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Posted December 03, 2011
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Misanthropic:
Sorry you had a bad experience. I on the other hand got the Original for $14.99 and FOV on sale from D2D for $10.00. That + the free Dragon Knight Saga Upgrade and now the DRM Free patch makes it a good experience for me. I still paid about $5.00 more than I would have liked to spend and I am upset about the lack of a physical FOV and DKS release here. I would have liked to see an official guide as well. All in all one of my best purchases this year.
Post edited December 03, 2011 by Lou
Posted December 03, 2011
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aluinie: Hope they make a new Divinity game.
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Thiev: That is their new baby. Not to say it doesn't look like fun*, but still I'd prefer a Div3 game :(

*and apparently it really does, if I'm to believe my friend that saw their presentation at Eurogamer in London.
Reminds of me I of the Dragon sounds almost like they are making it like this... very... interested!

also I will now buy this game... took such a long time to go DRMfree... Jesh!
Posted December 03, 2011
DKS is on sale from Impulse for $10.00 - Link
Post edited December 03, 2011 by Lou
Posted December 03, 2011
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timppu: I can understand if this is needed during the initial install (which in my mind is the same as downloading a game from GOG for the first time), but can you re-install and play the Steam copy later, even on a different computer and without an internet connection? That's my litmus test for "DRM free".
Even if you backup the files Steam will want to activate when you copy them over, as far as I know. The game might work without being officially installed though, as most do, in which case a backup of the files and the new exe would make it DRM free, essentially.

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Misanthropic: I'm probably alone in this, but, here goes. This is pretty much too damn little, too fucking late for me... Larian lost my business when they went they way they did with Flames of Vengeance/Dragon Knight Saga. I paid full fucking price for a buggy, poorly optimized, incomplete product in Divinity II only to find later that they would address those issues by trying to charge me for a license to complete the game... They claimed they'd release a patch to update the DII:ED engine to that of FoV/DKS, but, to the best of my knowledge, nothing has actually come of that...

They never released a physical version of either FoV or DKS in the States, which leaves importing and GamersGate my only options, both of witch are expensive, and I sure as hell have no intention of paying nearly the same price I paid the first time around, much less paying full retail price for a digital version... Perhaps I'll consider DKS if it hits $10 over the course of GGs winter sales... Either way, this changes nothing, I still have zero respect for Larian...
The patch you speak of DID come out. And expansions have often been used to change game mechanics when a patch did not. See Morrowind's journal being fixed by Tribunal for example. I guess you could call it a jerk move, but if you like the game you should want the expansion anyway so I don't see it as a huge deal.

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Lou: DKS is on sale from Impulse for $10.00 - Link
Thanks! How does the DRM work here? If I purchase through Impulse does it download an installer package, or does it have to install through Impulse?
Posted December 03, 2011
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StingingVelvet: Thanks! How does the DRM work here? If I purchase through Impulse does it download an installer package, or does it have to install through Impulse?
Never used Impulse so I am not sure. I think with this price, the DRM Free Patch, and GOG's work with Larian in the past - we may see this here as part of the new direction. I am going to wait.
Posted December 03, 2011
Amazon has it for 10 bucks now. I can't argue myself out of buying it!
Posted December 03, 2011
thank god I was Dragon things out by procrastinated last knight and had some errands to do today, finally my Saga of pining over this game is over!

also: dragon commander looks awesome, you guys seen the trailer where aligning yourself with the undead faction results in getting hitched to a horny undead princess?

*edit* this is a pic of her:
http://www.larian.com/dragoncommander/images/screenshots/DragonCommander_scr_enl_04.jpg

lol
Post edited December 03, 2011 by Sogi-Ya
Posted December 03, 2011
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Artki: Amazon has it for 10 bucks now. I can't argue myself out of buying it!
Bought it.
Posted December 03, 2011
(I got mine from Amazon too)

I would have bought it from GamersGate but they are still full price.

I wonder if this thread had anything to do with this price drop, I mean here we were talking about how it was cheapest on amazon ATM and I start bitching about how Impulse screwed me over on a sale that under emphasized that it wasn't the DKS version, then Impulse drops their price to $10 after you guys start talking about how Steam had it for $15 the other week, followed quickly by Amazon price matching them.
Posted December 03, 2011
Larian Studios is very bro. Personally, I don't mind buying a few more copies of the game just to support them.
Posted December 04, 2011
Impulse version has been "unavailable" for me all day. I know amazon uses a client to install so I don't want that version.

Oh well. I have Divinity 2 and the expansion on their own anyway, I just thought a nice complete package was worth $10.
Posted December 04, 2011
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StingingVelvet: Impulse version has been "unavailable" for me all day. I know amazon uses a client to install so I don't want that version.
There's no client needed with Amazon. They used to use a client but the last couple of games I got from Amazon have used a diff technique. You dl a special program that downloads a great big archive file. Then it unpacks it into what looks like a disk image - that is, what the dvd would look like. You just run the setup.exe from that unpacked directory and it installs. It's easy to backup the unpacked files - you don't need to dl them again from Amazon.

Now as for THIS game. Turns out Securom is part of the package BUT you can completely bypass it. Install the game but don't start it. Go to the developers page and dl the "patch" which is simply a zip file that contains the new DIVINITY2.EXE file. Replace the installed version with the new exe and you're done. No Securom. Start the game and it won't even ask for the key that Amazon provides.

This forum has all the info
http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/105937-divinity-ii-the-dragon-knight-saga-goes-drm-free.html

And this is the direct link to the zip file.
http://dl1.larianvault.com/DKS_DRM_Free/1.4.9.70/divinity2.zip
Read the stuff in the forum first.

Works fine. Manual says it won't work with an integrated graphics card but that's what I have (NVidia 9100) and it does work - but I have to use low res options or it's too slow.
Posted December 04, 2011
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StingingVelvet: Impulse version has been "unavailable" for me all day. I know amazon uses a client to install so I don't want that version.
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Artki: There's no client needed with Amazon. They used to use a client but the last couple of games I got from Amazon have used a diff technique. You dl a special program that downloads a great big archive file. Then it unpacks it into what looks like a disk image - that is, what the dvd would look like. You just run the setup.exe from that unpacked directory and it installs. It's easy to backup the unpacked files - you don't need to dl them again from Amazon.

Now as for THIS game. Turns out Securom is part of the package BUT you can completely bypass it. Install the game but don't start it. Go to the developers page and dl the "patch" which is simply a zip file that contains the new DIVINITY2.EXE file. Replace the installed version with the new exe and you're done. No Securom. Start the game and it won't even ask for the key that Amazon provides.

This forum has all the info
http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/105937-divinity-ii-the-dragon-knight-saga-goes-drm-free.html

And this is the direct link to the zip file.
http://dl1.larianvault.com/DKS_DRM_Free/1.4.9.70/divinity2.zip
Read the stuff in the forum first.

Works fine. Manual says it won't work with an integrated graphics card but that's what I have (NVidia 9100) and it does work - but I have to use low res options or it's too slow.
Yeah, I think 'integrated' is usualy a euphamism for 'Intel'
Does anyone other than ATI (AMD now?), nVidea and Intel still make consumer gfx chipsets these days? I haven't heard of Matrox for a while...
Posted December 04, 2011
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Artki: There's no client needed with Amazon. They used to use a client but the last couple of games I got from Amazon have used a diff technique.
Interesting. The $10 thing is over anyway though.
Posted December 04, 2011
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Artki: There's no client needed with Amazon. They used to use a client but the last couple of games I got from Amazon have used a diff technique.
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StingingVelvet: Interesting. The $10 thing is over anyway though.
It'll be $10 again at Amazon, Steam or Impulse before Jan 1. (prediction, not a promise)
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