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Posted February 06, 2015
Strategic Milestones: AI War, Capitalism, Jagged Alliance, Warlords Battlecry and more, up to 70% off!

Put on your thinking cap, slip on your business socks - it's business time. This weekend we're leveraging our core competencies with a compelling set of Strategic Milestones pending your review. That's 39 best-in-class products, at a customer-centric up to -70% discount.

Don't be a drone, fight the AI War. Outline your strategic plan in this state-of-the-art blend of galactic grand strategy, 4X, and planetary RTS gameplay. Colonize procedurally-generated galaxies of epic scale, and take on a bleeding edge network of artificial intelligence capable of cross-synergizing across entire star systems to take you down. Sick of drinking the corporate Kool-Aid? Make your own with Captialism Plus and Capitalism 2. Co-opete with laser-focus in the Jagged Alliance series, and... well you get the point.

Over 39 titles with a truly strategic soul are up to 70% off in this Strategic Milestones weekend promo, including Warlords Battlecry, Disciples, Anomaly series and so much more. Empower your thinking today! The promo will last until Tuesday, February 10 at 4:59 PM GMT.
Posted February 06, 2015
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Austrobogulator: Oh, good, I can't actually click on any of the titles in the promo list.
Ya. That bugged me too. Harder to check out games of interest.
Posted February 06, 2015
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Random_Coffee: It looks pretty nice, I've always been a big fan of strategy. I see it has co-op as well, which is always a plus. Is the co-op mode good?
I never played the game in multiplayer but I'll try to explain what I know about it.
The game in solo is against the computer AI which rules the galaxy. The multiplayer is a co-op mode (and it's the only multiplayer mode as far as I know) : you fight alongside with your friend(s) in the same way as in solo : against the AI which rules the galaxy. The game is designed to play against one or more AI, and it is well designed for this, so this multiplayer mode is logic (in my opinion) The game is well balanced in solo, so I assume it's well balanced in multiplayer too (Arcen Games really bother of this kind of things).
In case you didn't see one of my previous posts, there is a (big) demo here, on the bottom of the page.
Post edited February 06, 2015 by Splatsch
Posted February 06, 2015
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BreOl72: And thanks to you, too!
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Splatsch: You're welcome, it's a pleasure if I can help :)
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vicklemos: I won't tell you one thing about SH. It would spoil the fun. Give it a serious go and you won't regret it. After many, many hours I finished it and felt immensely proud :P
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Splatsch: The way you talk about it increase my curiosity a lot, it looks very interesting, I may take it (I'll have to think about it). I really like the spirit of Arcen : they make very interesting and in a way unusual games. Thanks for your opinion :)
Thanks, mon ami :P
Go ahead, these games are not regrettable. They're memorable in their own weird way, that's for sure.
I had true fun -and some good time spent- with most of their games. That reminds me that I gotta check properly their "A Valley without Wind" series.

ps: they're classics to me, specially SH and Bionic Dues. And I've played all of these on Linux :P
Post edited February 06, 2015 by vicklemos
Posted February 06, 2015
Darkstar One is another case of the showcased reviews on the sale page being ridiculously selective (though at least in its case, the average star rating is a whole lot more positive than the two highest voted reviews).
Posted February 06, 2015
Man, loads of good games in this sale! I can personally recommend O.R.B. and AI War. I'm a fan of Arcen games, so those should be good grabs as well. And the Anomaly series is a real steal at this price. I also like the Seven Kingdom games, but they have issues.

Only one wishlist item for me in this sale (Supreme Ruler 2010), but that's okay since I'll likely grab Sunless Sea today too.

Great weekend sale!
Posted February 06, 2015
For a second i thought "Wait, what? Close Combat is available here on gog? And in a promo?" and then i read it better and it was Combat Mission! :'(
Posted February 06, 2015
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Cyraxpt: For a second i thought "Wait, what? Close Combat is available here on gog? And in a promo?" and then i read it better and it was Combat Mission! :'(
Close Combat Mission: The Crossover.
Posted February 06, 2015
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Cyraxpt: For a second i thought "Wait, what? Close Combat is available here on gog? And in a promo?" and then i read it better and it was Combat Mission! :'(
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Grargar: Close Combat Mission: The Crossover.
Well, they kind of do look similar in terms of gameplay, it could work...
Posted February 06, 2015
GOG really needs to get more strategy games (preferably TBS, 4x or Grand Strategy). I own everything I want from the promo already. Hopefully GOG can sign in some major strategy game dev this year...
Posted February 06, 2015
Small comment from me regarding the inability to go to product pages by clicking on the titles on the list.

It's intentional change (that has nothing to to with tablets and other devices) - we thought that since you have the basic product details visible directly on the page, and there are two links to the product page (title and link to the reviews), taking away the ability to click directly on the list will not be a big deal. There are other factors also that dictated this.

Of course we are always listening to your feedback (thanks for that people!), and we are not ruling out bringing it back. We will be watching few future promos and them make the decision.
Posted February 06, 2015
Well, once you realize there's still a link to the product page on the right side, you can adjust to it, but it's certainly less intuitive and more roundabout than just clicking on the names in the list. What's the actual advantage of removing those links (and a bit of user-friendliness along with them)?
Post edited February 06, 2015 by Leroux
Posted February 06, 2015
I agree

Don't surprise your users
Posted February 06, 2015
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Chamb: Small comment from me regarding the inability to go to product pages by clicking on the titles on the list.

It's intentional change (that has nothing to to with tablets and other devices) - we thought that since you have the basic product details visible directly on the page, and there are two links to the product page (title and link to the reviews), taking away the ability to click directly on the list will not be a big deal. There are other factors also that dictated this.

Of course we are always listening to your feedback (thanks for that people!), and we are not ruling out bringing it back. We will be watching few future promos and them make the decision.
The ability to go directly to the gamepage would be still useful though. Quite often I want to buy a game from a promo and a full-price game at the same time. To do so you have to go to the game page of the discounted game and put it in the cart (otherwise it isn't possible to mix a promo with a non-promo game).
Posted February 06, 2015
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Chamb: Small comment from me regarding the inability to go to product pages by clicking on the titles on the list.

It's intentional change (that has nothing to to with tablets and other devices) - we thought that since you have the basic product details visible directly on the page, and there are two links to the product page (title and link to the reviews), taking away the ability to click directly on the list will not be a big deal. There are other factors also that dictated this.

Of course we are always listening to your feedback (thanks for that people!), and we are not ruling out bringing it back. We will be watching few future promos and them make the decision.
Make the product link more noticeable.
Post edited February 06, 2015 by qwixter
Posted February 06, 2015
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I love the sale but I find the change to the interface making me unable to click the title in the list to go to the game's page to be really annoying. Usually I open every title that sounds interesting in a new tab and this really slows that approach down.
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