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Posted November 20, 2015
Day one releases incoming, while Galactic Civilizations III & Galactic Civilizations II arrive with GOG Galaxy support.

The award-winning space-strategy developers, Stardock, are joining GOG.com for a long-term cooperation to bring their catalog of best, upcoming, and unannounced releases aboard our DRM-free freighter. Lift off!

There is plenty of greatness to look forward to - our upcoming releases will include Offworld Trading Company™, Servo and Ashes of the Singularity, as well as future unannounced projects; all coming on day one - all complete with full support for GOG Galaxy, including achievements, multiplayer, leaderboards and more.

We'll also be releasing the best of the Stardock catalog, so stay tuned for: Sins of a Solar Empire®: Trinity, Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes, Sorcerer King, and more.


We're starting out with with:
–<span class="bold">Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition</span> - available 75% off at launch.
–<span class="bold">Galactic Civilizations III</span> - ready with a cargo of extra content including: Revenge of the Snathi DLC, Mega Events DLC, Map Pack DLC, and Original Soundtrack - all available at 60% off in a single pack, or 50% off separately.


So come and join us aboard the DRM-free freighter, our trip through Stardock's many space and strategy universes is about to get prolific!
Posted November 20, 2015
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Kingpuddycat: Anyone have confirmation on this or not? I'm guess where it would be on GOG that wouldn't be the case but I just wanted to make sure before I go ahead with this.
Registration is not required to play any Stardock games from GOG (as you'd expect!). You will need to register a free Stardock account to use the GalCiv2 Metaverse so we can associate your game results with a profile. If you don't care about reporting your game results you can play without an account though.

-Adrian from Stardock's Metaverse team
Post edited November 20, 2015 by Islanti
Posted November 20, 2015
Can those of you who bought the GOG version of Gal Civ II confirm that you do not need to have a Stardock account to play the game?
Posted November 20, 2015
Ah, Sins of a Solar Empire; truly great game there, can't wait till it arrives :-D
Posted November 20, 2015
ignore my previous post. Just saw the answer to my question. I will be picking this up!
Posted November 20, 2015
Nice to see stardom here have some . Money for galaxy 3
Posted November 20, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: From the FAQ about Offworld Trading Company:
"Does Offworld Trading Company use Steam?
Offworld Trading Company will be distributed exclusively through Steam. Whether you buy it directly from our publisher Stardock, through Steam, or through another retailer, you will receive a Steam code that you will then need to link to your Steam account in order to download and play."
So GoG will sell Steam keys for OTC?
I'd presume the answer is "no" it does not require steam as use of steam, even "non-drm steam" most certainly is DRM. However based on the text you quoted I totally understand why you'd like to get a firm and specific answer to this question. Hopefully one will be supplied to us soon :)
Posted November 20, 2015
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Kingpuddycat: Anyone have confirmation on this or not? I'm guess where it would be on GOG that wouldn't be the case but I just wanted to make sure before I go ahead with this.
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Islanti: Registration is not required to play any Stardock games from GOG (as you'd expect!). You will need to register a free Stardock account to use the GalCiv2 Metaverse so we can associate your game results with a profile. If you don't care about reporting your game results you can play without an account though.

-Adrian from Stardock Metaverse team
Thanks for providing a dev presence here on the GOG forums. We really do appreciate it when companies take the trouble to put in a official appearance.
Posted November 20, 2015
Great to see them here. Not sure if I will get Gal Civ 3 since I have it on Steam and am a bit short on money atm (so I sure wishlist it) but I sure as hell get going to get Fallen Enchantress Legendary Heroes. Hope it will relase soon.
Post edited November 20, 2015 by Cifer29
Posted November 20, 2015
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Islanti: Registration is not required to play any Stardock games from GOG (as you'd expect!). You will need to register a free Stardock account to use the GalCiv2 Metaverse so we can associate your game results with a profile. If you don't care about reporting your game results you can play without an account though.

-Adrian from Stardock Metaverse team
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Luned: Thanks for providing a dev presence here on the GOG forums. We really do appreciate it when companies take the trouble to put in a official appearance.
^Agreed. It really is appreciated. :)
Posted November 20, 2015
Very cool, now please, Mac/Linux support for the GalCiv series!
Posted November 20, 2015
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Islanti: ...
-Adrian from Stardock Metaverse team
+1 for posting here (dev/pub presence), thanks. :)
Post edited November 20, 2015 by tfishell
Posted November 20, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: From the FAQ about Offworld Trading Company:
"Does Offworld Trading Company use Steam?
Offworld Trading Company will be distributed exclusively through Steam. Whether you buy it directly from our publisher Stardock, through Steam, or through another retailer, you will receive a Steam code that you will then need to link to your Steam account in order to download and play."
So GoG will sell Steam keys for OTC?
Whoops! We missed that in our updates. I pointed it out to our web folks so we get that corrected.

For the record, OTC will be available on GOG as a GOG game, no Steam involved.

-Adrian from Stardock's Metaverse Team
Post edited November 20, 2015 by Islanti
Posted November 20, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: From the FAQ about Offworld Trading Company:
"Does Offworld Trading Company use Steam?
Offworld Trading Company will be distributed exclusively through Steam. Whether you buy it directly from our publisher Stardock, through Steam, or through another retailer, you will receive a Steam code that you will then need to link to your Steam account in order to download and play."
So GoG will sell Steam keys for OTC?
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Islanti: Whoops! We missed that in our updates. I pointed it out to our web folks so we get that corrected.

For the record, OTC will be available on GOG as a GOG game, no Steam involved.

-Adrian from Stardock
Ah, thanks for the info! :-) So all Stardock games will be published here without Steam connection and Stardock registration?
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Luned: Thanks for providing a dev presence here on the GOG forums. We really do appreciate it when companies take the trouble to put in a official appearance.
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RoseLegion: ^Agreed. It really is appreciated. :)
Thanks for the warm welcome folks! I will be around intermittently as I can spare time from game tasks.

-Adrian from Stardock's Metaverse Team

P.S. In reply to the "GalCiv1 vs. 2 vs. 3" discussions: I worked on GalCiv3 so I'm biased. That said, GalCiv3 is a modern 64-bit only game. That enables a massive scale, better AI, and some nice UI and resolution options missing from the older versions. Plus GalCiv3 is the game we're actively working on... patch 1.4 recently improved the AI substantially and my team will be making a big contribution to patch 1.5.
Posted November 20, 2015
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budejovice: Thanks for the links! For, I have now seen one of my favorite game reviews:

"I felt this game didn't really offer all that much long term playability for its price point at $20, and now at $40 its become a blatent rip off." 85.4 hours on record. :)
Oh that's a great review :)
Post edited November 20, 2015 by ElTerprise
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