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Posted December 19, 2014
Nordic In-n-Out: complete your Nordic Games catalog with titles like The Guild series, the Spellforce saga, and Black Mirror 1&2 up to 90% off!

How you like THEM apples?!! We teamed up with our friends at Nordic to bring back their games to GOG.com for one more brief but glorious stint. Their entire catalog will be available for purchase for the next 4 days and it's an offer you can't refuse. You can get all the great titles at individual discounts ranging from 75% to 85%, or you can complete your Nordic catalog with all the missing games at 90% off! Let's take a look at some of the highlights on offer.

The Spellforce series delivers an RTS/RPG mixture depicting a fantasy saga of epic proportions. With a vast realm to explore and conquer, a huge collection of story-driven scenarios, and many memorable character, this series is something that every strategy and RPG fan should try at least once, especially when it's 85% off.

Painkiller: Black Edition is everything you love about old-school first person perspective shooters delivered in a good-looking, demonic package. The protagonist of the game takes on the denizens of hell and delivers a royal whooping to the fallen angel host and their monstrous pets. With incredible weapon design, satisfying fast-paced gameplay, and hordes of foes to shred to pieces, this game will satisfy your need for ultimate badassdom.

And let's not forget about the one-two combo of the acclaimed Gothic series with Gothic 2 Gold Edition and Gothic 3 available 85% off. Prepare yourself for a long and enjoyable visit to the realm of Myrtana full of peril and mystery.

There are many more gems among the 35 titles included in the promo so make sure you head on to the promo page and pick your own Nordic notables. Make haste, the games will only be available for purchase for the next 96 hours! The offer lasts until Tuesday, December 23, at 10:59AM GMT.
Posted December 19, 2014
Well, this is odd...

Can we have Cryostasis back for weekend at some point?
Posted December 19, 2014
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JudasIscariot: The Guild 1 is worth a purchase. That goes for you too, Tallima :D
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Leroux: I don't doubt that it's a great game in its genre, but the sad thing is that the genre is my least favorite one, otherwise I'd have bought it a long time ago. I'm pretty sure that no matter how great it is, I would abandon it after a couple of hours at max, just because I'm really not into this type of gameplay. :(

But thanks for the suggestion!
I would suggest just playing a Thief as you can forego any of that building or business stuff :) There is really no strategy involved in the game in the classic strategy sense :) It's like a smaller version of Crusader Kings as you can have all kinds of intrigue, kidnapping, and more in the game but I understand this might not appeal to everyone :)
Posted December 19, 2014
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Austrobogulator: Well, this is odd...

Can we have Cryostasis back for weekend at some point?
Doubtful.
Posted December 19, 2014
Nice timing, GOG. ;P

Well, this is a pretty pickle. Games back and flat priced, but only for a limited time. Certainly gives one mixed feelings.

For now I've bought a single key containing every game that is scheduled to vanish again. Glad that you added individual redeem options to your keys. But really, I would like it much more if you just brought the games back for good.
Posted December 19, 2014
While, as someone else already pointed out, this is likely done just so some year-end sale targets will be met and definitely taking advantage of potential customers, it would be interesting in concept if done as a rule. As in, not have games that'd otherwise need to be regionally-priced here most of the time, but keep them in a sort of suspended state and every so often have them pop up for a flat-priced sale.
It'd be three birds with one stone:
- Return to core principles.
- Allow those who have GOG keys to redeem from other places (like Kickstarter) to do so immediately.
- Give people who want those games the option of buying them here within a reasonable amount of time. Not on launch day or whenever they want otherwise, but probably within a year, which is still way sooner than what you'd have had any reason or justification to expect or demand from GOG till recently.

So reasonably good thing in itself and may have gotten a few otherwise, BUT there are those regionally-priced games left in the catalog that ruin it all. As such, on the mix they go and no thank you.

(Admittedly, when I saw the title on the front page I automatically assumed they'd need to go on Sinistar's, followed by likely the entire rest of the GOG catalog over the next few weeks probably, if this would happen.)
Posted December 19, 2014
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Grargar: Honestly, there seems to be some strange glitch at work (ORLY Grargar?!). As Buenro-games mentioned above, if you try to buy all the games together, you get a 90% discount, even for Silver. I suppose you should be getting a higher discount the more games you have (the aforementioned 85%) or a lower one if you don't have any Nordic games at all (75%).
Well, the front page also mentions 90% off. It would appear that it's a stacking promo, and it just doesn't tell us or it doesn't know itself.
Posted December 19, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: That seems to be the case; even though my promo page states "85% OFF YOUR SELECTION", the checkout page for Silver says 75%.
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Grargar: Honestly, there seems to be some strange glitch at work (ORLY Grargar?!). As Buenro-games mentioned above, if you try to buy all the games together, you get a 90% discount, even for Silver. I suppose you should be getting a higher discount the more games you have (the aforementioned 85%) or a lower one if you don't have any Nordic games at all (75%).
This section of the OP might help resolve your confusion:
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GOG.com: You can get all the great titles at individual discounts ranging from 75% to 85%, or you can complete your Nordic catalog with all the missing games at 90% off!
Get everything you're missing at 90% off, or get a partial list with discounts on individual titles ranging from 75% - 85%.

The programmers might not have accounted for a range of individual discounts when setting up the webpage; it never occurred to me to look for that kind of thing during previous sales (have they done a mixed discount sale like this before?). I could easily see it displaying 85% as the discount because that's the first number to show up in the list (Spellforce), so it is what gets set in the discount variable.
Posted December 19, 2014
So they still can't solve the problem permanently ? There goes any chance of seeing Harbinger here :((
Posted December 19, 2014
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Bookwyrm627: snip
The confusion I'm getting isn't from the general promo, but from Silver. Is it discounted by 75% or 85%? If it's by 75%, then why does 85% appear on the promo page? If it's by 85%, then why does the discounted price ($1.49) appear as being affected by 75%? Add the no-discount glitch for me and this damn game can cause quite a bit of confusion.
Post edited December 19, 2014 by Grargar
Posted December 19, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: Well, the front page also mentions 90% off. It would appear that it's a stacking promo, and it just doesn't tell us or it doesn't know itself.
I don't think it's a stacking promo. Everything seems discounted but if you buy all at once then you get 90% off. I'm torn about getting everything or just the stuff that I really want. Especially since I bought most of the things I wanted in the first Nordic promo and now have the Spellforce games and The Guild (only 1st) to buy as a must have...
Posted December 19, 2014
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gixgox: A question about gift codes:
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Grargar: Only one code, but if you can trust the others, you can have them redeeming only specific games from the code.
Thanks for the answer, it's not so much a question of trust, I think it's a little bit awkward to give a b-day present with the words: here are some games, but you may only take these 2, the others are x-mas gifts for for my other friend.
Posted December 19, 2014
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Zoidberg: Even if the items I didn't have interested me I'm not too sure about "investing" in games that will not be supported by anyone.

Bleargh...
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JudasIscariot: We still offer support for all of our removed titles on a case-by-case basis :)
Even deliver the missing language packs?

Sorry, but I doubt it.
Posted December 19, 2014
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gixgox: A question about gift codes:
I want to buy the list with 90% off, but want to gift several games to different persons.
Will there be a code for each of the games or just one for all together?
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mobutu: Unfortunately, there'll be only one code containing all games bought
Thanks, I thought I had read somewhere in the past that they had changed that rule and give a separate code for each game.
Posted December 19, 2014
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Bookwyrm627: snip
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Grargar: The confusion I'm getting isn't from the general promo, but from Silver. Is it discounted by 75% or 85%? If it's by 75%, then why does 85% appear on the promo page? If it's by 85%, then why does the discounted price ($1.49) appear as being affected by 75%? Add the no-discount glitch for me and this damn game can cause quite a bit of confusion.
Silver, Black Mirror 1 and 2, Neighbours from Hell pack, Summoner, Nations Gold, Alien Nations, Panzer Elite and Chaser are 75%, Desperados 1 and 2 are 80%, rest are 85%, the entire pack is 90% when purchased in full. There is a glitch in the listed discount which says 85% for anything but the full pack regardless of what it actually is, but yeah...
Posted December 19, 2014
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viperfdl: Wow, I'm afraid to ask what you had to do to get those games back here...

;-p
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JudasIscariot: Nothing a properly fabricated casus belli can't solve >:D

Seriously though, we asked nicely. Amazing how that works sometimes :D
Hey, don't you have something more important to do, like flagging games as updated?
*nagnagnag*
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