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Posted February 13, 2019
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We'd like to give you a heads-up that on February 20th, 2pm UTC, due to an agreement with the publisher, Necropolis will be delisted from our catalog.

If rogue-lite dungeon-delving games are your type of thing, you might want to check it out now :)
Anyone who reaches out to our Support with a refund request will receive a conversion to Wallet Funds.

Those who already own this title, or will purchase it before next Wednesday, will of course still be able to access it through their library.
Posted February 13, 2019
About damn time, thank you for removing this piece of crap. It's small things like this that gives me back some hope in curation assuming it was because of the games state.

This game is just broken and unfinished.
Post edited February 13, 2019 by ChrisGamer300
Posted February 13, 2019
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ChrisGamer300: About damn time, thank you for removing this piece of crap. It's small things like this that gives me back some hope in curation assuming it was because of the games state.

This game is just broken and unfinished.
Quoting this because everything stated in it is true.

Multiplayer is a core part of Necropolis. Harebrained Scheme's abandoned the game 2 months after release and never implemented Multiplayer into the version sold on GOG.
Posted February 13, 2019
I guess from reading the first two comments that this is not a general issue with Harebrained. I own all of their other games on gog, so I'd hate for them to be eventually pulled or abandoned as well.
Posted February 13, 2019
Post-Paradox buyout, HBS isn't going to abandon support for/new content for Battletech like happened with their older games pre-Paradox buyout.

Pre-Paradox buyout HBS games were usually supported for 6-8 months after release, then ignored forever so HBS could focus on newer titles. You will run into game-ending bugs in HBS's older titles that have been reported multiple multiples of times for years, and there is about 00.0008% of those bugs ever getting fixed.
Post edited February 13, 2019 by morrowslant
Posted February 13, 2019
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morrowslant: Post-Paradox buyout, HBS isn't going to abandon support for/new content for Battletech like happened with their older games pre-Paradox buyout.

Pre-Paradox buyout HBS games were usually supported for 6-8 months after release, then ignored forever so HBS could focus on newer titles. You will run into game-ending bugs in HBS's older titles that have been reported multiple multiples of times for years, and there is about 00.0008% of those bugs ever getting fixed.
Yeah but is that cause Paradox won't let them? It wouldn't be a Paradox title without 6 million DLCs being released for years after.
Posted February 13, 2019
Thank you. The game was completely abandoned on GoG. It's been abandoned on Steam as well - there was a promise of new classes and maps as well as more bug fixes which never materialized.

It apparently failed financially. It did poorly on GoG - no surprise there with the entire no multiplayer at launch and never implementing it. Good riddance.
Posted February 14, 2019
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morrowslant: Post-Paradox buyout, HBS isn't going to abandon support for/new content for Battletech like happened with their older games pre-Paradox buyout.

Pre-Paradox buyout HBS games were usually supported for 6-8 months after release, then ignored forever so HBS could focus on newer titles. You will run into game-ending bugs in HBS's older titles that have been reported multiple multiples of times for years, and there is about 00.0008% of those bugs ever getting fixed.
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firstpastthepost: Yeah but is that cause Paradox won't let them? It wouldn't be a Paradox title without 6 million DLCs being released for years after.
Going to answer YES.
The Battletech IP appears to be a goldmine if you can afford all the licensing fees + avoid getting drawn into the vortex of Harmony Gold lawsuits.
Posted February 14, 2019
These posts really should be marked or stickied or something. I'm not sorry to see this one go, but I have missed some games because the announcement was buried.
Posted February 14, 2019
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darktjm: I guess from reading the first two comments that this is not a general issue with Harebrained. I own all of their other games on gog, so I'd hate for them to be eventually pulled or abandoned as well.
Well, Shadowrun Returns was originally going to be modular, but instead of doing it that way, they decided to keep selling the subsequent releases as separate games, when they could have released a patch that updated the engine and kept all the mods running on one title, which makes a big difference for dependencies and interactions between mods. I was highly disappointed in them over SR and I refuse to spend another cent on anything associated with HBS after Necropolis.
Posted February 14, 2019
Thank you. Can you guys please put a red line on the top of the site like a warning saying hey this game is so and so and is being removed from the catalog on this date, hurry and get it before its gone!.

I hate knowing the forum is the only place to get this news and sometimes we don't even get any heads up before stuff is removed.

I am sure many would love a more direct warning on the sites main page for stuff like this.
Posted February 14, 2019
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morrowslant: ...Pre-Paradox buyout HBS games were usually supported for 6-8 months after release, then ignored forever so HBS could focus on newer titles. You will run into game-ending bugs in HBS's older titles that have been reported multiple multiples of times for years, and there is about 00.0008% of those bugs ever getting fixed.
The only older titles are the Shadowrun games. This is the first I've heard about game-ending bugs, if anything, I've only heard praise about them. Do you happen to have any link/hints about this?

The only bad things I heard about them, since they finally decided to release on GOG, was about their neutered Necropolis version here.
Post edited February 14, 2019 by MadalinStroe
Posted February 14, 2019
At first I was a bit sad because it was a really nice, little (an campy) game I loved playing back then. And it really has a place here on GOG. Thankfully then I realized the OP was not about Noctropolis.
Posted February 14, 2019
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Anothername: ...Noctropolis.
Well you made me look, and while it's definitely a game I'll never play, I did discover something that blew my mind. WOW!!! The game has achievements. Somebody at Nightdive must really love it, to take the time to add this feature.
Post edited February 14, 2019 by MadalinStroe
Posted February 14, 2019
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Anothername: ...Noctropolis.
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MadalinStroe: Well you made me look, and while it's definitely a game I'll never play, I did discover something that blew my mind. WOW!!! The game has achievements. Somebody at Nightdive must really love it, to take the time to add this feature.
I think I might give it a go when its on a sale. I read they worked with the original devs to tweak and fix some parts of the game like removing dead ends and upped animation framerate. Its kind of an enhanced version to the 20+y original I still have floating around somewhere.
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