50% off Heir to the Thone @ GamersGate

[Jayavarman]

A thought occurred to me- what % of EU3 sales were through gamersgate? I suspect it is very high, as few casual camers would be into EU3 and would go into a shop to buy it. With that in mind, doesn't it essentially mean that they have a monopoly on it? With other games, different companies compete in an open market to provide a cheaper product than their competitors, so we are a captive market, vulnerable to the pricing mechanism of a single company.
What do you guys think?

Paradox still gets a significant portion (majority?) of their sales through brick-and-mortar stores (excluding download only titles).

Other major digital distribution channels that sell Paradox titles include Steam, Impulse, and D2D. IIRC, Steam recently had an HttT sale.

 

[JiM_cz]

I wouldn’t hesitate at all if there was finally an official patch.. But from what I understand, some things still need fixing. E.g. naval battles..?

 

[Jos de trol]

Ugh, that clickandbuy site sure freaked me out. Hopefully it gets confirmed before the sale ends.

Thanks for the heads up!

you should be able to complete your purchase just by ordering it, when the sale ends it's just too late to order but not to complete an existing order

 

[Pitas]

Is it just temporary??

 

[Jayavarman]

Is it just temporary??

Until the end of the week.

 

[Pitas]

Until the end of the week.

Sweet...

 

[Malurous]

you should be able to complete your purchase just by ordering it, when the sale ends it's just too late to order but not to complete an existing order

Ah, good to know, I should be covered then. Thanks for the info!

 

[Laffertytig]

I use paypal at gamersgate. I tried Click & Buy for my first purchase and just registering there took a long while and in the end they where never able to process my order (this was about 8 months ago or so). Also the process of transferring small amounts of money just to validate an account seems uncomfortable to me.
So I tried Paypal instead and could download the game 2 minutes later (and this includes the time to set up a paypal account).

im curious to know how you managed to dowload the game minutes after setting up a paypal account? you would have to have had to transfer money into it which can take up to 7-9 working days.

how did you manage to do this?

 

[Olaus Petrus]

im curious to know how you managed to dowload the game minutes after setting up a paypal account? you would have to have had to transfer money into it which can take up to 7-9 working days.

how did you manage to do this?

Transfer money? At least I have never transfered anything to PayPal account. When I use PayPal to online purchases, they send the bill to my credit card company. And credit card company sends the bill to me, just like if I would have bought the game directly with credit card. Only benefit of PayPal is that I don't have to give my credit card information to every site from where I buy stuff.

 

[Senior Tigr]

Maybe a stupid question but I have no experience with GamersGate - if I have the box version of EUIII:Complete Edition installed on my comp, will I be able to install HttT from GamersGate over it?

 

[Nikolai II]

Maybe a stupid question but I have no experience with GamersGate - if I have the box version of EUIII:Complete Edition installed on my comp, will I be able to install HttT from GamersGate over it?

You should be able to, yes.

I have EUIII vanilla on disc, and have installed each expansion from GG in turn, and it has worked without a hitch.

 

[Olaus Petrus]

Maybe a stupid question but I have no experience with GamersGate - if I have the box version of EUIII:Complete Edition installed on my comp, will I be able to install HttT from GamersGate over it?

Yes, I have installed all downloadable expansions over collector's edition version. And there isn't even disc version of HttT.

 

[Laffertytig]

still no joy for me with click n buy. my account has now been verified but im still gettin the same error message.

 

[Jos de trol]

that's weird, I've used clickandbuy 3 times now and each time very satisfactoraly

I do use the prefund method rather than plastic though, that could have something to do with it

 

[Ignatich]

Thanks a lot for this offer Paradox. That's just what I was waiting for!

 

[sprites]

i wait for the FTG offer ^^

 

[eatcarrotsnow]

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Kolonel]

i wait for the FTG offer ^^

There has already been an FtG offer. Few weeks back.
I believe it was 60% off, so I bought it.

 

[Grosshaus]

No matter what I tried, I wasn't able to make the purchase with click and buy. The error message it gave was about password not matching specifications, but I tried several that did match at least specifications mentioned.

Also I saw no picture behind the field where one is supposed to see picture with text to write. Can it be due to combination of Mozilla and Adblock?

Paypal did work though.

 

[Laffertytig]

this is becomin a bit of a joke now. im havin the same problem with using paypal. keep gettin the same 'An error occurred communicating with the merchant website. Please try again later or contact the provider as purchase is temporarily unavailable.' error message.

never known anything like it

ps,

cant even seem to email them as the gamaersgate email link doesnt work.

great site!