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Posted April 22, 2011
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orcishgamer: By AoE guys do you mean Ensemble Studios? Do you have a link or article?
The people that represent AoE on Twitter.
Posted May 11, 2011
It's also for sale on Direct2Drive now. Probably a good option for people who dislike clients.
Post edited May 11, 2011 by StingingVelvet
Posted May 11, 2011
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StingingVelvet: It's also for sale on Direct2Drive now. Probably a good option for people who dislike clients.
Doesn't it use GFWL?
Posted May 11, 2011
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StingingVelvet: It's also for sale on Direct2Drive now. Probably a good option for people who dislike clients.
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Aliasalpha: Doesn't it use GFWL?
Well... I mean a client to download it. GFWL and Steam both use their clients for downloading where as D2D will just give you a big exe file that is easy to backup.

Also GFWL is easy to ignore for singleplayer, unlike Steam (in my opinion).
Posted May 11, 2011
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Delixe: Games have been sold with GFWL before on Steam, the only thing new is that actual Microsoft games are being sold on Steam. The problem for GOG at least with the newer Microsoft games is GFWL is a form of DRM and it's not exactly easy for people to remove it. Crack it yes, ignore it yes but remove it completely? No.
I don't know, I remember using mods for my Fallout 3 copy that required me to start the game without GFWL. And I followed the instructions on the mod readme and my fallout 3 started without GFWL.
Posted May 11, 2011
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StingingVelvet: GFWL and Steam both use their clients for downloading where as D2D will just give you a big exe file that is easy to backup.
GFWL Marketplace does not download the game's files directly like Steam does, instead it downloads a single-file installer which it then runs with a silent switch. The installers are downloaded to this folder by default:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\GFWLive\Downloads

You can change this to whatever you like on the settings tab of the Marketplace client.

You can use the installers directly without going through the client. If you do wish to use them through the client simply dump them back into the folder it is looking in and click Download for each entry to make it see the files (no actual downloading takes place).
Post edited May 11, 2011 by Arkose
Posted May 11, 2011
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orcishgamer: ...Diablo 3 will be crap...
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GameRager: *cough* Bullshit *cough*
From what I remember theres very few of the original Diablo team left at blizz it could well be completely crap
Posted May 11, 2011
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Arkose: GFWL Marketplace installers are also single files and are stored in this location by default:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\GFWLive\Downloads

You can change this to whatever you like on the settings tab of the Marketplace client.

You can use the installers directly without going through the client. If you do wish to use them through the client simply dump them back into the folder it is looking in and click Download for each entry to make it see the files (no actual downloading takes place).
Thanks, I didn't know that. I know it worked for the Fallout 3 DLC (which is the only thing I have ever bought from GFWL directly) but I thought that was just because it was DLC. If I go digital delivery again, which I am thinking about, I might get Fable 3 from GFWL then.
Posted May 11, 2011
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wodmarach: From what I remember theres very few of the original Diablo team left at blizz it could well be completely crap
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GameRager: From the screens i've seen it looks good so far. Also a TRUE Diablo fan would never be so pessimistic about this series...even if the devs are crap right now.
I've seen the screens, it looks generic, the classes are rehashes with different names, there are exactly 0 people from old Blizzard North working on it. Trust me, I'll bet Torchlight 2 is actually better (and it has some of the original team working on it).

TL only fell short due to lack of multiplayer, they launched with a really complex editor available.
Posted May 11, 2011
I'm more interested in Dungeon Siege III than Diablo 3 personally but then I do like Obsidian's games.
Posted May 11, 2011
While I never came to like Dungeon Siege I loved Diablo, I played Diablo I more than I did for Diablo II and I played Diablo II allot! Still Diablo's III lack of LAN feature is big no for me, so I probably won't buy it until it's really cheap.

Who owns Dungeon Siege? I'd like for it to come to GoG, I'd like to play it again and see if I was wrong the first time.
Posted May 11, 2011
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NightK: Who owns Dungeon Siege? I'd like for it to come to GoG, I'd like to play it again and see if I was wrong the first time.
Nowdays it's Square Enix.
Posted May 11, 2011
Would love to see Microsoft games on GOG, but I'm not holding my breath...
Posted May 11, 2011
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NightK: Who owns Dungeon Siege? I'd like for it to come to GoG, I'd like to play it again and see if I was wrong the first time.
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Delixe: Nowdays it's Square Enix.
You probably don't want the Square Enix version currently offered on Steam. Square removed the multiplayer components, added their own copyright message, apparently removed the ending videos (or introduced a bug that did the same) and don't offer the expansion packs -- according to the comments on the Steam forums.

Both games, do however, run perfectly fine in Win 7.
Posted May 11, 2011
this is disappointing we may not see microsoft games on gog, i am sure if they do come it will be with the sucky gfwl
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