Nice move for the 50% discount on the base game ;)

Sounds like a pretty good enhancement for the price. Haven't gotten around to the base game yet, but if this makes it more rich then I might pick this up and enable it from the get-go when I do play it.

I enjoyed all four levels of the base game, and from the description this DLC should add enough interesting stuff. The price looks right too, already grabbed it.

One of my favorite games here, and an amazing add on.....but I hope this isn't the Thursday release. :P

I was hoping this would come here :) That would be Master of Orion officially being released.

Grmm, dwarf women without beards? what were they thinking...
Gotta run. This ore vein needs mining...

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I moderately enjoy toying with Craft the World... But I have a difficult time paying for DLC half of whose features should have been a patch (such as "zoom out and see icons for resources")

Hmm... I have the game DRM free from a Humble Bundle... at that price, I wouldn't mind buying the DLC.

The problem is, GOG won't let me buy the DLC, since I don't have the base game bought here, but somewhere else. And Humble Bundle doesn't sell the DLC at all.

So it would seem my only options to buy the DLC are either Steam, or buying yet another DRM free license for the entire game on GOG? :/

That's not how DRM-free is supposed to work!

There are many definitions of "DRM free". I usually go by "what you download is yours to keep and won't phone home to check licence and potentialy stop working because publisher decided they don't like you (or that running their servers stopped being profitable)", and your Humble Bundle version fits that.

By the way did you get latest update to the base game from there too? Because GOG version got one along with DLC release, suggesting that the DLC needs that update and it's not as easy as "just place this file in this folder and it will all work". So, requiring ownership of the base game sort of makes sense here, to make sure you can run it at all.

I'm just slightly angry at the situation. It's just another case where end users are at a disadvantage.

Theoretically it should be possible to make games where it doesn't matter if you buy the game from one distributor, and the patch/expansion/DLC/whatever from another. Some games actually achieve that and are distributor-independent. Games that aren't fall into two categories:
- The developer didn't know how to make it distributor-independent, or didn't have the time to do it properly. Often the case with games that use Steam API, although I've heard rumours this also happened with GOG Galaxy API in some games.
- The dependency is put on purpose, to force players to spend more money to buy more licenses for the same game.

The second case I'd definitely consider DRM, because it is something put in the game that does not benefit the player, only the developer/publisher.

I don't mean to bash at the developer, because it's quite possible they didn't do it on purpose. Maybe in the future there will be a better solution available (e.g. the developer, or Humble Bundle, will sell a DRM-free version of the DLC), or maybe at some point Craft the World will end up in GoG Connect, although so far that feature seems silent after the initial bunch of titles. But for now it's just another case where I'd gladly buy something on GOG, except I can't without paying extra.

Well, the current Humble Bundle download has the date 06/01/2016 on it, so I guess it's not the latest.

Any chance we get the Halloween update before the event ends?

Let me guess, in the main download? :P

It's a tiny download so it's no biggie. XD