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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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truhlik77: Too long thread to read it whole. I just ask quickly. Will be Age of wonders DRM-free?
Thanks
Yes, it will .
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truhlik77: Too long thread to read it whole. I just ask quickly. Will be Age of wonders DRM-free?
Thanks
Sure.
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FlamingFirewire: If you read the game card it mentions pre-order incentives as well the price upon release - I think it's about $15 cheaper to pre-order it at this point over waiting for its release date.
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CharlesGrey: Yeah, sorry, I somehow missed the info about the bonus when I first read the description. So the game will be even more expensive after release? Something tells me they won't move many copies of this, not until some heavy discount promo somewhere down the line.

( Except of course for those people who will pre-order it right away, because they already knew of and waited for the game to be released. )

Maybe that's just me, but I'm generally reluctant to pay as much for a digital copy as I would for an old fashioned physical release. Digital distribution is drastically more cost-effective for the publisher, yet for the most they don't seem to pass that advantage on to the customer. We receive an inferior product ( aside from the convenience I'll admit ) yet the price is often almost identical. Maybe this doesn't bother people in the US/ Northern America as much, since physical distribution seems to be almost non-existent for you guys at this point. ( It's still fairly common here in Europe, probably more so than DD. )
Ya, for PC it's pretty much become digital or not at all. The last game I purchased physically for PC forced me to install Steam to play the game, and then install GB in patches, so at that point a physically release is 100% useless - especially since most come with nothing else besides the game.
I can only imagine all the redundant threads in Steam which I am sure are created in Steam every day a new title is released due to their regional pricing. It's not as if people who also buy Steam titles are hypocritically attacking GOG for having to do this in order to offer this title while not doing the same in Steam forums. Quite sure...
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Ghorpm: -snip-
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Darvond: Did you also send them an email? They've got a contact email openly placed on their website.
I'm doing it right now!
I didn't comment on the announcement since I never considered the whole "one world, one price" thing as one of the really important core values of GOG - at least to me, for what it's worth. If giving up on this gets us DRM-free major AAA releases in compensation, I'm all in for it. And theoretically, regional pricing can be for the good if regions with lower income or purchasing power gets lower prices.

But history taught us that de facto regional pricing has always been for the worse (1$=1€ bullshit). And sadly it turned out GOG is no exception in this regard. If at least it was for one of those mentioned AAA games. Instead it's Age of Wonders 3...

If this situation is only of a temporary nature I think I can get along with it for now. But like most others here I'm hugely disappointed about the actual outcome of this not so insignificant change of policy. It's a door opener, and the Humble THQ Bundle showed us what door openers can lead to.
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Buenro-games: I can only imagine all the redundant threads in Steam which I am sure are created in Steam every day a new title is released due to their regional pricing. It's not as if people who also buy Steam titles are hypocritically attacking GOG for having to do this in order to offer this title while not doing the same in Steam forums. Quite sure...
Are you trolling or you are playing with a few cards short of a deck?
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truhlik77: Too long thread to read it whole. I just ask quickly. Will be Age of wonders DRM-free?
Thanks
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Trilarion: Sure.
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truhlik77: Too long thread to read it whole. I just ask quickly. Will be Age of wonders DRM-free?
Thanks
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Licurg: Yes, it will .
Nice.
Thanks ;)
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Niggles: quick question are these DRM versions a GOG exclusive?
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JudasIscariot: We don't carry DRM versions :)

edit: that being said, as far as I know the DRM free version is exclusive to GOG.
Yet. Looking forward to the good news of 2015 when you announce that GOG was always about the goodies, not DRM-free.

Also

Welp. So much for the "regional prices are fairer for poor countries!" argument. All the poor countries get the EU price...

Algeria: $54.99/$61.99
Egypt: $39.99/$44.99
Ghana: $54.99/$61.99
Kenya: $54.99/$61.99
Morocco: $54.99/$61.99
Nigeria: $54.99/$61.99
Senegal: $54.99/$61.99
South Africa: $54.99/$61.99
...
Basically every country other than Russia has to pay more now.
Russia: $16.99/$19.99
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Wishlisted for now. Not buying right now at this price, especially if there is still DLC coming out later. I'm yet to play the first two anyway.
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Buenro-games: I can only imagine all the redundant threads in Steam which I am sure are created in Steam every day a new title is released due to their regional pricing. It's not as if people who also buy Steam titles are hypocritically attacking GOG for having to do this in order to offer this title while not doing the same in Steam forums. Quite sure...
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trusteft: Are you trolling or you are playing with a few cards short of a deck?
Why trolling? GOG had/has already said ad nauseum that it was either offer this game with regional pricing or not offer it at all. Why is there such a huge thread about something that GOG had already warned us about? This isn't an old game being offered this way, it is clearly a new game being pre-offered and GOG wants part of the business so it can continue to be a successful company. If it's too expensive, then don't buy it. For me the only issue would be GOG forcing me to log onto its website to play game, like Steam does. Other than that, GOG can offer any game it wants and I am not being forced to buy it. Are you?
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Darvond: Did you also send them an email? They've got a contact email openly placed on their website.
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Ghorpm: I'm doing it right now!
Good on ya, lad. I've already sent one, and I'll keep my sent copy, as to send it to the other publishers.
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timppu: Wishlisted for now. Not buying right now at this price, especially if there is still DLC coming out later. I'm yet to play the first two anyway.
Try hotseat with some good friends and pizza (and use automatic fighting in the dungeons).
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Niggles: quick question are these DRM versions a GOG exclusive?
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JudasIscariot: We don't carry DRM versions :)

edit: that being said, as far as I know the DRM free version is exclusive to GOG.
sorry damn mobile haha.yes I meant DRM free lol thanks
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Ghorpm: I'm doing it right now!
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Darvond: Good on ya, lad. I've already sent one, and I'll keep my sent copy, as to send it to the other publishers.
And sent ;)

To think it was a highly anticipated game... disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful...