I noticed that Samrost 3 was recently added to the upcoming games. Do we think that Amanita's going to do the big screw-you-switcheroo to GOG and its customers again, like it did for their last game's release?

Free on Steam the day after the GOG release.

I have no reason to believe that Amanita won't screw over GOG customers. Maybe they can prove me wrong.

I don't think they will. But I won't pre-order either.

I'm not all that excited about a third Samorost anyway, I'd have preferred something original and new like Machinarium and (even better) Botanicula.

It wasn't even the day after last time. The Humble Bundle that included Botanicula for 1 cent was released at the same time as Gog's full-price release. And you got a lot more stuff with the Humble Bundle / Steam release :|

It's Samorost 3 in fact :)
Love Amanita's games and hope that they don't screw release S3 on GoG in any way.

Amanita hates GOG. So they will screw GOG again. I can guarantee that.

But why?

seems it will be on 24th of March, which is today
19.99 game and 24.99 with extras, thats rather expensive :D list price, even almost 20 euros is expensive
theres no mention of any % off on steam so i am curious how it will deliver here.


Samorost 3

Available: 24 March
This game will unlock in approximately 4 hours

that would be 17:30 (european time)
or in am/pm time: 05:30 PM

(source: steam)

Just wait for Humble Samorost 3 Debut bundle

i'd love to, but i can only use paysafe so i stick with sites that allow paysafe.

Well, it was a joke that Amanita played on GOG when Botanicula was released.

I have no reason to believe that Amanita hates GOG or wants to screw it's customers or whatever. OK, noone can look away from what happened, the bundle was like a slap in the face for some people (those who preordered or instabought it on GOG) but I feel like it was the same way for Amanita Design guys to see people paying pennies for the bundle. I mean "that's what our games worth?" kind of thing...

To be honest (and if you want you can call me fanboy although this isn't the case here), Machinarium was the first digital game I bought (directly from their website) and it was absolutely worth it. It is a great work of art, I enjoyed it immensely and I would feel cheap if I bought that for literally a penny knowing that the dev won't get payed for their hard work. Even if it was offered for free, I would buy gift codes to show my support as I've done many times in the past for games that I really like.

Regarding Samorost 3, I've been waiting for it for a while as I enjoyed the previous two short games but I don't think I'll buy it soon. If it was cheaper I would but at that price is a no-no for me right now (plus I consider buying something rather expensive from the sale that I wanted to play for a long time).

So if it arrives here at 19.99 you will wait and not buy it ?
19.99 is a lot, i might spend that on a game, but that would have to be a game that i know how it plays, that no flashing effects are in the game, no zooming in/out rotating and more shits like that.
Okay the devs always say: its 2d game, but also in 2d games there can be lots of zooming in and out, and thats why playable demos are so valubale, this way you can see for yourself how a game plays, videos do not match playing a game yourself, i had some games that looked okay on youtube but when playing i got dizzy so i prefer a demo, not a silly video.
But 99% of the devs always claim that: after playing a demo chances will be big most of them wont be buying the game which is nonsense, in the beginning ( pentium 100hz and lower ones) i bought most full games because of a game i had playable (no rolling demo cause thats same like a video) demo of.

So its good that Nelly Cootalot had a playable demo, shard had a demo, underrail had a demo, and all the 80s game had demos, cause thats the way to promote a game, and not by letting welknown people talkabout it when they play the demo and tell stories so we go and buy them, i want to play myself, not another popular dude on youtube who is trying to winover more followers.

I'm gonna wait. :P That's too much money to pay for a game that I'm not sure yet if it's good. As I said, I'm supporting good games/ good devs but I'm not a fanboy in any way; I don't preorder stuff and rarely if ever make uninformed purchases. Even if the game proves to be great, it's still a lot of money so I'll wait for a discount.

And truth to be told, I thought it would cost the same as Machinarium or Botanicula - definitely not 19.99 or 24.99 for the deluxe edition.

same here, i love games thats why the nickname gamesfreak64 (other names were taken so i had to add numbers behind the letter k , till it worked back then)

Its 17.99 here so its 2 euros cheaper but still, if i had 2 bucks left on store credit i would have bought is: then it would be 15 euros.