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Posted October 10, 2012
Pay what you want, grab up to 3 excellent RPGs, support Larian Studios!

Quick summary:
1. Set your own fair price.
2. Get up to 3 Divinity Games, including Divinity II: Developer's Cut.
3. Own some of the games? No problem--you'll get the gift codes to give to friends.
4. Bonus for you:
* enjoy exclusive access to Divinity II: Developer's Cut one day before the release
* tons of goodies for all the games
* unlock special videos from Larian Studios

RPG fans, promo hunters, dev supporters! For the next 7 days GOG.com gives you a chance to put three wonderful role-playing games on your shelf, puts you in control over their price, and offers you an opportunity to support the games' hard working and talented developers: Larian Games. Proudly introducing: [url=http://www.gog.com/divinity]GOG Pay What You Want: Divinity Anthology! The "Pay What You Want" can be purchased from GOG.com starting now until 01:00 AM GMT on the 18th of October, 2012.

Set your own fair price for the classic Divine Divinity, where you become the chosen one, destined to fulfil an ancient prophecy and save the Seven Races of Rivellon. In this extensive, challenging, and very addictive game you will encounter many different enemies and a great variety of items, NPCs, and quests.

Beat the average price and receive your copy of Beyond Divinity, the creative continuation of the series, featuring an immersive story of the divine and the daemonic, challenging gameplay with two characters to control at the same time and a huge universe to explore and exploit.

The top 10% of our most generous users will also grant themselves an early access to the upcoming Divinity 2: Developer's Cut.The Developer's Cut, which is the ultimate edition of the game, comes with Divinity II and the expansion Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance, as well as a special developer's mode and extra goodies, will be available on PC on the 18th of October, 2012, but if you buy it here you will get to play it a day earlier than everyone else! The "Director's Cut" subtitle also means, that you'll have the unique opportunity to experience the game just as the developers did: with optional access to developer console you'll feel like the god of the realm.

But that's not all! All of the games come with an extensive amount of goodies--especially Divinity 2: Developer's Cut features a crazy amount of bonus materials (all of which you can access as soon as you finalize your purchase). To make things even more interesting, Larian Games told us that as the sales progress, they will be releasing some very special announcements and interesting videos. Heard enough? Go to the GOG Pay What You Want: Divinity Anthology page!
Post edited October 10, 2012 by G-Doc
Posted October 10, 2012
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Fifeldor: I just found out that I have another 2 versions of Divinity 2. I bought the vanilla version of D2 a couple of years ago from Steam, for 20 euros. Then a few months later, D2: Dragon Knight Saga was released. Instead of releasing it as an expansion, Larian decided to release it along with a renewed, expanded version of the vanilla D2. Furious, I waited until last Christmas when I got it for £7.50, and then found out that I had both versions in my Steam library, i.e. the vanilla version, and the new vanilla version with the expansion, i.e. the same game twice.
When the add-on was released, Steam decided not to carry it, and instead (for awhile) gave a healthy discount on DKS to everyone who had bought D2:ED from them. FoV is still available (from the Larian Vault, etc), but especially with periodic Steam and (US) Amazon sales, it has been be cheaper to get DKS rather than FoV, even if you already had the original release of D2:ED. The release of D2:DC should presumably drop the price of DKS and FoV, as well.

Larian is working with Steam and Focus on a patch to add the Developer Mode to DKS (that is the only difference between DKS and D2:DC).
Posted October 10, 2012
Seems like it won't go lower than 17.00 for D2


I stand corrected *just went to 16.00 lol*
Post edited October 10, 2012 by newtrality
Posted October 10, 2012
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newtrality: Seems like it won't go lower than 17.00 for D2 I stand corrected *just went to 16.00 lol*
Funny because I almost made the same post. :p

Anyway, as it has been lowering somehow, I'm going to sit here and will the number to lower further yet with my mind.
Posted October 10, 2012
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newtrality: Seems like it won't go lower than 17.00 for D2 I stand corrected *just went to 16.00 lol*
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Endzville: Funny because I almost made the same post. :p
Anyway, as it has been lowering somehow, I'm going to sit here and will the number to lower further yet with my mind.
It has to do with the thousands of extra folks who've bought it for super-cheap. As you can see the average going down steadily and the sold number going up, lots of folks seem to be taking advantage of the cheap DD sale. However, due to the wonky way the promo works, the Div2 price is going down very slowly, and it will take several hundred (if not thousand) more sales to drop it down further.
Posted October 10, 2012
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Endzville: Funny because I almost made the same post. :p Anyway, as it has been lowering somehow, I'm going to sit here and will the number to lower further yet with my mind.
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bevinator: It has to do with the thousands of extra folks who've bought it for super-cheap. As you can see the average going down steadily and the sold number going up, lots of folks seem to be taking advantage of the cheap DD sale. However, due to the wonky way the promo works, the Div2 price is going down very slowly, and it will take several hundred (if not thousand) more sales to drop it down further.
Ah, I see. An unusual approach but I get it now. Just wondered how because it seemed to have initially risen in price quite drastically and has since lowered at a far slower rate.
Posted October 10, 2012
Sold! I actually have a hard copy of Divinity II I picked up for $15, but I never played it after hearing about all the bugs. I heard the expansion fixed a lot of things, but had securom :( I usually don't even play these kinds of fantasy games, but it very much has it's own art style that I can dig.

The great news is the devs lived up to their promise of eventually removing the DRM!
Posted October 10, 2012
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ShadowWulfe: The early birds get the worms.
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NightK: Not really it's actually cheaper now(17$00) than it was 9 hours ago(only about half an hour of the announcement it was 17$99),
I noticed that. At this stage it's a decent bargain to get those first two games. It's still too expensive for those that already own Divine Divinity, but it looks like a ton of people decided that they just want to buy Divine Divinity.

This isn't what I expected, but it does appear that the promo has encouraged people to pick up that first game at the lowest price they could.
Posted October 10, 2012
As interesting as it is, it's hardly "pay what I want". Even the various Indie Bundles are cheaper than that, for far more games. Over $17 to get all three? Not much of a choice as to what you get to pay in my eyes.

I was marginally interested, but I've already been spreading my money too this, as it is. :<
Posted October 10, 2012
Why is everyone complaining? It's just like the Humble Bundle. Pay what you want for DD, Beat the Average for BD, and beat the top 10% average to get D 2. Sure Humble Bundle never had a top 10% thing but no one is telling you to get all 3 games. I didn't have any and for people like me it's a great deal, especially considering i didn't expect to see D 2 here for quite a while.
Posted October 10, 2012
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NightK: Not really it's actually cheaper now(17$00) than it was 9 hours ago(only about half an hour of the announcement it was 17$99),
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hedwards: I noticed that. At this stage it's a decent bargain to get those first two games. It's still too expensive for those that already own Divine Divinity, but it looks like a ton of people decided that they just want to buy Divine Divinity. This isn't what I expected, but it does appear that the promo has encouraged people to pick up that first game at the lowest price they could.
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HiroshiMishima: As interesting as it is, it's hardly "pay what I want". Even the various Indie Bundles are cheaper than that, for far more games. Over $17 to get all three? Not much of a choice as to what you get to pay in my eyes. I was marginally interested, but I've already been spreading my money too this, as it is. :<
I already own a copy of Divine Divinity and two copies of Divinity 2 .... it's not that this is a bad Idea, but it's kinda bad application to apply this to a series where in GOG has repeatedly given out the first two games for free as promotional bonuses and the third game is -Another- version of a game that already has three other versions of essentially the same game out.
Posted October 10, 2012
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NightK: Not really it's actually cheaper now(17$00) than it was 9 hours ago(only about half an hour of the announcement it was 17$99),
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hedwards: I noticed that. At this stage it's a decent bargain to get those first two games. It's still too expensive for those that already own Divine Divinity, but it looks like a ton of people decided that they just want to buy Divine Divinity. This isn't what I expected, but it does appear that the promo has encouraged people to pick up that first game at the lowest price they could.
I didn't have any game of this series never did I play any of them before and I got 3 of them plus an expansion for 17.99$ that's a nice promo for something valued 33$ so I guess this promo was targeted at those who didn't have the games already.
Posted October 10, 2012
Very misleading promotion , its not exactly pay what you want is it ..
Posted October 10, 2012
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hedwards: I noticed that. At this stage it's a decent bargain to get those first two games. It's still too expensive for those that already own Divine Divinity, but it looks like a ton of people decided that they just want to buy Divine Divinity. This isn't what I expected, but it does appear that the promo has encouraged people to pick up that first game at the lowest price they could.
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NightK: I didn't have any game of this series never did I play any of them before and I got 3 of them plus an expansion for 17.99$ that's a nice promo for something valued 33$ so I guess this promo was targeted at those who didn't have the games already.
Yeah, but for those of us that do, it's not a good deal at all. I would end up with an extra copy of Divine Divinity which I would have to hold onto for many months before the glut of those extra copies left the market before I could even think about trading it for something I want. Otherwise I'm stuck paying for something I neither want nor need and that ultimately gets given away to somebody else.

I just don't see this as being such a great deal. And from what I'm led to believe, $20 is too much for the new addition. I haven't played it, so I don't really know, but $20 for a game on this site isn't usually what I would consider a good deal.

There's also the thing about, I don't want to spend an extra $5.99 in order to get a game which at points in the promo has been basically the same as the normal price.
Posted October 10, 2012
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Big_McLargeHuge: Why is everyone complaining? It's just like the Humble Bundle. Pay what you want for DD, Beat the Average for BD, and beat the top 10% average to get D 2.
Yeah, and Loki is just like Diablo 2, only it sucks. See, they are using a model that looks almost the same but a few significant changes make the whole thing suck.

1. Here the title implies that you can pay what you want for the ANTHOLOGY but that's not true as you have to pay a certain sum to get anything except Divine Divinity.

2. The "beat the average" price should provide you with something that can be considered a bonus to the main offer, a reward for paying more than you had to. Here the most attractive product is obviously Divinity II and in order to get it you have to pay A LOT. If anything Divinity II should have been the "pay what you want" thing and by beating the average you should get the previous two games for free.

3. Introducing another higher price you have to beat is DISGUSTING. Having to beat the average price is okay - after all, it's the average. But introducing a "top supporter" category sucks balls as this system heavily supports and rewards people who can afford A LOT MORE than the average guy (I don't have to explain to you that preferring rich people sucks, do I?). Additionally please take a look at the math. With the classic "beat the average price" rewards the system does not force people into manipulating that value much (after all, paying the average does not change the average, it only solidifies it), the true changes to this occur through people who don't give a fuck, either those not interested in the bonus stuff and paying tiny sums or philanthropists who are willing to pay hundreds or thousands of bucks out of support for the devs. With the "top supporter" category the model is broken - it rewards people for raising the average. That's IMHO just evil.

GOG, please don't ban me. I do still love you.

Edit: On a different note - editing and replying is kinda broken for me today. o_O
Post edited October 10, 2012 by F4LL0UT
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FoxZero: Sold! I actually have a hard copy of Divinity II I picked up for $15, but I never played it after hearing about all the bugs. I heard the expansion fixed a lot of things, but had securom :( I usually don't even play these kinds of fantasy games, but it very much has it's own art style that I can dig. The great news is the devs lived up to their promise of eventually removing the DRM!
Divinity II has been DRM-free for a while, actually. The Securom got patched out a year or so ago, and if you get any non-Steam DD version it's DRM-free without even needing any patches or anything. You won't get the extra goodies elsewhere, though.
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