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Posted June 04, 2010
I admire the European appreciation for PC games, and am happy especially to be able to get into European RPGs, thanks in part to GOG. :)
Posted June 04, 2010
my opinion: dear gog this time you really DISAPPOINTED me.
This is not an old game.
Hope this will not happen again in the future.
angry and sad
bruno
Posted June 04, 2010
if (game.isOld())
{
if (game.isGood()) GoG.sell(game);
}
else if (game.isGood())
{
GoG.sell(game);
}
Looks like King's Bounty passed the check! :D
But already owned this from somewhere else when it came out though.
Posted June 04, 2010
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habit79: my opinion: dear gog this time you really DISAPPOINTED me.
This is not an old game.
Hope this will not happen again in the future.
angry and sad
bruno

Get over it and get on with your life.
Posted June 04, 2010
Quoting another user:
GOG (n) IPA: /gɒg/
An electronic game deemed old enough by the responsible publisher to submit to the company Good Old Games for cheap worldwide DRM-free distribution, and deemed good enough by Good Old Games to include in their catalogue.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/definition_of_good_old_game/perm=43/#p_b_43
Can anyone provide a link to where GOG actually said that? Because I remember them doing so, but I could be mistaken seeing as I couldn't find it yesterday when I posted this elsewhere.
And yeah Rewsan, I'd have said something similar. 'Angry and sad' over them releasing a game that's actually quite good provided you like the genre and is cheap/drm-free? Not to mention you don't have to buy it?
And remember GOG's a business. I'm sure if they did what you wanted, they'd go out of business.
Post edited June 04, 2010 by DavidGil
Posted June 04, 2010
Do you guys know any news about the game download being fixed? I bought the game, but the installer says the files are corrupted. There goes my happyness:( I hope it will be fixed soon.
Posted June 04, 2010
I own this game, I bought it when it was first released and I can only say: Whoever doesnt own it yet should buy it, its an incredible (!) Turn-Based-Strategy-Game!
Posted June 04, 2010
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Shmutt: if (game.isOld())
{
if (game.isGood()) GoG.sell(game);
}
else if (game.isGood())
{
GoG.sell(game);
}
Looks like King's Bounty passed the check! :D
But already owned this from somewhere else when it came out though.

The thing is if we'd hadthe original Kings Bounty, then it would have met both parameters...
Posted June 04, 2010
I think this was great, although the game's atmosphere is certainly not up to my taste. (There are too many other good games around to get my time anyway.)
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taczillabr: A very welcome title here, and with a surprise arrival. Although I was expecting this title to be released sooner or later, since 1C joined gog. :)
Now, what is required to have the original game from 1990, here on gog? I'd buy it.

As it came free with a couple of HoMM compilations it would have been nice if it came as an extra for people that have bought all three HoMM's or this King's Bounty game.
In addition to being sold normally.
Of course, then GoG should first get their hands on it, which probably would be a problem if it wasn't sold to Ubisoft along with HoMM.
The more DRM free games here, the merrier I am. The problem with new games here could be solved with a new section called Good New Games. The Good New Games could be moved to the Good Old Games after some years, say five. The Good New Games would be available through search and forums as the old ones unless the user chooses not to view them along with the others.
A not so good idea is to make another section called: Not So Good Old Games.
I don't want less new games here, I want more old games.
Post edited June 04, 2010 by Sargon
Posted June 05, 2010
More DOS and Win 9x games please, fewer titles that were "good but didn't sell well". You come close to abusing your fan base whose loyalty is built upon re releasing old games that were otherwise out of print. I admire also that this site eliminates the whole "abandonware" argument.
Gog is now on probation with me.
Posted June 05, 2010
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dmso12: More DOS and Win 9x games please, fewer titles that were "good but didn't sell well". You come close to abusing your fan base whose loyalty is built upon re releasing old games that were otherwise out of print. I admire also that this site eliminates the whole "abandonware" argument.
Gog is now on probation with me.

Gog is a shop and they can sell whatever they want, my newsagent recently started selling eggs if I had walked in there and said your a newsagent you should be selling newspapers and sweets not eggs I'd just get laughed at. If you don't want to buy a game they have for sale don't buy it. For gods sake don't threaten the site because they sell something you don't want them to.
Posted June 05, 2010
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Bajta: I think Central Euroepan like old games ;)
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bazilisek: I have been thinking about this the other day. I think the reason is that we're basically the first generation to be nostalgic about the games of our youth; and while Americans very often get this feeling around Nintendo (NES) games, we are the die-hard PC crowd. I don't think I have ever even seen a NES, myself. The market evolved much more slowly, with communism and all, and the first successful console around here was, I believe, the Playstation.
I personally grew up with the ZX Spetrum (imported from the UK for an insane price), but after that era was over, it was PC games that shaped my childhood. And I do think it's roughly the same case with Slovaks, Hungarians and Poles.

Yay thats true. I think im one of PC crowd. I don't like consoles (but I had NES and PS2). I grew up on games series like HoMM, Disciples or Baldrus Gate. Consoles were for me only simple addon.
Posted June 05, 2010
I grew up on both PC and 8, 16, 32 and 64 bit console systems all the way up to about 2001. when I think the PS2 first came out. After that I got my first real decent PC lol a secondhand Pentium 3 733 Mhz computer with 768 MB of ram and a 64 MB Nvidia Graphics card.
Since then I have gone through 3 increasingly more powerful PC computers and turned away from console systems completely.
Fact is PC games can be modded and patched that's one of the reasons I prefer PC. Also the first computer ever used was in 1983. I believe it was a IBM 80186 PC computer that belonged to my uncle and I think the only games he had on there were Pong and Pacman. I think the screen was Monochrome too. Seems so long ago now
Posted June 05, 2010
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writer2036: Fact is PC games can be modded and patched that's one of the reasons I prefer PC. Also the first computer ever used was in 1983. I believe it was a IBM 80186 PC computer that belonged to my uncle and I think the only games he had on there were Pong and Pacman. I think the screen was Monochrome too. Seems so long ago now

Monochrome screen sounds like a Hercules graphics adapter. If you didn't need the graphics, you could steal the memory and get up to 700k low memory (I think you had to have 1 MB of RAM, even though only 640k was usable). As for the processor, it was probably an 8086 or 8088. I believe the 80186 was only used in embedded applications like stop lights.
I stand corrected. Some 186's did make it into computers. Sorry about that.
Posted June 06, 2010
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taczillabr: Now, what is required to have the original game from 1990, here on gog? I'd buy it.
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Sargon: As it came free with a couple of HoMM compilations it would have been nice if it came as an extra for people that have bought all three HoMM's or this King's Bounty game.
In addition to being sold normally.
Of course, then GoG should first get their hands on it, which probably would be a problem if it wasn't sold to Ubisoft along with HoMM.

An extra agreement would be required to bring the original game here, and extra work to fix it for modern PCs... doesn't really matter if it already came bundled with other games in the past (but it's nice to know this detail, as a gamer. ;) )
I don't think that who owns the license would let it be distributed for free like that, but if GOG has the chance to get it and it's viable to have it for free, I guess they'll do it.
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