Game News Mysteries of Westgate: 29 April 09 @ €9.99 / £9.99 /$9.99

[DarkUnderlord]

Tags: Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate

NWN2's "adventure pack" <a href="http://forums.eu.atari.com/showthread.php?t=90614">Mysteries of Westgate is due for release</a>:
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<blockquote>'NEVERWINTER NIGHTS™ 2: MYSTERIES OF WESTGATE™’ Adventure Pack confirmed for WORLDWIDE RELEASE ON 29 APRIL 2009
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- First Neverwinter Nights™ 2 Adventure Pack Available Exclusively via Digital Download -
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Atari today announced that the first Neverwinter Nights™ 2 Adventure Pack entitled Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate will be available exclusively via digital download for the Windows platform on 29 April 2009 at a suggested retail price of €9.99 / £9.99 /$9.99. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate will be available for digital download at the Atari store by visiting www.atari-store.eu in Europe or www.atari.com/us in the US.
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Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate provides over 15 hours of additional entertainment with all-new engrossing storylines, professional voice acting, enchanting musical scores, new in-game content, and much more. Neverwinter Nights 2 is set in the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® Forgotten Realms® universe created by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS). DUNGEONS & DRAGONS is under license from Hasbro.
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More information about Neverwinter Nights 2 can be found at www.nwn2.com, which includes user forums, project news, development updates and more.</blockquote>
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Now for some currency conversion:
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<blockquote><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENAU284&num=50&q=9.99+pounds+to+usd&btnG=Search&meta=">9.99 British pounds = 14.78 U.S. dollars</a>
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<a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENAU284&num=50&q=9.99+usd+to+pounds&btnG=Search&meta=">9.99 U.S. dollars = 6.75 British pounds</a>
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<a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENAU284&num=50&q=9.99+euro+to+usd&btnG=Search&meta=">9.99 Euros = 13.01 U.S. dollars</a>
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<a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENAU284&num=50&q=9.99+usd+to+euro&btnG=Search&meta=">9.99 U.S. dollars = 7.67 Euros</a></blockquote>
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Europeans must enjoy paying double. Why not the option to just buy it in USD and let the bank do the currency conversion?
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Spotted @ <a href="http://www.gamebanshee.com">GameBanshee</a>

 

[Wyrmlord]

Because Europeans are easy to cheat.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Real europeans use Pirate Bay so they can pay more than double!

 

[thesheeep]

That's basically the reason, yeah.

Of course, Europeans in general are richer than Americans, which is why they mostly "agree" with paying more for something. Don't know about British, I just know that 1 Pound almost equals 1 € by now, which is why I buy most games on ebay.co.uk

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

It's like they want us to pirate it.

 

[Gragt]

Yeah, it's like one of those girls who dress like whores when they go clubbing: it's like she wants us to rape her.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

So the game comes as cheap as 9.99 whatevercurrency and you still find an inane reason not to buy it but to pirate it. Your will to support an Indie RPG dev (Ossian) is outstanding. You are true patriots.

 

[Barghest]

I hear that the DRM they are using is particularly nasty. I really hope that isn't true.

 

[janjetina]

I hear that the DRM they are using is particularly nasty. I really hope that isn't true.

Cracked version won't have DRM.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

So the game comes as cheap as 9.99 whatevercurrency and you still find an inane reason not to buy it but to pirate it. Your will to support an Indie RPG dev (Ossian) is outstanding. You are true patriots.

If I get the option to buy it in USD, then sure, I'll buy it. Otherwise, I'm not paying half the price again just for living in the wrong continent, Steam tries to pull that shit on me already.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I'll buy it and download a cracked version to avoid the DRM, simple as that.

Legal AND convenient!

 

[serch]

Installation limits, paying an extra 30 % over the price ... not going to happen

 

[OSK]

Oh boo hoo. Dirty foreigners have to pay an import tax for American goods.

 

[Gragt]

 

[[Jez]]

If I get the option to buy it in USD, then sure, I'll buy it. Otherwise, I'm not paying half the price again just for living in the wrong continent, Steam tries to pull that shit on me already.

Quoted so I don't have to type the exact same words, this shit pisses me off almost as much as microtransactions.

 

[serch]

Oh boo hoo. Dirty foreigners have to pay an import tax for American goods.

Wut ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari

 

[Lesifoere]

So the game comes as cheap as 9.99 whatevercurrency and you still find an inane reason not to buy it but to pirate it. Your will to support an Indie RPG dev (Ossian) is outstanding. You are true patriots.

Except Ossian is shit and doesn't deserve support in any case, so that's that.

 

[JarlFrank]

wtf is up with that "LOL let's just sell our game everywhere for the same amount of money, no matter the currency; just exchange the currency symbol lol" some companies have been doing lately? It's incredibly retarded.

Also, what do I read here, installation limits? What the fuck is this shit, isn't this just a mod or something? And it has installation limits? What's the use of those, anyways? Pirates can install their versions as often as they want, honest customers can't.

Those two things combined just make it seem like they WANT us to pirate their game.

 

[OSK]

wtf is up with that "LOL let's just sell our game everywhere for the same amount of money, no matter the currency; just exchange the currency symbol lol" some companies have been doing lately? It's incredibly retarded.

Because you foreigners keep saying your money is worth more than ours. This is just our way of proving you wrong.

 

[Micmu]

I won't be touching this one thanks to DRM. "over 15 hours" is not worth infecting my computer with shit. See you.

 

[Elwro]

When I first heard that CdProjekt would publish the box+manual version here for (an equivalent of) $15, I was a bit disappointed. But lol, it seems other Europeans will have to pay about the same amount for a DRM'd downloadable version.

 

[serch]

Because you foreigners keep saying your money is worth more than ours. This is just our way of proving you wrong.

Are you french?

 

[BethesdaLove]

I wont even pirate this. Cause you would have to pirate NWN2 first. Takes to much time and bandwith.

 

[Catalina]

Well, I was sort of looking forward to buying this, but if there's DRM and installation limits, forget it.

 

[Solaris]

No thanks, that was the last straw for me. Atari can go fuck themselves.