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The chronicle of the Third Era is about to be revealed!

Age of Wonders 3, the long-anticipated continuation to the fan-favorite, award-winning strategy series, set in a robust and beautiful world that becomes the scene for diverse, complex, and engaging gameplay, is available for pre-orders on GOG.com. Depending on your location you'll be charged $39.99 or the USD equivalent of £29.99, or €39.99. An extended Age of Wonders 3 - Deluxe Edition, featuring a full soundtrack and the Dragon's Throne standalone scenario, is available for $44.99, £34.99, or €44.99. As a special pre-order bonus, both versions include the Elven Resurgence, a standalone scenario DLC.

Imagine! Empires rising and falling before your very eyes, led to victory or defeat by heroes of legend so powerful that they appear to be titans in the eyes of mortals. Sorcerers harness the arcane powers to bend the rules of the world around them. Theocrats twist the wills of their followers with the holy aura bestowed upon them by their deities for their zealous service. Rogues rule the shadows, taking any chance to strike and win before their foes even realize there is a war to fight. Warlords earn the loyalty of their legions by the glory gained in the many battles they emerged from, victorious. Archdruids become one with nature, and the land itself rushes to their aid. Dreadnoughts rely on the art of engineering to construct their unstoppable artificial armies. All those powers, all of their miraculous exploits, all of their desires, all thrown into one realm of war. This shall truly be an age of wonders!

With Age of Wonders 3, Triumph Studios aims to set new standards not only for the acclaimed Age of Wonders series, but also for the turn-based strategy genre itself. Taking advantage of all the modern gaming bells and whistles, the title will deliver an impressive level of complexity in gameplay and an immersive, lush, and diverse gameworld that can become your own for hundreds of hours. With the ability to choose one of the six leader classes, you'll be able to custom-tailor your empire--and by extension your experience with the game--to your personal gameplay style, so you can enjoy the extensive campaign the game offers in any way you like. You'll be leading into battle armies recruited from within six humanoid races as well as some fantastic creatures and mythical monsters. The turn-based tactical combat itself will prove to be a challenge for the most seasoned of strategy gamers but also scalable enough for beginners to enjoy. With over 50 location types to explore and exploit, hundreds of abilities to master for tactical and strategic advantage over your foes, visually stunning presentation, and a smart random scenario generator providing virtually limitless replayability, this upcoming title may prove the only turn-based strategy game you'll need for many years to come!

Pre-order Age of Wonders 3, for only $39.99 or the USD equivalent of £29.99, or €39.99 on GOG.com (or opt in for the splendid Age of Wonders 3 - Deluxe Edition), and secure your entry to the fantastic realm of power and dominion, which opens to all the brave souls approximately on March 31. Note that Age of Wonders 3 is the first title with regional pricing on GOG.com in quite some time and this means that we are charging the USD equivalents of the official regional price.

Note, that just as we have done before in such occasions, we'll be throwing in a little something extra to the deal, to accommodate those of you, who end up paying more than the others due to the currency conversion rates applied. We've picked some games that fit well with the genre represented by Age of Wonders III, and if you're one of those people, you'll get to pick one of them. You'll be sent a gift-code allowing you to redeem one of the following excellent titles: Master of Magic, Lords of Magic: Special Edition, Eador: Genesis, King’s Bounty: The Legend, Disciples II: Gold, and Etherlords II.
Somehow I think it won't be a bestseller here :)
Anyway, the only new games I'm working for are Blackwell Epiphany, , Samaritan Paradox, possibly The Lady and upcoming CDPR titles (but I'm prepared to wait for those).
And classics work as usual, so it's not that terrible for me. Still, Euro = Dollars is kind of shit.
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Piranjade: Yeah, the price for this game in Germany would have been € 55 whether it was published on GOG or not. The only difference is that I can now get it on GOG. Which I'll do sooner or later.
You must be the last person here to not import from Britain and not save about 40% on games? On top of the savings you even get uncensored games.
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Kazper: However, they do make it clear on the game's page before you buy what the "real" price in $ is. That's a lot more than any other company out there selling games, and it's what I define as transparent. I don't agree with doing it, but it's certainly transparent and upfront.
They only do it because they actually charge you in USD. Once they can accept payments in Euros that will probably be all we'll see.
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ShadowWulfe: So the price around everywhere seems to be bouncing around and slightly confusing.

Is it possible to have a representative from one of these regional price pushing corporations explain their reasoning behind it?

I would expect regional pricing to be pushed by American companies, but it's kind of odd to see it from not American companies punishing their own people. Is there a particular rational reason for this besides "I really don't like my dudes, they're all chumps and deserve it."

Since I've never seen a rational "this is why we're doing this" explanation, I kind of have to assume that that is the reasoning. Someone please do prove me wrong.

My current understanding is that there is some kind of monopoly style agreement among publishers to push this everywhere or else no deal, but what is their actual reasoning for doing that.

Also, I'm rambling a lot.
Easy, say, you want a game to be sold at 40$. Then you'll find out that's just 29€. You then presume that paying 40€ is for an European the same as an American paying 40$. So you charge the Europeans more. Think of it like a a shady corner market that has an owner that looks at his customers and if he sees a jew, he thinks that guy is rich and overcharges him. It's a mix between racism and greed that is thinly disguised by comparing it to physical retail products.
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mqstout: So, those of us who might (MIGHT) purchase later, we will be unable to get the full experience because of the "preorder DLC"? Thanks for helping to ruin gaming a little bit more, GOG.com.
I bet they will offer it as a separate DLC later .
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keeveek: Triumph studios... Why have you betrayed me with regional pricing... WHYYYYYYYYYY
You're TEARING ME APART, Triumph!
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Post edited February 25, 2014 by Novotnus
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Regional pricing, preorders, and DLC.

GoG is just turning into more-expensive-Steam-with-fewer-games.
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Piranjade: Yeah, the price for this game in Germany would have been € 55 whether it was published on GOG or not. The only difference is that I can now get it on GOG. Which I'll do sooner or later.
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jamotide: You must be the last person here to not import from Britain and not save about 40% on games? On top of the savings you even get uncensored games.
I don't think I have ever played a game apart from Command & Conquer that was censored, so I never gave getting an uncensored edition any thought.
And no, I don't import from Britain.
I get my physical games locally and my "incorporeal" games mostly from GOG. :-)
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zeffyr: And dear GOGers, remember: you're not obliged to buy every game released on GOG! So be kind and pass that, if you're not satisfied.
Remember you don't need to buy anything on GoG as long as they practice pricing like this on any titles. Also remember to tell about it to everyone and mention the up coming DRM.
Hm, I'm honestly surprised about this. If GOG is about to introduce such a delicate thing like regional pricing, they should make it with a real AAA bummer, not with such a niche product.
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Redfern: On other side, here in Russia prices is kinda low...
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wbrk: Well, that's interesting. It seems that according to GOG I'm not in Russia anymore, because I've got the same price as US ($44.99), and in recommended games list it says $54.99.
Looks like regional pricing is not working yet as intended.
Submit a support ticket. GOG doesn't pay attention to bug reports in the forums.
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Novotnus: Somehow I think it won't be a bestseller here :)
Anyway, the only new games I'm working for are Blackwell Epiphany, , Samaritan Paradox, possibly The Lady and upcoming CDPR titles (but I'm prepared to wait for those).
And classics work as usual, so it's not that terrible for me. Still, Euro = Dollars is kind of shit.
I expect gog to sell upcoming games also with regional pricing. And there is nothing that stops them from trying to do this with the old classics on this page as well.
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keeveek: Triumph studios... Why have you betrayed me with regional pricing... WHYYYYYYYYYY
Well, they offer you lower price thanks to regional pricing (even lower than US price) . I understand that people from Eurozone might be disappointed/angry, but I really care only about my own wallet.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by Aver
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Ekaros: mention the up coming DRM.
Source?
Oh people, stop raging and think for a while! It is just my speculation, but seems very legit to me:
It looks to me, that Valve's lawyers outsmarted all those projects on Kickstarter, who already signed contracts on Steam, forcing them to have regional pricing policy everywhere under heavy penalties...
But those projects also promised backers to release their games on GOG... And legal shit happened!
It happened to Humblebundle not a long time ago, it happened to Green Man Gaming at the beginning of February, now to GOG... All those distributors have to adapt regional pricing...
Of course GOG are fair enough and they don't want to blame anybody, yet they know there is big publisher who is willing to sign contracts with regional pricing... So they decided rather make fools and betrayers from themselves, knowing they can't do nothing about pricing now, and it would be difficult in the future too... but at least they can bring here bigger names now...

So if this speculation is true, then I am very sorry for Triumph, that they have this bad luck and they are first here! It could have been Larian with Divinity:OS, inXile with Wasteland 2 and many others...

I am very against regional pricing, but under this situation, there is probably no better way... Blame the fucking lawyers! :D

But I don't expect GOG staff can reveal the truth for us (because of penalties), so I'm not waiting for that promised PR from Guillame :D