Is it Christmas already?! Daaaaayumn, that's a nice surprise.

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Thank you, GOG team, for hanging in there and securing the rights for the addons! And with no extra charge, no less. ^^

You should be thanking EA. It was their call in the end.

EA is hands down the best publisher on GOG. Always low prices, great extras and awesome collection of games.

This is incredible news. I had Alpha Centauri back in the day but was never able to get Crossfire. And Crossfire seemed impossible to find afterward. Tonight, I have finally started my very first Crossfire game! I'm very happy.

I also missed out on the Wing Commander Secret Missions back in the day. I cannot wait to try those! I so wanted them badly back then. Not sure why I didn't buy them at the time. Probably it was a financial reason (it usually is!).

I will now name my first child after GOG.

Thanks GOG and thanks EA. A really nice move. :D

True that. But I'm also thankful to GOG for their work. It took some long time, but eventually expansions are coming.

And EA rocks, because it seems they are gonna ad expansions and the prices remain the same!

Exactly. This has been an awesome morning so far. The day can only get worse, as far as I'm concerned. ^^

thx gog !

Absolutely fantastic news, especially because I was waiting for Crossfire. Big thanks for fixing this to GOG and EA.This screams for some more EA promos right now...

Edit: I hope this big news got official with more details out before the Bullfrog bundle ends.

I'm hoping for a 75% off Wing Commander bundle :)

You are so predictable.

When the EA expansions were missing, you were blaming only GOG for not securing them from EA.

Now when GOG finally secured them, of course no praise at all to GOG's efforts to get them.


Anyways, kudos both for GOG for securing the expansions _at last_, and EA for letting GOG to release them (as long as the Bullfrog expansions come too, I'm mainly interested to the missing Populous expansions)

(See? It wasn't that hard.)

I'm still blaming GOG for fucking up the licensing. I explained it several times why it is very obvious that the fault was on GOGs side, be it voluntary or not.

And we had an EA rep saying month ago that there was no issue from their side.

What about GOG having trouble securing compatibility?

Well, in fairness, you explained why you believe it was very obvious fault on gog's side, which some might say is very different from it actually being fault on gog's side.

If it was a compatibility issue, that would be different. But I can't really see what makes Alien Crossfire so much different than the original game.

And I also don't like the timing. There are two possibilities

GOG rushed to get those out before Christmas. Which would be really awesome on GOGs part.

or

GOG held them back until Christmas for a nice PR stunt.

Now what is more likely?

Many people, like me, bought the EA games on release because of the promise that the expansions would come. And those are some high class games we are talking about here. It's over a year since the games got released and over half a year since an EA rep said their wasn't an issue from their side.

So yeah, excuse me if I am not exactly jumping for praise here.
That is right. But that is also why I'm not giving standing ovations right now.