Comments on: GamersGate: Redesigned, Crazy Sales

By: Warduke

Warduke — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:30:11 +0000

Yikes, the GG downloader sucks a$$. I bought 3 games this week including Men at War and so far I haven’t been able to get a single game downloaded. I’ve tried on multiple machines and multiple networks. It keeps crapping out every few minutes causing me to have to click “unpause” to resume it. It’s pretty rediculous to think a user is going to sit around for a 4+ hour download and keep doing that. I don’t know if they are getting overloaded this week or what but as a new customer I am seriously turned off on this service.

By: TCM

TCM — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:05:42 +0000

GG is, essentially, the retail version of the game with no need for disc. They give you a serial, and that’s about it. Patching is taken care of on your own time, or by the game’s autopatcher, or whatever. The same way it would be retail.

By: ninefingers

ninefingers — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:46:27 +0000

Ok, I’m close to picking up Men of War.

I just can’t decide where to get it from. Best Buy and Steam have it for $30. GG has it for $12. Is GG and its patching system going to be as robust as Steam’s or the retail version of the game?

I am getting it. Just not sure where.

Ninefingers

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:03:26 +0000

Clear sky now £9.99 whee!

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:54:45 +0000

Well, World in Conflict is now on sale.
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-WICC/world-in-conflict-complete-edition

For those not entirely sold on it, it’s an incredibly well-reviewed game, one of the prettiest on the PC, has a genuinely good singleplayer campaign, active and unique multiplayer, and is the spiritual successor to Ground Control.

There’s no base-building. No resource gathering at all. You attack and you fight, and if your units are destroyed, their value gradually returns to you until you can requisition more units, dropping them anywhere on the map that you control. Essentially, losing units puts you at a temporary disadvantage, but only temporary. It’s part of what makes multiplayer so interesting.

Multiplayer is pretty interesting. Two teams of 8 players fight over a single large map. Each player commands a small division, and there’s a class system that makes units in your particular specialization (air, support, infantry, armor) cheaper. It’s much more cooperative than most RTS’s, and more forgiving of individual mistakes, as you’re just a small part of the overall force.

Just get it. It’s really, really good.

By: 1337Haxormanthing

1337Haxormanthing — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:47:32 +0000

Still no secure login/registration. GG GamersGate.

By: LewieP

LewieP — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:15:24 +0000

Ah yes, the essential “voting with your wallet” component.

Carry on.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:10:46 +0000

Is it bad of me to suggest that people who want Men of War but don’t want to pay for the right to have nasty shit installed on their computers buy the game from Gamersgate, and then just download it from a torrent site?

Developer/publisher gets paid, and you get your game hassle free. Which sounds like a win/win scenario to me.

If they get a sale anyway, there’s no reason (as they see it) to remove the DRM next time. I’ve considered doing this, but it’s easier and faster to just buy something else instead, thus sending the money they would have got to a developer/publisher that didn’t insist on using it. Also, spending god hows how many days torrenting and then faffing about with cracks (fnarr) isn’t all that hassle-free.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:34:54 +0000

Yes, because that would be against an unenforceable eula!

I used to like cracking my games but after a few viruses It looks like I’ll need to rely on the hole download (even though I own the title) to know its not a virus (if the game is a 4gb virus it’d be hard to get seeds).

What are the legitimate crack sites these days?

The only drm that pisses me of is disc check, limited web activations are fine as long as I can de auth.

By: LewieP

LewieP — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:26:50 +0000

Developer/publisher gets paid, and you get your game hassle free. Which sounds like a win/win scenario to me.

By: undead dolphin hacker

undead dolphin hacker — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:04:15 +0000

If SotS Complete really is complete, I’ll be grabbing that.

Now someone do a better job of selling me on World in Conflict. Go.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:45:45 +0000

@Alteisentier: I’d guess it depends on the game, but I can tell you that Men of War definitely IS moddable in its GG incarnation. In fact, the dynamic campaign mod is designed with the GG version in mind, to the degree that you have to change a couple of settings to get it to work with a boxed copy.

I picked up MoW when it popped up on Monday, haven’t had a chance to dive into it yet (had a hard drive die on me) but the dynamic campaign mod looks superb.

I appreciate the sale prestidigitation, it helps me plan. Of those on offer, I’m most likely to pick up Sword of the Stars complete, which I’ve had my eye on for awhile.