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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.
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ssokolow: Here's a question for all the people defending the regional pricing because they want the selection it brings. How about if GOG were to open a sister site where all the regionally-priced games were instead? ...thus allowing them to preserve GOG's reputation and principles.

Would that be an acceptable compromise?
If the regional pricing becomes a trend here, sure. In the meantime a site for 1-3 games would be silly though.
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HypersomniacLive: So, who's feeling giddy with glee so far?
I'm woozy with weltschmerz, does that count?
Can an American buy the game and gift it to me? I'll pay you back with paypal? ...just kidding :D
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Phaidox: That's a pleasant surprise - for once, the tide of regional pricing seems to have turned in our favour.
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Darvond: Now take a look at Scandinavia.
I sympathise with everyone negatively affected by the introduction of the new pricing scheme , believe me.
And whon about your moto : "because 1 dollar is not 1 euro"? And yes, we're talking about only 3 games for now , but one of them is The Witcher 3 : YOUR game. So it is YOUR choice. Don't lie to us. We are all disapointed.
Wow, I thought there would be at least Grim Fandango.

I'm not buying this.

And sorry, I won't help anyone buy it, even though in Russia it costs $16.99 ($19.99 for the deluxe edition). I think that outright boycotting has a chance to work, to make GOG re-fire that dodgy guy from the rip-off video. Inter-regional gifting will eventually lead to regional locks, like on Steam, and that's worse than many kinds of DRM.
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HypersomniacLive: So, who's feeling giddy with glee so far?
I'm feeling giddy, but that's not glee about to come out of my mouth, especially since I just came back from reading the open letter.
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RS1978: In a way I'm glad that it's only AOW3. If it would have been The Witcher 3 or a similar title, I had to spent a lot of money this evening. So: Thanks, GOG, I'm grateful after all. :D
Unfortunately, it seems to be. :(
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Ganni1987: 1. GOG only mentioned these 3 games with regional pricing not the whole catalog.
That is not quite true. When asked the question "Can you promise that only new, big publisher releases of new games will be affected by regional stuff?", TET replied:
No, I can't; contracts come up for re-negotiation all the time, and when they do there's no telling what may happen. I can promise that we did not go into this change with the intent of re-pricing swathes of our catalog of classic games in a manner that's unfair to gamers around the world. I can promise you that we will strive our utmost to keep things fair for gamers everywhere in the world. But I'm not gonna make a promise on something like this and then find in 18 months or 2 years that things turned out differently than we had thought they would.
In other words, as time goes by and contracts come up for renegotiation, it is entirely possible that the entire catalog will eventually be regionally priced.
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RS1978: In a way I'm glad that it's only AOW3. If it would have been The Witcher 3 or a similar title, I had to spent a lot of money this evening. So: Thanks, GOG, I'm grateful after all. :D
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Grargar: Unfortunately, it seems to be. :(
Yes, but not in the moment, so I can save a little more money for the great day. ;)
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Phc7006: So basically, the task you've been assigned tonight is this :
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JudasIscariot: Again, as I've said: no one assigned me to anything.
quick question are these DRM versions a GOG exclusive?
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JudasIscariot: Again, as I've said: no one assigned me to anything.
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Niggles: quick question are these DRM versions a GOG exclusive?
We don't carry DRM versions :)

edit: that being said, as far as I know the DRM free version is exclusive to GOG.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by JudasIscariot
All the dram aside, I hate being the dev that has just released its game on gog for pre order. Imagine them reading the forums :p Bad timing is bad.
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ssokolow: Here's a question for all the people defending the regional pricing because they want the selection it brings. How about if GOG were to open a sister site where all the regionally-priced games were instead? ...thus allowing them to preserve GOG's reputation and principles.

Would that be an acceptable compromise?
As long as the new policy doesn't directly affect the existing ( old ) games, I don't see why it's necessary? If and when that should happen... Yeah, that's the point when everyone should reach for the torches and pitchforks. :D

Also, I'm actually positively surprised, that while some countries ended up with high prices, at least some ( such as Russia ) apparently get the game at a very reasonable price. Most likely cheaper than it would have been for them with a global flat price. Not to mention that it likely wouldn't have been available here at all, otherwise. So it's kind of selfish to consider this an entirely bad thing, since at least some of the users gain something from this new policy.

So yeah, if some of you don't like the game, or you're pissed about the price in your area, at least try to feel a wee bit happy for those who ended up with a good deal because of the new pricing policy. ( I admit it's easy for me to do that, since I'm not interested in this particular game... But still. :P )
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Niggles: quick question are these DRM versions a GOG exclusive?
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JudasIscariot: We don't carry DRM versions :)
You could have answered the question he clearly intended to ask...