And here I read these comments hoping to see one that would tell me whether these 12 DLCs are a worthy addition for spending an extra $10 on it...

qft

I still haven't managed to get into Tropicos and I doubt I will due to the politics "flavour" that I don't like at all.. And although I ain't gonna buy T5, it won't prevent me from uniting with the other Linux folks here:

Where is the Linux version?

I guess its having technical difficulties like Metro Last Light + Metro 2033 (under update part of the article).

Wishlisted. I already own this on Steam sans the DLC.

But I didn't actually place an order once it went back up to 24.99. I like you guys but not that much ;-)

Hi! Tried to redeem my code, but the price shown is still 29.99 euro
It says 66% discount... But 0 euro discounted! And both the scratched (original) price and the (supposedly) discounted price are 29.99.
Maybe this is just a quirk of the reedem process and everything's ok once you press continue...
But I wanted to be sure before using my discount code, just in case this issue is solved and I can't use it later.

The complete edition is what I was waiting for. Now I'm waiting for the Linux release.

Probably just a random website bug. I'm in Canada and the website almost never shows me the Canadian prices and incorrectly sets the gog_lc cookie to US_USD_en almost constantly. GOG has attempted to look into the matter but can't figure out what the problem is and says I'm the only one who has reported it, but the nature of the problem is that the majority of customers wouldn't know they were paying a higher price for some game in the first place to even know there was a problem to report, let alone go ahead and report it.

Tried to do some diagnosis here but am unable to gather the data they want because it happens randomly and never when I'm trying to capture it. So the website pricing is perpetually broken for Canada and not likely to ever get fixed unless 10000 people that don't even know they're paying more report it I guess. Frustrating. GOG devs have tried to help out with it, but to no avail so the end result is that it's just going to be broken until someone randomly finds the bug and fixes it in 5 years or whatever I guess. I've kind of given up on the issue because there's not really anything left that I can actually do about it other than dedicate $2000 or more of my personal man hours of time debugging the GOG website and only being able to see the client side source code. Just not worth the time, so if/when something comes up that I want to buy, I'll probably be contacting their support to get the official Canadian price in writing before I order it, and they can refund me the difference after if I'm charged incorrectly. Not really anything else to do.

The reedem code is totally broken at the moment. Wait till they fix it. It has already been submited to support for fixing. Hopefully soon.

Yeah I just went to use the code and it did the same thing for me, says discounted , but price is same before and after discount code, well I didn't apply it so hopefully they will get it working soon.

I'm not completely certain of the correct answer for that so I'll have to leave it for an GOG employee who does know to give the official answer, however I am a computer engineer so I can offer a reasonable educated hypothesis. A multiplayer matchmaking service would provide an API to be used to connect to the back end service and implement the multiplayer functionality in the form of a Windows DLL (or Linux DSO, etc.) as well as handle things like authentication to the service account.

Normally this library would be included with the video game itself in one way or another, such as old CD/DVD based games as an example. GOG Galaxy currently is in heavy development however and is only a beta not a finished product, which means that Galaxy will get a lot of updates including the client and all of the related services etc. presumably including whatever DLLs implement the multiplayer services. Since the Galaxy code base is potentially changing very frequently due to this, it would make a lot more technical and practical sense at the current time to ship these libraries along with the Galaxy client rather than shipping a separate copy of them with every single game that uses them, and then every time the code gets updated having to issue an update for every game and end up with people having to download an excessive amount of updates for all of their Galaxy multiplayer enabled games (whether or not they use that feature). For those who do use the Galaxy client, right now the game update mechanism does not use delta updates nor compression and ends up potentially downloading a larger amount of data with each game update. Multiply that times the number of games that might include this support and it could be very wasteful for each customer's Internet connection bandwidth to be constantly downloading updates every time they change something.

If this is indeed the case, it makes more sense in the short term at least purely for technical/practical purposes to perhaps ship a copy with the game and also with the client, and prefer what the client has. That would allow the game to run without using the galaxy multiplayer since a copy is included so it will link at runtime, but favour the one that comes with the client which might be newer.

Keep in mind that everything I just said is just purely speculative on my part, but does have some reasonable logic applied to the theory. I can't say for sure however without actually doing some poking around or waiting for someone from GOG to provide a more precise official answer. In the mean time I would speculate that down the line when Galaxy is more refined and stable and experiencing less churn, and they have implemented delta updates with compression, they could change things around perhaps. I could be way off base though too, so I'd like to see any official answer too if they're willing to provide one.

Thank you, skeletonbow and Matruchus! I'll wait until the GOG Blue Boys confirm it's fixed.
I understand they have a lot of work right now, so I'll be patient...
And kudos to GOG Team! I know people like me only post when there's a problem (although I know it's not their fault and I try to provide useful information to help them)... But having a DRM-Free game store is great, and the techies are our unsung heroes.
PS: +1 for the Linux version!

Same here… seems a pretty hefty price for a few DLC! The upgrade alone, without the discount, is considerably more expensive than the regular edition base game. That seems a bit out of proportion.