Age of Wonders 3

[DeepOcean]

Age of Wonder 4

Buy the whole game for just 200 dollars!

Courtesy of Paradox Interactive!

 

[LizardWizard]

Paradox's blobbing is out of control.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I guess AoW 3 was their swansong (a proper game with 2 proper expansions) - it was a good one.

I absolutely detest the nickel and diming 450 different DLC approach.

 

[LESS T_T]

Q&A stream:



Nothing more specific than what's written in the press release anf FAQ. They don't confirm whether their new game is AoW 4 or not, just say it is turn-based game and will be satisfy AoW fans. They also muse some interesting possibilities (what if Triumph make World of Darkness game, XCOM-like, or RPG-ish stuff [Fredrik: Pool of Radiance was great], etc.).

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

I remember reading some time ago that their new game won't be AoW. But this may change now of course, what with turbojews in charge and all.

 

[Rahdulan]

So, uh, I should get AoW3 Complete while the going is good?

 

[catfood]

What AOW 3 Complete?

 

[Absinthe]

Paradox buying up Triumph is a real shame.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Paradox buying up Triumph is a real shame.

Paradox having a customer base that'd buy ALL of that dlc to fund them is the bigger shame.

 

[octavius]

And thus passed the very last developer/publisher I supported by buying their games at full price...

 

[Raghar]

When you have "friend" who has gog version, you have an option of not pay. I'm not sure what company like them expected from merging, or worse becoming subordinate.

 

[Absinthe]

In the ideal circumstance, Paradox will become a less shitty company, but we all know that's not the direction the acquisition went.

 

[Nirvash]

Age of Wonder 4

Buy the whole game for just 200 dollars!

Courtesy of Paradox Interactive!

Preorder now for a even worse IA and bonus dwarf portraits!

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

IA

French ?

 

[miles teg]

French ?

Also Italian or Spanish at the very least

 

[Black]

And just like that AoW 3 disappears from my wishlist.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Well I mean if you haven't bought it so far I don't think you would ever. It's currently 75% off on Steam (less than 5 dollars) and the expansions are discounted too. You could get the complete game for 15 bucks and I don't think it's going to get any cheaper.

I personally think it's the best of the recent 4x games (I really like Endless Legend but combat in AoW is hugely superior) and probably the last really great combat-focused TBS we'll see in a long time. It's a shame to pass it up if you like this type of game because of Paradox or whatever. What comes next for them has no bearing on the quality of this game.

 

[Black]

I bought other stuff first instead of AoW 3, had I known paradox would eat Triumph I'd switch it.

 

[Lampros]

I bought other stuff first instead of AoW 3, had I known paradox would eat Triumph I'd switch it.

What? Paradox bought Triumph? Darn! I guess we won't have AoW 4 the way some of us envisioned.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I bought other stuff first instead of AoW 3, had I known paradox would eat Triumph I'd switch it.

What? Paradox bought Triumph? Darn! I guess we won't have AoW 4 the way some of us envisioned.

That dream is in pieces now, in every sense of the phrase.

 

[Old One]

I've been thinking about buying AoW3 for some time, but I'm another who probably won't now. Feeding the monstrosity Paradox has become is too unpalatable.

 

[Doma]

Paradox buying up Triumph is a real shame.

Boo fuckity hoo

 

[Great Deceiver]

I've been thinking about buying AoW3 for some time, but I'm another who probably won't now. Feeding the monstrosity Paradox has become is too unpalatable.

So you're preventing yourself from playing probably the best fantasy combat-centred 4x of the last few years, which by the way is a complete game with two complete, full-fledged expansions, that didn't have any exploitative DLC at all (facts that won't be changed by these news of acquisition), because you want to stick it to the new man?

Seems a little counterproductive.

 

[Black]

So you're preventing yourself from playing

This guy

 

[Great Deceiver]

I mean it's cute that people can download games and all, but we're not 15 anymore and complaining that a bigger company with predatorial DLC practices is gobbling up another, smaller company that made some cool games is disingenuous when someone isn't even buying the games in the first place, isn't it?