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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.
Wow, the russian pricing is amazing! Yoinks! 599RUB, less than $17. Lucky russians ; )
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Yeah, no.

And BTW, for those of us dedicated to GOG with 500+ games on the library, the free game is not exactly enticing. It almost feels like a joke to me, in fact. But whatever.
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spindown: Unique preorder DLC? €1 = $1? What the fuuuuuck?
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mondo84: http://i.imgur.com/JTvWtAF.gif
He's baaaack!
Post edited February 25, 2014 by Ichwillnichtmehr
Gotta say, this looks nothing like the first AoW that I played a year or so back. Maybe I need to plow through the series to see how much it has advanced from one release to the next.

<insert obligatory pricing gripe here>

Anywho, thanks for the new new-release. Wish it came with less drama and (not unwarranted) grumbling, but at least it's here.
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Bloodygoodgames: 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: It's a real shame though, as far as I know they are from the Netherlands and I hate to hate a developer from the country i live in. If Larian does the same with Original sin, then the same happens with a developer from the country I was born in (Belgium). I am rather sad about this.
I'm with you there, as I always support the European developers before the US ones just because there aren't very many of them. I won't be supporting this developer or buying this game, though. Even at the $3 bootleg price I'll be able to buy it at in Bangkok the day after it releases. Wouldn't even support a bootleg copy of this - on principle.

And btw, I have a nasty feeling one of the other two supposed AAA games will be Original Sin. And Larian will also then go on my list of companies never to buy a game from again, which would be a shame as I own (and love) everything else they've produced.
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jackalKnight: You're NOT getting LucasArts. It's in Disney's hands and Disney could clearly care less and wants to DRM things to the end of time. Is it too much to ask that people on here ask for things that have even a remote chance of appearing?
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HGiles: You missed the point of my post.

The miracle of getting LucasArts would be one of the few things worth the can of worms GOG has opened.
They opened the can of worms the moment they had regional pricing for Witcher 2.
Wowow, I'm a huge fan of AoW1 and 2.
Can't wait!
So next release is with DRM?


Fair prices? Stop the BS on your facebook page...
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Pheace: None.
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ne_zavarj: Have you tried to change your country to Russia in your profile?
Huh, still $, even tried wiping cookies. Guess they might have locked people into the country they originally set. Did anyone else try changing countries? Maybe I messed up the cookies thing.

Or is the euro thing simply not implemented yet?
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Kazper: I'm not going to hate on GOG for the regional pricing, because they are upfront about it
No, they lied to us, as has been said few hundred times already.

They quietly dropped "one price" references, completely ignored their previous statements about pricing, and released this new policy statement as a minor detail in "great news, we get great games" news posting.
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Trilarion: What I really don't like about it is that GOG just display me the price on the gamecard and doesn't tell me that would I come from somewhere else I would probably pay less or more.
haha! If they would do that, nobody would buy it! The reason 80% off sales work so well is that everyone thinks they are making a good deal so more people buy. Here we have the exact opposite! Here you are being told you are getting screwed when you buy this!
Post edited February 25, 2014 by jamotide
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Pheace: Huh, still $, even tried wiping cookies. Guess they might have locked people into the country they originally set. Did anyone else try changing countries? Maybe I messed up the cookies thing.

Or is the euro thing simply not implemented yet?
Seems like they locked it to what was set before this release....
What? Poland became an USA colony when I wasn't looking?
Actually, I wouldn't mind :)
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pursang007: The selection list for bonus games is useless, they are all in my backlog ... Not a good new !

Why not Aow 1 & 2 as gift ? Or a big sale 90 % on aow 1 & 2 only for people screwed by regional price ?

1 euro = 1 dollar ?

Bullshit !
Normal standart in regional pricing. They think that we in Europe are all rich people.
About $21 price difference for the deluxe edition. You can't say that this is the VAT.
No thanks.
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Kazper: I'm not going to hate on GOG for the regional pricing, because they are upfront about it
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PixelBoy: No, they lied to us, as has been said few hundred times already.

They quietly dropped "one price" references, completely ignored their previous statements about pricing, and released this new policy statement as a minor detail in "great news, we get great games" news posting.
They didn't technically lie: They just made the huge mistake to think that their (now ex-) fans are stupid suckers....
Post edited February 25, 2014 by xxxIndyxxx