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Posted September 25, 2015
Beware the Black Death, destroyer of kingdoms.

<span class="bold">Grand Ages: Medieval</span> a global strategy game of war and economics, is available now, DRM-free on GOG.com.

How do you feel about gameplay on a grand scale? Well, Grand Ages: Medieval is ready to tickle your fancy of grandeur. There are hundreds of settlements, and over 30,000,000 Square Kilometers of Europe, Africa, Middle East and Scandinavia - and when you zoom in on your local lumberjacks going about their day, the immensity of it all immediately hits home.
Grand Ages: Medieval is first and foremost a game of economics and city building. You'll start out with a lonely settlement to build up from scratch, while slowly building up trade networks and relationships with neighboring, up-and-coming kingdoms, just like yours. The goal? Total domination, obviously. But whether you set out to to achieve medieval superiority through trade and coin, or sword and shield - the choice is yours to make.


Rule your transcontinental kingdom in <span class="bold">Grand Ages: Medieval</span> now on GOG.com.
Posted September 26, 2015
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To whom does GOG appeal?
There are few reasons for using GOG instead of Steam, unless you like old games or are against DRM.

I'm not entirely sure if pursuing online features is the best thing they could do because they'll probably never be as good as Steam at that.
If they have to give up being DRM-free in order to do that then that may cause them to lose more customers than they can gain.
I hope this makes sense. Unfortunately, this is what you could describe as "adapt"-ing
Posted September 26, 2015
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0Grapher: To whom does GOG appeal?
There are few reasons for using GOG instead of Steam, unless you like old games or are against DRM.

I'm not entirely sure if pursuing online features is the best thing they could do because they'll probably never be as good as Steam at that.
If they have to give up being DRM-free in order to do that then that may cause them to lose more customers than they can gain.
I hope this makes sense. Unfortunately, this is what you could describe as "adapt"-ing
That's based on the entire argument that using Galaxy for online multiplayer is DRM, which it is not, but your of course free to believe whatever you like. Also as I posted a link before to, a million people are using Galaxy. CD Projekt also released a report a few months back I believe it was saying how the amount of GOG users has nearly doubled or tripled I think it was over the last year.

Their strategy seems to be working...
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Posted September 26, 2015
When do we get access to the DLCs for those that preordered?
Posted September 26, 2015
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USERNAME:0Grapher#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:106#Q&_^Q&Q#To whom does GOG appeal?
There are few reasons for using GOG instead of Steam, unless you like old games or are against DRM.

I'm not entirely sure if pursuing online features is the best thing they could do because they'll probably never be as good as Steam at that.
If they have to give up being DRM-free in order to do that then that may cause them to lose more customers than they can gain.
I hope this makes sense. Unfortunately, this is what you could describe as "adapt"-ing#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:106#Q&_^Q&Q#
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For sure and as a sidenote: I don't need a client thinking for me and how to update the software I'm using. But it is interesting how the amount of users is maximized through a client-software. Seems so the people want to be patronized?!
Post edited September 26, 2015 by throgh
Posted September 26, 2015
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Navagon: It does look good. But from what I've read it's simplistic with Kalyso's intention being to pad it out into something more formidable through DLC. But the suggestion here is that unlike the Tropico games which have enough meat left on the bone even without DLC, this game is a little bit too undernourished as it is.

So I guess it's 'wait for a more complete version in a sale' time again.
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Ganni1987: These 4 games have one thing in common, they all came on GOG without their Mac/Linux versions and the lack of a proper reason why.
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Navagon: Taking one small market share (Mac and Linux) and placing it inside another small market share (GOG) does not the best way to make a worthwhile profit.
This has nothing to do with market shares. If GOG didn't officially support Mac and Linux I'd say ok perfectly understandable. But in the case as it is, they are and GOG has already been supporting Linux for almost a year. If this was the case of an old game from before Linux support came in I understand, but here we're talking about a game released yesterday.

The issue here is that GOG haven't given a reason why. This trend has been going on for a while and I'm not the only one to notice it.
Post edited September 26, 2015 by Ganni1987
Posted September 26, 2015
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Navagon: It does look good. But from what I've read it's simplistic with Kalyso's intention being to pad it out into something more formidable through DLC. But the suggestion here is that unlike the Tropico games which have enough meat left on the bone even without DLC, this game is a little bit too undernourished as it is.

So I guess it's 'wait for a more complete version in a sale' time again.

Taking one small market share (Mac and Linux) and placing it inside another small market share (GOG) does not the best way to make a worthwhile profit.
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Ganni1987: This has nothing to do with market shares. If GOG didn't officially support Mac and Linux I'd say ok perfectly understandable. But in the case as it is, they are and GOG has already been supporting Linux for almost a year. If this was the case of an old game from before Linux support came in I understand, but here we're talking about a game released yesterday.

The issue here is that GOG haven't given a reason why. This trend has been going on for a while and I'm not the only one to notice it.
I had contacted the support for Dungeons 2 which also has a native version. The answer was very clear: They are working on it but can't give a timeline. So regarding this game it could also be the same answer. But having in mind that the multiplayer-component is bound on Galaxy gives a preview on possible things to come in the near future. And therefore I'd say that we should keep an eye on that. Perhabs this platform will be no longer really DRM-free or is giving up that principle. Why no Linux-version on day one? Soma did this and more games also. Even "Victor Vran" is now available for Linux.
Posted September 26, 2015
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Grargar: Not the first game to do so.
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Mr.Caine: Nor will it be the last. People need to get used to it.
Or you know, maybe we could try to do something about it.
Posted September 26, 2015
I can't download the game. Only the soundtrack. Whats wrong here?
Posted September 26, 2015
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Mr.Caine: Nor will it be the last. People need to get used to it.
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torham: Or you know, maybe we could try to do something about it.
Yeah whine some more and I'm sure GOG will stop developing Galaxy all together any day now.
Posted September 26, 2015
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throgh: For sure and as a sidenote: I don't need a client thinking for me and how to update the software I'm using. But it is interesting how the amount of users is maximized through a client-software. Seems so the people want to be patronized?!
Do I need it no. But sure as hell more convenient than trying to keep up with GOG's crappy update notifications and all that. Also when GOG adds the install scripts for the games that need them as they have stated they will do, so that Galaxy installed games can be re-installed without Galaxy, this will truly make any arguments against Galaxy being DRM weak at best. The only argument opponents of Galaxy will have at that point is the online multiplayer, which technically if we go by the most common definitions of DRM doesn't even fall in the category of DRM.

On Linux I would care even less though, as compared to Windows, Linux does not have a registry or anything like that to worry about so I can just zip it up the installed game via Galaxy and move it to any Linux computer and just play it as long as the dependencies are installed.

Just for me personally Galaxy just makes it all more convenient, and I like Galaxy a lot compared to Steam because I know exactly what I'm getting, were as on Steam quite few of there games have third party DRM in addition to the Steam DRM and all that. Personally I'm okay with Steam DRM, I rather have zero but I could have lived with it. It was the third party DRM that drove me away from Steam.
Post edited September 26, 2015 by user deleted
Posted September 26, 2015
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griswalt: I can't download the game. Only the soundtrack. Whats wrong here?
Refersh your library here: https://www.gog.com/account/refresh
Posted September 27, 2015
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Ganni1987: The issue here is that GOG haven't given a reason why. This trend has been going on for a while and I'm not the only one to notice it.
What's GOG got to do with it? Do you really think that because GOG says that they're supporting Linux and Mac OS that suddenly all the Linux and Mac OS versions will suddenly appear here?

If GOG could just snap their fingers and make stuff happen then their movies section would have every Fox, Universal and MGM film ever made already.

It doesn't work like that.
Posted September 27, 2015
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Ganni1987: The issue here is that GOG haven't given a reason why. This trend has been going on for a while and I'm not the only one to notice it.
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Navagon: What's GOG got to do with it? Do you really think that because GOG says that they're supporting Linux and Mac OS that suddenly all the Linux and Mac OS versions will suddenly appear here?

If GOG could just snap their fingers and make stuff happen then their movies section would have every Fox, Universal and MGM film ever made already.

It doesn't work like that.
Guess there's no point in explaining this to you, closing the discussion here. Yep you're totally right.
Posted September 27, 2015
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griswalt: I can't download the game. Only the soundtrack. Whats wrong here?
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Matruchus: Refersh your library here: https://www.gog.com/account/refresh
Thanks, this works now :)
Posted September 27, 2015
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torham: Or you know, maybe we could try to do something about it.
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Mr.Caine: Yeah whine some more and I'm sure GOG will stop developing Galaxy all together any day now.
I like nonsense arguments like yours: This is the reason why some things are much more worse on our lovely blue planet today. But hey: Write some more like this. Seems reasonable to decline relationships of facts and live in a shiny filter bubble. You just ignore that every customer has a ballot paper when buying something from somebody.

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Mr.Caine:
Oh the default "I have no problem with [INSERT]"-argument. Interesting that for now we get the same here, do we? An optional client made the other way around getting more relevant. Funny here seeing that everytime arguments appear trying to bend facts into shape so they fit into the nice picture. So we compare serial-numbers and some more things, which are not comparable to a server-client-principle, and turn them on the community as a reproach. I'm outta this discussion. Will be interesting to see where we get when you people go further with the wish on more features. When to stop? If GOG is like Steam? Where is then the difference? Or do you even want this difference? You perhabs know the answers or not.
Post edited September 27, 2015 by throgh
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