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Silrog: MoO2 is imho the best 4X game ever, but if GoG and Atari should have the brilliant idea to set a $10 price tag I will gladly refuse and be happy with my disc.
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taczillabr: So you are fine paying $40 for example, for Sins of a Solar Empire collection, but refuse to pay $10 on a classic and genre-defining game? With no discs, no patches annoyance, win7 support, etc?
I don't get it.
EDIT: What 4X PC GAME is better than this and you can get for $5 or $6?

Hey, I also appreciate the good old times. But don't forget, we are humans and thus its typical to rate the past a bit too high. ;)
So no, I won't pay $10 for a game from a decade ago - especially when I already own it or know it from A to Z and backwards.
As you mentioned SoSE as an example, you can get SoSE for €8. Gold won't be much more expensive if you chose and act wisely. And that is pretty much the case with every modern game, especially for the PC.
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Silrog: Hey, I also appreciate the good old times. But don't forget, we are humans and thus its typical to rate the past a bit too high. ;)
So no, I won't pay $10 for a game from a decade ago - especially when I already own it or know it from A to Z and backwards.
As you mentioned SoSE as an example, you can get SoSE for €8. Gold won't be much more expensive if you chose and act wisely. And that is pretty much the case with every modern game, especially for the PC.

If you know the game from A to Z, why do you come back for it on gog? is it because it has a value for you?
This value isn't equal of $6 for the game alone plus $4 for the compatibility fixes, OSes support and etc? Think about it.
And yes, I choose wisely my purchases too. That was a quick search on another site, $40 for the game and expansions for download, not physical media. Of course, you can get it on a deal for 50%; and you will have the same option of a 20%-50% off sale on gog too, so that makes MoO2 for $5.
Post edited April 18, 2010 by taczillabr
I get MoO2 running without a problem, so no special service there. And I think that your argument about the OS support is more or less laughable. Or should I understand it that way, that you would agree to sell it for $6 instead of $10 if the customers couldn't play the game at all? Ah sure, that indeed makes sense. ;)
About the "for download only" - you get the download option for free when you buy SoSE via retail. Damn those modern games and their distribution! How dare they make your arguments fail, why we should pay more for 10-15 years old games than for todays milestones?
And only this is my issue, my opinion on GoG's prizing. If you simply disagree that's fine, but if you act like I would have lost my mind because I beg to differ ...
I looked up Master of Orion, and still have no idea why everyone's so excited. I think I'm missing something, had never even heard of it before this weekend. It kinda looks like Space Empires ripped off MoO (or vice versa) but having played a bit of SE5, I suspect Space Empires did it a wee bit better.
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Silrog: I get MoO2 running without a problem, so no special service there. And I think that your argument about the OS support is more or less laughable. Or should I understand it that way, that you would agree to sell it for $6 instead of $10 if the customers couldn't play the game at all? Ah sure, that indeed makes sense. ;)
About the "for download only" - you get the download option for free when you buy SoSE via retail. Damn those modern games and their distribution! How dare they make your arguments fail, why we should pay more for 10-15 years old games than for todays milestones?
And only this is my issue, my opinion on GoG's prizing. If you simply disagree that's fine, but if you act like I would have lost my mind because I beg to differ ...

What wait..you get it for FREE? Is it through their site or their shitty Impulse stuff?
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Silrog: If you simply disagree that's fine, but if you act like I would have lost my mind because I beg to differ ...

No problem man, this is a forum with freedom of speech.
I didn't say "think about it" to force to change your mind at all, that's with you only, I did said that was to make you consider for yourself what value such game has for you.
The $6+$4 was a symbolic thing only. An old game which needs fixing for modern systems, costs, gog isn't charity you know... And probably the same will happen with your SoSE retail copy after 10,15 years... a $6 SoSE from a bargain bin will need a fix to work on the newest system, and the nearest church/charity won't do that for you at zero cost (bandwidth/staff's and programmers' hours costs).
FYI, I don't own a retail MoO2 to test it on vista/7 and I don't own a retail copy of SoSE, so I didn't knew that you could freely download the game using your retail license, thanks for that info. So, don't need to be so serious about the two examples.
Also, here's a thread about pricing:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/not_sticking_to_5_99_and_9_99/
MOO2 is hardly the best 4x game ever anymore. Galactic Civilizations has taken over the number one spot by 100's of thousands of gamers. I don't play any other 4x game anymore except GC2 because it has a great ai and more difficulty levels than you can shake a stick at. Puts MOO and MOO2 to shame in the fun of the challenge level of difficulty and ai performance.
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Silrog: I get MoO2 running without a problem, so no special service there. And I think that your argument about the OS support is more or less laughable. Or should I understand it that way, that you would agree to sell it for $6 instead of $10 if the customers couldn't play the game at all? Ah sure, that indeed makes sense. ;)
About the "for download only" - you get the download option for free when you buy SoSE via retail. Damn those modern games and their distribution! How dare they make your arguments fail, why we should pay more for 10-15 years old games than for todays milestones?
And only this is my issue, my opinion on GoG's prizing. If you simply disagree that's fine, but if you act like I would have lost my mind because I beg to differ ...

Not sure when the last time was you looked, but you CAN'T get Sins for $10. The only way you can even get the base game on Impulse anymore is by dropping almost $40 on the Trinity Edition with both expansions.
If MOO comes to GOG, I'd be very willing to pay $10 for a MOO1+MOO2 pack. That is, I'd pay $10 for MOO2, and consider MOO1 a free bonus. I mean, I think I would have achieved world-peace with time left for a lengthy, sponsored lunch by now if I'd put all the time I sunk into MOO2 towards that.
If they include MOO3, however, I'm afraid the price must be dropped to $6... :D
It's just that bad a game.
Also, MOO! MOO! MOOOOO! I mean, meow... :)
If Atari is comming here, I want to see Temple Of Elemental Evil on GOG. And I don't care what Hasbro thinks about it! ;-)
In my opinion Month of Atari Europe S.A.S.U [That means Infogrames Multimedia] comes.
Do not be
Outcast- game from Infogames
from Orion- series Master of Orion.
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ribrsiq: If MOO comes to GOG, I'd be very willing to pay $10 for a MOO1+MOO2 pack. That is, I'd pay $10 for MOO2, and consider MOO1 a free bonus. I mean, I think I would have achieved world-peace with time left for a lengthy, sponsored lunch by now if I'd put all the time I sunk into MOO2 towards that.
If they include MOO3, however, I'm afraid the price must be dropped to $6... :D
It's just that bad a game.
Also, MOO! MOO! MOOOOO! I mean, meow... :)

MEoW? Master Everything or Win? Must be one of those forgotten reboots :D
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ravinhood: MOO2 is hardly the best 4x game ever anymore. Galactic Civilizations has taken over the number one spot by 100's of thousands of gamers. I don't play any other 4x game anymore except GC2 because it has a great ai and more difficulty levels than you can shake a stick at. Puts MOO and MOO2 to shame in the fun of the challenge level of difficulty and ai performance.

While GC2 is damn good game and definitely in many ways better than MoO2, as it should be since it is like 10 years newer, it still lacks the nostalgia factor. In fact many of us here are for nostalgia rather than good games. I own GC2 and have played it, but what ruined that game for me was completely boring and hollow research and tech tree. Yet MoO2 is still a game I play time to time. Fabulous game.
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Silrog: MoO2 is imho the best 4X game ever, but if GoG and Atari should have the brilliant idea to set a $10 price tag I will gladly refuse and be happy with my disc.

$5.99 for the two MoO games...
Did GOG disappointed you now? =D
It seems recently that when GOG has a countdown I wait credit card in hand. MoO 1+2 for $5.99 and Outcast the same....a steal IMO!