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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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IAmSinistar: I'm woozy with weltschmerz, does that count?
Do you want to hang out with me? ;-P


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Darvond: I'm feeling giddy, but that's not glee about to come out of my mouth, especially since I just came back from reading the open letter.
I feel you mate.
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CharlesGrey: As is usually the case. Don't get me wrong, I can understand why some people are upset about the situation, but at the same time I wonder just how representative of the GOG userbase at large those people are. Surely some are happy to see this game here, as well as future "big" titles. I guess they're too busy playing and enjoying their new game, to spend time on the forums.
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Ekaros: I'm entirely okay having this title here. Just not at this price...
It's an expensive game for us Europeans, that's for sure, but I'd rather get it DRM-free here on GOG than for the same high price on Steam. :-)
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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.
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CharlesGrey: 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
Well, old games did come with a ton of different Rights Management, but at least they didn't require an Internet connection most of the time :) ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEbpMgiL7U

I know exactly what you mean about the lack of stuff that comes with games today. Some try to say they include less to be "better for the environment", but considering they charge you the same amount of money for less, I have to wonder
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Ekaros: I'm entirely okay having this title here. Just not at this price...
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Piranjade: It's an expensive game for us Europeans, that's for sure, but I'd rather get it DRM-free here on GOG than for the same high price on Steam. :-)
I don't care about Steam DRM, I like to have my games there. But I hate paying more than some rich Yankee... ;D
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Ekaros: I don't care about Steam DRM, I like to have my games there. But I hate paying more than some rich Yankee... ;D
Lol, and what about people who don't even use euros. And earn on average 300 of them per month. So what shall we do today kids? Buy dad a new game or eat? Not the case for me personally, but 80% of the population of Romania earns less than 300 euros/month. Still we get eurozone or higher prices for everything.
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IAmSinistar: I'm woozy with weltschmerz, does that count?
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HypersomniacLive: Do you want to hang out with me? ;-P
Sure thing, but my totenangst doesn't let me get too far from the house. ;)
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Piranjade: It's an expensive game for us Europeans, that's for sure, but I'd rather get it DRM-free here on GOG than for the same high price on Steam. :-)
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Ekaros: I don't care about Steam DRM, I like to have my games there. But I hate paying more than some rich Yankee... ;D
Then we just have different priorities, I guess.
(Don't you pay more than US customers on Steam as well?)
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blotunga: Don't you see, europeans get a 38% better game... Oh wait they don't...
I laughed so hard at this.
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Piranjade: Then we just have different priorities, I guess.
(Don't you pay more than US customers on Steam as well?)
Steam games can be bought from "other channels", like Amazon.
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Piranjade: Then we just have different priorities, I guess.
(Don't you pay more than US customers on Steam as well?)
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blotunga: Steam games can be bought from "other channels", like Amazon.
The regional pricing on GOG can apparently also be circumvented, so I'm not sure that's a valid argument for Steam pricing...
Nice to see that currency conversion rates (ostensibly to account for VAT) is still the good old 1 dollar = 1 euro price gouging stuff.

It's also deliciously ironic that far from it being about bad American publishers who want to screw us Europeans over, all three companies involved are European ( Triumph is Dutch, Larian is Belgian and CD Projekt/GOG is Polish).
Anyway, while I'm interested in all 3 games, I don't think AoW 3 and D: OS were worth going back on one of your core principles.


I've backed D: OS on KS where I did get the same price as American customers, so GOG's stance doesn't matter to me there, and imo you have a right to set the price for Witcher 3 to whatever you want and I'll still buy it here since it's the best way to support the devs.
I seem to recall that the regional pricing on Witcher 2 was only for Australia/New Zealand (and pretty easy to bypass even for them). But I preordered that game so maybe regional pricing was only introduced later.


As for this game, however, I'll pass, at least until a significant discount. So your new policy lost you at least one day-1 purchase.
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Piranjade: The regional pricing on GOG can apparently also be circumvented, so I'm not sure that's a valid argument for Steam pricing...
Well on steam you need VPN to activate and then patch your legally bought games (let's say I take a vacation in Moscow and buy a game). That's technically DRM. If GOG is sticking to the regional prices, I'll 'move' to Russia soon.
$10 extra for being in the UK. Feels like Steam.
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Piranjade: The regional pricing on GOG can apparently also be circumvented, so I'm not sure that's a valid argument for Steam pricing...
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blotunga: Well on steam you need VPN to activate and then patch your legally bought games (let's say I take a vacation in Moscow and buy a game). That's technically DRM. If GOG is sticking to the regional prices, I'll 'move' to Russia soon.
Dont forget that GOG can verify if your card is issued in Russia and that your Paypal account country set....
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BTW, got bored so...

http://www.gog.com/mix/greed_over_gamers