you can enjoy the extensive campaign the game offers in any way you like. You'll be leading into battle armies recruited from within six humanoid races as well as some fantastic creatures and mythical monsters. The turn-based tactical combat itself will prove to be a challenge for the most seasoned of strategy gamers but also scalable enough for beginners to enjoy. With over 50 location types to explore and exploit, hundreds of abilities to master for tactical and strategic advantage over your foes, visually stunning presentation, and a smart random scenario generator providing virtually limitless replayability, this upcoming title may prove the only turn-based strategy game you'll need for many years to come!

Pre-order Age of Wonders 3, for only $39.99 or the USD equivalent of £29.99, or €39.99 on GOG.com (or opt in for the splendid Age of Wonders 3 - Deluxe Edition), and secure your entry to the fantastic realm of power and dominion, which opens to all the brave souls approximately on March 31. Note that Age of Wonders 3 is the first title with regional pricing on GOG.com in quite some time and this means that we are charging the USD equivalents of the official regional price.

Note, that just as we have done before in such occasions, we'll be throwing in a little something extra to the deal, to accommodate those of you, who end up paying more than the others due to the currency conversion rates applied. We've picked some games that fit well with the genre represented by Age of Wonders III, and if you're one of those people, you'll get to pick one of them. You'll be sent a gift-code allowing you to redeem one of the following excellent titles: Master of Magic, Lords of Magic: Special Edition, Eador: Genesis, King’s Bounty: The Legend, Disciples II: Gold, and Etherlords II.
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trusteft: In Greece the basic game (the only version availble) is at 40 euros. That is $55 American.
They can suck my dick.
Wait, so the Deluxe Edition isn't even available to you for purchase here?
exchange rate =/= purchasing power

Exchange rate pricing (GOG's previous flat rate price) is the equivalent of walking into a shop in the US and buying a game. Purchasing power is the equivalent of walking into a local shop and buying the game - it is how much your currency is worth to buy goods domestically. Unless those two are balanced (which they are not for many of your countries exchange rate > purchasing power), you are not paying the equivalent $55 or $50 versus $40 for the US . This is not to say that you aren't necessarily paying more (though some of you may not be), but the degree is being inflated by a misunderstanding about the what the exchange rate represents. I realize this is kind of a complication subject, so I'll also link to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity

Of course, that means some people are getting screwed even more by regional pricing than the exchange rate represents (e.g. probably Greece, Romania, Poland - kind of ironic, etc ...) who have to buy in Euros but whose purchasing power is very different (i.e. 1 Euro is worth more to them as a percentage of income than other EU countries with higher incomes + standards of living). So I'm not saying that how regional pricing gets done is a good thing, but there needs to be a better understanding about what it really means versus the exchange rate and purchasing power.

Again, GOG's flat rate pricing model is the equivalent of everyone traveling to the US and buying a game. For some, that made the games essentially cheaper than if bought in stores in your home countries - but not for everyone. For others it gave people a break who normally get screwed by regional pricing (why I supported the flat rate price model). And for still some others, that actually makes the games more expensive (e.g. currencies with exchange rates weaker than the dollar but where the people spend that currency at similar rates or higher rates than dollars in their home country). It's why when travel agents tell you that it is really cheap to visit country X because the relative exchange rate gives you an advantage. To give a different example, it is expensive for people in the US to visit some Western European countries because the dollars trades weaker than the Euro/pound, but when in european country Y, one spends Euros/pounds at similar rates to dollars. In contrast, in pre-Euro days, visiting France, an American would get 5-6 francs to the dollar, but spend francs at roughly 5-6x the rate because the exchange rate and purchasing power were in rough equilibrium. Even today, someone from Western Europe or the US still finds it cheap to visit Eastern/Southern Europe because one spends Euros there at lower rates (which is why how regional pricing gets done normally is so very bad for them).

I'm not sure how well I explained this ...
Post edited February 25, 2014 by crazy_dave
The real question is: can we choose which regional price we are going to pay? That would be cool so that we could choose the cheapest option based on current exchange rates, otherwise it makes little sense from the consumer standpoint.
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trusteft: In Greece the basic game (the only version availble) is at 40 euros. That is $55 American.
They can suck my dick.
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IAmSinistar: Wait, so the Deluxe Edition isn't even available to you for purchase here?
It is. For a measly 62 dollars.
Steam prices . ( standard edition )
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tfishell: Waiting on that Monk Letter.
This was it. Surely, we all now understand the importance of giving up on core principles.

Talk about damage control...
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Bloodygoodgames: All of this mess for Age of Empires 3?
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spindown: Age of Wonders 3. Age of Empires would have meant Microsoft titles at least.
LOL, sorry.

I was so flabbergasted when i saw this piece of junk was why GOG crapped all over their customers, I could barely see my keyboard to type properly.

Thanks for the correction. And, no, I wouldn't buy Age of Empires either :) Not on GOG.
On other side, here in Russia prices is kinda low...
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zagros: The real question is: can we choose which regional price we are going to pay? That would be cool so that we could choose the cheapest option based on current exchange rates, otherwise it makes little sense from the consumer standpoint.
They're probably doing geoIP to determine the price, but you can VPN to another country's servers and make it look like you're coming from that country. Whether you think that is right or not is ... up to you. But I don't think GOG will allow you to do what they tried to allow with TW2 were you could pick your country (they got sued for that by Namco Bandai and lost).
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crazy_dave: I'm not sure how well I explained this ...
We understand purchasing power, we just don't like it. Why not go all the way and tie the pricing to every customers income? So rich people from Mozambique can pay 5000$ for Aow3 and a poor person from Sweden only pays 5$ since he earns so much less.
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IAmSinistar: Wait, so the Deluxe Edition isn't even available to you for purchase here?
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Grargar: It is. For a measly 62 dollars.
Buy two at that price.

I was worried for a moment that there was actual region-exclusion going on as well. Not that it can't happen...
Price for Poland is lower than for US - 33$, so I'm ok with those prices :P
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tfishell: Waiting on that Monk Letter.
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Lemon_Curry: This was it.
Ooooookkkkkaaaaayyyyyyy.

I'll admit I skimmed, but I expected more "heart to heart". Maybe too much to ask in an announcement post.
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trusteft: In Greece the basic game (the only version availble) is at 40 euros. That is $55 American.
They can suck my dick.
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IAmSinistar: Wait, so the Deluxe Edition isn't even available to you for purchase here?
My fault for the deluxe version availability, it is different link/page. Yes the deluxe version is available here too, for 45 euros ie $62 American.

Triumph and GOG, you are not going to get my money.