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Because we like you so, we have a gift for you.

A while back, we started to sell EA games--great classics such as Wing Commander, Privateer, and Alpha Centauri. A few people--just a few!--noted that we didn't have the expansions and that made them sad panda.

Well, panda, be sad no more! As a holiday gift from us to you, we're bringing everyone who bought (or buys in the future!) the expansions for Wing Commander 1 + 2, Wing Commander Privateer, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri for you today! These expansions are free updates, so just download the new installers for each game from your account and start playing now! Note that these EA games will not be part of any Daily Deal bundle, so go ahead and pick them up now for only $2.99 each.

The expansions are:
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri--Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire.
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire brings you seven new factions (two that are non-human), new technologies, new facilities, new secret projects, new alien life forms, new unit special abilities, new victory conditions (including the new "Progenitor Victory") and several additional concepts and strategies, making it a "must-have" expansion for the award-winning game.

Wing Commander 1 + 2--Wing Commander: The Secret Missions, Wing Commander: The Secret Missions 2 Crusade, Wing Commander II: Special Operations 1, Wing Commander II: Special Operations 2.
The Wing Commander expansions bring new missions, new ships, a new storyline, and an increase in difficulty in The Secret Missions, and in Secret Missions 2: Crusade, we see a whole new alien race, a new challenge, and a mysterious defection all raising the stakes of both the game's storytelling and its combat. In Wing Commander II: Special Operations 1 we see a layered web of deceit, lies, betrayal, and action all bringing that trademarked Wing Commander cinematic feel, while Special Operations 2 sees the player ambushed while escorting a traitor, and soon the player (as Col. Blair) will find himself undertaking one of his most dangerous missions of all: an undercover one infiltrating the very traitors he was escorting in the first place!

Wing Commander Privateer--Privateer Righteous Fire.
Finally, in Righteous Fire the player squares off against a crazy fundamentalist sect called the Retros as the open-ended space sim world's story continues with more action, ships, and missions to keep player occupied for hours.

A special thanks goes out to Paul Barnett and Jeff Skalski at Mythic (@MythicNews) for their help getting these add-ons secured (finally!) and available to you. :)
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ucfalumknight: GOG makes some of the most requested add-ons available, and people are still whining that OTHER add-ons aren't available.
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tfishell: I really don't think "whining" is a fair way to put it. This is fantastic news, but people do still want the Bullfrog game expansions (Deeper Dungeons, American Revolt, etc.) and other ones. It's just like a reminder, since this topic is about expansions. I think everyone is pretty grateful.
Whining may have been too derogatory of a word, But some of the initial posts were borderline belligerent about not having Deeper Dungeons or American Revolt.
I hate to bite the hand that gives and this is really generous and great news, but:

Could you please make the vanilla Alpha Centauri also available for separate download?

I'm thrilled to get Alien Crossfire for free, but I personally prefer the base game. I'll burn my previously downloaded installer to CD but the whole point of Gog is that I shouldn't have to.
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qumqam: I hate to bite the hand that gives and this is really generous and great news, but:

Could you please make the vanilla Alpha Centauri also available for separate download?

I'm thrilled to get Alien Crossfire for free, but I personally prefer the base game. I'll burn my previously downloaded installer to CD but the whole point of Gog is that I shouldn't have to.
When you run the installer, in the options you can choose whether to add Alien Crossfire or not.
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qumqam: I hate to bite the hand that gives and this is really generous and great news, but:

Could you please make the vanilla Alpha Centauri also available for separate download?

I'm thrilled to get Alien Crossfire for free, but I personally prefer the base game. I'll burn my previously downloaded installer to CD but the whole point of Gog is that I shouldn't have to.
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Rodzaju: When you run the installer, in the options you can choose whether to add Alien Crossfire or not.
Yup. :) Vagabond's picture:

http://static.gog.com/upload/forum/2012/12/41c39be64374f350448811db1ce8a3e33f282970.png
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Leevi: Thank you. Now you can mark this Wishlist item done http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri_alien_crossfire
I agree. It would feel like an important "achievement," GOG's highest game wish completed to date. :)
Post edited December 20, 2012 by tfishell
Holy crap! I had given up hope on finding Alien Crossfire for any reasonable price, and then you guys do this? Awesome work GOG team! A lot of people were requesting this; glad to see you fight for your customers. :)
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Nergal01: True, but I kinda doubt they're high priority games. I'd expect GOG to go for Prophecy and The Darkening first.
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F4LL0UT: True, true... I'm still wondering about Strike Commander and Pacific Strike which IIRC are just as brilliant (they basically are Wing Commander with jets and WWII planes).
Don't forget Wings of Glory!
As someone who wrote to request the Alien Crossfire expansion for Alpha Centauri I'd just like to say thank you for sorting this out.

Best wishes to all for a peaceful (but hopefully gaming filled!) Christmas.
Thanks GOG! Looks like I may pick up Alpha Centauri here now. It will be one less "where did I put that damn disk" a year...seeing as how I replay this about that often. Should probably do that for MOO II as well...
More reason to pick up the missing Wing Commanders.
My poor wallet.
Anyway, THANKS!!!
I believed since the 1st day there were news about this. Patience paid off. Thank you GOG and EA.
Also first one to say EA is evil after this should be pointed to this topic and banished afterwards.
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F4LL0UT: I'm still wondering about Strike Commander and Pacific Strike which IIRC are just as brilliant (they basically are Wing Commander with jets and WWII planes).
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Fuzzyfireball: Don't forget Wings of Glory!
Indeed, I always forget about that one because I never played it. My brother only got us Pacific Strike on floppy disks and then the Privateer/Strike Commander CD - cheap bastard. :P
I've been looking forward to buying Alien Crossfire for so long, and now you tell me I'll NEVER be able to?! This is an outrage! Outrageously awesome, but that still qualifies as an outrage!
I think you meant "special thanks", right? :). Thanks for the expansions, kudoz and Merry Xmas to all at GOG.
I LOVE THIS! I love how GOG takes care of us. Free expansions for the games we bought! They care about us as customers. I love it. Thanks GOG!!!!
Thanks for the free gift.
Just one more reason why gog is so awesome.
Thisis exactly why I have 201 games in my GoG library :)