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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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Lemon_Curry: I hope it won't but I'm afraid it will.

Apparently, principles aren't worth much these days. Good Old Greed...
Just wait for those customer reviews :) Remember the hell that broke loose when Omerta DLCs came out? :)
GOG has only the choice of not offering this or doing the regional pricing scheme. It is not something they control. If GOG is going to bring out new releases like this in order to prosper as a business, then I support it. As long as it keeps on bringing out older releases DRM free and doesn't force me to log into their website to play my games (like those OTHER as.holes), then I am fine with GOG. Thanks GOG and I did buy this game.
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HGiles: There is no DRM announced, and TeT explicitly said there would be no compromise on that.
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zeffyr: Exactly. I'm so disappointed seeing many users are spreading nothing more than stupid gossips.
Gog's word is worth nothing.
high rated
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HGiles: There is no DRM announced, and TeT explicitly said there would be no compromise on that.
Of course they said the same about regional pricing as recently as last summer.
And they said they needed to allow regional pricing to get the games on Gog. Which seems to be not true in the case of AoW3, as it was announced for Gog months ago if an earlier comment is correct.
Yeah...
I will not buy this game, as I stated in the other Thread already.
And if you are against this unbelievable mistake, neither should you.

But that is it. We will see what will happen in the future...
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mrking58: Why do I have a feeling this won't sell that well.

I am not even going to touch it
Sticker shock, even for people in wealthy countries? This is the most expensive title to find its way onto the site and its not even a title most of us were aware of or even care for.
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HGiles: There is no DRM announced, and TeT explicitly said there would be no compromise on that.
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Lemon_Curry: Unless he eats his hat...
Perhaps he's wearing a cone sugar. ;)

But honestly I don't see any DRM releases appear on GOG. I really believe they will stick with their DRM-free policy.
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mqstout: So, those of us who might (MIGHT) purchase later, we will be unable to get the full experience because of the "preorder DLC"? Thanks for helping to ruin gaming a little bit more, GOG.com.
How can we know they rob of us of content with DLC? i don't like (actually i hate) the idea of DLC and refused it for one game thus far. But if *n1-developer-hours goes into making the core game, and *n2-developer-hours goes into making extra content, then there is no cheesy thievery. They simply have created two products. It remains to be seen if the core game is a full-game. That will depend on the publisher/studio.

Once there was a time, when games came in boxes, for which deluxe and/or pre-ordered games netted the customer some cheap real-world swag. Now the pre-orders and deluxe versions come with in-game bonus content (this i prefer to paper maps and plastic figurines). So long as this DLC content does not undermine the competitive multiplayer experience, and does not result in a content poor game, i care not how they attempt to urge people to preorder games.
I'm getting $39.99. Is that a bug or is it because we said no to the EU, like anyone with any good sense would do?
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HGiles: There is no DRM announced, and TeT explicitly said there would be no compromise on that.
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duxcorvan: They also used to say that about regional pricing. So...
They also announced regional pricing in advance of when it happened.
I think I can see why GOG would bend so far for these games. It isn't that they expect us to think these are on par with the absolute biggest names out there. It's that games like AOW are good matches for GOG's customers, and if they can't host these games from day one, they're falling short as a new game retailer. From GOG's perspective, titles like AOW and Divinity are too important to not have in the catalog. From the angry customer's perspective, the games aren't big enough to justify the sudden, unwelcome changes.
GOG only made the prices the publisher asked for. So load out your frustrations in the forums of the publisher.

http://ageofwonders.com/forums/forum/discussions/
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MIK0: Some time ago GOG did a PR stunt. It was an unprofessional and childish things to do but they apologized. Unfortunately they didn't learn much from that.
Yeah, after that stupid stunt I actually moved over to DotEmu for a while.

I have bought from GOG before and after the stunt, but they ended up losing some of my money because of that.

Maybe they want to get rid of certain customers entirely and get money from preferred customers (whoever those might be).
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wbrk: Looks like regional pricing is not working yet as intended.
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HGiles: Submit a support ticket. GOG doesn't pay attention to bug reports in the forums.
Not interested in this game anyway, so don't see any point to bother with ticket right now, maybe will submit one later, if something interesting comes out (and when the dust settles).
Post edited February 25, 2014 by wbrk
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Novotnus: Just wait for those customer reviews :) Remember the hell that broke loose when Omerta DLCs came out? :)
Yeah but I wonder how much the sales were affected by that.