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Posted November 06, 2015
They're killing the peasants at Eisenwald!

<span class="bold">Legends of Eisenwald</span>, a mix of cRPG and classic adventure, is available now, DRM-free on GOG.com. Look for the game at 33% off during the Big Fall Promo!

Forget dragons, swords, and sorcery - the Reformation in medieval Germany is where it's at. Legends of Eisenwald is a gritty, down-to-earth fantasy story that mixes the combat and loot elements of hex-based cRPGs with the classic "solving puzzles to overcome challenges" gameplay of adventure games - think King's Bounty meets King's Quest and take out a chunk of the high fantasy tropes you love or hate so much.

Medieval Germany in religious conflict is a grim, unwelcoming place, but it sure makes for a good adventure. It's only fair that as a noble, you fit right in like a piece of the cruel, cruel puzzle. Sometimes, you just have to work a few men to death to turn your luck around.


You can pick up the <span class="bold">Knight's Pack DLC</span> for the Legends of Eisenwald OST in both MP3 and FLAC formats, as well as a Digital Artbook. During the first six days after launch, you'll also get the newest Road to Iron Forest DLC completely FREE with your game purchase.


The world is going to hand you nothing on a silver platter, you just have to take it - <span class="bold">Legends of Eisenwald</span> is now DRM-free on GOG.com.
Posted November 07, 2015
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Ixamyakxim: I'll even go one step further - when the game first showed up, there was a version that was $19.99 and another that was $20.99.

I'm guessing the people having issues are those who clicked and bought the "preorder" non-special version via the $19.99 banner.
Sorry, but I have to crush your theory. I bought the $20.09 version (but on checkout it was changed to $19.99).

Think it really has to do with the two different versions in GOG's catalogue. The gamecard still says "soon" in my library
Posted November 07, 2015
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Ixamyakxim: I'll even go one step further - when the game first showed up, there was a version that was $19.99 and another that was $20.99.

I'm guessing the people having issues are those who clicked and bought the "preorder" non-special version via the $19.99 banner.
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PaterAlf: Sorry, but I have to crush your theory. I bought the $20.09 version (but on checkout it was changed to $19.99).

Think it really has to do with the two different versions in GOG's catalogue. The gamecard still says "soon" in my library
Ah bummer I thought that might be the source of the seeming two different versions (the people who got the "preorder" non-special Nov 11 edition vs the "released" DLC + edition).

Not only does it say soon in your library - check out the front page - there's both a "New" version of the game and an "Upcoming" version of it. I wonder where the wires ended up getting crossed on which one people were able to purchase?



*EDIT TO ADD* By the way - anyone playing this feel free to start pumping in impressions! Loved the video I saw (thanks aterdux for posting the combat runthrough - Battle Monks rule!) and wouldn't mind a few early game impressions!
Post edited November 07, 2015 by Ixamyakxim
Posted November 07, 2015
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aterdux: From German thread support's responce:
Hello,

We are aware of some links in the Downloader no longer being valid. We will implement appropriate redirects as soon as we can.
Please note that, while the Downloader does remain functional, it is effectively discontinued, and we will not be making any major fixes or updates to it.

We strongly advise using GOG Galaxy, which, to all intents and purposes, replaced the Downloader - our new application which makes downloading and installing games as convenient as possible.
Besides being very user-convenient, and keeping your games up to date, it offers the fastest download speeds possible, pausing/resuming, and - most importantly - thorough protection against file corruption while downloading.

Just click on "TRY GALAXY", then "DOWNLOAD BETA" and install it on your system. Afterwards, just launch it, log in, and you can install games directly from your Library section.

If you just want to download the installers, please find the game in Galaxy, and click MORE -> DOWNLOAD EXTRAS. This will let you download the installer, which you can back up and/or install at any time.
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PaterAlf: Downloading works fine with the GOG downloader, that's not the problem. It's the normal download links (via browser) that don't work. And it's ridiculous that GOG wasn't able to fix that for mor than a day now. They always told us that Galaxy is optional, so it can't be the solution that they tell us to use it now. There are many of us who don't want any additional clients and programs on their computers.
Yes, am tempted just to ask for a refund now. This "optional" client crap is making the site more steam like by the day.
Posted November 07, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Yes, am tempted just to ask for a refund now. This "optional" client crap is making the site more steam like by the day.
I'd hold off - obviously it's your own time and patience but I wouldn't punish the developer (who was nice enough to show up and support his / her game!) for what is I'm sure a temporary glitch on GoG's end. I'll quote Hidden here, because I really do think this is the most likely case:

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HiddenAsbestos: I read it as "We'll fix the links as soon as possible (ie. Monday), in the mean time you can download using Galaxy or the GOG downloader." Not a perfect situation but hardly cause for concern.
Posted November 07, 2015
Please note that, while the Downloader does remain functional, it is effectively discontinued, and we will not be making any major fixes or updates to it.
[emphasis added]

Kind of sounds like minor fixes and updates are still a thing. Could it be true?
Posted November 07, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Yes, am tempted just to ask for a refund now. This "optional" client crap is making the site more steam like by the day.
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Ixamyakxim: I'd hold off - obviously it's your own time and patience but I wouldn't punish the developer (who was nice enough to show up and support his / her game!) for what is I'm sure a temporary glitch on GoG's end. I'll quote Hidden here, because I really do think this is the most likely case:

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HiddenAsbestos: I read it as "We'll fix the links as soon as possible (ie. Monday), in the mean time you can download using Galaxy or the GOG downloader." Not a perfect situation but hardly cause for concern.
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Ixamyakxim:
Yes, its the last few characters "but hardly cause for concern". Just shows the attitude, it works with galaxy stop complaining. Well, I don't use it, never will. Hence the product doesn't work for me. Will see on Monday.
Posted November 07, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Yes, its the last few characters "but hardly cause for concern". Just shows the attitude, it works with galaxy stop complaining.
Those last few characters are a comment from HiddenAsbestos himself, not from the GOG team. In fact, HiddenAsbestos' post is an interpretation of GOG's message.
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HypersomniacLive: [emphasis added]

Kind of sounds like minor fixes and updates are still a thing. Could it be true?
I think this refers to cases where the downloader doesn't work at all. If, for example, one of GOG's new releases doesn't seem to be available through the downloader, then GOG would theoretically try to make it available. Other than that, no, I doubt we'll see a new version of the GOG downloader. Hell, even before it was officially discontinued, it hadn't received a new update for months (or even years, but I can't be completely sure about that).
Post edited November 07, 2015 by Grargar
Posted November 07, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Yes, its the last few characters "but hardly cause for concern". Just shows the attitude, it works with galaxy stop complaining. Well, I don't use it, never will. Hence the product doesn't work for me. Will see on Monday.
I'm sure they will fix it soon. After all it would only produce bad PR for them if they don't. On the other hand if I would have bought Eisenwald now I would surely not ask for a refund because processing the refund and buying elsewhere would probably be too much hazzle for such a small incident. I would be much too lazy for that. Do you really want a refund because you cannot download it right now or do you just want to rant a bit?
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Grargar: Those last few characters are a comment from HiddenAsbestos himself, not from the GOG team. In fact, HiddenAsbestos' post is an interpretation of GOG's message. ...
Again a bit funny that GOG's messages would need interpretation. One would assume that a company with such experience can communicate to its customers so clearly that the messages do not need interpretation.

Btw. I don't really understand why not at least one guy from technical staff can work for a few hours on weekends fixing actual problems while taking the same hours off during the week. This would be much better in terms of response times to immediate problems than keeping strictly to fixed working hours. After all GOG's customers are buying and playing all around the globe 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. I know that if I would work at GOG I would be willing to do that.
Post edited November 07, 2015 by Trilarion
Posted November 07, 2015
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Grargar: Those last few characters are a comment from HiddenAsbestos himself, not from the GOG team. In fact, HiddenAsbestos' post is an interpretation of GOG's message.
I think this refers to cases where the downloader doesn't work at all. If, for example, one of GOG's new releases doesn't seem to be available through the downloader, then GOG would theoretically try to make it available. Other than that, no, I doubt we'll see a new version of the GOG downloader. Hell, even before it was officially discontinued, it hadn't received a new update for months (or even years, but I can't be completely sure about that).
Ah, yes, this makes sense, cheers.

And it hadn't received any updates in ages, because it had been abandoned long before the official announcement of Galaxy - there was a post in the GOG Downloader support thread saying they wouldn't be around to offer support as they were working on something else, and that was months before the Galaxy announcement thread.
Posted November 07, 2015
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Ixamyakxim: I'm curious if this means, because GoG assigned the "wrong" version to the account (the "Coming Soon" non-special version) if you'll have issues getting the free DLC as well.

Because it appears the version owned isn't the "Special" version with the DLC, it's the "non-special" version "released" on Nov 11 (I think? Isn't that what the gamecard mentions as the free DLC period?) that's in the account.

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Game is marked still as "soon" in my shelf, but I can see game and DLC links and all the goodies (and I can download all via Galaxy), but browser links are leading to 404 page - they are probably leading to "normal" (locked) version, which should be unlocked after that free DLC period...
Posted November 07, 2015
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HypersomniacLive: ...
And it hadn't received any updates in ages, because it had been abandoned long before the official announcement of Galaxy - there was a post in the GOG Downloader support thread saying they wouldn't be around to offer support as they were working on something else, and that was months before the Galaxy announcement thread.
The gogrepo.py script is basically the coninuation of the GOG downloader. It's made by people from the forum and has some cool features even GOG Galaxy doesn't have. For example keeping the library of installers updated. Unfortunately it cannot help here either.
Post edited November 07, 2015 by Trilarion
Posted November 07, 2015
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Ixamyakxim: *EDIT TO ADD* By the way - anyone playing this feel free to start pumping in impressions! Loved the video I saw (thanks aterdux for posting the combat runthrough - Battle Monks rule!) and wouldn't mind a few early game impressions!
Where did you find the combat runthrough? Thanks :)
Posted November 07, 2015
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Trilarion: Again a bit funny that GOG's messages would need interpretation. One would assume that a company with such experience can communicate to its customers so clearly that the messages do not need interpretation
The message from GOG didn't need interpretation. My post was made as a response to some who appear to have misread (what I feel was) a helpful and prompt reply from GOG (giving a possible solution to this issue in advance of the actual link fix) as a prelude to Galaxy becoming mandatory.
Posted November 07, 2015
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Trilarion: Again a bit funny that GOG's messages would need interpretation. One would assume that a company with such experience can communicate to its customers so clearly that the messages do not need interpretation
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HiddenAsbestos: The message from GOG didn't need interpretation. My post was made as a response to some who appear to have misread (what I feel was) a helpful and prompt reply from GOG (giving a possible solution to this issue in advance of the actual link fix) as a prelude to Galaxy becoming mandatory.
Was this another announcement I missed?
Posted November 07, 2015
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HiddenAsbestos: The message from GOG didn't need interpretation. My post was made as a response to some who appear to have misread (what I feel was) a helpful and prompt reply from GOG (giving a possible solution to this issue in advance of the actual link fix) as a prelude to Galaxy becoming mandatory.
^Seems like people are misreading your posts. :P
Post edited November 07, 2015 by Grargar
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