Bah. The only game that interests me in the D2D sale is not available =(
This product is available for purchase worldwide excluding China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Ah well, just have to wait and see if it ever gets a sale on GamersGate as I can buy it from there.

You can. I gifted a game for a friend in China through Impulse.

Because it's broken. The AI won't use many of the features of the new game, the AI can't differentiate logic for wars, they end up crippled within a few years of playing.

That's not even mentioning due to cascading alliances you have to walk on eggshells constantly as a little border skirmish turns into a World War. The three main factions/functions they spent the most time on (Japan, China & Hordes), either aren't fun or do not work very well. And then there's little things they broke in the game like enemy transports being able to land troops on land despite being attacked, and the overall speed of naval battles.

Divine Wind will eventually be great, but it's going to take a long, long time to do so. This is after extensive patching.

If you buy on Steam, you cannot revert to an older EU3 verison. At all. Once you buy Divine Wind, you are stuck with Divine Wind. If GamersGate allows you to individually install the expansions so you can revert to HTTT when needed, then I recommend heartily. But I'm not going to sit here and recommend an expansion for a great game that breaks many aspects of the game.

Edit: They put out a new Beta patch for Divine Wind two days ago. I have not tried it. Looks like they addressed the AI infrastructure issues. Hopefully the game has been improved, I'll try it out soon.

GFWL is not supported in China, but I registered games successfully with no problem (Bioshck, Batman AA, Dirt2 so far)

I hope my experience helps!

It works like a charm :) Took me some time to figure out how to add the DLCs, but they are downloading too. :)

I saw DS2 at $14.99 in China too.

And I don't see a point alowing Turkey in EU because Turkey is not in Europe ffs... If we allow someone in EU that should be China :D

I think China should let EU be part of China ^^

Most of Turkish ppl including me don't care anyway, only the government wants it. The only advantage for me would be to travel EU countries without getting visa, I needed to go Italian embassy for 3 times to be able to get a visa (for only 5 days :p).

Though only Istanbul (which is half European) itself is bigger than most of EU counties fyi :)

Yes they will say ''you must be part of china union'' :))))

in this time Who wants to be part of the European Union, the European economy has burst, still continues to crumble

I don't like them or dislike them, but I do recommend against using them for the moment as they currently have some security issues. Actually, they've had security issues for over six months now, and still not fixed them (I've checked again today).

Their reaction to these issues being exploited is to entirely block access to their website. UK users have been affected (I imagine they were in the IP range that was blocked) and had their comments at GMG deleted. Taiwan and China have been blocked entirely. No warning, no "please use your account credit as we are blocking you region next week", not even a "You may have noticed that we've been blocking you for the past six months and we do apologise" - just a blanket block. I can't access my account or change my account details, I can't see their site or use my account credit.

So they're not secure and they're also rather lacking in customer service. I recommend using them for Steam keys, but make sure you don't store any payment details with them, and use an entirely unique password for their site. Luckily for us, GMG are rather lacking in decent deals generally (FEAR3 is the only one that stands out in my memory), so we don't generally need to risk using them. :)

Also note that occasionally their customer service agent pops up on forums to weigh in on this issue and remind us how great GMG are without mentioning that he's employed by GMG (possibly an oversight on his part rather than intentional deception).

Hopefully they'll get their issues sorted soon!

Nah, American McGee, et al outsourced all the coding to China. I don't think there'll be any patch. They're aware of the issue, but the coders are a continent away and apparently not really too interested in patching the game, so yeah, you pretty much have to fix it yourself.

LOL, blame the publisher, the troika excuse. The bugs aren't the publisher's fault. AM is practically part of EA anyway.

You should have seen Bad Day in LA, McGee's first attempt to offshore the coding of an entire game. Dear God, just atrocious.
The umbrella glitch (they actually bound 2 keys to one button or something similarly insane) affected most users, along with the giant glitch (I think they left out a semi-colon or a curly brace or something). Maybe they finally patched it. I wouldn't hold my breath though. Equally likely, you just might not have been affected.

Did you beat the 3 headed fiend with clockwork bombs or reflected projectiles (via umbrella)? Technically, you can beat them without the umbrella, it just takes a while.

The game had a bunch of other weird bugs too, including invincible enemies and player character, etc.

Controller mapping also had some kind of minor problem that I can't remember.
Gold Box sale tomorrow...

Have 6 of them tied to 6 different bank accounts with 6 different banks (in this day and age with how much you can't trust banks, it's best to have your money spread around I say :), but I may only 1 one about once a year?

Honestly, in Bangkok, there are 5 ATMs on every street corner so it's easy to get cash and, unlike America where banks rip you off with fees if you use an ATM that doesn't belong to your bank, here in Thailand if you use another bank's ATM the fees are 3 baht (about 9 cents! :).

I definitely have my complaints about Thailand :), but Thai banks aren't one of them. They're AWESOME.

In Thailand, you can pay all your bills at an ATM machine (electricity, phone, cable, satellite, internet etc) and, if I buy something like airline tickets, I send an email to my travel agent, she sends me quotes, I compare them with prices I see online, choose the cheapest one and she reserves the flight for me for 24 hours. Then I walk half a block to the ATM and I pay her by transferring cash from my bank account to hers.. (Most people in Thailand pay things like flights with direct transfers from their bank account to the travel agency's). Whole thing takes about 30 minutes and I have my flight. No fees, no credit card interest etc.

I've been in Thailand for 10 years and never needed a credit card. I use PayPal for online stuff but, as most things are cheaper in Thailand than what I can buy online, other than games I rarely buy anything else.

Being debt-free, though, life is easy. Plus, as a friend of mine once drummed into my head, when you are debt-free you have FAR more choices. I can pick up and move to Spain next month, take a week's vacation in Malaysia, or go to China tomorrow if I want to. I have money to do all of these things and more. Which was an impossibility when I used to be in debt. Just paying the bills was a freakin' headace :)
Dude, learn to read.

As I said, I hate PayPal, but when 60 percent of my income is paid by clients who will ONLY pay thru PP, I unfortunately have no choice.

You pick your battles. Sorry if my refusal to use Amazon pisses you off. But, frankly, I really don't give a shit.
Wow, you're really brainwashed by the US government aren't you? "Could be construed as treasonous? ROFTL.

Right. When was the act of publishing the truth about the internationally illegal acts a government has carried out 'treasonous'? Oh yeah. When the US government doesn't want the rest of the world to know what murdering scumbags they are. (The video of the US military murdering journalists in Iraq would never have come out without WikiLeaks. A massive embarrassment to the US, as it should have been).

Titan Quest Gold Edition is 80% off at gamersgate (1.99 € / 3.99 $). I highly recommend it for fans of Diablo 2; it's basically a clone of Diablo 2's gameplay, with better graphics, set in the mythological world of ancient Greece, Egypt, Babylon, and China.

Many other games are also on offer, as mshashankr has already mentioned above. It seems that the GamersGate summer sales are finally starting. :)

$3.99 is so tempting. I was really hoping for GOG to bring it here... but GG's price is superb. Dilemma, dilemma,