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Artistry of Assassination

Assassin’s Creed™: Director’s Cut Edition, a game that took the action-platforming genre to another level, is available now on GOG.com for a limited time!--buy one, get one free with the Heroes of Might & Magic V Bundle for a total of $19.99.

This is one of the two new “Premium Edition” games that GOG.com is offering; they are a slightly higher price--but they come packed with value and we’re encouraging you to try them out with this buy one, get one free promotion that’s running until 12 April at 4.59 PM GMT.

Desmond Miles is a bartender, a simple lad who is abducted by a mysterious organization and attached to the Animus, a strange machine that allows him to access his ancestor’s memories. Now he--and you--can see the events that happened in the year 1191, the time of the third crusade in the Holy Land vividly, and Desmond find himself assuming the role of Altaïr ibn La-Ahad, a merciless killer that carries out assassinations ordered by the most mysterious and deadliest clan of assassins.

Assassin’s Creed: Director’s Cut Edition is a game that redefined the action genre with open gameplay, intuitive controls, incredibly fluid combat mechanics, and realistic interactions with the world surrounding you. Every architectural detail like window ledges, carvings in the stone or wooden bars can be used to as environmental props for fluid, acrobatic movement. Depending on your choices, the crowd will allow you to blend in or expose you to the guards. There are many ways to reach your goals, but the result must be always lethal. Stunning graphics and crisp sound effects complete the perfect gaming experience Assassin’s Creed has to offer.

The Director’s Cut Edition features improved artificial intelligence, more detailed graphics, some smaller additions and improvements, and most noticeably, four new missions, including the Roof Chase, Kill the Archers, Destroy the Market Stands, and Escort.

You can expect immersing and unique gameplay experience dressed to kill now on GOG.com. Bundled into a Premium Edition with more than 250 minutes of soundtracks, an official artbook, wallpapers, avatars, design sketches, and more, its full price is $19.99, but you pick it up for a limited time together with our Heroes of Might and Magic V Bundle on a special introductory buy one, get one free sale!
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spinefarm: And all your arguments are down from the moment that the price is 19.99$ on Steam/GamersGate/GreenManGaming/GOG
I don't even know what it means when an argument is down from the moment but I'll just take it as another indication you just simply didn't understand what I was talking about. Apparently in your mind I'm attacking AC or something like that, when instead I was making a point about paying for extra's, something *you* were implying should be a given.
Hi!

Does anybody here own the Focus Multimedia retail edition? If so, can you confirm if there's any kind of DRM in it and how does it work? I've bought it some months ago (found it very cheap at Amazon), but I've yet to install it and I don't have the opportunity to do that before the sale ends...

I don't care much for the soundtrack (I rarely hear soundtracks) and although I'm interested in buying Heroes V, I can't afford to buying the same game twice, so I would prefer to wait for a (potential) later on Heroes V-only sale.

Unless of course, the Assassin's Creed DRM can cause too much of a hassle and I was better off paying the same game twice....

I have Windows 7, and I've only experienced Securom-based copy protections (new machine, haven't played PC games for quite some time and just now I'm starting to try out newer games that I missed the chance), so, what can I expect?
Post edited April 11, 2012 by WireHead
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WireHead: Hi!

Does anybody here own the Focus Multimedia retail edition? If so, can you confirm if there's any kind of DRM in it and how does it work? I've bought it some months ago (found it very cheap at Amazon), but I've yet to install it...

I don't care much for the soundtrack (I rarely hear soundtracks) and although I'm interested in buying Heroes V, I can't afford to buying the same game twice, so I would prefer to wait for a (potential) later on Heroes V-only sale.

Unless of course, the Assassin's Creed DRM can cause too much of a hassle and I was better off paying the same game twice....

I have Windows 7, and I've only experienced Securom-based copy protections (new machine, haven't played PC games for quite some time and just now I'm starting to try out newer games that I missed the chance), so, what can I expect?
I havent but in honesty, If your gonna get HoMMV anyway id get this bundle if you can, then you dont even have to worry about the DRM at all
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WireHead: Hi!

Does anybody here own the Focus Multimedia retail edition? If so, can you confirm if there's any kind of DRM in it and how does it work?
I cannot speak for that particular version, but I do know that when the title originally shipped in 2006 it came bundled with Secu-ROM in every country except Russia (which was DRM free ironically). I tried to do some digging around for you regarding the edition you have listed above, but I could not even find one reference to it at all. I may not have been looking in the right places ...
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spinefarm: ...
And all your arguments are down from the moment that the price is 19.99$ on Steam/GamersGate/GreenManGaming/GOG
It's not. The argument still stands. During sales on Amazon the price was 5$ or less for a DRM free copy iirc. And you have to take sales into account. And retail versions. The game seems to be overpriced here and also partly elsewhere. I will not buy it for more than 10 bucks. So I might have to wait until christmas. :)
Post edited April 12, 2012 by Trilarion
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spinefarm: ...
And all your arguments are down from the moment that the price is 19.99$ on Steam/GamersGate/GreenManGaming/GOG
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Trilarion: It's not. The argument still stands. During sales on Amazon the price was 5$ or less for a DRM free copy iirc. And you have to take sales into account. And retail versions. The game seems to be overpriced here and also partly elsewhere. I will not buy it for more than 10 bucks. So I might have to wait until christmas. :)
During the promo it is 10$ so yes the argument not stand. It is up to the seller to choose the discount. Amazon are making crazy sells like that to promote their service ;) And yet it is a diff version there ;)
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spinefarm: ...
During the promo it is 10$ so yes the argument not stand. It is up to the seller to choose the discount. Amazon are making crazy sells like that to promote their service ;) And yet it is a diff version there ;)
I already have the other game and am not interested in the gimmicks. So for me it's the same version and the promo is 20$.

To make it clear. I don't complain, I just observe. ;)
Post edited April 12, 2012 by Trilarion
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spinefarm: ...
During the promo it is 10$ so yes the argument not stand. It is up to the seller to choose the discount. Amazon are making crazy sells like that to promote their service ;) And yet it is a diff version there ;)
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Trilarion: I already have the other game and am not interested in the gimmicks. So for me it's the same version and the promo is 20$.

To make it clear. I don't complain, I just observe. ;)
The normal price is lower on Amazon only so I don't see anything to complain anyways ;)
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spinefarm: ...
The normal price is lower on Amazon only so I don't see anything to complain anyways ;)
Last 20 games I bought I did not buy for normal price. ;)
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SLP2000: I don't get your point, this games is priced on other DD sites *that much* and GOG won't release it cheaper because you think it's a bit too much.

I'm glad to see it here. As you can see on the bestselling list, it's selling pretty well - much better than Hitman Codename 47 which is priced 5.99$.

And as you can see in HOMMV thread, HOMMV bundle is priced less than the GamersGate version.
Yes you do, you're just being deliberately obtuse.
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spinefarm: Pheace you are getting anoying. On every shop except Amazon(15.30$) AC1 is 19.99$ what exactly you don't get so far? Nobody is forcing you anything. If you want it,you buy it ... If you want to buy AC1 for 5$ without anything you are free to do it...If you want to buy it from GOG ...you buy it from GOG
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Pheace: I fully understand it must be annoying for you when you don't get my point.

You're the one arguing that extra's merit paying a little more. I'm saying not everyone is interested in that, so the best thing to do would be to offer options with and without it.
great recepie for a logistical nightmare
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mondo84: Oooh, Ass Creek...is GOG selling adult-themed games now, too?

J/k. I agree that the complaining is becoming excessive. Complaining about FREE Fallout, complaining about Assassin's Creed and other newer titles.

People can't expect GOG to not release newer games. Their whole selling pitch is DRM-Free. If they offer newer games without DRM they can greatly improve sales, thereby enabling them to offer more games, old and new.
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hedwards: It's been changed to DRM-free games. That wasn't how it was when I first signed up when the emphasis was definitely on older games render available and compatible with current computers.

Anybody claiming that it was originally all about being DRM free is really talking out of their ass as the original sight was definitely all about retro gaming even up until relatively recently.
odd, it was the DRM-free message that brought me to GoG the second the had announced their existence.

i don't care whether a game is antique or not, i just want DRM-free games!
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PeegeeTips: odd, it was the DRM-free message that brought me to GoG the second the had announced their existence.

i don't care whether a game is antique or not, i just want DRM-free games!
That may have brought you, but it certainly wasn't the way that the site was being marketed at the time. There were other options for DRM free, but a significant number of titles here wouldn't work on modern hardware, or wouldn't work well on modern hardware.

I stand by my comments about it being stupid to market and brand the site so specifically and then go back and undo damn near all of it. They are at least adding goodies to the games where there were none on release, but at this point the site bears little resemblance to what it was like when we joined.
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PeegeeTips: odd, it was the DRM-free message that brought me to GoG the second the had announced their existence.

i don't care whether a game is antique or not, i just want DRM-free games!
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hedwards: That may have brought you, but it certainly wasn't the way that the site was being marketed at the time. There were other options for DRM free, but a significant number of titles here wouldn't work on modern hardware, or wouldn't work well on modern hardware.

I stand by my comments about it being stupid to market and brand the site so specifically and then go back and undo damn near all of it. They are at least adding goodies to the games where there were none on release, but at this point the site bears little resemblance to what it was like when we joined.
Why do people care what the site looked like when they joined.
Its a website for crying out loud.
If it had been a veteran car then i coud somewhat understand it, but its a website, websites change.
Maybe 40 years from now people wont even use php, java etc but some kind of hologram based, who knows.

Point is stuff advances and its no point being stuck in the past.
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Lodium: Why do people care what the site looked like when they joined.
Its a website for crying out loud.
If it had been a veteran car then i coud somewhat understand it, but its a website, websites change.
Maybe 40 years from now people wont even use php, java etc but some kind of hologram based, who knows.

Point is stuff advances and its no point being stuck in the past.
Because not everything should advance. GOG had a classy community where touchy subjects could come up without becoming a flamewar. There were tons of retro games that you really couldn't get legitimately elsewhere and GOG still has plenty of them that haven't yet been released, but are being bumped back by newer games.

Stuff does advance, but that doesn't mean that it's always better. Nor does it mean that everything should advance.