Anyone know of any dealers offering this at a fair price?

Wait for a sale. I picked both games up on D2D for £5 each. In fact they were free as I had 5 £5 off codes. I bet D2D won't make that mistake again :)

I can't recommend a place to buy it, but I can recommend the games wholeheartedly. They were definitely underrated thanks to Silverfall's colossal bug-filled fiasco; with Earth Awakening, they're awesome.

I heard Earth Awakening runs the first Silverfall in a different manner that even lowers the first Silverfall's specs.

Hence why Earth Awakening only requires a 2 ghz processor but Silverfall requires an 2.8 ghz processor.

They optimized the engine, yes. It also completely revitalizes races available, camera rotation and controls, interface, skill trees. It's a combination expansion pack, addon, and massive bugfix/update.

As Delixe said, keep an eye out for it on either D2D or GamersGate, both of which have put it on sale several times. I would advise you though, not to get it on Steam. The reason being that once you have the expansion pack, you cannot uninstall it.

With the D2D version (and possibly, GG one) you can select whether or not to install it. Installation of the expansion pack changes the UI and you may find that the original UI was better.

I have the Steam version, and I've had no issues - are you referring to the fact that they're a "bundle" from then on, and must be installed together? You really do need Earth Awakening anyway to fix all the horrible bugs and camera issues o.o

Yeah, the whole reason that I'm dead set on getting the Earththingy expansion with Silverfall is that it repairs Silverfall.

One thing troubles me though. The demo from Steam installs, what looks to be, unecessary software and it crashed my system. The demo from Gamershell worked just fine and didn't try to install a whole lot of third party software. But I'm not sure if the ancient demo reflects the actual games that Steam Offers.

I'm not sure if I want to spend over $20 on one game at GG.

But I'm going to check and see if they are DRM free on D2D, and if so, I might spend a little more to get it from there.

If it helps any, I run Silverfall from Steam on low to mid graphics settings on a laptop running vanilla Windows XP, with a 1.66 Intel Core Duo processor (which is two 1.66 cores, but I'm not sure that Silverfall does that hyperthreading thing), integrated ATIX1300 graphics card with 2.0 shaders and 128mb RAM, 1G system RAM, and some sort of crap integrated sound card. Occasional frame rate issues, but that's mostly caused by the fact that I've bumped up the graphics to mediumish levels. And excuse any inaccuracies in my quotation of system specs, please - I don't know much about computer hardware, I just memorized it to make looking at games easier :P

I've written Monte Cristo to see if I can get it from them directly.

D2D wants to ass $20 USD a piece for each game. Screw that. lol!

Stardock is a bit more reasonable at $20 NZD a piece for each game. That would equate to only spending $7 more than what Steam and GG have them for.

I have it on Steam too. But unlike other services, they are not separate products. I personally had no issues with the original Silverfall and preferred some of the original UI elements. But with the Steam version I cannot opt to use vanilla Silverfall when I want to. The expansion pack is a forced install once you own it.

And unless they fixed it, you have to ensure the original Silverfall finishes downloading fully before attempting to install the required expansion pack install too (which by default will attempt to download in tandem). if they try to install at the same time, certain files get overwritten before they should causing corruption.

Lol. Sounds like Stardock is looking the prettiest so far. XD

No, they fixed that, thank goodness. I had the same problem the first time I installed it, but sometime in the last six months or so they changed it so now you have to trigger Earth Awakening to finish installing yourself.

That's good to know.