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Posted November 21, 2012
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StingingVelvet: Once the games are full patched, fully DLC'd and dead on the multiplayer side (if they had one) they are candidates for coming here. Assassin's Creed qualified, as did Far Cry 2.
Where's Saints Row the Third: The Full Package ? ;)
Posted November 21, 2012
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StingingVelvet: Once the games are full patched, fully DLC'd and dead on the multiplayer side (if they had one) they are candidates for coming here. Assassin's Creed qualified, as did Far Cry 2.
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ne_zavarj: Where's Saints Row the Third: The Full Package ? ;)
That was my first reaction! There aren't many better LAN games out there at the moment.
Posted November 21, 2012
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SimonG: My understanding might be wrong, but this is very well how the guy answering this read this.
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JMich: Thank you for the explanation. I knew I should have taken legalese when I had the chance, but I decided to go with English and French as foreign languages :(
I do also speak a bit of supportese, but mostly the Tech dialect, not the Customer one...

Still, does THQ have any game older than 2007? Where's Barry when you need a list damn it...
The first Dawn of War was 2004.
Winter Assault (The only non standalone expansion) was 2005.
These 2 here would be awesome!
Posted November 21, 2012
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P1na: I would have thought THQ to be safe based on DLC's alone. Just from the number alone, they should be making a shitload of extra money with minimum investment, I think it's the publisher with most DLCs per game (out of the new games I've played at least, not that many to be honest)
But as with the parent game, it's all contingent on enough people actually buying them. You can release a hundred DLC packs, but if only a handful of potential customers buy a handful of packs, you're not going to make much cash, even given the minimal investment.

Not to mention that a vast number of DLCs available not long after release might actually put some people off.
Posted November 21, 2012
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granny: Not to mention that releasing DLCs instead of proper expansions for any game will actually put lot's of people off or very least make them wait for 'complete' release.
Fixed for u ;-p
Posted November 21, 2012
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SLP2000: Ubisoft released some of their new games on GOG.

HOMM5, PoP, AssCreed.
I would not classify any of those games as new=)
Posted November 21, 2012
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granny: Not to mention that releasing DLCs instead of proper expansions for any game will actually put lot's of people off or very least make them wait for 'complete' release.
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Petrell: Fixed for u ;-p
Yeah, that too :-)
Posted November 21, 2012
Damn, I was hoping to see them dead. Now they are gonna release Company of Heroes 2 and they will come afloat once again.
Posted November 21, 2012
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keeveek: Damn, I was hoping to see them dead. Now they are gonna release Company of Heroes 2 and they will come afloat once again.
Not very nice for all the people who rely on THQ to pay their bills at the end of the month... Besides, THQ is probably not the best publisher out there but I don't see them as evil, not at all.
Posted November 21, 2012
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sebarnolds: The problem for their latest games is that they are all based on Steamworks or GFWL so a little bit of work is required (and, what about multiplayer then ?).
There are already a number of games on GOG which have defunct multiplayer functions, including several that make use of long-offline multiplayer services. 1nsane and Worms 2 come to mind straight away (although 1nsane can at least be played over a LAN).
Posted November 21, 2012
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sebarnolds: Not very nice for all the people who rely on THQ to pay their bills at the end of the month... Besides, THQ is probably not the best publisher out there but I don't see them as evil, not at all.
You know, thousands of people loose their job everyday. I wouldn't cry over few more, especially that they would probably find another job pretty quickly or found a new studio to make "indie" games or something.

But I agree with that THQ not being "evil" unlike "others", and I really enjoyed WH40K: DoW and COH too.

But it's better to see them and their franchises bought (although with WH40K wouldn't be that simple) than to see them struggle another 2-3 years and die anyway.

It's better to be bought than to end up like another Interplay, who destroyed and polluted almost everything they ever had (yeah, I really started to hate them after Black Isle is back stunt)
Posted November 21, 2012
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sebarnolds: Not very nice for all the people who rely on THQ to pay their bills at the end of the month... Besides, THQ is probably not the best publisher out there but I don't see them as evil, not at all.
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keeveek: You know, thousands of people loose their job everyday. I wouldn't cry over few more, especially that they would probably find another job pretty quickly or found a new studio to make "indie" games or something.

But I agree with that THQ not being "evil" unlike "others", and I really enjoyed WH40K: DoW and COH too.

But it's better to see them and their franchises bought (although with WH40K wouldn't be that simple) than to see them struggle another 2-3 years and die anyway.

It's better to be bought than to end up like another Interplay, who destroyed and polluted almost everything they ever had (yeah, I really started to hate them after Black Isle is back stunt)
Relic makes most of the 40K stuff. I'm pretty sure more 40K games will be produced, just not AAA ones. THQ is gonna die anyway-if WWE license can't save them, nothing can.
Posted November 21, 2012
I do think they will eventually die, but only because nothing they are doing is going to save them. They should be cutting back, lowering budgets and concentrating on making a profit, any kind of profit. Instead they keep rolling the dice on big budget "AAA" releases that need to sell way more than they will to break even.

I haven't seen a fundamental shift in the company's tactics that will change their course. They instead are doing the same shit and expecting a different result.

"Saint's Row 3 and Darksiders 2 will save us by selling 10 million copies!"

"Okay that didn't happen, but Saint's Row 4 and Metro Last Light will save us by selling 10 million copies!"
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Posted November 21, 2012
Again wonder what happened to Patrice Désilets, one of the creators of Assassin's Creed, he must be regretting joining THQ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_D%C3%A9silets
Posted November 21, 2012
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JMich: Still, does THQ have any game older than 2007? Where's Barry when you need a list damn it...
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Rodzaju: The first Dawn of War was 2004.
Winter Assault (The only non standalone expansion) was 2005.
These 2 here would be awesome!
Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal is 2002, and one I'd dearly like to have here. Impulse is such a turn-off.
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