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A farewell to arms promo!

The Arma Series, that is Arma Gold Edition, Arma: Cold War Assault, and Arma 2: Combined Operations (complete with the Operation Arrowhead expansion), providing the ultimate mod-enabled first person-perspective military simulation experience, is available up to 80% off on GOG.com. That's only $8.17 for the whole set of three games, for the next 72 hours.

[url=http://www.gog.com/promo/arma_farewell_complete_040614][/url]War has always been, and probably always will be, one of the predominant themes in computer games. From 8-bit systems to contemporary monster gaming rigs you'll have simulators, strategy games, and war-inspired arcade titles. But there's only one type of game that could let you really see war as a first-hand gritty and immersive experience. An FPS, first person perspective shooter. Again, there are many levels of realism throughout the genre. Some of the war FPS' tend to focus on storytelling, using heavy scripting to deliver a cinematic experience. Others don't try to hide the fact, that the war you're seeing isn't real and that the main goal is to have fun while playing. And there's the Arma Series.

Arma Series is a game series that will make you feel like an actual combatant on one of the modern-day military missions. A game that will amaze you with its level of realism in recreating actual weapons, military gear, ballistics, and battlefield conditions. A game that will challenge you in ways no other wargame ever could. Dropping you in the middle of a fictional conflict, that feels more real than most things you see on the news, it proves to be the ultimate modern-day military simulation that you can play outside of actual military VR training facilities. Arma 2: Combined Operations allows for massive multiplayer matches that can host up to 50 players simultaneously, and the Operation Arrowhead expansion that, on top of adding another campaign to the game, provides extensive mod compatibility, this is the FPP wargame you want to get, if you mean business.

On top of that, Arma 2: Combined Operations is required to run DayZ, the most popular game modification since the infamous Hot Coffe. What? You don't know what DayZ is? Don't fret--we've got you covered.

Do you think you can handle real virtual warfare? Find out if you really know which side of the assault rifle you should point at the enemies in the complete Arma Series, for only $8.17 on GOG.com. The special promo lasts until Saturday, June 7, at 9:59AM GMT. Games also available separately with lower discount rate. The games already owned on GOG.com count towards the higher discount.

Important note: This is a last chance promo, as Arma Gold Edition, Arma: Cold War Assault, and Arma 2: Combined Operations will be removed from sales on GOG.com on June 22, along with the remaining Bohemia Interactive title: Original War. If you buy (or have already bought) any of these games, they will remain on your account "shelf", so you'll be still able to access and download them.
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Boilpoint: Sounds like it was originally added last fall with a community patch. The people who developed the patch complained, so the game was pulled all together. Kinda sad. I understand modders not wanting someone else to profit off their work, but they also tend to do their work for the use of the community. Getting games removed from the GOG catalog doesn't help the community :(
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yyahoo: What they didn't want was the new publisher of Revolt profiting from their modding work (of which they had no legal rights to, of course). They'd rather people pirate the game than people buy the game from GOG and money get funneled to the new rights holder whom they hate. It's all rather childish...
*facepalm*
Well shit. I'm glad the homepage promo ad states that it's a last chance, since the one in the left column doesn't and I thought it was just another standard Wed sale. Seriously, this sucks. *sigh*
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GOG.com: Important note: This is a last chance promo, as Arma Gold Edition, Arma: Cold War Assault, and Arma 2: Combined Operations will be removed from sales on GOG.com on June 22, along with the remaining Bohemia Interactive title: Original War. If you buy (or have already bought) any of these games, they will remain on your account "shelf", so you'll be still able to access and download them.
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jamyskis: I guess this is all about Bohemia's new-found Steam sycophancy, is it? Well, fuck you Bohemia Interactive.

Not that I am bothered or surprised any more. It depresses me to see the sad joke that PC gaming has become, but my PS4 is finally on its way in a fortnight, whereupon I will most likely be abandoning the final vestiges of PC gaming that I've stuck with these past couple of years.
You DO know that PSXONE are actually PCs? Closed up PCs to be more specific... they are worse, at least with a PC you have choice.
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jamyskis: I guess this is all about Bohemia's new-found Steam sycophancy, is it? Well, fuck you Bohemia Interactive.

Not that I am bothered or surprised any more. It depresses me to see the sad joke that PC gaming has become, but my PS4 is finally on its way in a fortnight, whereupon I will most likely be abandoning the final vestiges of PC gaming that I've stuck with these past couple of years.
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Zoidberg: You DO know that PSXONE are actually PCs? Closed up PCs to be more specific... they are worse, at least with a PC you have choice.
PS4 is actually the first Sony console that has very thick drm. All digital games now are tied to a persons account and the game now can be only activated on one console and it needs internet access. Retail games on PS4 though don't have drm which is strange - but at the price those games are marketed its no wonder. Well at least AMD gets something from this since PS4 is made by them.
Post edited June 05, 2014 by Matruchus
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Zoidberg: You DO know that PSXONE are actually PCs? Closed up PCs to be more specific... they are worse, at least with a PC you have choice.
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Matruchus: PS4 is actually the first Sony console that has very thick drm. All digital games now are tied to a persons account and the game now can be only activated on one console and it needs internet access. Retail games on PS4 though don't have drm which is strange - but at the price those games are marketed its no wonder. Well at least AMD gets something from this since PS4 is made by them.
Tied to an account, OK. Tied to a cosole? You're kidding, that's what Nintendo does, and they suck the most from that point of view...
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Zoidberg: You DO know that PSXONE are actually PCs? Closed up PCs to be more specific... they are worse, at least with a PC you have choice.
He'll come back here, when he gets tired of paying through the nose for games for their 'consoles' ;)

Sony have accumulated alot of rotting corpses in their closet during recent years. One thing which should never be forgotten, is the tantrum Sony threw when the security on the ps3 went down - throwing lawsuits and subpoenas in all directions. And don't forget the Otheros fiasco too. They lost me as a customer back then.

They are absolutely NOT your friends, but just another greedy media company who are ready to sue you into oblivion, should you use 'their' machines for things other than that they expect you to.

Just google: GrafChokolo and Geohot
Post edited June 05, 2014 by Solei
Checked the PS4 console limitations again definitely one game one console one account on PS4 but as said this is only valid for digital games and not for retail games.

More on this here: http://www.geek.com/games/drm-for-the-ps4-arrives-in-the-form-of-account-locked-psn-games-1574067/
and here: http://couchjockeyz.com/yoshida-confirms-ps4-does-have-drm/
Post edited June 05, 2014 by Matruchus
Thinking about it some more I think Bohemia pulling out of GOG like this is fucking ridiculous. It's one thing to only go Steam-only with future products, but pulling games they were already selling here for no good reason other than 'we don't want to sell anything here anymore' is just utterly retarded. It's not even a licensing issue but them merely being fuckwits.
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jamyskis: I guess this is all about Bohemia's new-found Steam sycophancy, is it? Well, fuck you Bohemia Interactive.

Not that I am bothered or surprised any more. It depresses me to see the sad joke that PC gaming has become, but my PS4 is finally on its way in a fortnight, whereupon I will most likely be abandoning the final vestiges of PC gaming that I've stuck with these past couple of years.
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Zoidberg: You DO know that PSXONE are actually PCs? Closed up PCs to be more specific... they are worse, at least with a PC you have choice.
I don't really agree! PC = personal computer. A PC is a digital TOOL. You can teach a PC to do anything digital as long as you have the programing expertise. Games are just one function. A Console is not a PC it's an APPLIANCE, they have a very specific set of functions and that's really all it's meant for...just like a Microwave Oven. I use both myself.
Post edited June 05, 2014 by CMOT70
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mistermumbles: Thinking about it some more I think Bohemia pulling out of GOG like this is fucking ridiculous. It's one thing to only go Steam-only with future products, but pulling games they were already selling here for no good reason other than 'we don't want to sell anything here anymore' is just utterly retarded. It's not even a licensing issue but them merely being fuckwits.
Don't forget they should maintain those older games too, mainly when it is multiplayer game still played by a lot of people... or e.g. quite a lot of people (including me) were complaining that there are still missing DLCs for Arma 2 here on GOG...
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CMOT70: I don't really agree! PC = personal computer. A PC is a digital TOOL. You can teach a PC to do anything digital as long as you have the programing expertise. Games are just one function. A Console is not a PC it's an APPLIANCE, they have a very specific set of functions and that's really all it's meant for...just like a Microwave Oven. I use both myself.
You mean like rooting a PS3 to run a linux distro, then use that one to crunch numbers? Whether it's easy to run non-official applications is a different question of course, but according to your definition, the PS3 is/was a PC.
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Zoidberg: You DO know that PSXONE are actually PCs? Closed up PCs to be more specific... they are worse, at least with a PC you have choice.
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CMOT70: I don't really agree! PC = personal computer. A PC is a digital TOOL. You can teach a PC to do anything digital as long as you have the programing expertise. Games are just one function. A Console is not a PC it's an APPLIANCE, they have a very specific set of functions and that's really all it's meant for...just like a Microwave Oven. I use both myself.
The funny thing with consoles is they have the same hardware as pcs only the operating system and software on them is different :) PS4 for example use AMD Kabini processors and a bit better integrated radeon graphic cards (derived from radeon 7870) - APUs really. The consoles are cheaper in comparison to pcs only because they are produced en masse with the same configuration for all of them and of course imploy different restrictions to what you can do on them. They are just really software limited pc hardware.
Post edited June 05, 2014 by Matruchus
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Zoidberg: You DO know that PSXONE are actually PCs? Closed up PCs to be more specific... they are worse, at least with a PC you have choice.
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CMOT70: I don't really agree! PC = personal computer. A PC is a digital TOOL. You can teach a PC to do anything digital as long as you have the programing expertise. Games are just one function. A Console is not a PC it's an APPLIANCE, they have a very specific task and that's really all it's meant for...just like a Microwave Oven. I use both myself.
Playstation 2 (fat ones only, since the slim didn't have a hard drive) and Playstation 3 (as long as you didn't go above a certain firmware update) could become PC's though, by installing the respective official Linux kit.

Although I wouldn't be that hard on Zoidberg, as the terms PC and computer are easily confusable. Any console is a computer. Wait, scratch that, anything with a programmable microchip in it is a computer (and even that definition might be too narrow, considering analogue and mechanical computing machines - computers), but a PC, or personal computer, is one you can easily personalise by adding/choosing your preferred hardware, installing your own arbitrary software, and/or configure to your liking.
Post edited June 05, 2014 by Maighstir
Well, now's the time to pick up a few extra copies to gift out to future-newbies (it's possible that maybe I did too ;) ). It's always such a shame when huge titles like this leave the catalog. I almost mourn for them, and in fact I actually did mourn for loosing the Fallouts from the catalog. I'm not really a fan of the genre at all, however the Arma games are incredibly well done, certainly the best in the genre. As long as we had Arma 1 and 2, I was continuing to hold out hope that someday we'd get Arma 3... alas it is not to be.

Thank you thank you for giving us a huge heads up on this GOG. Although I never like seeing games go, I would really appreciate you be able to make a public big deal about every game from now on that is going to be leaving. That means front page announcement.
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CMOT70: I don't really agree! PC = personal computer. A PC is a digital TOOL. You can teach a PC to do anything digital as long as you have the programing expertise. Games are just one function. A Console is not a PC it's an APPLIANCE, they have a very specific set of functions and that's really all it's meant for...just like a Microwave Oven. I use both myself.
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JMich: You mean like rooting a PS3 to run a linux distro, then use that one to crunch numbers? Whether it's easy to run non-official applications is a different question of course, but according to your definition, the PS3 is/was a PC.
Ah but i did say in my definition "that's really all it's meant for" and playing 360 games and performing a limited set of media funtions is all Microsoft meant for the 360. They didn't mean for you to run linux, a PC is actually meant to run linux- it's an open didital toolbox afterall. In my experience the consoles perform their funtions perfectly, they play modern AAA titles for less than the cost of an average PC graphics card. Especially if you wait out the first 12 month price gouging period before purchasing games.
You can modify your Microwave Oven to perform other funtions too, but it's meant to heat food.
Post edited June 05, 2014 by CMOT70