King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North Release Date Announced / Pre-Order Available

[jake21]

I've heard (no method to confirm) that steam is cheaper (than gog) for small publishers/developers as well as having better distribution.

[Ragnin]

I think like Mandea said its probably just about the level of awareness. I know when Jeff Vogel, who runs spiderweb software, started putting his games (Avernum, Geneforge, ect.) out on steam and for cheaper he got a big leap of sales. Steam does have a huge market and so is a good choice to have a release that uses it.

I still think I should have the choice of using it or not though. Some games I would use it because I had a lot of friends who had the game and so would like the chat function and other nice things. Others I would not because I have no need for them.

I will also point out that having steam attached to the game has broken the game on release before. Usually this gets patched and fixed but sometimes is does not. My roommate has a mac and some of the games he got off of steam he has to use workarounds just to play the game because of the steam interface causing problems.

[Mygaffer]

Originally Posted by Mandea

gog has old games, and that's it. can you buy dishnored from gog today? batman AC? nope. I want to play a game today, not 1 year later, or 2, or 3...

Actually the do not only have old games. They used to, now they are expanding into new games. But somehow I get the feeling you are just wanting to attack GOG.com but I don't know why.

So I feel stupid for engaging with you on this when we are way off topic but yes, GOG sells new games and is working on getting more. Of course many publishers still cling to terrible DRM and so don't release their games on GOG as GOG requires no DRM.

If you want to argue FOR DRM good for you. Go buy some Ubisoft games and hope your wifi connection does not drop...

[Mygaffer]

Hey, anyone have anything to say about the actual game? What about the Valkyries, looks like they take the place of a wife? I saw a screen shot that seemed to show that. It will be interesting, I actually liked the way the dragon worked much better than the rage spirits in the first game.

[Mandea]

Originally Posted by Mygaffer

Actually the do not only have old games. They used to, now they are expanding into new games. But somehow I get the feeling you are just wanting to attack GOG.com but I don't know why.

So I feel stupid for engaging with you on this when we are way off topic but yes, GOG sells new games and is working on getting more. Of course many publishers still cling to terrible DRM and so don't release their games on GOG as GOG requires no DRM.

If you want to argue FOR DRM good for you. Go buy some Ubisoft games and hope your wifi connection does not drop...

I will ask you the same question you asked earlier: DO YOU READ?
I've already said I like gog but you keep saying lies, not to mention you are offtopic. no one said anything about ubisoft. another troll.

[Mygaffer]

Originally Posted by Mandea

I will ask you the same question you asked earlier: DO YOU READ?
I've already said I like gog but you keep saying lies, not to mention you are offtopic. no one said anything about ubisoft. another troll.

Hey man why don't you calm down with the personal insults here? I won't even bother responding to you if you can't keep it civil.

If GOG is off topic, which I agree that it is, then why were you posting about it?

Also:
http://www.gog.com/news/gog_coms_pla...gets_some_news

There you go. It is not a lie that GOG.com sells new games. It is there in black and white. I can even list the new releases, like Legend of Grimrock, that they have for sale right now.

So if you want to get back Warriors of the North, great, so do I. If you want to address my posts, great, that is what a forum is for. But do not insult other members here and bring down the level of discussion we are having.

[Mandea]

Originally Posted by Mygaffer

Hey man why don't you calm down with the personal insults here? I won't even bother responding to you if you can't keep it civil.

If GOG is off topic, which I agree that it is, then why were you posting about it?

Also:
http://www.gog.com/news/gog_coms_pla...gets_some_news

There you go. It is not a lie that GOG.com sells new games. It is there in black and white. I can even list the new releases, like Legend of Grimrock, that they have for sale right now.

So if you want to get back Warriors of the North, great, so do I. If you want to address my posts, great, that is what a forum is for. But do not insult other members here and bring down the level of discussion we are having.

It's you the one who started it by putting words in my mouth and telling lies and now pretending it's the other way round.

And it's not me who started all this gog issue, so as I said, read what others had said.

I never said gog doesn't sell new games, I said they don't sell the new games I am interested in (those two examples of mine), so for me it's useless as far as new games are concerned. talking about gog and Wotn is a dead issue right now, but you don't seem to understand that. Maybe later they will sell it, but not right now.

[Dwagginz]

Originally Posted by Mygaffer

Hey, anyone have anything to say about the actual game? What about the Valkyries, looks like they take the place of a wife? I saw a screen shot that seemed to show that. It will be interesting, I actually liked the way the dragon worked much better than the rage spirits in the first game.

I believe that's the case. I think I read it on this forum that there's five Valkyries, one of whom you choose as a 'major' slot (and you get a large bonus from her) and the other four take up the 'minor' slots, giving you smaller bonuses.

[jake21]

The game is very different than previous versions. It has valkyries but they are different than wives; you collect 5 of them; one of them can be named 'leader' and have some slight bonus from the collection. The key feature is they add rage skills (replacement to the dragon). As far as I can tell there are exactly 5; so you do not have to pick which ones you want; only which one you wish to be leader. As a by product there are 4 fewer equipment slots (than previous games). On the bonus you can feed your unwanted items to the Valkyries and they will grow stronger.

Originally Posted by Mygaffer

Hey, anyone have anything to say about the actual game? What about the Valkyries, looks like they take the place of a wife? I saw a screen shot that seemed to show that. It will be interesting, I actually liked the way the dragon worked much better than the rage spirits in the first game.

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by Mandea

I never said gog doesn't sell new games.

"gog has old games, and that's it. "

Honestly, I think you are in the wrong here Mandea. This statement is pretty darn close to "Gog only has old games." And even if that isn't what you meant, it is what the most reasonable meaning of the words you typed is.

As for the Valkyries: Based on the manual, each one has a single skill, and then you have 4 others that you might pick up as part of the story, or may actually represent Olaf's own personal strengths himself, which would be kinda cool. Looking forward to seeing how that works.