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Posted January 29, 2010
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Arteveld: From the gamezebo interview:
Besides Gabriel Knight and Arcanum, can you give us a heads-up on other titles we'll see down the road?
It would not be exciting at all if I would list all the titles here. Let me just say, that we have some really good stuff coming. Something for the RPG fans, quite a lot for the adventure lovers, some strategy games and ... oops ... I am really saying too much.
Now, i see Betrayal At Krondor and the Quest series, which will all end up on my gog-shelf, but what's the strategy, i've got to admit, i never really followed the genre. So, am, what's are Your bets? I'd say Homeworld, but someone wrote somewhere that the rights are not in Activision's hands.

:( I'm mostly looking forward to the Homeworld series, but there are a lot of others I might enjoy too.
Posted January 29, 2010
Great interviews! Liked the most the one where Iwi speaks about how they started..by meeting in classroom : ). If I have one favourite gaming company, CDP it is. Can't wait for more games, whole GK trilogy and Witcher 2 too!
Posted January 29, 2010
Outpost 2 maybe? It was a nice strategy game (Unlike it's predecessor)
Posted January 29, 2010
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taczillabr: I've never played the first Caesar, so I would like to play all the games and their respective expansions. Even Caesar IV, if possible to have on GOG. :)

I recall the first Caesar game was released as freeware... but I see no mentioing of it on its Wiki page. Maybe they revoked it, as it was done to some other titles, or the authors of the page didn't know about it in the first place. Anyway, if you search for Caesar and Freeware with Google, you'll find it.
Posted January 29, 2010
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DrIstvaan: I recall the first Caesar game was released as freeware... but I see no mentioing of it on its Wiki page. Maybe they revoked it, as it was done to some other titles, or the authors of the page didn't know about it in the first place. Anyway, if you search for Caesar and Freeware with Google, you'll find it.

Thanks.
Still, having the first bundled with Caesar II and III here would be great (if it is allowed legally to put a freeware with the 2 others, or be it alone like it's done with BaSS here, it is). :)
Posted January 29, 2010
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Kakihara: "Some 3 year old games deserve more than 10 dollars."
No. No, they really do not.
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Weclock: Yes, yes they are.

What 3 year old game is not only worth more than 10 dollars but also wouldn't be priced down to 10 dollars or less in the 3 years after its release?
Posted January 29, 2010
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Kakihara: What 3 year old game is not only worth more than 10 dollars but also wouldn't be priced down to 10 dollars or less in the 3 years after its release?

Call Of Duty: World At War, apparently. Also, CoD:MW (4)
Post edited January 29, 2010 by Weclock
Posted January 29, 2010
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Kakihara: What 3 year old game is not only worth more than 10 dollars but also wouldn't be priced down to 10 dollars or less in the 3 years after its release?
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Weclock:

Those games don't seem worth breaking your initial promises (or at least ideas) for. At all. GOG has said in many interviews that they never want to stray from they're original ideas and concepts for the site. If they bow down to Activision and increase the prices for these games they'll just become every other digital distrubtion site with added old games.
It's not like these two games need any optimization to run on windows. Not only that but they are riddled with various forms of DRM which Activision will surely not let GOG remove.
So my point still stands.
Posted January 29, 2010
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Kakihara: Those games don't seem worth breaking your initial promises (or at least ideas) for. At all. GOG has said in many interviews that they never want to stray from they're original ideas and concepts for the site. If they bow down to Activision and increase the prices for these games they'll just become every other digital distrubtion site with added old games.
It's not like these two games need any optimization to run on windows. Not only that but they are riddled with various forms of DRM which Activision will surely not let GOG remove.
So my point still stands.

How is it breaking a promise to sell them at $20? (btw that's half the price of CoD:4)
And you are not in any position to determine whether or not Activision would be willing to sell them DRM free, they're obviously here already, why not?
GOG is about good old games for cheap. $20 is cheap.
And what you deem as these games not being worth being on GOG, they still sell VERY well which is why Activision keeps the prices so high at the moment. It would be huge if Activision started selling them here at reduced price points and DRM free.
Post edited January 29, 2010 by Weclock
Posted January 29, 2010
I don't know why you'd think that some game who's price has been artificially kept high for three years (I cannot think of a single other publisher who's done something like this) is a good catch for 20 bucks.
But I see you've already made a thread about this very subject, good call. I'll take this over there.
Posted January 29, 2010
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DrIstvaan: I sure hope they are the old Impression city-building games! (Caesar II-III, Pharaoh+Cleopatra, Zeus+Poseidon).
Emperor ?
Posted January 29, 2010
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DrIstvaan: I sure hope they are the old Impression city-building games! (Caesar II-III, Pharaoh+Cleopatra, Zeus+Poseidon).
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lackoo1111: Emperor ?

Of course ;-).
It's just that I've never played that myself, thus I forgot about it. But indeed, it'd be neat to have that, too.
Posted January 29, 2010
I am really looking for MissionForce: Cyberstorm 1 and 2, and I hope they come out. I can wait, just don't forget them all together.
Posted January 29, 2010
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Kakihara: What 3 year old game is not only worth more than 10 dollars but also wouldn't be priced down to 10 dollars or less in the 3 years after its release?
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Weclock: Call Of Duty: World At War, apparently. Also, CoD:MW (4)

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Released 05 Nov 2007
Call of Duty: World at War
Released 06 Nov 2008
Try again in a year or two.
Posted January 29, 2010
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DrIstvaan: I sure hope they are the old Impression city-building games! (Caesar II-III, Pharaoh+Cleopatra, Zeus+Poseidon).
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taczillabr: I may help you posting my hopes, too!
I've never played the first Caesar, so I would like to play all the games and their respective expansions. Even Caesar IV, if possible to have on GOG. :)

Caesar IV and Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile are better left forgotten
The others, including Emperor, are instabuys as far as I'm concerned.
Post edited January 29, 2010 by Miaghstir
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