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Posted May 13, 2013
Buy now to get Deponia for free!

[url=http://www.gog.com/gamecard/the_night_of_the_rabbit]The Night of the Rabbit, a point-and-click adventure of magic, mystery, and wonder, full of beautiful storybook graphics that will make your inner child smile, is available for pre-order on GOG.com, for only $19.99. Get it now to receive a free copy of , another great cartoonish adventure game that feels a lot like a hilarious Terry Pratchett novel. It will keep you entertained until [url=]The Night of the Rabbit arrives, approximately on Wednesday, May 29.

In The Night of the Rabbit we join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds. It is here that Jerry’s dream of being a magician comes true, though a haunting, sinister force casts a long shadow over the forest. Someone offers the residents of Mousewood a deal of their lifetime - tickets to the greatest magic show that the world has ever seen. But the price is steep, as they'll have to bet their houses, their money… and their lives.

If you're a point-and-click adventure fan, craving for a magical voyage, don't miss out on this fantastic deal! Get The Night of the Rabbit today on GOG.com, and Deponia will become available to you for free. The offer lasts until Wednesday, May 29.

Have you got any questions for the developers of The Night of the Rabbit? Tell us! The most interesting ones will be used in an upcoming Q&A. If we use your question, you'll be awarded a $9.99 gift-code! Please submit questions before tomorrow, at 10:00AM GMT. In the meantime, we invite you to have a first look at the game:
Posted May 13, 2013
Hi!

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SergeiKlimov: snip
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keeveek: May I ask why do you even bother with retail releases at all? Do they sell that well? Paradox Int. dropped retail long ago. Is it worth the hassle?
With TNotR, we went for 3 retail releases internationally: German, Russian and Czech. This was based on what the markets could deliver - Germany is still holding strong as long as we offer a great box concept (full of high-quality goodies), Russia is Ok and we're going for distribution through a film company this time, to see if we can reach some of the new audience this way, and Czech... it's been a special deal with a magazine, you should see this out in about a month or so.
Posted May 13, 2013
I was iffy at the $20 price tag, but upon reading the description and the free Deponia, I might actually get this...
Posted May 13, 2013
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SergeiKlimov: Hi there!

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(1) the deal runs for a few years, actual sales performance doesn't change the terms that we're bound with... but I think that when the retail price in Germany goes down to, say, Euro 19.99 from Euro 34.99 - our partners won't mind us offering German to the GOG audience at $19.99, as there won't be that much of a difference. I think this can happen by Q4 2013 or Q1 2014.

We will of course try to resolve this sooner, especially if (hopefully!) the game sells well in the German retail and our partner makes a good profit - then they will have no longer any risk of GOG digital sales hurting their local retail sales. I think that ultimately it's just a question of this specific risk and in a couple of months things will look differently and we'll have a good chance to resolve this.

(2) yes and no. there will be 2 editions of TNotR on Steam: Regular and Premium, the latter is $5 extra and includes the soundtrack and the audiobook. since GOG doesn't support multiple editions of one game, we went for the most reasonable choice under the circumstances: Regular edition at $19.99.

(3) fully understand & support your idea. we wanted to do this originally, but we ran into technical issues of actually executing such interface that would check what you own and offer alternatives; or just an interface that will offer a choice. i'm sure that we'll manage to execute this eventually at some point this year.
Thanks for the quick and informative reply :-)
Well, lets hope you get the best possible result out of this deal (imho, putting such restrictions on digital sale terms is a twisted artificial way to "secure" retail sales, especially when it results in exploiding a certain language speaking market).
It also sounds to me that, based on your point (2), it's highly unlikely that we'll ever see those other extras here.
I assume that the retail or Steam premium version is the only way to get the soundtrack?

As for point (3) - looking forward to seeing it implemented :-)
Posted May 13, 2013
I was just curious, but if you pre-order this, and already HAVE Deponia, do you simply not get access to it, or do you get a giftable version?
Posted May 13, 2013
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Buenro-games: You sound pretty hostile LOL. Anyways, if you go and check out the Daedalus website in german. You can click on games and select Night of the Rabbit. They include a link there to a digital distributor that is offering the game at a 10% discount if preordered. (That's 27euros). Pretty good deal for a brand new game of this quality.
27€ is about 35$ and thus still 15$ more than GoG-version, what's "pretty good" about this?

And yes, I do sound hostile, this is becourse I'm quite angry.
I didn't comment Whispered World here and bought the more expansive Retail-Version having to fiddle around with that stupid dice every login; I didn't comment Satinavs Ketten and bought the more expensive Version.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, won't fool me a third time though.

I don't believe a word said here of a possible german languagepack on Gog in the future. Again, go see Satinav and Whispered World.

At least retail seems to be DRM-free, if that's true, so perhaps I can get it second hand or borrow it somewhere.
Posted May 13, 2013
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SergeiKlimov: Hi there!

(2) yes and no. there will be 2 editions of TNotR on Steam: Regular and Premium, the latter is $5 extra and includes the soundtrack and the audiobook. since GOG doesn't support multiple editions of one game, we went for the most reasonable choice under the circumstances: Regular edition at $19.99.
As an audiophile, I would have paid the premium. GOG is still really a premium site as well, it's cheaper to get games elsewhere on places like Steam or GamersGate but then we lose out on such extras as soundtracks, design files, etc. In future, offer it as a premium product and include all the extras you can find.
Posted May 13, 2013
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FraggingBard: As an audiophile, I would have paid the premium. GOG is still really a premium site as well, it's cheaper to get games elsewhere on places like Steam or GamersGate but then we lose out on such extras as soundtracks, design files, etc. In future, offer it as a premium product and include all the extras you can find.
Yeah, the lack of soundtrack is my main gripe with this release.
It might be that they weren't confident enough to ask for $24.99 (soundtrack and audiobook included) given that none of the other Deadalic games cross the $19.99 mark.
But as you say, one of the things that sets GOG apart from other digital stores are the great extras that come with the games.
Posted May 13, 2013
No soundtrack? That's a real bummer. The one game where I'd actually want a seperate soundtrack and we're not getting any :(
Posted May 13, 2013
Ah, Daedalic Entertainment. The Studio Ghibli of the videogame industry :)

Aesthetically speaking, that is. I don't have any inside information about how Studio Ghibli works.

Also, the heir to LucasArts and Sierra On-Line?
Posted May 13, 2013
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Theta_Sigma: I was just curious, but if you pre-order this, and already HAVE Deponia, do you simply not get access to it, or do you get a giftable version?
I think you can get a giftable code by choosing to buy the entire bundle as a gift. Then enter your own e-mail as the gift reciever. Then you can redeem your own code and if you already have Deponia, only The Night of the Rabbit will be redeemed and Deponia will be left over. After that you can give the code to someone else who should be able to redeem the 'leftover' game.
Posted May 13, 2013
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McDon: I was iffy at the $20 price tag, but upon reading the description and the free Deponia, I might actually get this...
Looks like GOG listened a bit to one of my previous threads...

The free Deponia is a great Pre-Order incentive, more publishers should do something like this here
Posted May 13, 2013
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Theta_Sigma: I was just curious, but if you pre-order this, and already HAVE Deponia, do you simply not get access to it, or do you get a giftable version?
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Lifthrasil: I think you can get a giftable code by choosing to buy the entire bundle as a gift. Then enter your own e-mail as the gift reciever. Then you can redeem your own code and if you already have Deponia, only The Night of the Rabbit will be redeemed and Deponia will be left over. After that you can give the code to someone else who should be able to redeem the 'leftover' game.
Oh damn, I didn't even think of doing that. That is a good idea, that is more incentive to splurge a little and get it. :D ^_^ Thank you Lifthrasil, +1 for you.
Posted May 13, 2013
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SergeiKlimov: Since GOG offers "one world, one price concept", we had two options. Or in fact, three:

a) not to offer TNotR on GOG at all; just sell through Steam, where we can set the German price to be 1:1 of German retail price, the Russian price to be 1:1 of Russian retail price, same for Czech Republic, Brazil, Poland, etc.

b) to offer TNotR on GOG for $40. thus making every country in the world pay the German (high) retail price for this product. And while in the retail edition, you have soundtrack, posters, etc. - a lot of goodies, it's a great box all in all, - in digital edition you'll have only the game and the soundtrack.

c) to offer TNotR on GOG for $20... on the condition that we don't break the contract because we're not selling German version at such price.
Hi, thanks for your response, time and clarification. I understand your decision and difficulties, why you took the middle way (lower price, less languages), but I'd like to say that I think there definitely are people who would prefer the option b), steep price, but all the languages and the soundtrack. I'm one of them: even if I'm far from rich, I would just save more and wait for a promo. As I did with expensive games of Telltale Games (Monkey Island, Sam and Max).
Even better way would be mixing options b) and c), selling both versions (with and without German language at different prices). But I understand that this solution would have to be done by GOG people -- to devise how to offer two different versions of the same game.
Nonetheless, thanks again.
Posted May 13, 2013
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Lifthrasil: I think you can get a giftable code by choosing to buy the entire bundle as a gift. Then enter your own e-mail as the gift reciever. Then you can redeem your own code and if you already have Deponia, only The Night of the Rabbit will be redeemed and Deponia will be left over. After that you can give the code to someone else who should be able to redeem the 'leftover' game.
Aww, damn, I just looked on the purchase page, and there is no purchase gift option. :(
Posted May 13, 2013
Thank you very much, Sergei, for beeing so honest, open and communicative with us.

First I was really angry about the lack of German language, because this is a recurring issue and a great annoyance on GOG, especially with games made by German devs. Reading your statements helped me gain more understanding for this delicate situation and eventually calmed me down to a point where, in this certain case, I can't be mad at Daedalic anymore. As far as I'm concerned you did a good PR job here. ;)

However, the fact remains that no German language is a deal breaker for me. And the high price is a deal breaker for the retail version. I'd love to support Daedalic and GOG, but not under these conditions.
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