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Blizzard Entertainment and GOG.COM have teamed up to rerelease select classic Blizzard games, beginning with Diablo®, Blizzard’s legendary 1996 action role-playing game that introduced players to the harsh—and deeply rewarding—world of Sanctuary.

The original Diablo® is available now via digital distribution for the first time ever on GOG.COM. Players looking for the authentic Diablo experience can play the game as it was in 1996, with period-appropriate 20 FPS SVGA graphics, and the ability to matchmake through the classic version of Blizzard’s Battle.net® online-gaming service.

Blizzard and GOG.COM have collaborated on an updated version of the game, which includes out-of-the-box Windows 10 compatibility, and a host of bug fixes. Players can choose either version of the game from a launcher.
Impressive how Diablo is already on page 5 of the all-time best sellers. Do we have any idea of how well Might and Magic 3 has sold as a comparison?
Is this an off season April Fools joke? Only joking. At least we don't need phones for this...

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Sabolmeister: Now do Blade Runner if at all possible.
Unfortunately the source code is lost, last I heard anyway.
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Sabolmeister: Now do Blade Runner if at all possible.
If it didn't happen when they decided to pump 150$ million in the new movie, I think it never will. A missed opportunity.
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blotunga: 2) more oldish games from other publishers also.
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: AMEN to that!!!

C&C and old GTAs, are what i am eagerly anticipating.
All those are free...I would still buy them here though :P
never played this game before and i must say its been very easy to get into and enjoy, just start it up and play, no glitches or fiddling. the music is so good, color me impressed. my only complaint is that i cant see the fallen loot very well. glad to have finally been able to see what the fuss has been about
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mintee: my only complaint is that i cant see the fallen loot very well
In Hellfire there is a "Search" spell highlighting fallen items, in the HD mod "Belzebub", you just have to press ALT and get the typical text descriptions all over the place like in Diablo 2.
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mintee: my only complaint is that i cant see the fallen loot very well
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Klumpen0815: In Hellfire there is a "Search" spell highlighting fallen items, in the HD mod "Belzebub", you just have to press ALT and get the typical text descriptions all over the place like in Diablo 2.
thanks, good to know
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HypersomniacLive: Question - is "Bestselling" (all times or not) based on copies sold or money made?

EDIT: typo (I guess that Bestseeling is based on neither).
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tfishell: I thought "Bestselling (all time)" in the catalog meant copies, and (what used to be) "Popular" or "Bestselling" meant most amount of money made within a certain time frame.

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skeletonbow: further releases speculated in the announcement
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tfishell: I don't have a source handy but we know Warcraft 1 and 2 (and presumably 2's expansion) are coming.
Yeah, I'd have speculated those two would be the highest candidates to land next. Warcraft II is one of my favourite games from the 1990s, and I consider the soundtrack to be the best game soundtrack ever.

I'm skeptical about the likelihood of Starcraft/Starcraft Remastered showing up. The former is free on Battle.NET though so people can get it at least. Having said that, GOG could give SC some new exposure to an audience that otherwise might not be bothered, so who's to say I guess.

Question to all: Can we all FINALLY agree that *ANYTHING* is possible on GOG.com now at least? LOL

If not, that's ok too because it's fun to both feel/think/see others feel/think that things are still impossible and then months pass and whammo, SURPRISE, YOU WERE WRONG! Hehehe.
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Klumpen0815: Now that the impulse buyers are through, can we get it for a proper price in a sale?
It's just way too expensive. I'd only consider paying that if it had become multi-platform, true HD and with Hellfire included.

I got this game 18 years ago already for 2€ in a magazine.

Don't get me wrong, it's great, but way overpriced.
For years, older games are never ever priced at what the majority of people are willing to pay for them, but anywhere from 2, 3, 4 or more times that price very much on purpose. It is a marketing technique called artificial scarcity. If you price something at $5 regular price ongoing, you'll sell a certain number of copies of it to some people, but a lot of people who are bargain shoppers will "wait until it goes on sale".

So if you instead sell the game at $20 regular price, some people will still go ahead and buy it anyway because they want it bad enough and don't really care about the price of it, and then on occasion you put the game on sale for $5 it is a moment of rarity, a special moment when you can get the game for that price, a scarce moment. At that time, many people will buy the game simply because it is on sale at a really good deal that doesn't come up often, even though they might not have ever bought it if it was priced continuously at $5. You'll also get some people buying it totally whimsically because of the discount and short term opportunity to get it on sale.

It's all purely marketing psychology. It's not just used in the gaming world however, it's used to some degree or another in all of retail. So we can always expect that virtually every video game in particular titles that are around for a few years or more are going to be priced with an artificial scarcity model because this pricing model just works and works good for increasing sales revenue. It's just good for business.

Those of us with patience and awareness of artificial scarcity just wait it out until the sales hit anyway. :)
Post edited March 09, 2019 by skeletonbow
Years ago i stated this day will eventualy come..im glad i was right
It would be also very cool to have those games (or at least 1-2, like Blackthorne or Lost vikings if not Starcraft itself) which are or were available for free on Blizzard store to be made available here as a bonus with a purchase of any Blizzard game, i.e. the same way that Arena and Daggerfall are included with any Bethesda purchase.

Same would go possibly for GTA 1 & 2 etc... one would hardly find a better place for them than gog.

Edit: It's in top 200 bestsellers already... pretty wicked pace!
Post edited March 10, 2019 by Spectrum_Legacy
thanks for bringing another good old game classic to GOG. i appreciate it.
This is good isn't it?! :cool:
Thanks GOG and thanks Blizzard
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Spectrum_Legacy: It would be also very cool to have those games (or at least 1-2, like Blackthorne or Lost vikings if not Starcraft itself) which are or were available for free on Blizzard store to be made available here as a bonus with a purchase of any Blizzard game, i.e. the same way that Arena and Daggerfall are included with any Bethesda purchase
I agree, I hope Lost Vikings 1+2 and Blackthorne show up.
both versions look the same. am i missing something?