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Posted June 22, 2018
A labyrinth of right turns.

Come for the adventure, stay for the strategy, RPG, perhaps for a little bit of action why not? This Weekend Sale full of Daedalic games won't let you go astray. Or to sleep. Especially if you start with Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, a tactical gem that will keep you alert as you try to figure out the right maneuvers for your deadly assassins to reach their objective.

Speaking of objectives, how does building a grand cathedral sound to you? Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth is all about this endeavor, but also medieval politics, personal drama, and fateful decisions for its fascinating cast of characters.

The Daedalic Weekend Sale ends June 25, 10pm UTC.

On another magical note, don't miss our 15% discount on Wizard of Legend, which lasts until July 5.
Posted June 22, 2018
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MightyPinecone: Most of the games in the Humble bundle came with DRM free versions (and Steam, of course).
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greeklover: I am aware of this and wanted to ask. Do these drm free versions get updated? Gog gives me the impression that its versions are more "guaranteed" to get updated. If for example Windows 10 update :p breaks a game tomorrow, will the humblebundle drm-free version get updated or do they release the game once and they abandon it?
When I buy a GOG game, I'm investing in GOG's maintenance of it, because they continue to sell them. Humble Bundle's one-time bundles make no financial incentive for anyone to maintain them. That said, I do occasionally buy a Humble Bundle DRM-free bundle.
Posted June 22, 2018
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MightyPinecone: Most of the games in the Humble bundle came with DRM free versions (and Steam, of course).
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badon: It was very hard to resist buying the Daedalic Humble Bundle, but I prefer GOG, and I tend to avoid buying games elsewhere if they're available on GOG. I will buy something else that's not available on GOG, if I must, and get the GOG games I want "eventually". 300+ games purchased on GOG.com in 6 months means probably sooner than later :)

I would have been very pleased to get the same bundle on GOG for the same price, or even a little higher. In fact, my only excuse for not buying the Daedalic Humble Bundle was because I found some bugs on Humble Bundle's site, and I spent the time doing testing and writing bug reports instead. That's fun for me :) I like bug hunting.
Yeah, I also prefer GOG, but in this case the price difference was just too significant.

As for bughunting, I usually hate it. But it's satisfying when you figure it out.
Posted June 22, 2018
That is really insulting.
The B-citizen treatment all over again.
Posted June 22, 2018
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I just wrote this on discord so I'll save time and post it here (censored though for reasons)....

"I completely agree that what Deadalic is doing is unfair for GOG customers but that's the way they always treated GOG. They still did not give us the German versions for the GERMAN games Memoria and Chains of Satinav and BOTH are available on HUMBLE for years. Some GOG users even talked with Daedalic's CEO Carsten Fichtelman and he wanted to sort this out ... all he did was to stop responding. They were great when they were small now they are just a bunch of beeeeeeeep (which hurts me to write since they reside in my hometown Hamburg as well which I love). Still we will have to remember that humble is also charity so having extreme price differences between a regular sale and a humble offer are expected. The problem here is that they are doing this at the same time. So it looks as if they want to earn from GOG users what they lost by giving to charity. Unacceptable."
Posted June 22, 2018
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MightyPinecone: That being said, I don't tend to take note of when a game receives an update on Humble as I am not sure if it is in any way advertised. This is arguably something GOG does better.
On the contrary: this is one of the very few things Humble does better than GOG. You can sort your Humble DRM-free library by "last updated", so you only need to check it regularly to see if something's been updated.

Of course, this comes with its own set of problems that I'm sure I've ranted about here before: this "sort by last updated" option is a bit glitched, and in my experience it only works reliably well when selecting a specific OS first. If you leave the platform drop-down menu at "All platforms" then the displayed list will most likely miss some updated game.


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badon: Humble Bundle's one-time bundles make no financial incentive for anyone to maintain them.
To be fair, most games featured in bundles are also available at the Humble Store, so there actually is an incentive for the devs to keep them updated. Plus, devs and publishers have absolute control about what they make available for you to download from your Humble library. In other words, Humble has a 100% hands-off approach to update management, so if a dev doesn't update their DRM-free build there, they've only got themselves to blame for it (i.e. no "GOG makes it difficult for us to push patches" excuse there).
Post edited June 22, 2018 by muntdefems
Posted June 22, 2018
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MightyPinecone: That being said, I don't tend to take note of when a game receives an update on Humble as I am not sure if it is in any way advertised. This is arguably something GOG does better.
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muntdefems: On the contrary: this is one of the very few things Humble does better than GOG. You can sort your Humble DRM-free library by "last updated", so you only need to check it regularly to see if something's been updated.

Of course, this comes with its own set of problems that I'm sure I've ranted here before: this "sort by last updated" option is a bit glitched, and in my experience it only works reliably well if selecting a specific OS first. If you leave the platform drop-down menu at "All platforms" then the displayed list will ll most likely miss some updated game.
Thanks, yeah I recently figured that out. I thought it was strange that Humble didn't have any such function so I went looking for it and there it was. :)
Posted June 22, 2018
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PaterAlf: The pricing for the different versions of Valhalla is quite funny.
Even more funny (not) is that I own the "Valhalla Hills: Two-Horned Helmet Edition" but it still shows me that I don't own the "Valhalla Hills: Two-Horned Helmet Edition Upgrade". *facepalm*
Posted June 22, 2018
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MightyPinecone: I do believe Humble is a bit worse than GOG when it comes to updates. That being said, I don't tend to take note of when a game receives an update on Humble as I am not sure if it is in any way advertised. This is arguably something GOG does better.
Just to clear this up. Humble usually leaves it up to the dev completely to update their games there. However whenever I contacted them and told them about a missing update they contacted the devs immediately and in most cases it did not take that long until the game was updated as well.
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MightyPinecone: That being said, I don't tend to take note of when a game receives an update on Humble as I am not sure if it is in any way advertised. This is arguably something GOG does better.
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muntdefems: On the contrary: this is one of the very few things Humble does better than GOG. You can sort your Humble DRM-free library by "last updated", so you only need to check it regularly to see if something's been updated.
Yes, it would work- sometimes however the date is not added or not correct so while it's better it'S still not perfect there as well. I would suggest to use GOG and adalia fundamentals or check th eupdate thread on a daily basis. Forget about the update flags on GOG though. They are hit and miss for a long time now.
Post edited June 22, 2018 by MarkoH01
Posted June 22, 2018
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MightyPinecone: I do believe Humble is a bit worse than GOG when it comes to updates. That being said, I don't tend to take note of when a game receives an update on Humble as I am not sure if it is in any way advertised. This is arguably something GOG does better.
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MarkoH01: Just to clear this up. Humble usually leaves it up to the dev completely to update their games there. However whenever I contacted them and told them about a missing update they contacted the devs immediately and in most cases it did not take that long until the game was updated as well.
I see, I must admit that I haven't really compared them myself, but rather listened to what others have said. Humble may well have more up to date versions.
Posted June 22, 2018
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MightyPinecone: I see, I must admit that I haven't really compared them myself, but rather listened to what others have said. Humble may well have more up to date versions.
That is actually the case i.e. with Dead Synchronicity which afaik is outdated on GOG and got a newer release on humble (I recently tested the humble version).
Posted June 22, 2018
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Sale Highlight based on Price:

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth - Soundtrack (Best Historical Price - 34% vs 33% - $0.02)

Everything else is pretty much the same as the Summer Sale besides a couple other rounding changes.

More detail about this sale and other sale games can be found here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CF-oBHAEZE6T8zlLaIbQsdOWv_8tpV-QbDOhGsehX_Q/edit?usp=sharing
Posted June 22, 2018
Dude. Night of the Rabbit far exceeds the value of two freaking bucks.
Posted June 22, 2018
The bundle on Humble Bundle let you choose where your money went, so you could have donated the entire $12 to charity. AFAIK GOG doesn't do any charity work, so comparing the two is unfair. I've seen some serious deals in bundles for charity on Humble Bundle. Even the horrible company Rockstar Games had a bundle to support a save the rainforest charity, wherein for $15 they gave you GTA III, GTA: Vice CIty, GTA: San Andreas, GTA IV, GTA: Episodes From Liberty CIty, Max Payne, Max Payne 2, Max Payne 3 + season pass, L.A. Noire + DLC bundle, Bully: Scholarship Edition and Manhunt. You won't find anything like that around here because there are no charitable bundles around here. It's like comparing apples and oranges.
Posted June 22, 2018
GoG had a charity bundle once and it wasn't a bad deal either.
www.pcgamer.com/gog-offers-charity-bundle-sale-with-all-proceeds-going-to-charity/

But that was back in 2013
Posted June 22, 2018
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RWarehall: GoG had a charity bundle once and it wasn't a bad deal either.
www.pcgamer.com/gog-offers-charity-bundle-sale-with-all-proceeds-going-to-charity/

But that was back in 2013
Ahh. I haven't been around here for long enough to have known about that.
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