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General discussion (archive)Announcement: Curse.com Partnership(364 posts)(364 posts)
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Posted January 02, 2014
Get a free GOG.com game with your Curse.com premium membership!

[url=http://www.curse.com" target="_blank][/url]What a great day to have a curse! [url=http://www.curse.com" target="_blank]Curse.com[/url] premium membership, that is. We've partnered up with the fast-growing gaming network to make their sleek paid accounts offer even more awesome than before. Each premium user--whether they're upgrading their account or already have premium subscription--now gets to pick one of ten games redeemable on GOG.com. That's our way of putting a cherry on top of the already extensive offer, that includes--but is not limited to--unlimited access to a feature-full online gaming client, beta-keys giveaways, and various discounts with selected partners. Here's the list of GOG.com games that [url=http://www.curse.com" target="_blank]Curse.com[/url] premium members can pick from:

Sacred Gold
Gothic 2 Gold Edition
Empire Earth: Gold Edition
Divine Divinity
Dungeon Keeper Gold
Darwinia
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
Puddle
Defender's Quest
Megabyte Punch

As you can see, whether you are a role-player, a strategist, a puzzle-solver, or even a keen tower defender, you'll get something extra for yourself with your current or new premium [url=http://www.curse.com" target="_blank]Curse.com[/url] membership. More info on obtaining the free game can be found in [url=http://www.curse.com/news/curse/49289-curse-premium-membership-now-includes-a-free-game" target="_blank]this Curse.com news article[/url]. This partnership offer remains valid at least until December 31, 2014. We highly recommend [url=http://www.curse.com" target="_blank]Curse.com[/url] services, and hope you'll enjoy your free title!
Posted January 02, 2014
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Took a look at the site and I still have no idea what it does and what its purpose is. If anything I'd love to see GOG.com team up with Gameranger for more online multiplayer support in old games.
Posted January 02, 2014
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I don't see anything positive about this. It just looks like a tool that caters to lazy people.
Posted January 02, 2014
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renthicya: I can't really say I'm glad, I had visited many sites in the past which were ruined (abandoned or changed completely from what they were and aimed for) after they "partnered" with them. Hope this will not be the case with GoG.
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Fenixp: If anyone is going to be ruined or changed completely in this relationship, it's not going to be GOG :-P Just guess who's got more money...
Curse has a lot more money - they're HUGE. 30 million unique visitors a month, offices in a handful of countries, and part of a network of very very successful websites. One of the world's largest gaming networks, with gamers playing some of the most popular games in the last 10 years.

I'll reserve judgement until I see what this is all about.

It WILL bring more people to GOG to buy more games, though, and that's always a good thing :)
Posted January 02, 2014
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Telika: Even after visting their website, I still don't know what curse.com is about.
Its about Addons and mods.
Wery known by WOW players and a couple of other MMo,s
The client update mods for you so you dont have to do it yourself.

Well thats what they started out as but it seams they have expanded since ive used it.
Some of the more kniown addons woud be Deadly Boss Mods and questhelper for wow but as i said they also have mods and addons for other games.
Post edited January 02, 2014 by Lodium
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F4LL0UT: I'm wondering how much Curse.com had to pay the hacker to hijack an admin account on GOG.com and post this.

Seriously now, I have no idea what's going on here and I especially have trouble determining how this is a good thing.
It is marketing.

Curse wants shiny-things to make it's subs more appealing.

GOG doesn't mind having more exposure.

Curse signs a contact to buy a shit load of game keys from GOG, GOG agrees to promote Curse buying those keys, Curse gives out said keys to subscribers.


.... completely side unrelated to the topic at hand: my cat just sat on my bluetooth headset and turned it on, like actually sat her but on the power switch hard enough to hold it down for the 5 seconds it takes to turn it on.
Posted January 02, 2014
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Bloodygoodgames: ...
They do? Huh, I've never even heard of the site. My ignorance doesn't mean they're not popular of course.
Posted January 02, 2014
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Lafazar: This is a ... really weird partnership.

Their site is doing an incredibly terrible job explaining what it is they do exactly. From what I can gather they offer a client to manage mods for some supported games. And you can pay for a premium account so it actually saves your settings. Great, I guess?

Also it looks like the supported games are mostly MMO and always-online games, so IMHO exactly the opposite of what GOG.com offers.
My reaction as well. I signed up and I'll see if I'll need anything from that site but since I don't play MMOs and stuff with addons I don't see me having anything to do with it except perhaps to download Terraria maps, syncing worlds and characters could be neat I suppose.
Posted January 02, 2014
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F4LL0UT: Took a look at the site and I still have no idea what it does and what its purpose is.
They seem to be a site where you can download mods.
Posted January 02, 2014
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Announcing this partnership on the front page like this was a mistake. Nobody here understands what curse actually does and it's not even explained in the article.

Frankly the whole thing comes off as nothing more than paid advertising and is leaving me with a really bad aftertaste.
Post edited January 02, 2014 by Lafazar
Posted January 02, 2014
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Pheace: Mostly bad connotations in memory.
You remember something called "curse".... being a bad thing?

Color me surprised :P

In all seriousness I don't know what to make of the website myself but the move makes a lot more sense as a ploy to get more Curse users to use GOG.
Post edited January 02, 2014 by Shaolin_sKunk
Posted January 02, 2014
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Fenixp: If anyone is going to be ruined or changed completely in this relationship, it's not going to be GOG :-P Just guess who's got more money...
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Bloodygoodgames: Curse has a lot more money - they're HUGE. 30 million unique visitors a month, offices in a handful of countries, and part of a network of very very successful websites. One of the world's largest gaming networks, with gamers playing some of the most popular games in the last 10 years.

I'll reserve judgement until I see what this is all about.

It WILL bring more people to GOG to buy more games, though, and that's always a good thing :)
But do we want those kind of players? They're worse than the upper-middle class.
Posted January 02, 2014
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F4LL0UT: If anything I'd love to see GOG.com team up with Gameranger for more online multiplayer support in old games.
Amen. ;)

Still, I find the few "the sky is falling" comments that have been posted here already highly amusing.
Posted January 02, 2014
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Lafazar: Frankly the whole thing comes off as nothing more than paid advertising and is leaving me with a really bad aftertaste.
You know GOG -is- a business
Posted January 02, 2014
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Uh-oh. Judging from those comments Curse.com comes across as the Big Bad Wolf to some gamers. Don't worry guys! This is our way of doing something nice for a large community of people that may not know GOG.com yet, and maybe gaining some new users in the process. Nothing to be alarmed, and no one is going to huff and puff at anyone else.
Posted January 02, 2014
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I don't necessarily view this as a bad thing, I'm just disappointed Curse isn't a publisher with a backlog of classics. :P

Also I hope this isn't considered one of the "big things" mentioned in the article, because I have no interest in registering on Curse.
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