[morningbus]

Too bad they don't have Arma 2 on the store. Who will be the first to capitalize on the popularity of the DayZ mod?

[Sunflower]

Too bad they don't have Arma 2 on the store. Who will be the first to capitalize on the popularity of the DayZ mod?

Already done, not many fence-sitters need Arma 2. We're happy to spend full price for a real experience. The $10 casuals have no place in Arma 2!

[Archie]

Too bad they don't have Arma 2 on the store. Who will be the first to capitalize on the popularity of the DayZ mod?

Valve. Arma 2 is the top selling game on Steam.

[morningbus]

Valve. Arma 2 is the top selling game on Steam.

Yes, but it could do more. I know 5 people just waiting for any kind of Arma 2 sale just to give DayZ a try.

[SparkTR]

Is ARMA worth $4? Sale price.

Not in a world with ArmA 2. I remember the original being disappointing.

[mclem]

One oldie, one newie, one indie preorder...ie.

Torin's Passage ($5.99)
Far Cry 2 ($9.99)
Resonance ($8.99 preorder)

[Lissar]

Torin's Passage! I have a physical copy, but I'll probably buy this too. I wonder how they managed to pry open Activision's vaults. Well, I'm glad they did.

[mclem]

Torin's Passage! I have a physical copy, but I'll probably buy this too. I wonder how they managed to pry open Activision's vaults. Well, I'm glad they did.

Given this and QFG last week, it looks like they're going through a second wave of Sierra stuff. I wonder if the wry aside in the news post for this release:

Even though Torin’s Passage was created by a Al Lowe, famous for King’s Quest III (available on GOG.com), Police Quest (available on GOG.com), and Leisure Suit Larry (available on GOG.com--no, just kidding.),

...means that LSL might be on the way. From my standpoint, though, I'm more interested in the smaller series; Laura Bow and the Conquests titles. Here's hoping they put in an appearance!

[Shaneus]

Given this and QFG last week, it looks like they're going through a second wave of Sierra stuff. I wonder if the wry aside in the news post for this release: ...means that LSL might be on the way. From my standpoint, though, I'm more interested in the smaller series; Laura Bow and the Conquests titles. Here's hoping they put in an appearance!

Fun fact: The Conquests games are available FREE from the author's website. I emailed GOG about this, suggesting that it could make for another good freebie hook (a la Steel Sky) to suck people in, and got this (infuriating) canned response:

Thank you very much for your kind feedback, however I'm afraid that I can't comment on whether or not we'll be releasing certain titles. I can only assure you that we're doing everything possible to get our hands on the best games, both old and new. Unfortunately the process is very complex and difficult. Not all publishers wish to sell their back catalog, not all can be convinced that "no DRM" is a good idea, and sometimes it's just plain impossible to research who (if anyone) has the rights to a certain title. Getting an old game to work on modern systems often proves to be the easiest task. Check out this Q/A video, featuring one of my superiors - Marcin Iwinski, for a first-hand view of how it works: http://www.youtube.com/user/GOGcom#p/u/17/mrk7R5mSgzI Finally, please stay tuned and check out our news page every week for new release info.

Honestly, couldn't give two shits whether they release it or not. I can play it for free via DOSbox or ScummVM or whatever. I was thinking in their best interests and I get that for a reply. It was only two days ago, too.

Edit: Link to Christy Marx's website with download for Conquests of Camelot. You can also get the sequel from there, too.

[Joseph Merrick]

lol. nice

[gabbo]

Fun fact: The Conquests games are available FREE from the author's website. I emailed GOG about this, suggesting that it could make for another good freebie hook (a la Steel Sky) to suck people in, and got this (infuriating) canned response: Honestly, couldn't give two shits whether they release it or not. I can play it for free via DOSbox or ScummVM or whatever. I was thinking in their best interests and I get that for a reply. It was only two days ago, too. Edit: Link to Christy Marx's website with download for Conquests of Camelot. You can also get the sequel from there, too.

What were you expecting, a pat on the back for suggesting it? Just because the developer can release it free doesn't mean GOG can.

[Alrus]

One oldie, one newie, one indie preorder...ie. Torin's Passage ($5.99) Far Cry 2 ($9.99) Resonance ($8.99 preorder)

Oh god, Torin's Passage! So bought, I wanted to play this again for a while but I lost the game a while ago.

[Shaneus]

What were you expecting, a pat on the back for suggesting it? Just because the developer can release it free doesn't mean GOG can.

Not a pat on the back, but a little more than a canned response that they dish out to everyone who requests X game. Even an "Interesting idea", nothing more, would've been better than what was sent.

[vazel]

Does Christy Marx actually have the rights to the conquests games? Did she buy them when Sierra went belly up? Seems like she's just doing what abandonware sites do and hoping the copyright holder won't care enough to seek legal action.

[Shaneus]

No idea. Just figured that if she had such close ties with the game and had them up for d/l on her website, she'd know something we didn't. It also makes for a decent foot-in-the-door compared to just cold-asking devs about long-lost games.

[mclem]

Mildly interesting from the Xenonauts Kickstarter:

Yes, we've looked into GOG but we weren't able to agree a price point.

Curious about that. Wondering which side was being demanding. They're suggesting the intended retail price is $25, I wonder if that's too high for GoG without coupling it with some sort of preorder discount.

[jimi_dini]

Fun fact: The Conquests games are available FREE from the author's website. I emailed GOG about this, suggesting that it could make for another good freebie hook (a la Steel Sky) to suck people in, and got this (infuriating) canned response:

Conquests of Camelot and Conquests of Longbow are still property of Sierra (now Activision). The original Sierra employees do not own those games. So putting them out for free is actually illegal, even for them.

Al Lowe did also something like this. Was still not legal. No one sues, because probably no one cares much.

[Shaneus]

Ah, interesting! Well then, I guess that puts that to bed. Thanks for the insight :)

[Stumpokapow]

Fun fact: The Conquests games are available FREE from the author's website. I emailed GOG about this, suggesting that it could make for another good freebie hook (a la Steel Sky) to suck people in, and got this (infuriating) canned response:

That is really infuriating. It's funny, because there's an obvious best practice when it comes to this--use a web contact form, when the person clicks submit, auto-detect the intended question, show the person the Q&A, ask "Is this what you wanted to ask?", and if they select No, make sure a human writes them back.

[krYlon]

Fun fact: The Conquests games are available FREE from the author's website. I emailed GOG about this, suggesting that it could make for another good freebie hook (a la Steel Sky) to suck people in, and got this (infuriating) canned response:

That's the automated response they send to any request.

I asked for Darklands a while back and got that annoying response. A couple of months later they released it!
They probably were intending to anyway but couldn't tell me.

[Yaska]

EA weekend on GoG. Dungeon keepers, simcity -50% off.

Dungeon Keeper™ $2.99 Dungeon Keeper™ 2 $2.99 Populous™ $2.99 Populous™ 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods $2.99 Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ $2.99 SimCity 2000™ Special Edition $2.99

[Planet_JASE]

Not to derail this thread but I agree about canned responses. I recently had to ask for a refund because an online shop hadn't provided my goods almost 4 weeks after taking my money. When they emailed to tell me that the refund had been actioned, they said that were sorry that the products I bought did not meet my expectations.

*sigh* Really, it was the icing on the cake of the whole affair.

Okay, sorry, once again for the derail. You may all continue.

[Shaneus]

That is really infuriating. It's funny, because there's an obvious best practice when it comes to this--use a web contact form, when the person clicks submit, auto-detect the intended question, show the person the Q&A, ask "Is this what you wanted to ask?", and if they select No, make sure a human writes them back.

It's especially infuriating when it's more for their benefit than yours. They're awesome with everything else, I was genuinely surprised when it was bounced back in such a manner.

[mclem]

Up today:

Dreamfall. $15, which strikes me as a little on the high side.

Also, American Nightmare comes out later, it's the last chance to get the discounted preorder in.

[Alextended]

It's definitely high. I guess they count it as a new-ish game, not an oldie.

Still nicely cheaper from Europe though, it's 20 Euros on Steam and GamersGate...

[Joseph Merrick]

starforce-free dreamfall :O

hehe. worth the premium for that

[epmode]

Dreamfall. $15, which strikes me as a little on the high side.

Still $5 cheaper than Steam.

God I love Dreamfall. Too bad about having to wait for boring MMOs to play out before we even have a chance of a sequel.

[mclem]

Bored with Zeus? How about Pharoah + Cleopatra?

[Dice]

OMG THEY DID IT

GOG AM BEST

[Captain_Spanky]

I have NO idea what's going on in Alpha Centauri. It's pretty cool though.

[Joseph Merrick]

Still $5 cheaper than Steam. God I love Dreamfall. Too bad about having to wait for boring MMOs to play out before we even have a chance of a sequel.

nailed it. secret world is total shit. but. it's only secret world right? fuck. hope so

Bored with Zeus? How about Pharoah + Cleopatra?

awesome. do emperor rise of the middle kingdom next! :O need all impressions games on gog. are any of their older games any good? have pretty much only played the ones on gog and emperor. preeeeetty much

[Nelo Ice]

Bored with Zeus? How about Pharoah + Cleopatra?

Holy shit! YES! YES! YES! I think I'm going to just buy this outright and just because they actually pulled it off and I like never buy games without a discount.

Also this is new thread worthy damn!

[SmZA]

Bored with Zeus? How about Pharoah + Cleopatra?

Oh, I was wondering why they'd skipped ahead to Zeus.

This is great news because I could never find a No-CD for Cleopatra.

I wonder if I still have my old saves on disk somewhere...

[Catshade]

Looks like the original Carmageddon will be coming to GOG.

[Leonsito]

Looks like the original Carmageddon will be coming to GOG.

OMG YES !! BOUGHT !!

[SparkTR]

Looks like the original Carmageddon will be coming to GOG.

Already got the discs, but if this version has better controller support I'm in.

[mclem]

OMG YES !! BOUGHT !!

RETROACTIVELY ALREADY BOUGHT BUT NOT YET!!

(Carmageddon + splat pack free to people who've donated $25 or more to the new Carmageddon, which I have done but won't pay until the project concludes)

I suspect this means Carmageddon 2 will head Gog's way too; it might end up being a higher-donation reward on the kickstarter at some point, or perhaps just on GoG.

I suspect this also means that we're quite likely to see the DRM-free version of the new title on GoG at some point, although it does require Steamworks for internet multi.

[Yaska]

Digital box promo on gog -50%

Commandos 2+3 $4.99 Commandos Ammo Pack $2.99 Constructor $2.99 Guilty Gear X2 #Reload $2.99 Imperial Glory $2.99 Litil Divil $2.99 Mob Rule $2.99 Normality $2.99 Praetorians $2.99 Realms of the Haunting $2.99 Slipstream 5000 $2.99 Soulbringer $2.99

Woo Guilty gear, too bad I already have it.

[Dice]

I have the PS2 version of that Guilty Gear. Haven't tried it on emulator yet. (along with a whole stack of PS2 games I pulled from their cases when I packed away the PS2)

[Yaska]

GOG version is worth it for the soundtrack alone imo.

[Shaneus]

Looks like the original Carmageddon will be coming to GOG.

Fuck yes! Yes! Hopefully the sequel makes an appearance too.

I have the original disc and have thoroughly investigated 3DFX wrappers to get it up and running, but WAY too much fucking around.

Holy shit, this just made me realise I should see if they have Ratbag's Powerslide up for vote/request. So good.

Edit: Wait, there's a Carmageddon kickstarter to donate towards? How did I not know about this?

[mclem]

Edit: Wait, there's a Carmageddon kickstarter to donate towards? How did I not know about this?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ation?ref=live
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=465482

You know what to do.

It's the healthiest big-name big-target KS I've seen in a fair while; I'm thinking maybe $750k when all's said and done, provided there's still interest for the stretch goals after they make the primary target.

(And, as Shaneus has just inadvertently indicated: This is a *really* smart bit of promotion for the KS project)

[Shaneus]

Well, I only knew of the KS via you a few posts up, but it seems like they've their heads screwed on straight regarding it. It's the sort of title that wasn't big budget when it was first released, so it doesn't need to have millions thrown at it now. Reassuring to hear they used Fear Factory in their KS vid too, must mean they have the license for it (either for the KS project, the original game or just in general).

They'd be mad not to use this, either:
Fear Factory - Cars

Is there an OT for the KS?

[Label]

Is there an OT for the KS?

There is but it does not get much love, not really sure why!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=465482

[Jotamide]

Digital box promo on gog -50% Woo Guilty gear, too bad I already have it.

I didn't! Last sale was a day only, so I can finally grab me my GG. :)

[JoeBoy101]

Looks like the original Carmageddon will be coming to GOG.

*dances*

Hope they get number 2 as well!

[Catshade]

GOG is reaching out to old-school kickstarter lately. To support the recently-launched Tex Murphy revival, they're having Tex Murphy week, all Tex games 50% off till Friday.

Edit: You can also get the Tex Murphy games on GOG for free by pledging to the kickstarter.

[FleckSplat]

Not a pat on the back, but a little more than a canned response that they dish out to everyone who requests X game. Even an "Interesting idea", nothing more, would've been better than what was sent.

But I thought you didn't "give two shits".

[SparkTR]

GOG is reaching out to old-school kickstarter lately. To support the recently-launched Tex Murphy revival, they're having Tex Murphy week, all Tex games 50% off till Friday. Edit: You can also get the Tex Murphy games on GOG for free by pledging to the kickstarter.

Nice, I've been meaning to get these.

[gabbo]

Nice, I've been meaning to get these.

Are they worth playing through?