He's talking about Shadow Magic, more 2.5, and not AoW 3.

why i though the 3rd one :p ?

Sorry, so you are saying that if I'd been a bit more industrious I might have found the answer to my question Why ? And now you are triumphantly presenting me with a link to the answer ?

Don't you just love some of the people on the GOG forums ? Honestly, you can talk until you're blue in the face about how capitalism and politics has taken over the games industry. In the end, though, there will always be some clever little so-and-so who is clued up on all the legal aspects of the industry who will chime in, and then it's game over. Oh, how I would love to go on a country walk with some of you people and get you to look at life in an entirely different way ! You sicken me !

I made a mistake , i thought you were spoken about age of wonders III, which doesn't have any real manual.

so ofc, i never searched about any others games.

my apologies : although, that doesn't have anything to do with you, but i have already saw so many questions asked in the past , which could have been avoided with a small search.

now don't get me wrong, i'm also annoyed when some games have no manual, just to reply your above statement. Just calm down :)

You're French, female and your avatar is beautiful so I'll let you off :)

To be clear, I'm not telling anyone that they should accept anything, rather I'm just stating my personal opinion based on observation over time as to why things are the way they are. If the lack of a manual is a truly serious problem for someone for the price being asked for a given game, then it is perfectly reasonable for the person to not buy the game, or to ask for a refund. GOG's refund policy should cover them on that I believe.

It's not a big issue for me personally, as I know for a fact that GOG goes to great lengths to try to get every little goodie out of a company that they can, including manuals, and in addition to that they scour Ebay and other sites for original copies of old games with which to extract the goodies and scan them (with permission). I don't think any other online gaming distributor does this, or at least not to the extent GOG does. So what we ultimately have is the best situation that GOG can personally provide, and they constantly try to track down missing goodies for old games and add them when they're able to. Not just manuals and maps, but entire soundtracks, strategy guides and other stuff.

Others are free to react to it in whatever way they prefer including but not limited to ranting and raving, hunger strike, change.org petitions, and of course tripping people on the subway. Sadly, I don't think that such is likely to change anything, but at least people can be heard with their preferred form of communication about it. :)

You asked a question and I gave my honest opinion about it. Don't shoot the messenger. I'm not a poster boy for the gaming industry trying to justify anything they do. I'm simply stating my opinion about why things are the way they are. I'm not taking sides here, nor telling anyone what they should think or do, lets get that clear.

I agree that many companies in the gaming industry engaging in varying degrees of anti-consumer behaviour and practices and I find that disconcerting as well. I keep a "dead to me" list of game companies that I refuse to buy from unless their games show up on GOG.com under terms that I am comfortable with due to this very reason. That's the way I try to do my part by reducing or eliminating my support for companies that I perceive to be overly anti-consumer.

Having said all that, if I'm given a choice to be able to buy a game that is missing the manual because it just got lost through the shuffle of time as mentioned in my previous posts, or the game never being available for sale due to a missing manual then I personally would prefer the game to be made available in as usable a form as can be furnished and make the decision to buy it or not myself rather than not even have the option and I think most people likely feel the same. In addition to that, I'd like to see game companies take extra effort to track down missing game meta-content/accessories/etc. and make them available to new customers as well. Fortunately, many of them do this already, and hopefully other companies will follow as well.

I'm not certain, but I think there is a GOG thread for keeping track of missing manuals etc. (and if not, it'd probably be a good idea for someone to create one). If not, the "what did just update" thread has had such discussions in the past and could be a place to post such missing info perhaps. Tracking the missing bits somewhere is a good idea though and gives the GOG guys something to do on their lunch break. :)