Question before buying :)

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So I'm going through some emails today and I had a old birthday greeting and a survey with a discount from my good friends at Stardock, and low and behold I get a %10 discount, which is awesome :), thanks guys. On Steam (which there doesn't appear to be sales tax?) I can get the game for $49.99. The only real plus for Steam for me is auto-updates and the mod community with the workshop. Using my discount I can get it from your store for $47.91. If I get it through your store do I get a Steam key so I can add it to my Steam account? I would assume so, but I just wanted to ask because for some older titles they were never integrated with Steam so I thought I'd ask.

Thanks for any info :)

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Wait till release! ;)

But if you get it from our store, you still get it from Steam. The only difference is that Valve doesn't take their 30% commission.

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Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 1

Wait till release! ;)

But if you get it from our store, you still get it from Steam. The only difference is that Valve doesn't take their 30% commission.


Hey chief!! Missed ya buddy. Thanks for the quick reply :) . Should I "really" wait for release though? You know I'm impatient. Also, you know you want me to throw money at you :D . If you really think I should wait I'll hold off, but I'd rather throw you money now while I have it to spend. I'll be broke again in a few months...lol.

Edit: also yeah I'll be getting it from your store.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Official Release is May 14th but if you want to jump on go ahead IMHO. There is still one more Beta for us early accesors to go through.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'd get it from Stardock or if GoG carries it from there. Steam's too big. Admittedly I bought GCIII for...half price? on a brief steam sale. I was going to wait for release because i'm not fond of buying games before or at release. These days I find it best to wait a few days at least for reviews. The half price and fond memories of GCI got me to buy it from Steam.

 

30%? Damn, if I knew that I wouldn't have bought it from them at all regardless of sale.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting RavenX, reply 2

Should I "really" wait for release though? You know I'm impatient. Also, you know you want me to throw money at you :D . If you really think I should wait I'll hold off, but I'd rather throw you money now while I have it to spend. I'll be broke again in a few months...lol.


Edit: also yeah I'll be getting it from your store.

 

If I were me, I'd wait.  But I might be more patient than you..

 

But if frogboy is recommending holding off for a couple of weeks, I'd take it at face value and trust him.

 

cheers,

 

 

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting tid242, reply 5

If I were me, I'd wait.  But I might be more patient than you..

But if frogboy is recommending holding off for a couple of weeks, I'd take it at face value and trust him.

cheers,



Yeah I hit him up about it and got the 411. Release date it is. Now I just have to manage to not be broke by then.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

*twitch*.....*twitch*

Patients....not working...not gonna make it...LoL.

Two more days? If there's not going to be any major modding changes I'd like to get my hands on it now. It's looking goooooood.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting RavenX, reply 7

*twitch*.....*twitch*

Patients....not working...not gonna make it...LoL.

Two more days? If there's not going to be any major modding changes I'd like to get my hands on it now. It's looking goooooood.

 

Check this site for streamers playing prior to game release. SD is going to be on the stream giving out Galactic Civilization's 3 Founders Elite keys (All DLC, All Expansions totally free)

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Illauna, reply 8

Quoting RavenX,
reply 7

*twitch*.....*twitch*

Patients....not working...not gonna make it...LoL.

Two more days? If there's not going to be any major modding changes I'd like to get my hands on it now. It's looking goooooood.



 

Check this site for streamers playing prior to game release. SD is going to be on the stream giving out Galactic Civilization's 3 Founders Elite keys (All DLC, All Expansions totally free)



That's awesome, I'll have to check that out tonight :) , thank you Illauna. I know people are playing, but the chief said if I plan on doing any modding (which you know I do) I should hold off until release day in case there's any last minute changes that'll require mods to be remastered.

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

P.S. which streamers by chance?

Sorry for the double post.

Reply #11 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting RavenX, reply 7

Patients....not working

 

well if they're in the hospital (or some other medical building) they generally aren't working... sorry i couldn't resist 

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Reply #12 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Check the social apps on galciv3.com. They should also post when and who is on at least the day before. 

Reply #13 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting androshalforc, reply 11
well if they're in the hospital (or some other medical building) they generally aren't working... sorry i couldn't resist 

LoL I'd have had a hard time not doing the same, my friend. :) You got some karma there.

Quoting Illauna, reply 12

Check the social apps on galciv3.com. They should also post when and who is on at least the day before. 


Ahh, the dreaded social media. Tis a plague upon the universe.

Reply #14 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting RavenX, reply 13

Ahh, the dreaded social media. Tis a plague upon the universe.

 

Truth.

Reply #15 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Couldn't wait till tomorrow. Bought in today :)

Reply #16 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Which means you can play today. Looking at the patch notes only thing that you have to wait until tomorrow for is the campaign. (OMG THE TRAILER IS AWESOME!)

Reply #17 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Illauna, reply 16

Which means you can play today. Looking at the patch notes only thing that you have to wait until tomorrow for is the campaign. (OMG THE TRAILER IS AWESOME!)


Indeed :) . I'll definitely wait until after launch to start any modding though. Needs to be at least v1.0. Then I'll dive in. Looking forward to it. I'm also more than happy to help with mods. My strength lies in art assets, skinning and textures. I had lots of help with the code to make my skin mods work and the Dragonlance Team backing me up to get our Elemental mods working. I'll be needing some help with coding this time around as well surely, so anyone interested in needing art hit me up.

I'd like for the "Ultimate Sci-Fi War" mod to be a community project if we can get it going. Adding all the races and ship designs from everyone's favorite sci-fi shows, but keeping their abilities and racial bonuses within what's already in the game. We can take the best of the best ship designs as voted on by everyone here on the forums (with their creators permission and credit for them of course). Flavor text and all that is easy to change. Changing ability scores in xml is easy enough. Not sure how easy the diplomacy screens will be as they're animated this time around but I've already seen a user (don't know the name yet) with a cool looking Federation diplomacy screen human. Haven't checked to see if it's animated or not yet though.