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Posted October 10, 2012
Pay what you want, grab up to 3 excellent RPGs, support Larian Studios!

Quick summary:
1. Set your own fair price.
2. Get up to 3 Divinity Games, including Divinity II: Developer's Cut.
3. Own some of the games? No problem--you'll get the gift codes to give to friends.
4. Bonus for you:
* enjoy exclusive access to Divinity II: Developer's Cut one day before the release
* tons of goodies for all the games
* unlock special videos from Larian Studios

RPG fans, promo hunters, dev supporters! For the next 7 days GOG.com gives you a chance to put three wonderful role-playing games on your shelf, puts you in control over their price, and offers you an opportunity to support the games' hard working and talented developers: Larian Games. Proudly introducing: [url=http://www.gog.com/divinity]GOG Pay What You Want: Divinity Anthology! The "Pay What You Want" can be purchased from GOG.com starting now until 01:00 AM GMT on the 18th of October, 2012.

Set your own fair price for the classic Divine Divinity, where you become the chosen one, destined to fulfil an ancient prophecy and save the Seven Races of Rivellon. In this extensive, challenging, and very addictive game you will encounter many different enemies and a great variety of items, NPCs, and quests.

Beat the average price and receive your copy of Beyond Divinity, the creative continuation of the series, featuring an immersive story of the divine and the daemonic, challenging gameplay with two characters to control at the same time and a huge universe to explore and exploit.

The top 10% of our most generous users will also grant themselves an early access to the upcoming Divinity 2: Developer's Cut.The Developer's Cut, which is the ultimate edition of the game, comes with Divinity II and the expansion Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance, as well as a special developer's mode and extra goodies, will be available on PC on the 18th of October, 2012, but if you buy it here you will get to play it a day earlier than everyone else! The "Director's Cut" subtitle also means, that you'll have the unique opportunity to experience the game just as the developers did: with optional access to developer console you'll feel like the god of the realm.

But that's not all! All of the games come with an extensive amount of goodies--especially Divinity 2: Developer's Cut features a crazy amount of bonus materials (all of which you can access as soon as you finalize your purchase). To make things even more interesting, Larian Games told us that as the sales progress, they will be releasing some very special announcements and interesting videos. Heard enough? Go to the GOG Pay What You Want: Divinity Anthology page!
Post edited October 10, 2012 by G-Doc
Posted October 11, 2012
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Bloodygoodgames: Steam will always undercut because they can and because they're damned and determined to be a monopoly, and gamers who should know better but don't will keep buying everything on Steam "because it's cheap" until there are no other choices left.
This; it's the same strategy that J. D. Rockefeller used to establish his monopoly of the fuel industry. And if people keep buying into it, it'll likely be just as detrimental to gaming...
Posted October 11, 2012
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Bloodygoodgames: Steam will always undercut because they can and because they're damned and determined to be a monopoly, and gamers who should know better but don't will keep buying everything on Steam "because it's cheap" until there are no other choices left.
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MarioFanaticXV: This; it's the same strategy that J. D. Rockefeller used to establish his monopoly of the fuel industry. And if people keep buying into it, it'll likely be just as detrimental to gaming...
you both do know that steam can not do any sales without distributors approval...
Posted October 11, 2012
Well no matter how hard Steam tried, they couldn't beat the deal I got from GOG. Because I came early, I was able to get Divinity 2 at $10, while on Steam it would cost 10 euros for me.

Tough luck, Steam. ;)
Posted October 11, 2012
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MichiGen: I feel sorry for everyone who'll buy the old Divinity 2:DKS on STEAM right now, when enhanced Divinity 2: Developer's Cut with goodies is right around the corner.
I saw on their forums that Larian is working to get all of that to the Steam versions. And sadly, there isn't that big of a difference besides the Developer's Mode.
Posted October 11, 2012
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Bloodygoodgames: Steam will always undercut because they can and because they're damned and determined to be a monopoly, and gamers who should know better but don't will keep buying everything on Steam "because it's cheap" until there are no other choices left.
Then they'll all be bitching because "Steam won't play fair".
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MarioFanaticXV: This; it's the same strategy that J. D. Rockefeller used to establish his monopoly of the fuel industry.
And if people keep buying into it, it'll likely be just as detrimental to gaming...
Yeap, i agree 100%, it's just astonishing how the "gamers" are so blind realizing how bad steam is for the gaming industry.
They just fail to see the big picture and when it'll happen (unfortunately it's just a matter of time) it'll be too late, steam will do whatever the heck they want pissing on them.
Post edited October 11, 2012 by mobutu
Posted October 11, 2012
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amok: you both do know that steam can not do any sales without distributors approval...
Focus Home is the publisher for the Steam version. Pretty sure it's them who gets to decide on Steam sales.
Posted October 11, 2012
I see DD and BD were updated with a patch and language packs. Thank you!

edit: though I didn't get the little notification that says the game was updated, other gamers who already installed the game might not notice these new additions.
Post edited October 11, 2012 by grumblycakes
Posted October 11, 2012
I just threw my few (hundreds) pennies to support Larian. Now I am stuck with gift copy of Divine Divinity. Anyone interested?
Posted October 11, 2012
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Nettle: I just threw my few (hundreds) pennies to support Larian. Now I am stuck with gift copy of Divine Divinity. Anyone interested?
A few people in the gifting thread requested it...
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/the_gog_community_gifting_thread
Posted October 11, 2012
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Nettle: I just threw my few (hundreds) pennies to support Larian. Now I am stuck with gift copy of Divine Divinity. Anyone interested?
I have DD, but I'm going to buy the bundle. I'll gift the code a week or so later, for the people who didn't notice the sale. Gifting a code which cost a buck now makes me fell a bit low.
Posted October 11, 2012
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Nettle: I just threw my few (hundreds) pennies to support Larian. Now I am stuck with gift copy of Divine Divinity. Anyone interested?
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ISC: I have DD, but I'm going to buy the bundle. I'll gift the code a week or so later, for the people who didn't notice the sale. Gifting a code which cost a buck now makes me fell a bit low.
theres nothing low about that :)
its good of you. it can be tricky for some to buy games even at that price.
giving the gift of a big RPG is a fine thing, feel good about it. your one of the people that make this forum a great place to be.
Posted October 11, 2012
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Bloodygoodgames: The rules of the promo are clearly explained, and anyone who has ever participated in buying a bundle knows they go up and then they go down. It's like bitching about playing the slots and losing a hundred bucks, then blaming the casino.
Nice try with the righteous lecturing, but I've bought almost every Humble Bundle, Indie Gala, Indie Royale, Facekick, Game Music bundle, and a few others that popped up randomly by various game distributors. I'm well used to how bundles work and it's nothing like this. In a couple of dozen bundles, I've never seen one start at a high price that's almost cut in half overnight, penalizing early buyers (usually, early buyers are rewarded, not punished). Neither have I ever seen a bundle get undercut by a commercial distributor. In fact, I've seen distributors BUY batches of bundles to resell them at a profit.

So feel free to be happy with YOUR purchase, but I have every right to be disgruntled with the way this has been done. I funnel my business to those companies that give good service -- which has previously been the case with GOG, and why I own close to 200 games on GOG -- but I don't feel well served at all by this mangled attempt at entering the world of bundles. If, and it's a big "if", I ever buy a bundle from GOG again, you can bet I won't be one of the early suckers who are rewarded for their support by having LESS choice than the latecomers.
Posted October 11, 2012
I see a lot of people are bitching about this offer, and seem to be forgetting the point of all this. It is about being able to set your own fair price for a game - that game being Divine Divinity. The rest are all added extras - if you are looking at this deal to get Beyond Divinity or Divine Divinity II, then you have missed the point completely. I bought this for $19.99 - a fair price for me, that was $2 OVER the top selling price at the time. It is now some $5 over the top price. However, since I believe $19.99 is a fair price, I don't care that it's this much over. Setting a fair price isn't about paying as little as you can, because this is devaluing the work of the developers. As a games designer myself, I want to be valued for my work, not have people wait until they can get my games for $0.01, because this is a good way to make sure that I go out of business. $19.99 was the equivalent of buying Divine Divinity as a brand new game - this is how this deal should be looked at. The main issue with the deal is that it is falsely advertised and that brings along dissatisfaction - people are coming expecting a deal on Divine Divinity II, not Divine Divinity. It may have worked better if the deal had Divine Divinity II as the PWYW option, and thrown in Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity as the optional extras. However, that is NOT the deal, and you are missing the point if this is what you are expecting. GOG may have not made the best move here, but it IS a step in the right direction, and maybe the feedback will have them change this format for future deals, so that the newest title gets the offer, rather than the earlier ones.
Posted October 11, 2012
This is a great idea! Many of the games i buy here i already bought years ago Like Untima .I bought that game years ago Many many years ago.So the Devs have already been payed.This is more for the hard work GoG puts in making the game usable again.As for steam i use steam and i like the the way it works and i feel it is a good service.
Posted October 11, 2012
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puviani: In a couple of dozen bundles, I've never seen one start at a high price that's almost cut in half overnight, penalizing early buyers (usually, early buyers are rewarded, not punished).
From what I've been hearing, the bundle actually started at a much lower price ($10), but was cranked up almost immediately by some truly extravagant payments by a few hardcore fans wanting to support the devs. (I've heard that one person chose to pay $1000.00.) So to most of us who turned up a few hours later, it "looked" like the bundle started at $20+.

I don't know how much of that is rumour, but if true, then the wonky price behaviour of this bundle can hardly be blamed on GOG.
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