It always a little scary when a game you love changes part of the formula. I have faith that this game will be better than ever, I know that the improvements from The Legend to Armored Princess/Crossworlds were all great.

Anyway else running through the old games in antipation of the next one? I am trying to beat The Legend again before Warriors of the North hits, I am not sure I will make it as I only have a few hours at night after work to play.

if you quote, quote everything. I gave two examples of new games in that post. it's a subtle difference, but it does change everything.
it doesn't matter in the end if you have to use steam as it seems to be the case.

"The King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North pre-order is now available at Steam, Amazon, GameStop, GamersGate and many others. Each shop offers additional bonuses for pre-orders."

how come despite the above claim, the pre-order is only on steam & gamers gate? will there be a pre-order for gamestop with the 10% discount as indicated? if so, it has to be tomorrow because it will be released the next day.

I think it means GameStop PC Downloads, which used to be known as Impulse. I just checked, however, and it's not showing on there for me, but it might be a regional thing (which Impulse/GameStop PC Downloads uses heavily). You're right about it not being on Amazon US, though.

Unfortunately the pre-orders on Gamestop and Amazon are not available due to 3d party issues. I can only recommend to use Steam or GamersGate instead.

Found out yesterday that this game existed, immediately pre-ordered it, and it comes out tomorrow! You have no idea how happy I am to get to play a new kb! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH

Can't wait. I prefer the smell of the paper.

Why is that?

Because that's typically the case with Steamworks games. Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, Saints Row the Third, Dawn of War II - all PC versions use Steamworks regardless of where you buy them.

For Katauri, it also benefits them as there's only one version of the game to patch, troubleshoot and so on - a Steam edition. They also only need to send patches, any content/expansions to Steam and can distribute codes to other retailers.

Simply put, it's more for Katauri's benefit than our own.

I just pre-ordered Warriors of the North on amazon.de for $25.99.

As to Steam, there are always ways to avoid these things - and I have clean conscience as long as I paid for my copy of the game!

I'd so like to play KB but...
 

I'll add my voice here in hope that 1C's sales dept might be interested - I too won't be purchasing this game, unless it does eventually get released as a standalone product (and I'd happily pay more for the privilege). The simplicity of being able to reinstall when a patch is bad or a drive dies is important to me, as is the ability to isolate my gaming machine from the network (and I wonder what the breakdown of the user base is for turn-based games of this ilk - I'd suspect we're more enamored of privacy among other things vs the bulk of Steam fans).

Also, I broke my practice of staying away from online-only games because I wanted to play HOMM VI (or whatever their marketing department renamed it) and after the horror of dealing with ubisoft I'd much rather do without! :)