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Posted May 22, 2012
A Triumphant Return of Wonderful Storytelling

Dreamfall, the sequel to The Longest Journey, is a beautiful third-person adventure game for only $14.99 on GOG.com.

The Longest Journey, with its epic story and fantastically portrayed world and characters, was easily one of the best adventure games ever made. Dreamfall, a long-awaited sequel, never fails to deliver a similarly fantastic experience. Taking you a journey through another 13 chapters across the twinned worlds of Stark and Arcadia. However, Dreamfall breaks the expectations with brilliant visual style, breathtaking soundtrack, great voice acting, and challenging game mechanics that require you to think outside the box to complete difficult--but not frustrating--challenges and puzzles. The game offers much less 'action' than most of today's games, but satisfies with mature and intelligent dialogues, gripping story, and and characters who elicit authentic emotions to fascinate and engage any adventure connoisseur.

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey follows three adventurers: Zoë Castillo, a 20-year-old resident of Casablanca in 2219, April Ryan, the main protagonist in the original game (and now the Rebel leader), and Kian Alvane, an Azadi soldier and skilled swordsman in two parallel worlds: the technologically advanced Stark and magical Arcadia. An international conspiracy to introduce lucid dream-inducing technology that could be potentially used to brainwash and control the whole population of Stark needs to be stopped, and it falls upon Zoë, April, and Kian to wright the world’s wrongs.

Dreamfall is a multi-threaded, believable, and engaging adventure with amazing presentation and unique attention to details, and is available now on GOG.com for only $14.99 with wallpapers, avatars, the soundtrack, and 30 gorgeous pieces of digital art.
Posted May 22, 2012
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Stupot: I own this game on Disc, but it refused to work on Vista without me having to download something that ultimately almost destroyed my computer. So I've never played the game.

I'm assuming this will have been updated to work on current versions of Windows. Might have to wait for the price to go down a bit before buying.
The DRM was removed in the last official patch.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/dreamfall_the_longest_journey_collectors_edition_starforce_drm/
Post edited May 22, 2012 by SirPrimalform
Posted May 22, 2012
Good release but I already have it on Steam.
Posted May 22, 2012
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keeveek: So what happened with their "we are going to be the first major alternative to steam" annoucement? ;-)

Without -75, -85 , they will never be an alternative for anybody big.
So what you're saying is that GOG should have priced the game to around $25 (19.99€) like Steam/GG, instead of $14.99? Then they could more easily offer e.g. 75% discounts.

Plus, there still is the fact that being fully DRM-free is worth some extra to many GOG customers. GamersGate lists "Starforce" as the DRM, and I presume Steam (which states nothing) has the basic Steam DRM.
Posted May 22, 2012
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Pheace: snip
But you can't expect that GOG setting their normal price will match it with discounted promo price on Steam. Noone would be interested in selling their game on GOG in such case.

Promo is promo, you can ask GOG to make better promo sales, but to say that this normal price is too high, it makes no sense to me.
Posted May 22, 2012
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timppu: Plus, there still is the fact that being fully DRM-free is worth some extra to many GOG customers.
Hey, if you want to make the argument that people should be willing to pay extra for DRM-free, that's a fair argument to make.
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SLP2000: But you can't expect that GOG setting their normal price will match it with discounted promo price on Steam. Noone would be interested in selling their game on GOG in such case.

Promo is promo, you can ask GOG to make better promo sales, but to say that this normal price is too high, it makes no sense to me.
I ... don't see where I did. I'm talking about sales prices, because I'm fairly convinced that's where the majority of sales are.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by Pheace
Posted May 22, 2012
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Pheace: Yes, GOG is different, but should that mean you need to pay more for the game?
Yes, rental prices should always be lower than when you purchase an item. There must be a reason why so many people here seem to rebuy games from GOG, that they already had in Steam too.

Next someone comes telling how cheap gaming is on OnLive, especially when you consider what you save with HW prices.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by timppu
Posted May 22, 2012
Picked it up for 10 euros on disc a couple of years ago, so this is not really compelling. While the German dubbing was absolutely fucking dreadful, it is still significantly cheaper than the GOG release and the retail version is now also DRM-free.

Not sure what that is about the Starforce protection. My version of Dreamfall runs without the disc in the drive.
Posted May 22, 2012
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SLP2000: Promo is promo, you can ask GOG to make better promo sales, but to say that this normal price is too high, it makes no sense to me.
With current GOG sales policy this price is way to high. Where's nonsense in that statement?

And remember, TheEnigmaticT said once that "big sales are hurting gamers" (sic!) , so I wouldn't expect much of a sales here.

Maybe the ancient Polish marketing policy "do not make any huge sales" is still at play, while the rest of the world sees how much income they get from making bigger sales.
Posted May 22, 2012
The price is okay. They undercut Steam's normal prices and offer the same price worldwide, so for € shoppers this should be fine. However I am not really interested in, so it has to go on sale with at least -50% discount to become interesting to me. Not improbable with GOG.
Posted May 22, 2012
I find it hard to pay more that $10 on any game that is 6 years old. When I decide to buy this game it will be here because I prefer DRM free above all else. However, the game is still 6 years old and that should count for something also. Wishlisted for now.
Posted May 22, 2012
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timppu: Yes, rental prices should always be lower than when you purchase an item.
Ok... if you can't have a discussion about it without your Steam arguments getting in the way then how about you just imagine Amazon instead? They pretty much pricematch Steam whenever they can these days and they're certainly offering DRM-free titles more and more lately, even before GOG sometimes.
Posted May 22, 2012
15$? Wasn't gonna buy it no matter the price but this is disappointing. What happened to the 6/10 for older games?
Posted May 22, 2012
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keeveek: And remember, TheEnigmaticT said once that "big sales are hurting gamers" (sic!) , so I wouldn't expect much of a sales here.
I was thinking about this. They aren't really "hurting" gamers (other than causing "reaction" purchases to such insanely low prices, maybe), but they are devaluing games. I suppose if you spend more, you're more likely to appreciate the game and try to finish it, but OBVIOUSLY there are limitations. ;) No one's going to pay 50 bucks for this...

Hopefully there will be more price falls here on GOG, even though that only happens once every blue moon. A half-dozen $10 games will become $6, RollerCoaster3 will drop to 10, and many a freeware will be acquired...

Hey, GOG how about some more free games during E3?
Posted May 22, 2012
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summitus: Too expensive, if gog are going to be doing more releases like this they need to get realistic price points for certain games. That being said its not often they get it wrong ! :-)
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timppu: I'm sure it has been mentioned already, but Steam and Gamersgate are selling it at least here in Europe for 19.99€ (= $25,36) against GOG's $14.99, so this doesn't sound so bad, especially considering it is DRM-free.
I would probably consider this at $9.99 but certainly not for more unless it was a title that I really liked enough to pay the extra for it, no matter who is selling it. So basically its overpriced everywhere . ;)
Posted May 22, 2012
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keeveek: Research shows (comparing how many games steam is selling, gamersgate is selling compared to GOG) , that most people don't give a flying duck about DRM-free.

Drm-free factor is a very good thing, but not a factor that would make you biggest steam alternative.
Actually, in this you are wrong. GOG, at the moment, IS the largest alternative to Steam for those of us who really dislike DRM or all sorts. I have visited some of the other sites who say they sell DRM-Free titles, and they can't even begin to hold a candle to GOG and its catalog.
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Stupot: I own this game on Disc, but it refused to work on Vista without me having to download something that ultimately almost destroyed my computer. So I've never played the game.

I'm assuming this will have been updated to work on current versions of Windows. Might have to wait for the price to go down a bit before buying.
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SirPrimalform: The DRM was removed in the last official patch.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/dreamfall_the_longest_journey_collectors_edition_starforce_drm/
I read about that, but in order to install the patch, I still have to install the vanilla game first. That means that Starforce is still getting on your computer and I don't trust the patch to 100% remove the DRM, considering how deeply Starforce infiltrates your system. That is the main reason I have not re-installed the vanilla game (on a computer that never had it installed before) in recent years.
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