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A farewell to arms promo!

The Arma Series, that is Arma Gold Edition, Arma: Cold War Assault, and Arma 2: Combined Operations (complete with the Operation Arrowhead expansion), providing the ultimate mod-enabled first person-perspective military simulation experience, is available up to 80% off on GOG.com. That's only $8.17 for the whole set of three games, for the next 72 hours.

[url=http://www.gog.com/promo/arma_farewell_complete_040614][/url]War has always been, and probably always will be, one of the predominant themes in computer games. From 8-bit systems to contemporary monster gaming rigs you'll have simulators, strategy games, and war-inspired arcade titles. But there's only one type of game that could let you really see war as a first-hand gritty and immersive experience. An FPS, first person perspective shooter. Again, there are many levels of realism throughout the genre. Some of the war FPS' tend to focus on storytelling, using heavy scripting to deliver a cinematic experience. Others don't try to hide the fact, that the war you're seeing isn't real and that the main goal is to have fun while playing. And there's the Arma Series.

Arma Series is a game series that will make you feel like an actual combatant on one of the modern-day military missions. A game that will amaze you with its level of realism in recreating actual weapons, military gear, ballistics, and battlefield conditions. A game that will challenge you in ways no other wargame ever could. Dropping you in the middle of a fictional conflict, that feels more real than most things you see on the news, it proves to be the ultimate modern-day military simulation that you can play outside of actual military VR training facilities. Arma 2: Combined Operations allows for massive multiplayer matches that can host up to 50 players simultaneously, and the Operation Arrowhead expansion that, on top of adding another campaign to the game, provides extensive mod compatibility, this is the FPP wargame you want to get, if you mean business.

On top of that, Arma 2: Combined Operations is required to run DayZ, the most popular game modification since the infamous Hot Coffe. What? You don't know what DayZ is? Don't fret--we've got you covered.

Do you think you can handle real virtual warfare? Find out if you really know which side of the assault rifle you should point at the enemies in the complete Arma Series, for only $8.17 on GOG.com. The special promo lasts until Saturday, June 7, at 9:59AM GMT. Games also available separately with lower discount rate. The games already owned on GOG.com count towards the higher discount.

Important note: This is a last chance promo, as Arma Gold Edition, Arma: Cold War Assault, and Arma 2: Combined Operations will be removed from sales on GOG.com on June 22, along with the remaining Bohemia Interactive title: Original War. If you buy (or have already bought) any of these games, they will remain on your account "shelf", so you'll be still able to access and download them.
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Matruchus: They officialy own 75% of the market already and a monopoly can start under 50% percents market share when a company has controlling share on the market and affects it. Classical monopoly definitions do not apply to the digital stores anymore - there is no scarcity of ressources there :)
All right, I'm definitely not an economics erudite! ;)
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Matruchus: They officialy own 75% of the market already and a monopoly can start under 50% percents market share when a company has controlling share on the market and affects it. Classical monopoly definitions do not apply to the digital stores anymore - there is no scarcity of ressources there :)
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Enebias: All right, I'm definitely not an economics erudite! ;)
I know. Its no problem. Its just that most people misunderstand what a monopoly is. Its probably because of Monopoly the board game where a monopoly is when you win and have all the hotels or houses :)
Post edited June 05, 2014 by Matruchus
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Matruchus: Its probably because of Monopoly the board game where a monopoly is when you win and have all the hotels or houses :)
I think that's because everyone knows shards of the classic theory from history books, but nothing more than that.
For example, in Italy economics is seriously thaught only in the specific university branch. Sorry for going off-topic!
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Zoidberg: No, it IS a Steam Box: it is a PC and has Steam installed, it is thus a Steambox. There's nothing more than that. The term "Steambox" isn't really tied to a hardware configuration or even an OS. Gosh, it doesn't even have to have Steam installed.

But your post is right about one thing, eventually it'll mean to be a PC WITHOUT Windows.
Maybe. I would disagree, as quite often the label of something usually says it has a certain set of requirements for it to match; Usually minimum CPU, memory, harddrive space, GPU, etc. I'll bet the SteamBox is tied very closely with the x86 chipset in mind. Consider most games are compiled to use M$ Windows, their Linux counterpart are probably as well; I doubt there will be many games compiled to run on ARM or PowerPC architecture anywhere on steam.

No, the SteamBox will definitely be tied to hardware, it just won't be tied/locked to a single proprietary company, or have the DRM locks we've gotten used to with disc based consoles (although Skyrim is locked until you unlock it on steam so... maybe in some ways it's worse). Any box that matches the minimum requirements can be called a SteamBox (unlike most of my older systems). But this isn't really that important, except that more non Windows options will be avaliable, although with the laziness of the general population that won't take away the monopoly that M$ currently holds.
It's funny how ARMA 2 is the best-selling game currently, and the other two are a bit behind - yet you pay $10 if you buy ONLY ARMA 2 and $8 if you get the three... Some folks are paying more to get less :) They might be better off with Steam.
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DanyKing: It's funny how ARMA 2 is the best-selling game currently, and the other two are a bit behind - yet you pay $10 if you buy ONLY ARMA 2 and $8 if you get the three... Some folks are paying more to get less :)
Or they may already own ArmA:CWA and ArmA: Gold Edition, thus buying ArmA 2 for $4.99.
Well, perhaps they had the other 2 games already-the 80% discount still applies if at least one of the games is already owned.
As for me, I bought all three of them- I have none of them and just couldn't resist the great discount- plus there is the fact that those games are soon leaving GOG...

Ninja'd!
Post edited June 05, 2014 by Treasure
I know my fellow countrymen have already spoken, but a higher discount makes a high price game like Arma 2 far more attractive than the other pretty cheap ones (Like Divinity: Dragon Commander on this insomnia promo).
Post edited June 05, 2014 by Grargar
Am I the only one that had trouble getting through the initial boot camp tutorial of #1? XD Well it seems the Marines are looking for a few good men, and I ain't it!
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tinyE: Am I the only one that had trouble getting through the initial boot camp tutorial of #1? XD Well it seems the Marines are looking for a few good men, and I ain't it!
Do you consistently get a menu show up on the right when you scroll the mouse scroll-wheel? I've had problems with UI scaling sometimes making it appear out of frame.

In regards to the tutorial, you may as well skip it and watch a video tutorial. Even the Devblog video included in the extras is more helpful!
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tinyE: Am I the only one that had trouble getting through the initial boot camp tutorial of #1? XD Well it seems the Marines are looking for a few good men, and I ain't it!
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Sufyan: Do you consistently get a menu show up on the right when you scroll the mouse scroll-wheel? I've had problems with UI scaling sometimes making it appear out of frame.
Not yet but when I'm screwing up I get a note in the top left that says "Try Again" and it seems to be a tab of some sort but I can't click on it. Maybe it's just an order.

Funny thing is I'm playing this and then to cool down with something simpler I've been switching over to System Shock 2. :P
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KILLA-CONNI: To all the people complaining about BI: I don't think they will read your messages on this forum, if you want to have your voices heard go to their forum on forums.bistudio.com and remind them that their decision is close to full retard (maybe not those exact words). I started a thread already, feel free to participate....
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?178672-GOG-com-removal
Done.
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CMOT70: You can modify your Microwave Oven to perform other funtions too, but it's meant to heat food.
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JMich: Microwaves are meant to perform Science! Including (but not limited) to heating things ;)

And "Meant to" with "Actual use of" is not the same.

Anyway, let's take the XBox One then. It's meant to surf the net, watch movies or shows, skype call, play games, run applications. So more or less, anything a PC can do. So the XBox One is a PC?
No, 'personal computers' must be able to run arbitrary programs created by the user. The Xbox One and PS4 won't run unsigned code and you don't have access to the key.
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Snickersnack: No, 'personal computers' must be able to run arbitrary programs created by the user. The Xbox One and PS4 won't run unsigned code and you don't have access to the key.
But the PS3 could run arbitrary code (up to a firmware revision at least), so the PS3 was a personal computer, right?
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Zoidberg: No, it IS a Steam Box: it is a PC and has Steam installed, it is thus a Steambox. There's nothing more than that. The term "Steambox" isn't really tied to a hardware configuration or even an OS. Gosh, it doesn't even have to have Steam installed.

But your post is right about one thing, eventually it'll mean to be a PC WITHOUT Windows.
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rtcvb32: Maybe. I would disagree, as quite often the label of something usually says it has a certain set of requirements for it to match; Usually minimum CPU, memory, harddrive space, GPU, etc. I'll bet the SteamBox is tied very closely with the x86 chipset in mind. Consider most games are compiled to use M$ Windows, their Linux counterpart are probably as well; I doubt there will be many games compiled to run on ARM or PowerPC architecture anywhere on steam.

No, the SteamBox will definitely be tied to hardware, it just won't be tied/locked to a single proprietary company, or have the DRM locks we've gotten used to with disc based consoles (although Skyrim is locked until you unlock it on steam so... maybe in some ways it's worse). Any box that matches the minimum requirements can be called a SteamBox (unlike most of my older systems). But this isn't really that important, except that more non Windows options will be avaliable, although with the laziness of the general population that won't take away the monopoly that M$ currently holds.
Well I meant hardware =/= architecture.

But even then, if they put Steam for ARM devices you could cloud your games on usch a device, streaming from a Windows Steam. ;)