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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: Are you trolling or you are playing with a few cards short of a deck?
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Buenro-games: 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?
Because they could have indeed stood up and exposed the wrong, NDA's be dammed. GOG could have stood for what was just and stood by their principles, rather than bending over and taking this decision as they did.
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Dreadz: Welp. So much for the "regional prices are fairer for poor countries!" argument. All the poor countries get the EU price...
Not to mentioned the vast difference in the living standard within the EU itself.. take Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania vs. Germany, UK, Sweden, Norway or Finland.. it sure is one price for all, but far from fair.
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FlamingFirewire: 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.
We still get plenty of physical releases here, but yeah, just about all of the big ones are tied to Steam which is just incredibly... idiotic? I mean, if I wanted to use Steam, I'd get the game on Steam. Duh. It's why I originally joined this site a few months back, because I wanted some more gaming food for my new PC, but without all of the hassle of Steam and similar online clients etc.

Sigh, I miss the good old times when you bought a game and just started playing it, because the concept of "DRM" was barely even invented. And when standard editions of games came with more physical extras and goodies than today's overpriced "collector's editions". I guess I'm just getting old. Or maybe everything really sucks these days. Probably a little of both. :P
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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.
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Ghorpm: And sent ;)

To think it was a highly anticipated game... disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful...
It was anticipated?
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CharlesGrey: 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...
It's not just you - I've tended to wait until weekend sales to pick items up from GOG (and have been doing much less of that since their privacy screwup).

However GOG's adoption of retail prices seems to have resulted in sales with deeper discounts (70-80% compared to 50% previously) and regional pricing looks like offering bigger discounts for the knowledgeable (use a Russian proxy and get AoW3 Deluxe for just US$19.99). This makes regional pricing effectively a tax on non-technical users - another strike against it.
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Ghorpm: And sent ;)

To think it was a highly anticipated game... disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful...
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Darvond: It was anticipated?
Yes, very much so.
The series has a huge following among us "oldies". :-D
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Ghorpm: And sent ;)

To think it was a highly anticipated game... disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful...
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Darvond: It was anticipated?
For me? Yeah. I know it's hard to say but I was actually sincere that AoW is my favorite game ever. AoW2 was a very good game and Shadow Magic is one of my favorite games (easily in top 20) so I was really waiting for a sequel for a long time. But day one DLCs and preorder exclusive DLC is something I'll never tolerate. No matter how good a game might be. I prefer playing other games.
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Dreadz: 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
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Basically every country other than Russia has to pay more now.
Russia: $16.99/$19.99
Where did you get that info? Wow, that's weird. Here's hoping it's just a glitch and they'll adjust the prices some more... But who knows.

I guess they don't want to mess with Putin. :P
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Darvond: It was anticipated?
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Piranjade: Yes, very much so.
The series has a huge following among us "oldies". :-D
It looks like Age of Wonders 3 will be a stopping point for the buck then.
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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.
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Dreadz: 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
So any Russian willing to gift?:) Or should I just fire up some proxy. Neah j/k. As I said, I won't buy regionally priced games here.
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Buenro-games: 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: Because they could have indeed stood up and exposed the wrong, NDA's be dammed. GOG could have stood for what was just and stood by their principles, rather than bending over and taking this decision as they did.
Yours is an idealistic answer not rooted at all in the realities of the business world. Steam wants nothing more than for a company like GOG to go bankrupt so that it can gloat about DRM free gaming being something that gamers don't care about. Unless GOG continues to thrive by offering new games as well, they will stagnate and Steam will finish them off. Specially now that Steam wants to build a platform equivalent to XBOX Live or Playstation Network for PC's and have everyone first log into them as a hub before they can play a game.

Thanks but no thanks.

If GOG offers game like this in order to keep up, it's fine by me. I don't have to buy them but am glad the option is there. Like I indicated, the only compromise for me is forcing me to log into a hub to play games that are not online.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by Buenro-games
I had faith that gog would do some sort of fair regional pricing, but here I see that the EU version is about 38% more expensive than the US version.

If you had to give up on one principle, I wish you hadn't decided on fair price, DRM are bad, but they have a purpose, they aren't just here to screw people over like this regional pricing policy.
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Piranjade: Yes, very much so.
The series has a huge following among us "oldies". :-D
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Darvond: It looks like Age of Wonders 3 will be a stopping point for the buck then.
I have a far more severe problem: My PC won't be able to handle the game (and I so much want to play it!), so for me there is no use in buying it for as long as I cannot run it. :-(
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Dreadz: 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
So now we're not the country of the recent Olympic games, but the country of low-priced GOG games, hmm? Oh, well.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by Sanjuro
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Dreadz: 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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blotunga: So any Russian willing to gift?:) Or should I just fire up some proxy. Neah j/k. As I said, I won't buy regionally priced games here.
I can try. But cannot guarantee it work.