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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.
Yikes. We knew AoW 3 was coming to GOG, but I certainly didn't expect this.
I'm not planning to buy this game (I'm okay with the gameplay of older, cheaper games), but with that difference of price, I think that a honestly "againstregional price" GOG could have arranged a way to compensate it, such as offering a cheap gog game to the customers who buy it at a higher cost. This was actually how one forumgoer had first interpreted the bonus game offer thingy.

I seem to not be directly concerned, as I get the $ price here from switzerland, but I still think GOG coul consider such a system, and would if it actually mattered so much (as a "core value" and all that).
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tfishell: No sh!t. Even with the regional pricing bs, I would have been stoked for Microsoft's 9.99 titles - Age of Empires, Freelancer, etc.

This gets a solid "meh" from me.
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trusteft: You can get the Ubisoft (yes you read that right) Ubisoft Exclusive retail version of Age of Empires Collector's Edition for almost nothing. I got it for like 3 euros from Amazon. They are DRM free and they include all the expansion packs.
Then there is a MS AOE III complete edition which I found for 10 euros last year on Amazon.
Drm free too.
Seriously? No Starforce/Securom, CD checks or online activation?
Post edited February 25, 2014 by HGiles
This is very far from a AAA title.
You people just won't let up with the whole "we're getting LucasArts!" myth, will you?
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crazy_dave: No purchasing power is more fair - the problem with regional pricing is that it doesn't take into account the purchasing power of individual countries and groups them together.
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jamotide: .uhm yeah that was my point

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crazy_dave: So to say that you in Germany are spending the equivalent of $55 and that is unfair is erroneous.
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jamotide: What why? That is not what I said anyway, see above. I said it is unfair that everyone in a country has to pay the same price even though everyones purchasing power is different.
Oh okay I totally misunderstood your post. There are some people who are arguing here that their country is getting screwed when they really aren't (not everyone in Europe gets screwed by 1 dollar = 1 euro or rather rather some are screwed more than others) and that's why I wrote my previous uber-long post - not as a defense of the regional pricing scheme as implemented, but to explain why this is a country by country problem, which some people in the thread I don't think understand. Because some people were just taking the exchange rate and saying this is how much more I'm paying for a game than someone in the US which may or may not be a true assessment. I thought you were being sarcastic in your post.

I think we're saying the same thing.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by crazy_dave
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GOG.com: 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.
In other words "we've picked some games that majority of people who like this kind of game likely have already got..."
Until we get an icon for regional priced games, have a GOGmix.
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jackalKnight: You people just won't let up with the whole "we're getting LucasArts!" myth, will you?
Getting LucasArts or an equivalent studio would be the only thing worth this.
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crazy_dave: They haven't added other currencies yet. Is it in dollars but the US price, or in dollars and the European price?
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Pheace: $39.99 base game, US price
Interesting not using a VPN? Most interesting ... they got sued for that and lost last time they didn't use geoIP, I wonder if something has changed ... or they just haven't implemented it yet
Post edited February 25, 2014 by crazy_dave
40€ is too damn high
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HGiles: Seriously? No Starforce/Securom or CD checks?
Age of Empires Collector's Edition has no DRM and no CD checks.

Age of Empires 3 Complete has a CD check and a local serial check, but nothing online.
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Redfern: On other side, here in Russia prices is kinda low...
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xxxIndyxxx: How much is that in real money? ;)
About 17 dollars.
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Bloodygoodgames: LOL, I just wrote exactly that in an email I just sent to a friend.as soon as this over priced piece of junk was announced for pre-order. "Add Triumph Studios to your boycott list: :)
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xxxIndyxxx: Be sure to mail it to triumph as well please.
Oh I'll be sending them a nice little tweet. I always do with any game I boycott, and I tell the publisher why

If there's room in my 90 characters, it usually ends with "Fuck you" :)

Although I think Triumph has probably already figured out their chances of selling many copies of this overpriced price-gouging piece of junk on GOG are probably very low, as I can guarantee you someone from the company is reading this forum thread.

I'm sure they are also thrilled to see their name being dragged through the mud by 90 percent of the people responding to this release. Of course, for that they can thank themselves for their greed and GOG for their complete lack of principles.

Nice going, guys :)

And on that note, I'm off to bed. Need to be nice and refreshed tomorrow when I start looking for a new place to buy my games.
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xxxIndyxxx: How much is that in real money? ;)
$16.82 the non-deluxe edition