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Wow, some people just can't be pleased. Release one game per week and people think you are lazy; Release two and they suddenly go "aaaahh we don't have teh monies!!!"
*also don't have teh monies* :P
Here's an idea. Sometime in 2011 when GOG has a great Turn-based Fantasy Strategy promo with the Age of Wonders games, Heroes of Might and Magic 1- 3, Master of Magic, Lord of Magic, Fantasy General (if comes here) and the Disciples games, they can tell us a few days in advance and encourage the fans of the games to spread the news.
Most of these games or all of them still have active - slightly active forums, where there likely are many people that could be interested in some similar games for a few dollars.
Some other promo ideas:
Classic turn-based strategy games: just the HoMM series, Age of Wonders series and Master of Magic.
Turn based strategy games: All of the above in addition to Master of Orion 1&2, the Jagged Alliance games, Call to Power II, Fallout Tactics, Conquest of the new World, Lords of the Realm 2, Panzer General II and maybe Combat Mission - Beyond Overlord.
If there ever were such a promo (as the last) it should not just be a normal promo, but something special, like a turn-based strategy week or a turn based strategy easter. That way it would be more likely to get noticed.
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EndlessKnight: What extras does it come with? Soundtrack, wallpaper, etc... I don't see any listed. Omission?

I think this will come in the future, my guess is that they don't have much time for extras now.
Age of Wonder's music is in some kind of mod format like s3m, mod or something. If you install a plugin for playing mod files in winamp you can play it straight from the music directory in Age of Wonders.
The music for this game is great.
Post edited September 16, 2010 by Sargon
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Sargon: Age of Wonder's music is in some kind of mod format like s3m, mod or something. If you install a plugin for playing mod files in winamp you can play it straight from the music directory in Age of Wonders.
The music for this game is great.

It's in .IT format & composed by Michiel Van Den Bos (Think UNATCO theme or DuClare Chateau from Deus Ex)
This series+Master of Magic+Master of Orion+HoMM+Disciples+Fallout+Jagged Alliance+Caesar 3+CtP2+and Civilization 5 being released soon?! Hell yeah GOG, I am rejoiced!
AoWsum release, GOG really is the place AoW deserves to be. 157 MB of good ol' gaming.
Awesome! I already have it, but heartily recommend this game!
Sweeeeet! Thanks Triumph Studios, and thanks GOG!
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Wolfox: Sweeeeet! Thanks Triumph Studios, and thanks GOG!

Yes, and thank you for intelligently pricing it Triumph/GOG. Unlike Activision, you know how to do things.
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EndlessKnight: Yes, and thank you for intelligently pricing it Triumph/GOG. Unlike Activision, you know how to do things.

While I always prefer lower prices (always), there's nothing unintelligent about publishers picking the higher price point, when we view the problem purely from an income point of view. I have no idea what kind of sales a typical GOG game makes, but for my purposes I've made up some (most likely grossly exaggerated) numbers just for demonstration.
Say a publisher picks a $10 price point. They make 45000 sales. That's $450000 prior to however it's split. If they had picked the $6 price point, they would have had to make 75000 sales before seeing the same gross income. So while, yes, a publisher could make up for selecting the lower price point through more sales, it's a question of do they believe they can reach that higher number. Assuming they have some guess at how many people will purchase it at $10, they then have to gauge whether enough people would purchase it simply because it was $4 cheaper to make up for that loss.
Anywho, not really attacking you or anything, I just didn't like the word choice. And it apparently irked me enough to drag Excel into things. Damn I need to take a break.
yay! this one goes directly on my wishlist.
But Wait, what's wrong with this discussion url? Says Codemastets_Pack_titles O_o CODEMASTETS, and it's about Age of wonders...
I am quite aware of those theoretical economics. With regard to GOG/Acitivision, I refer to their King's Quest/Space Quest pricing on GOG. You can get a much better deal on Steam and get double the number of games. Activision has been putting GOG at a disadvantage sales-wise here. This is the primary point of my comment. No excel is necessary to see that the Steam version is a better value when it comes to quantity of titles and dollar value.
In the case of Age of Wonders we see that they have priced the first one at $5.99. This makes me think that they are either going to be pricing the more up to date sequel at $9.99. Putting the sequel at $9.99 would make perfect sense. (Though, I'd obviously love to see it at $5.99 as well.)
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Sargon: Age of Wonder's music is in some kind of mod format like s3m, mod or something. If you install a plugin for playing mod files in winamp you can play it straight from the music directory in Age of Wonders.
The music for this game is great.

I'd recommend NOT using Winamp for that though, the mod support in Winamp is horrible, but there are bunch of other programs with great mod support, like XMPlay, Foobar2000 - I think even VLC Media Player can play them.
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EndlessKnight: I am quite aware of those theoretical economics. With regard to GOG/Acitivision, I refer to their King's Quest/Space Quest pricing on GOG. You can get a much better deal on Steam and get double the number of games. Activision has been putting GOG at a disadvantage sales-wise here. This is the primary point of my comment. No excel is necessary to see that the Steam version is a better value when it comes to quantity of titles and dollar value.
In the case of Age of Wonders we see that they have priced the first one at $5.99. This makes me think that they are either going to be pricing the more up to date sequel at $9.99. Putting the sequel at $9.99 would make perfect sense. (Though, I'd obviously love to see it at $5.99 as well.)
how about waiting for a deal of the complete edition ?
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EndlessKnight: In the case of Age of Wonders we see that they have priced the first one at $5.99. This makes me think that they are either going to be pricing the more up to date sequel at $9.99. Putting the sequel at $9.99 would make perfect sense. (Though, I'd obviously love to see it at $5.99 as well.)

That happens to be exactly what they're doing: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/New_release_Age_of_Wonders/12
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EndlessKnight: In the case of Age of Wonders we see that they have priced the first one at $5.99. This makes me think that they are either going to be pricing the more up to date sequel at $9.99.

If you check the product pages for the sequels you can see that they are already priced at $9.99
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/age_of_wonders_ii_the_wizards_throne
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/age_of_wonders_shadow_magic
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Eclipse: But Wait, what's wrong with this discussion url? Says Codemastets_Pack_titles O_o CODEMASTETS, and it's about Age of wonders...

Yeah, they really ballsed up all three of today's URLs. But it wouldn't be GOG without a few quirks. :D