When I only had a P133 and couldn't play modern games, I used to buy gaming magazines to read reviews and walkthroughs for fun. In one of those magazines they were publishing a walkthrough for Beyond Divinity, which stood out because of its awesome cover/box/poster. Typically for me, I missed the issue with the poster, tried to hunt it down, failed, and became super determined to actually [buy and] play the game some day.
Later, I bought a better PC and pirated a bunch of games (I'd have bought games secondhand, but no bank would issue me a card). Unfortunately, Beyond Divinity was bugged to hell and back, and it apparently wasn't good enough for people to make a decent noCD.
In 2007, I finally got a bank to trust me enough to issue me a payment card (!!!) and went on a shopping spree. One of the first items I bought was a nice glossy cardboard box edition of Beyond Divinity. By that time, I was too busy working 13 hours per day, 30 days per month paying off my debts to actually play at home, but I finally had it, and everything was right in the world.
Fast forward to 2010, when I was nearly killed for a room (which I own) by a conspiracy of chavs. (People will literally kill for a room where I live.) My e-friends took me in temporarily, and while I was staying with them, an actual career criminal robbed them and helped himself to my copy of Beyond Divinity. Seriously.
The day after my Nth birthday, I was sadface and bored, so I googled the game and found GOG. I bought the Divinities, M&M 6-pack, Heroes II, and set Beyond Divinity to download.
That was when GOG pulled the shutdown stunt.
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I still haven't played the game. I PWYWed $1000 for Larian's bundle in 2012 tho.
Not in, cuz regional pricing.
Post edited May 30, 2015 by Starmaker