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On 2/29/2024 12:21 PM, Ant wrote:
> https://www.gog.com/en/game/nomads_of_driftland

Got it thanks.

Strategy game if anyone's wondering. Probably won't play it, but you
never know.

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On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:42:57 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Strategy game if anyone's wondering. Probably won't play it, but you
>never know.

I wasn't wondering. But that is only because I saw his post in
*.strategic before seeing it here in *.action. :-P

Thanks Ant.

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:21:16 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

>https://www.gog.com/en/game/nomads_of_driftland

Grabbed it. Thank you for the notification (although I'm not sure why
I didn't see it, since I check GOG repeatedly just so I can pre-empt
you on these announcements ;-)

According to the webpage: "Nomads of Driftland is an RTS game
initially created as an add-on to Driftland: The Magic Revival. Since
it is significantly different from the base game, we decided to
release it as a standalone expansion and make it available for free. "
So basically it's intended as a demo for the original game, something
to convince new users to buy "Driftland". Not a complaint - it gets me
a free game, after all! - but it makes me wonder how much actual
content this game provides.

Not that I've any real intention of playing it anyway. My interest in
RTS games has greatly decreased since the genre's heyday in the early
2000s. It was never my favorite genre (when it came to strategy, I was
always more of a 4X person) and - even though "Nomads" nominal has 4X
qualities too - there's little to this game that looks particularly
interesting to me.

Other than that it's free and increments The Number by one, of course.

Setting wise, the game greatly reminds me both of "Stratosphere" (an
RTS game I'm sure nobody here remembers) and "Project Nomads" (a
third-person shooter I'm sure people also don't remember). But both
featured floating islands.

I'm scared. I didn't own this one yet. Isn't that one of the signs of
the Apocalypse?

Mike S <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote at 14:14 this Friday (GMT):
> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:42:57 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Strategy game if anyone's wondering. Probably won't play it, but you
>>never know.
>
> I wasn't wondering. But that is only because I saw his post in
> *.strategic before seeing it here in *.action. :-P
>
> Thanks Ant.

thanks ant
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> Mike S <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote at 14:14 this Friday (GMT):
> > On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:42:57 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>Strategy game if anyone's wondering. Probably won't play it, but you
> >>never know.
> >
> > I wasn't wondering. But that is only because I saw his post in
> > *.strategic before seeing it here in *.action. :-P
> >
> > Thanks Ant.

> thanks ant

You're welcome!
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:21:16 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> >https://www.gog.com/en/game/nomads_of_driftland

> Grabbed it. Thank you for the notification (although I'm not sure why
> I didn't see it, since I check GOG repeatedly just so I can pre-empt
> you on these announcements ;-)

Heh. Did the e-mail even mention it? I skimmed through it before seeing
it on a third party web site.
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On Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:19:06 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:21:16 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>
>> >https://www.gog.com/en/game/nomads_of_driftland
>
>> Grabbed it. Thank you for the notification (although I'm not sure why
>> I didn't see it, since I check GOG repeatedly just so I can pre-empt
>> you on these announcements ;-)
>
>Heh. Did the e-mail even mention it? I skimmed through it before seeing
>it on a third party web site.

Come to think of it, I didn't even get an email from GOG about it
(although usually those arrive /after/ I've already discovered the
freebie on the site. GOG webmasters really should run a 'did user
already claim freebie?' script on their mass-mailings and cull out the
ones who already have the game. But over the years I've accrued quite
a bad opinion of GOG's marketing team, so I am not at all surprised
that they don't do that ;-)

A correction, though, to my initial reply:

Apparently the freebie is not only for the DLC, but for the entire
package (base game + DLC).

But, of course, GOG manages to do things bass-ackward, as usual. The
free offer initially just puts the DLC into your library. However,
when you go to actually download it, the website complains that you
don't have the base game, at which point you are redirected to 'buy'
the base game for $0.00 USD (convert to local currency as necessary
;-). Once you do that, you can download both the base game and DLC
package.

Because why do it all in one transaction, right GOG? Geez. I love the
service, but the guys running their website and marketing are not the
brightest bulbs.

Still, I got a free game out of 'em, after all. And since its
expansion and base game, there's a good amount of content there after
all. So I guess I can't complain too much. ;-)

On 3/2/2024 9:45 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:19:06 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>
>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:21:16 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>>
>>>> https://www.gog.com/en/game/nomads_of_driftland
>>
>>> Grabbed it. Thank you for the notification (although I'm not sure why
>>> I didn't see it, since I check GOG repeatedly just so I can pre-empt
>>> you on these announcements ;-)
>>
>> Heh. Did the e-mail even mention it? I skimmed through it before seeing
>> it on a third party web site.
>
> Come to think of it, I didn't even get an email from GOG about it
> (although usually those arrive /after/ I've already discovered the
> freebie on the site. GOG webmasters really should run a 'did user
> already claim freebie?' script on their mass-mailings and cull out the
> ones who already have the game. But over the years I've accrued quite
> a bad opinion of GOG's marketing team, so I am not at all surprised
> that they don't do that ;-)
>
> A correction, though, to my initial reply:
>
> Apparently the freebie is not only for the DLC, but for the entire
> package (base game + DLC).
>
> But, of course, GOG manages to do things bass-ackward, as usual. The
> free offer initially just puts the DLC into your library. However,
> when you go to actually download it, the website complains that you
> don't have the base game, at which point you are redirected to 'buy'
> the base game for $0.00 USD (convert to local currency as necessary
> ;-). Once you do that, you can download both the base game and DLC
> package.
>
>
> Because why do it all in one transaction, right GOG? Geez. I love the
> service, but the guys running their website and marketing are not the
> brightest bulbs.
>
> Still, I got a free game out of 'em, after all. And since its
> expansion and base game, there's a good amount of content there after
> all. So I guess I can't complain too much. ;-)
>
But why let that stop you from complaining anyways? Its what humans do!

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:45 this Saturday (GMT):
> On Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:19:06 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>
>>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:21:16 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>>
>>> >https://www.gog.com/en/game/nomads_of_driftland
>>
>>> Grabbed it. Thank you for the notification (although I'm not sure why
>>> I didn't see it, since I check GOG repeatedly just so I can pre-empt
>>> you on these announcements ;-)
>>
>>Heh. Did the e-mail even mention it? I skimmed through it before seeing
>>it on a third party web site.
>
> Come to think of it, I didn't even get an email from GOG about it
> (although usually those arrive /after/ I've already discovered the
> freebie on the site. GOG webmasters really should run a 'did user
> already claim freebie?' script on their mass-mailings and cull out the
> ones who already have the game. But over the years I've accrued quite
> a bad opinion of GOG's marketing team, so I am not at all surprised
> that they don't do that ;-)
>
> A correction, though, to my initial reply:
>
> Apparently the freebie is not only for the DLC, but for the entire
> package (base game + DLC).
>
> But, of course, GOG manages to do things bass-ackward, as usual. The
> free offer initially just puts the DLC into your library. However,
> when you go to actually download it, the website complains that you
> don't have the base game, at which point you are redirected to 'buy'
> the base game for $0.00 USD (convert to local currency as necessary
> ;-). Once you do that, you can download both the base game and DLC
> package.

Maybe it's a limitation of the service?

> Because why do it all in one transaction, right GOG? Geez. I love the
> service, but the guys running their website and marketing are not the
> brightest bulbs.
>
> Still, I got a free game out of 'em, after all. And since its
> expansion and base game, there's a good amount of content there after
> all. So I guess I can't complain too much. ;-)
>
>

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