It seems pretty unreasonable to expect one store to offer downloads for a product bought from another, or a game to offer downloads from all possible stores (and gog should not be placed higher than any other store).

Don't back them if they don't offer the game DRM-free, that's fair enough. Requiring them to support everyone's individual favourite store? That seems a bit unreasonable.

Overpriced? £2 for a novella and £4 for an album don't strike me as overpriced. I don't mind them being sold separately, they just seem like digital merchandising to me and no different from a T-shirt with the Quake III logo on or a fluffy companion cube.

Thanks, NovusBogus! ^_^

Not seeing much difference there. White Paper Games offers a Deluxe version that's cheaper if you buy off the bat than it is if you purchase the upgrade later, and 5 Lives is doing the same thing. You actually save a little more with the 5 Lives upgrade than the White Paper Games upgrade, but of course the 5 Lives games game is a few dollars more... What am I missing? In any case, all the "deluxe" material in both is what most people will consider fluff and won't care much about.

The problem I have along with some others is that 5 Lives is selling their game here on GOG with piece meal extras and didn't provide a Deluxe edition along with the Standard version like on the other digital distribution store. In other words its not just about the price but the option to buy the Deluxe version with all extras instead of buying each of them separately, along with the option to upgrade the standard version to Deluxe as well later on.

I'm not seeing the problem here... why would you need to buy all of the DLCs separately? You can get effectively get the deluxe edition here in one go by simply clicking the "Add to cart" button under the "Buy series" section on its store page.

There might be a reason a good reason for this. The problem might lie with gog and not 5 Lives. You still can't play most betas with gog either, which I think has more to do with the limitation of their platform rather than publishers favoring Steam. So who knows, maybe there's a technical reason for it. Or maybe gog will offer the other packages and just hasn't got around to it yet. Or it might be in this case that 5 Lives made some exclusive deal with Steam that was to their benefit, maybe it was a requirement of Steam, where they'll make most of their money. Let's be honest, a lot more copies will sell there than here. Let's just wait and see, it's only the first day of release for the final game. ;)
I don't think the other options were there at first, I don;t recall seeing them earlier, which is what I think he was complaining about. But thanks, you validated my advice in the my post above yours, which is that people needed to have a little patience, because it was probably gog that needed to do whatever on their end.

Every single piece of extra sold separately? Really?

*sigh*


That's a pretty good idea!

You don't. As we were just discussing above, they're simply selling it under a different name, so here you're buying the "series" as opposed to the "Deluxe" version. Click the add to cart button under "Buy the Series"


I will say, though, that you might want to wait a bit before buying the whole package, because I'm not sure the price is correct for it at the moment. At the current price, you don't save anything over buying the upgrades separately, and it's $5 more expensive than that other place.

Well, I actually think I prefer the option to choose which extras I want to have, instead of being forced to buy all (I would like to own the novella, maybe the soundtrack and I have serious doubts I would ever buy the digital atrbook.

However, the prices are a bit insane. 10 bucks for the ost? In the kickstartet, the pricing of the extras were cheaper...

I don't think you understand the concept of "Series" on GOG. This is not something specific to this title and release, and the term "Series" does not stand for "Deluxe", nor does it exclusively include DLC of a certain game. And it certainly doesn't always offer a discount.

Just check out the Icewind Dale Complete, or the Witcher: Enhanced Edition, The game pages. Or the Trine 2: Complete Story one; the Series comprises of that and Trine Enhanced Edition, and no mention of Trine 2: Soundtracks and Artbooks.

I only have games from 3 online storefronts. I am utterly unwilling to memorize passwords for any more. Don't need seperate logins for 50+ stores. Steam is a last resort and the game must not be available DRM-free elsewhere. It also has to be spectacularly good.

Humble I don't trust and I only go there if it's not available DRM-free on GoG. If I get a game there I have to read reviews first. Good faith isn't enough so backing stuff is out.

GoG I trust much more than the other 2. They have a committed DRM-free stance and generally won't allow shovelware on their site. If they can't get on GoG, that raises an immediate red flag for me.

For the record, I also require them to offer the game on Steam even if I don't get a Steam key. Because if they don't get accepted by Steam... wow...

For now buying as series works similarly but whats the problem with providing a complete Deluxe version especially when 5 Lives does so on Steam. If someone doesn't buy the game right now then there is the possibility that the game will be on discount later but not the DLC or different at percentages, so one reason for selling every piece of DLC individually could be that the publisher wants to control the pricing for each during sales.

Also some people may want to get the game right now and could decide to get the extras later if they enjoy the game. I should also mention that my personal preference is to get games in a single complete edition and just don't appreciate having to acquire DLCs individually later on, so that is why I referred to it as an issue for some. I just find this new trend weird and don't really understand why every extra needs to be sold separately instead of just a single upgrade DLC wth all the content similar to the Ether One example. :)

It wasn't my point to define what gog means by "series" across the board as compared to every instance of "deluxe" on steam or however you want to phrase it. It was to simply point out that in this particular case if you click choose the buy series option you can get everything that's included in the deluxe version on Steam. Because people were saying that they had to buy all the upgrades here separately and that's not technically true, because you don't. However, yeah, I will agree with you that if gog's price for the series is intentional and they don;t bring it down to compete with Steam, then no, it's not the same - because in that case the Steam version is a better deal price wise. If, however, at some point they do bring the price down to match Steam's price, then there will be no real difference aside from the naming. But maybe then gog will start calling it the deluxe version too. Who the hell cares, I sure don't. My point in commenting in the first place, and what my first post was all about, is that the various upgrade options and their prices is maybe more of gog thing than a 5 Lives thing. In other words, instead of people bitching about 5 Lives' crappy and unfair way of offering dlc and blaming them for there not being a comparably priced deluxe version of the game for sale here - by whatever name - maybe they should lay the blame at gog's feet. It might have more to do with them than 5 Lives.

how much hours of gameplay this game offers?
or do you get an open world with unlimited randomly generated missions?

Yeah, no.