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Posted March 27, 2009
Good deal on steam but I will be buying mine next week from GOG.Nice installers with no DRM.
Posted March 27, 2009
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figgymanna: Good deal on steam but I will be buying mine next week from GOG.Nice installers with no DRM.
yeah, I'm getting the ghost recon pack from steam (no such pack exists on GOG) but if I choose to get any others (maybe that magic one) I'm getting it from GOG. :D
That steam pack is useless to me because I have BGAE from GOG.. As much as I like having two copies of multiplayer games, BGAE is not a multiplayer game.
Posted March 27, 2009
Was about to start a thread when I saw the sale but since I never posted before, I couldn't really find what to say (english is not my first language) and I had to leave for lunch I thought I would just post when someone had created it.
I can say that I share the general feeling of everyone here, I think Nafe expressed just what I felt when I saw the news and what my brother said when I told him about it.
It just feels wrong, I want to support GoG but the price is too good to pass. It's the end of the month and I had been expending too much money on games so I decided to wait for Steam's and Ubisoft's weekend deal to decide between it and a game in GoG.
I don't know if Valve or Ubisoft is responsible but I have to say that it wasn't really fair, specially if the one responsible is Ubisoft, what I suspect since it's an Ubisoft week thingy.
The good thing is that the deal doesn't includes PoP: ST and that I will be able to buy it here as soon as the next month starts, and that I am also waiting for HoMM and the sequels? At least HoMM 2 and 3? Please?
Posted March 27, 2009
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Alhazred: I don't know if Valve or Ubisoft is responsible but I have to say that it wasn't really fair, specially if the one responsible is Ubisoft, what I suspect since it's an Ubisoft week thingy.

i think it is ubisoft. they must have decided the steam weekend deal a couple of days ago at least, and they're the ones who released the same games yesterday on gog. i'm not buying the conspiracy theory but i will say that the timing is very curious.
another thing i would say is that even though it's cheaper on steam, 9.99$ for bg&e is not a ripoff for the gog customers. and from reading reviews, the same seems to hold true for il2.
Post edited March 27, 2009 by spindoctor
Posted March 27, 2009
GOG still has their own weekend promo, considering Ubi was a major deal and it's their 100th game milestone...
Posted March 27, 2009
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Alhazred: Was about to start a thread when I saw the sale but since I never posted before, I couldn't really find what to say (english is not my first language) and I had to leave for lunch I thought I would just post when someone had created it.
I can say that I share the general feeling of everyone here, I think Nafe expressed just what I felt when I saw the news and what my brother said when I told him about it.
It just feels wrong, I want to support GoG but the price is too good to pass. It's the end of the month and I had been expending too much money on games so I decided to wait for Steam's and Ubisoft's weekend deal to decide between it and a game in GoG.
I don't know if Valve or Ubisoft is responsible but I have to say that it wasn't really fair, specially if the one responsible is Ubisoft, what I suspect since it's an Ubisoft week thingy.
The good thing is that the deal doesn't includes PoP: ST and that I will be able to buy it here as soon as the next month starts, and that I am also waiting for HoMM and the sequels? At least HoMM 2 and 3? Please?
With GOG you get more than the game though, you get sound tracks, art work, special info from the developer.. any product that is on GOG is far superior than it's steam bretheren because of this.
Posted March 27, 2009
I doubt this Steam deal was an off-the-cuff thing. It was probably planned/in the works for some time and the timing of it is just an unfortunate coincidence. Not really an intended (or unintended) stab in the back at GoG by Ubisoft.
It's a sweet deal on Steam to be sure but, as others have noted, there are advantages to the GoG versions of these games. I can install my GoG version wherever I want on whatever rig I happen to be using and I don't have to rely on the Steam client? IMO the no-DRM aspect is (as JudsIscariot put it) priceless.
Post edited March 27, 2009 by Coelocanth
Posted March 27, 2009
I feel now like treacherous bastard.
Ill make up for that I promise.
Posted March 27, 2009
By the way, I'm really disappointed with steam weekend deal. I already got BG&E and Dark Messiah, and I'm getting IL-2 from GOG so... I don't know, I was expecting something really huge from Steam. What a letdown.
Posted March 27, 2009
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lukaszthegreat: I feel now like treacherous bastard.
Ill make up for that I promise.
you failed to buy the superior versions, because the superior versions are the GOG.com ones because of the extras. you have failed so very hard.
Posted March 27, 2009
This is why I personally feel GOG should focus more on older and/or somewhat unknown games. When they release these relatively new games (note: I'm NOT trying to start the "how old is old"-debate again), they will run into more and more situations like this, where they end up in direct competition with much bigger players who also sell these games.
What GOG should focus on, to avoid situations like this, is to release games that aren't found anywhere else. As long as they do that, they're in their own niche where they have almost total control.
Posted March 27, 2009
Bah don't care, I rather pay more to have DRM-free stuff, heck I even bought Prince of Persia from GoG even thought I already owned three copy of the game and the GoG one is actually the only one I paid for (Got the others free)
Posted March 27, 2009
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Alhazred: Was about to start a thread when I saw the sale but since I never posted before, I couldn't really find what to say (english is not my first language) and I had to leave for lunch I thought I would just post when someone had created it.
I can say that I share the general feeling of everyone here, I think Nafe expressed just what I felt when I saw the news and what my brother said when I told him about it.
It just feels wrong, I want to support GoG but the price is too good to pass. It's the end of the month and I had been expending too much money on games so I decided to wait for Steam's and Ubisoft's weekend deal to decide between it and a game in GoG.
I don't know if Valve or Ubisoft is responsible but I have to say that it wasn't really fair, specially if the one responsible is Ubisoft, what I suspect since it's an Ubisoft week thingy.
The good thing is that the deal doesn't includes PoP: ST and that I will be able to buy it here as soon as the next month starts, and that I am also waiting for HoMM and the sequels? At least HoMM 2 and 3? Please?
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Weclock: With GOG you get more than the game though, you get sound tracks, art work, special info from the developer.. any product that is on GOG is far superior than it's steam bretheren because of this.

Plus, and this is the biggest advantage imo, you get GOG's service. They are smaller and much more attentive, and they have do things like post fixes to known game issues and other thoughtful stuff
Posted March 27, 2009
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cogadh: Source?
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danly: If you're willing to dig through a mega-thread, I believe it came up in here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=671689
Gabe infers it in the Holiday sale interview on G4TV:
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693342/Live-Blog-DICE-2009-Keynote---Gabe-Newell-Valve-Software.html#readmore
"From a business perspective, developers and publishers want piracy protection, keeping customers current with the latest version, direct communication to customers for marketing and promotion, instant sales and promotional performance data, and being able to take advantage of new business models like DLC, subscriptions, and micro-transactions."
http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/publishingservices.php
From my experience, there's no way in hell a publisher would not demand to set the initial price point for their games. They do it at brick-and-mortar shops, it follows they'd demand to do it with Steam.

I'll dig through it later (painting my house right now, don't have the time), however, I feel I should point out that in brick and mortar stores, publishers do set the initial retail price, but special sale/deal prices are always determined by the store only (except in certain circumstances). I see no reason why Steam would be any different in this respect, but, I suppose anything is possible at this point.
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Gaph: GOG still has their own weekend promo, considering Ubi was a major deal and it's their 100th game milestone...

They won't hit the 100 game mark until after next week's releases, to late to compete with this weekend's Steam sale.
Post edited March 27, 2009 by cogadh
Posted March 27, 2009
This really is a dick move, Ubisoft. Boo.
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